Every year on 9/11 I post a memorial to the victims of one of the most barbaric attacks in history. I was so focused on the debate on Tuesday night that I forgot Wednesday was 9/11.
This is my post—a day late.
We must never forget. I must never forget.
Ever.
Let me get the most important story out of the way at the top of the post: Taylor Swift won a record fourth “best album of the year” last night at the Grammys, besting Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, who each have three.
Woo-hoo.
Now let’s get to the lighter stuff.
I read with interest the latest column by Robert Spencer. If you don’t read Robert Spencer, you should. Spencer is one of the foremost authorities in the U.S. (and possibly the world) when it comes to an outsider’s understanding of Islam, jihad, the Qur’an, and terrorism. He’s written a number of books and, because he views Islam contrary to the (woke) sensibilities of the dominant political climate in the Western world, he has been labeled an anti-Muslim activist, an Islamophobe, an inflammatory speaker, someone who promotes hate, intolerance, and bigotry, and he has been banned from entering the UK because of his work. This in spite of the fact that he was at one time a trainer for the FBI and the U.S. military, both of which now shun him even though he hasn’t changed his views.
In his column titled “Old Joe Biden Has a New Nickname, and This One Isn’t Funny At All,” Spencer writes that Van Jones is putting pressure on Brandon to abandon Israel to Hamas because young Muslims in America are threatening to withhold their votes for him come November.
Jones’ warning comes amid ongoing efforts to force Biden to betray Israel by threatening him at the ballot box. Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, thundered at a November pro-Hamas rally: “No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania.” These were, of course, the states that allowed Old Joe to pretend to be president over the last three years. Awad concluded: “No votes for you anywhere if you don’t call for a ceasefire now.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) added: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”
Now, according to a Saturday Fox News report, Old Joe is “facing an electoral revolt among Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan who are outraged by his ongoing support for Israel, with some even accusing him of enabling genocide.” They’ve even launched an “abandon Biden” campaign in Dearborn. On CNN, Erin Burnett told Jones about a former Biden campaign prole who told a CNN reporter “that he will not vote for Biden again even knowing that it may help Trump. He says Biden is ‘not somebody I can trust.’” Wow, stop the presses!
A couple of thoughts about this report that don’t directly address the issue of Brandon’s nickname. The first is that “Arab and Muslim voters” are threatening to vote as a block not as Americans, but as Arabs and Muslims. Hatred for Israel is not an American value; it’s an Arab and Muslim value.
This is the problem with unwise and unvetted immigration. I’m sure that many of these “Arab and Muslim” voters have American citizenship, but they aren’t acting in the interests of being American. They’re acting first, perhaps only, as Muslims.
And while you may say that they are free to practice their religion in America just like Christians are free to practice theirs, the difference is that “Christian” and “American” values, while imperfectly practiced, were nearly synonymous for most of our history. We assert the dignity of all human beings, oppose injustice, believe in punishing the offender, protecting women and children, and fighting for the inherent God-given freedoms that all men possess.
That’s not true for adherents of Islam, who believe that Allah, through the Qur’an, commands them to subjugate, oppress and to kill Jews and Christians. So, now that we are looking more like the European contintent that is losing its homogeneity, we have to deal with an increasing tribalism in America, an example of which is a united voting block that puts its Islamic political and religious culture first—a political and religious culture that cuts against what used to define American politics and culture.
The second thing that I want to point out is that Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the largest “Arab American” community in the U.S. “Arab and Muslim voters” are now the majority as the city becomes a Muslim enclave—similar to Hamtramck, MI, home of America’s first Muslim-majority city council—and the effects of the large Muslim presence is felt in places like schools, where all the meat served at lunch is now halal, i.e. sharia compliant, in being “the first U.S. city to offer Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays that marks the end of Ramadan, as a paid holiday for city employees,” and in its leader’s vocal support for Hamas.
That support led to a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece that called Dearborn “America’s Jihad Capital” and generated a backlash where any questioning of Islam and its political or religious tenets subjects you to accusations of bigotry, Islamophobia, racism and hate.
The WSJ Opinion article titled, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital” is written by Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., an American commenter on Middle Eastern terrorism who has served as the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to international media analysis, since 1999.
Stalinsky’s article goes on to compare Dearborn’s pro-Palestinian protests over Israel’s response in Gaza to Hamas’ attack on Israel to celebrations of the Oct. 7 massacre in the West Bank.
“Support for terrorism in southern Michigan has long been a concern for U.S. counterterrorism officials,” he writes. “What’s happening in Dearborn isn’t simply a political problem for Democrats. It’s potentially a national security issue affecting all Americans. Counterterrorism agencies at all levels should pay close attention.”
Islam is incompatible with American law, starting with the U.S. Constitution. We fool ourselves if we believe that Islam doesn’t pose a threat to the United States. We will eventually see enclaves that are “no-go zones”, i.e. locations that rule themselves according to sharia law without regard to American norms or constitutional law, and which shut out non-Muslims and any effort to enforce state laws. Those sites will eventually expand to include entire cities, and, given enough time, those will expand to include entire states.
Guaranteed.
Being called “Genocide Joe” is the very least of Brandon’s problems, but what it signifies should be one of the gravest concerns of all freedom-loving Americans.
In the early 2010s I started warning my Facebook community to pay attention to the occasional attacks by Islamic jihadis in America. Most of them were lone wolf attacks, like the attempted car bombing in Times Square in 2010, or the beheading in Oklahoma in 2014, or the multiple stabbings in Minnesota in 2016, or the one in New York in 2023.
There’s lots more like those, but generally, you don’t hear about jihadi attacks that often. You’d think that if there were one, you’d hear about it.
At a news conference on Wednesday, North Dakota authorities said that the shooter responsible for the death of a Fargo Police Department officer and the injury of two other officers used 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives to unleash a “murderous barrage of fire.”
Mohamad Barakat, 37, was fatally shot by Officer Zachary Robinson, 31, authorities said. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was killed, while officers Andrew Dotas, 28, and Tyler Hawes, 22, were critically injured. A woman was also shot, but authorities have not said who shot her.Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.
Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.
“In the wake of Mohamad Barakat’s murderous, unprovoked attack, Officer Zach Robinson’s use of deadly force was reasonable, it was necessary, it was justified, and in all ways, it was lawful,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters. “Mohamad Barakat engaged in a savage attack. … He unleashed what can only be described fairly as a murderous barrage of fire. But that isn’t to say it wasn’t precise. In fact, it was.”
Did you know that an Islamic jihadist attack had happened? No? You’re not alone.
In the week since the July 14 attack took place, authorities have resisted providing any specifics about the Muslim terrorist or his motive. Flag Family Media, a local radio station, had its request for information about Mohamad because it had already all been turned over to the FBI.
Mohamad’s neighbors in the Fargo housing complex claimed that he was quiet and refused to interact with them. “He didn’t want to be around you and of course that made you not want to be around him.”
Why then was Mohamad in America? As previously revealed by a Front Page Magazine investigation, decades of aggressive refugee resettlement has fundamentally changed the face of this quintessentially American city. 8% of Fargo is foreign born and Somalis, Iraqis and other Muslim refugees outnumber Hispanics in the school system. The nearby mega-mosque, blocks from where Mohamad carried out his attack, and Muslim businesses attracts other arrivals.
Our best boys at the FBI interviewed Mohamad in 2021 but didn’t see any threat.
The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined he had done nothing illegal and no further action was taken, authorities said Thursday.
In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous tip about Mohamad Barakat in July 2021 in which the tipster expressed concern about Barakat’s mental state, saying he had access to a “significant number of firearms” and had used threatening language.
But no worries! He hasn’t done anything illegal — yet. Besides, we’ve got Trump to frame and sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics to harass and they haven’t done anything illegal either!
All I’ll say is that our so-called “leaders” haven’t learned anything about the nature of Islamic jihadists or, if they have, don’t want to face it because it causes tension over their goals of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).
Pay attention.
A story that dropped off the radar several years ago is back in the news.
NEW YORK — An Islamic extremist was given 10 life sentences and another 260 years in prison on Wednesday for killing eight people with a truck on a bike path in Manhattan and severely injuring 18 others.
“The conduct in this case is among the worst if not the worst I’ve ever seen,” said U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick. He cited the unrepentant nature of Sayfullo Saipov, who, given a chance to speak, said the tears of victims and family members in the courtroom were small compared to the blood and tears that those in the Islamic faith have suffered.
Saipov’s sentence came after a jury in March rejected the death penalty for the Uzbekistan citizen and onetime New Jersey resident, leaving him with a mandatory life prison sentence for his Oct. 31, 2017 slaughter of tourists and New Yorkers.
Other countries are definitely sending us their best! “A former long-haul truck driver, Saipov moved legally to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010 and lived in Ohio and Florida before joining his family in Paterson, New Jersey.”
Saipov’s first name, “Sayfullo” means “sword of Allah.” But don’t you dare notice that, you Islamophobe!
The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty, so the prosecutors argued for the strongest possible sentence, which the judge accomodated. We the People will now support this mass murderer for the rest of his life while he spreads the Islamic faith to his fellow prisoners. Fortunately, he’ll be incarcerated in Colorado’s Supermax facility, the most secure federal prison in the U.S., so he won’t be able to do (much) more damage to our society.
I’ve warned for a long time (at least a decade) that Islamic extremism is a very real threat to our country. There have been several jihadi attacks within the United States since 9/11, our politicians have imported tens of thousands of Muslims, and our FBI, DOJ and local law enforcement refuse to acknowledge the threat that Islamic extremists pose to our society.
It is true that there have been relatively few jihadist attacks in recent years and, in fact, the number of general terror attacks in the U.S. have decreased significantly since 1970 with a slight uptick in the last couple of years.
However, there have been enough that we should be paying attention, especially with regard to Islamist terrorism. Note that not all the killings I list below are mass murders. Some of them are “honor killings” that have shown up in America in the last fifteen years.
January 1, 2008: Yaser Said murders his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. He shot them to death because, as Muslims, they brought disgrace on his family because of their western lifestyle that included dating non-Muslim boys. The murders are considered an honor killing.
July 6, 2008: Pakistani-born Chaudhry Rashid admitted to strangling his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, because she “disgraced his family by seeking a divorce from an arranged marriage to her cousin.” The murder is seen as an “honor killing.”
February 12, 2009: Pakistani-American Muzzammil Hassan brutally stabbed and beheaded his wife, Aasiya Hassan, in Buffalo, NY. because six days earlier she had filed for divorce. In a bit of irony, Mr. Hassan “founded Bridge TV in 2004. The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11. His wife was its general manager.” The murder is considered an honor killing.
November 2, 2009: Faleh Almaleki runs down his daughter, Noor Almaleki, as she walked across a suburban parking lot to a Mexican restaurant with a friend. “Local police characterized the incident as an attempted ‘honor killing’ — the murder of a woman for behaving in a way that ‘shames’ her family.” The Almalekis immigrated in the mid-1990s from Basra, Iraq to Phoenix, Arizona. The murder is seen as an honor killing.
November 5, 2009: Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 members of the military at Fort Hood. “Attorneys for the victims … said that the alleged shooter’s admission this week that he gunned down his countrymen to defend the Taliban proves that the assault was a terrorist attack and not, as the government has implied, ‘workplace violence.'”
December 25, 2009: The “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab—who was trained and directed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—smuggled a bomb aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam. The device failed to go off, “but AbdulMutallab became enveloped in a fireball that spread to the wall and carpeting of the plane.” He later admitted that “‘I carried with me an explosive device to avenge the killing of innocent Muslims,’ adding that the failed plot was in retaliation for ‘U.S. tyranny and oppression of Muslims.'”
April 14, 2010: Tawana Thompson Larry is killed, along with three others, by her husband. “The suspected gunman told police Allah had told him to kill family members. The man’s sister told reporters at a vigil outside the home that her brother had recently been reading passages from an Islamic text that led him to believe he should kill someone.”
May 1, 2010: Faisal Shahzad managed to place a car bomb in Times Square undetected after training with the Pakistani Taliban. The device did not detonate properly. When he was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole, he said he would “sacrifice a thousand lives for Allah.” Reminded by the judge that he’d sworn an oath of allegiance to the US when he became a citizen, Shahzad replied, “I did swear but I did not mean it.”
April 15, 2013: Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade, targeted the Boston marathon with pressure cooker bombs, killing three and injuring more than 260 people. In one report, “a picture has emerged of the older one as someone embittered toward the U.S., increasingly vehement in his Muslim faith and influential over his younger brother.”
September 25, 2014: Alton Nolen “inflicted a brutal, ISIS-style punishment on colleagues he tried to convert to Islam — cutting one woman’s head off with a 10-inch fillet knife. Jurors also convicted Nolen of assault and battery with a deadly weapon for attempting to behead a second co-worker at the Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Nolen’s attorneys say he’s mentally ill and believed he was doing the right thing because of his delusional misinterpretations of the Quran.”
December 2, 2015: Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, massacred 14 people at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, California. “Farook was born to Pakistani parents in Chicago on June 14, 1987, but the family moved to Southern California when he was a child, and he attended La Sierra High School in Riverside, where he joined a campus club for Muslims.” This report says Farook and Malik “were clad in tactical gear and armed with handguns and two assault rifles purchased by his childhood friend, Marquez. The couple sprayed the room with as many as 75 rounds before fleeing.”
June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official. Mateen’s parents came from Afghanistan; Mateen was born in New York City.
October 31, 2017: Sayfullo Saipov runs down pedestrians on a New York City bike path using a rented Home Depot truck, killing eight. Prosecutors said he had two cell phones with 90 videos of propaganda about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and 3,800 images related to the terrorist group.
December 6, 2019: Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a student naval flight officer, opened fire in a Pensacola, Florida naval station classroom building, killing three sailors. Alshamrani was killed after two deputies exchanged gunfire with him. The murders are considered an act of terrorism.
March 22, 2021: Ahmad Al-Issa, a Syrian Muslim immigrant from Raqqa, Syria, killed ten Americans by shooting them to death inside a supermarket. He “spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.” In the latest news about this case, the courts will hear arguments this month about Al-Issa’s mental fitness to stand trial.
April 2, 2021: Noah Green described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan.” Green hit two police officers with his car and rammed a security barrier, then was shot and killed by law enforcement after he exited the vehicle and drew his knife. “However, the path has been thwarted, as Allah has chosen me for other things,” Green wrote on his Facebook page.
December 31, 2022: Trevor Bickford is charged with federal crimes in connection with his efforts to wage jihad by killing U.S. Government officials and his knife attack on three NYPD officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. “I wanted to kill an officer in uniform,” Bickford allegedly told police, according to the criminal complaint. “I saw the officer and waited until he was alone. I said ‘Allahu Akbar.’ I walked up and hit him over the head with a kukri. I charged another officer but dropped the knife and I tried to get the police officer’s gun but couldn’t.”
These are some of the attacks that we know about since 9/11.
Apart from attacks like these, we should also be watching for other signs of Islamic separation from American culture. Democrat congresswoman Rashid Tlaib swore her oath of office on the Koran, as did Ilhan Omar. Tlaib’s mother came from the West Bank, Omar came with her family from Somalia. We should also be watching certain cities, such as Hamtramck and Dearborn, MI, where Muslims make up more than 40 percent of the two cities in the Metro Detroit region. We should also pay attention to Minneapolis, home to 70-80,000 Muslims, which just became the first major city to “allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement or ‘adhan’ to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round.”
Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course; in fact, the vast majority seem to practice their religion in peaceable ways. But we should be wary, especially with the invasion through our southern “border.” Every day that our border stays open, it’s possible more migrants enter from terror states. No one knows who is coming in, but every now and then, an extremist pops off and people die.
Seems to me we would want to prevent that.
Daily Verse | Micah 2:11
If a liar and deceiver comes and says,
‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’
he would be just the prophet for this people!
Happy Friday, Broadsiders! Some of you have an unhealthy preoccupation with potato salad.
If you’re wondering why America is no longer looking like America, you have to search no further than the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. Sponsored and pushed through the Senate by uber-liberal Ted Kennedy, the immigration act “snuffed out the generous quotas for immigrants from the countries that had traditionally populated America—England, Ireland, and Germany—and added ‘family reunification’ policies, allowing recent immigrants to bring in their relatives, and those relatives to bring in their relatives, until entire Somali villages have relocated to Minneapolis and Muslim cabdrivers are refusing to transport passengers with dogs or alcohol.”
These days, leveling any criticism against the immigrants coming into our country is verboten, especially by middle-aged white men. It doesn’t matter that up until 56 years ago, the majority of immigrants were white Europeans who came from similar cultures and that the “browning” of America was a deliberate government policy to bring in new Democrat voters who would be dependent on the government.
Thus, unskilled third-world peasants are favored immigrants. That’s why we have more than 30 million Mexicans and other Latin American immigrants here illegally, with hundreds of thousands more arriving over the southern border and released across the United States by the illegitimate junta in Washington, D.C.
None of the oligarchy in D.C. care about what these immigrants from third-world nations are doing to our national culture or what the downstream effect might be on natural-born citizens. Nowhere is this clearer than in the thousands of Muslims we’ve imported from across the Middle East and Africa and, most recently, Afghanistan.
We’ve resettled some 60,000 Afghans to the territorial United States. If you think that those refugees have been vetted, you’d be 84 percent wrong. Here’s what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said:
Of the over 60,000 individuals who have been brought into the United States—and I will give you approximate figures and I will verify them, approximately 7 percent have been United States citizens. Approximately 6 percent have been lawful permanent residents. Approximately 3 percent have been individuals who are in receipt of the special immigrant visas. The balance of that population are individuals whose applications have not yet been processed for approval who may qualify as SIVs and have not yet applied, who qualify or would qualify—I should say—as P-1 or P-2 refugees who have been employed by the united states government in Afghanistan and are otherwise vulnerable afghan nationals, such as journalists, human rights advocates, et cetera.
In other words, more than 50,000 of those refugees are now on American soil and have not been vetted. Why is this important? There’s this:
They didn’t leave Afghanistan very long ago, and so it is understandable that Bahrullah Noori and Mohammad Haroon Imaad, two Afghan evacuees at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, would behave as if they were still there. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury in Wisconsin charged Noori with “attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and with three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one count alleging the use of force.” Imaad was charged with “assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her.” The alleged crimes took place at Fort McCoy, where Noori and Imaad have been staying in anticipation of being placed in some lucky American neighborhood. The Justice Department said nothing about how both men were just following religious and cultural norms that other Afghan refugees are likely to follow as well, or about the implications of that fact for the entire Afghan refugee resettlement project.
And there’s this:
There is another reason why both the administration and the media would rather have this story go away, amid the chaos at the Southern border and just after the catastrophe in Afghanistan: Alowemer, 23, came to the United States from Syria as a refugee when he was 18. Yet he doesn’t exactly fit the image of a grateful refugee, eager to become a part of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He told investigators, according to the criminal complaint against him, that “his motivation to detonate a device at the Church was to support the cause of ISIS and to inspire other ISIS sympathizers in the United States to join together and commit similar acts in the name of ISIS.” He added that he “also targeted the Church, which he described as Christian and Nigerian, in order to ‘take revenge for our [ISIS] brothers in Nigeria.’” Christians are suffering fierce persecution from Muslims in Nigeria, but as far as Alowemer was concerned, this meant only that they were infidels at war with Allah, and he thirsted for revenge.
So we have three Afghan Muslim [updated 9/26] refugees who have brought they’re values here to the United States. Exceptions? Maybe, but I wouldn’t place any money on it. The elite oligarchy hates us normal Americans and could give a rip about what some unrefined immigrant might unleash on Christian churches or on an unsuspecting teenage girl.
Diversity and inclusion are our strength!
There are tens of millions foreigners here illegally in the United States and our lawless Resident and his staff of junior commies are bringing in tens of thousands more every month. They aren’t vetted; they’re just given a date at which to show up to court and then released into the interior of the United States until their court date, for which only a small fraction of immigrants show up.
The Left gets to celebrate the invasion of our country and the destruction of our unique American culture, while the Right is shamed as racist for questioning the policies. We’re not allowed to say, “Why is so much immigration a good thing? What’s wrong with ‘white’ American culture? I LIKE American culture,”—or we’re called racist and xenophobic.
Nevertheless, those are questions we should be asking and demanding answers for.
Have a good weekend.
Daily Verse | Ezekiel 43:12
This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.
It’s Friday, September 10. Since I do not write on the weekends, I am posting my annual tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. May we never forget.
And please pray for our nation, which is led by unserious men and women who don’t understand the nature of the threat that is still there, leaving all of us less safe and more vulnerable than we were just one month ago.
