Next post below is from Aaron Elias, who I like and respect, ALOT. It seems as if we are standing still at times against Islam. Not a good thing and as I have stated before; "Waiting or standing still against Islam, is like waiting for death." Islam is death to one's soul and life.
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By Aaron Elias
With all the international Islamic terror activity in the past decade, one would like to think that we as a society have grown wise to the scheme of our enemy. I use the term ‘enemy’ loosely, because it seems to be a very one-sided decision right now, and I will give you just one guess as to who made that decision.
In the years since September 11, 2001, we’ve seen the rate of foiled militant Islamic plots escalate. Late last year in October, the media was abuzz about the three Muslim US residents arrested on charges of terrorist intentions. Najibullah Zazi and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, along with acquaintance and a Queens mosque imam Ahmed Wais Afzali, are Afghan nationals who were arrested on September 19th for lying to FBI officials in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism. Zazi Jr., under FBI interrogation, admitted to receiving explosives and weapons training by al-Qeada in tribal areas of Pakistan considered to be the hub of the terror network headed by Osama bin Laden. CNN stated that they planned to detonate bombs in crowded New York areas.
The FBI found videos of Zazi Jr. shopping in the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, purchasing mass quantities of products with chemicals that are used to make TATP (triacetone triperoxide) and other homemade explosives. A search of Zazi’s Aurora apartment yielded further damning evidence: bomb-making notes on Zazi’s laptop on how to heat the chemicals for higher concentration and signs that he had heated the chemicals on a stove.
This is not the first potential terrorist attack New York narrowly avoided in 2009. Just this past May, the FBI and NYPD broke up a four-man homegrown terror cell in the Bronx that plotted to blow up two synagogues and shoot a plane out of the sky with a Stinger missile. The suspects included three US-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant, at least three of whom were jailhouse converts to Islam and angry about the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan.
When asked about their motives, the group’s ringleader, James Cromitie, replied, “I hate those
motherf-ckers, those f-cking Jewish bastards… I would like to get [to destroy] a synagogue.”
A law enforcement official said, “They were filled with rage and wanted to take it out on what they considered the source of all problems in America- the Jews.”
It is impossible to measure grief and loss of life, but when it comes to Islamic terror in terms of density, America is by no means the champion. London suffered the bus bombings in 2005. Israel has endured it on a daily basis, and even in relatively calm periods of time, such as the March 2008 slaughter of 12 Yeshiva students. The world quaked in horror as it watched the Mumbai attacks unfold on the news in November 2008. Madrid lost 194 lives in the 2004 train bombings. An Amsterdam man outraged by Theo Van Gogh’s infamous Mohammad cartoon first shot the cartoonist to death, then slit his throat, nearly decapitating him, and stabbed him twice in the chest. He left a note that threatened Western governments, Jews, and the creator of the film Submission, which analyzes the treatment of women in Islam. Every instance just described was carried out by extremist Muslim individuals.
The raw and inhuman hate Muslim radicals portray, such as Van Gogh’s assassin, is terrifying in itself. The Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange in 2008, in which Israel released hundreds of terrorist rapists and child-murderers for what it thought were two live IDF soldiers that were delivered in coffins, sparked a wave of joy and mocking laughter throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
The problem is not inherently Islam. Every religion has had its radicals in the past, and Islam, the world’s youngest Abrahamic religion, is experiencing its phase. The problem of Islamic extremism lies in Islamic fundamentalist societies and communities all over the world that instill a bone-shattering hatred of Jews, the West, and even non-Muslims into their children. In their homes, in their schools, and on the streets. And we are the ones largely to blame for every 9/11 that has occurred in the world since 2001. We, the Western world, continue to perpetuate this problem, because we are so terrified of being thought of as prejudiced, a fear that the radical Muslim community has capitalized on and exploited whenever somebody opens their mouth against the barbaric treatment of Muslim women or the widespread hatred of Jews in radical Muslim circles.
But even Muslim moderates aren’t free of guilt. Where is their outrage? Where is their anger whenever some loony calling himself a Muslim blows up an Iraqi marketplace in the name of Allah? Why do we never hear the moderate Muslim community taking responsibility for its religion, standing up to the degenerates who have hijacked their religion and telling the world that no, suicide bombers and gunmen do not speak for Islam? The Muslim community should be expressing its outrage the loudest at the radicals who use their religion as an excuse to slaughter innocent people for political gains, and we’ve yet to hear the faintest whimper.
This reality leads us to one of two possible conclusions. The first is that Islam has bred an inherent feeling of brotherhood in its followers, a fraternity with a religious spectrum that may run far and wide but is a fraternity nonetheless. Muslims, however moderate, may be unwilling to criticize fellow Muslims, however radical. After all, many in the Muslim world view themselves as a Muslim first and a citizen of their respective nation second.
The second possibility, and perhaps the more plausible one, is that the moderate Muslim community appears indifferent to these radical Islamic activities because they lack the motivation to make the effort to speak up for themselves. Many may view it a futile effort to correct people’s interpretations of Muslims from the bloodthirsty, xenophobic berserkers that are Muslim radical to the civilized individuals that are Muslim moderates. They may give up the situation for hopeless. When the most prominent Islamic organizations are fundamentalist ones entangled with foreign terror cells like Hamas and the Taliban, such as CAIR, the prospect for a Muslim moderate organization rising up to rival it may seem intimidating to many Muslim moderates.
The time for political correctness has come and gone. Ours is an enemy who has proven his willingness to exploit our sympathies, our sensitivities, and our humanity in order to destroy us. He has proven a profound willingness to twist and mangle the truth, even to snap it in some cases, to shoot our mothers and daughters and brothers and sons in the back and then admonish us for chastising him. He has shown a disturbing enthusiasm even to shoot his own mothers and daughters and brothers and sons in the back, to enslave his own women and spit in the face of anyone who thinks differently than he.
Ours is an enemy entrenched in his own self-perpetuating soullessness, devoid of humanity. And we must learn to address him as such.
