In Human Events today I discuss the unfolding jihad plot in New York and Denver:
Read it all.Details are still emerging, but it seems clear at this point that the extensive jihad terror plot that has been exposed in New York City and Denver this week involved plans to target baseball and football stadiums and New York's Fashion Week with explosives carried in knapsacks to the detonation point and then detonated remotely -- as in Madrid on March 11, 2004, when jihadist bombings killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.
Central to the plot is a young man named Najibullah Zazi, who was initially cooperative with Federal agents until it began to emerge that he had ties to Al-Qaeda. Zazi is in even more hot water after the discovery of bomb-making instructions in his own handwriting.
Zazi offered the improbable explanation that he accidentally downloaded the bomb-making material while downloading what news reports primly referred to as a "religious text." In keeping with prevailing politically correct sensibilities, no report specified what kind of "religious text" might come with downloadable bomb-making instructions, or said anything about which religion was involved. Reporters were mum about what the adherents of this unnamed religion might be doing to encourage bomb-making, or how they might find justification for such actions in the texts and teachings of that religion.
Just in case anyone on the planet still might not know which religion could be involved in such things, a clue came with the arrest of Ahmad Afzali, an imam who, according to the New York Daily News, "became religious in high school, and preached at the Masjid Hazrat Abu Bakr Islamic Center, New York's largest Afghan mosque, until 2007, when he opened a funeral business." (Yes, a funeral business.) Before this case broke, the FBI apparently consulted Afzali more than once. Last week he said, "They come for information, and I always help. I have helped them many times."
However, Afzali was apparently playing a double game. He called Zazi on September 11, after learning that the young man and his friends were suspected of terrorist activity. "They asked me about you guys," Afzali told Zazi. "They came to ask me about your characters." Afzali disclaimed any knowledge of whatever Zazi was doing: "I'm not sure what happened. And I don't want to know." Nonetheless, he protected his friend in front of the Feds: "I told them that 'they are innocent, law abiding.'"...
"Reporters were mum about what the adherents of this unnamed religion might be doing to encourage bomb-making, or how they might find justification for such actions in the texts and teachings of that religion".
Gee-whiz, I wonder what "unnamed religion" that could be?
Could it be Christianity?
How about Judaism?
Hinduism, anyone?
Buddhism?
Surely it wouldn't be Islam, that "religion of peace", that everyone is talking about these days!
They would never do anything like that, would they?
You betcha they would and they'll try and try again until they succeed in their jihadist aim to overthrow the US Constitution and replace it with Islamic Law.
I am so sick and tired of the media and how they cower in fear at the mere idea of mentioning Islam, Muslims, Jihad, Islamic terrorists, or any other Arabic term that appropriately portrays the "religion of domination".
"However, Afzali was apparently playing a double game."
I'm shocked - not!
"Zazi offered the improbable explanation that he accidentally downloaded the bomb-making material while downloading what news reports primly referred to as a "religious text." In keeping with prevailing politically correct sensibilities, no report specified what kind of "religious text" might come with downloadable bomb-making instructions, or said anything about which religion was involved."
Naturally, the Qur'an from Al-Kaboom University contains bomb-making instructions.........
"I told them that 'they are innocent, law abiding.'"...
Yes, but not the law of the United States of America.
Immediate repatriation, no need for the plane to land.
A funeral business, eh? Is being a jihadi and running a funeral home a conflict of interest?
"Before this case broke, the FBI apparently consulted Afzali more than once. Last week he said, "They come for information, and I always help. I have helped them many times."
Perhaps a watershead moment for the Police and the FBI. They outreached, they did the P.C. thing, and were burned. Good chance the FBI have been burned before trusting him.
If he was "moderate" in their eyes, what did he become, in a flash of cellphone light, to them as this spy, this double agent, showed how moderate he really was.
He probally is considered a radical now, only because he told them, he showed them, he was.
May the blinders fall off to stay.
This is off-topic, but seemed to come under the broad rubric of "Jihad in New York.
Muamar Qaddafy of Libya has just addressed the United Nations, and is causing quite a stir. To their credit, almost half of the representatives walked out on his speech. The speech itself included such disturbing--and bizarre--comments as referring to the United Nations Security Council as "terrorists", suggesting that his suffering from jet-lag was some sort of plot, and implying that Israel was somehow to blame for the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963--and urged that it "should be investigated".
He apparently approves of Barack Obama, and referred to him as "my son"--whether this is because Obama's father was African, or because his father was Muslim, I can't be certain. He also said he hoped that Obama would serve as US president "forever". Somehow, Qaddafy seems oddly unfamiliar with the concept of presidential term limits--or, indeed, the concept of any sort of democratic system. Given that he himself is dictator for life of Libya, this may not be surprising.
He had wanted to pitch his "bedouin tent" first in New York's Central Park, then on New Jersey's shore--he was turned down both times. He has now turned up in the gracious, leafy suburb of Bedford, New York--about forty-five minutes north of NYC. Martha Stewart has a home there.
Bedford lost a number of residents on 9/11--as well as in the crash of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1983--masterminded by...Muamar Qaddafy. These were mostly Syracuse University students on their way home for Christmas break.
The residents--usually a pretty sedate bunch--are up in arms (figuratively speaking) about the presence of this ugly dictator in their town. Oddly, the property is owned by Donald Trump, who was leasing the property to some "Middle East associates", and apparently had no idea they were planning to sub-let the property to a vicious killer of Americans.
I'm not generally a big fan of "the Donald", but I know he doesn't relish being publicly embarrassed--so I hope he has Qaddafy out on his a** in no time.
Mahmood Achmadinijad will be addressing the UN tonight, so no doubt we have more Islamic hijinks to look forward to.
It is also important for a national discussion on the wisdom of allowing immigration from the Muslim world to the US. Exposing the doctrines of Islam is not enough if we don't do anything to stop the massive influx of Muslim immigration and expansion in the US. I think that that the anti-Islamisation policies advocated by Geert Wilders should be considered in the US and other Western countries as well.
Afzali disclaimed any knowledge of whatever Zazi was doing: "I'm not sure what happened. And I don't want to know." Nonetheless, he protected his friend in front of the Feds: "I told them that 'they are innocent, law abiding.'"...
talk about taking out of both sides of you mouth
i could be wrong but look at all the rapes that muslims have committed in Sweden all claiming to be innocent so is it surprising that he would claim that these guys are innocent, law abiding after all , all they wanted to do was attack kufer
the nonbelievers who can never be innocent in muslim eyes so how could they be anything but innocent right (sarc off)