According to the Detroit Free Press, Gadahn, “In a 48-minute recording posted on the Internet. . . called upon Muslims living in what he called ‘the miserable suburbs of Paris, London, Detroit’ to attack Americans, citing as examples the Ft. Hood shooter in Texas and the man who tried to set off a bomb on a plane descending into Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day.”
Dawud Walid does his inevitable damage control by arguing that Gadahn doesn’t understand Dearborn Muslims. That’s as may be, but Gadahn and Walid certainly understand one another. They both share the Muslim Brotherhood conviction “that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
That is the language of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international jihadist organization whose American agencies include the Muslim Students Association, and CAIR, among others. Walid wants to distance himself from Al-Qaida, but bin Laden got his start with the Brotherhood, and the Brotherhood and Al-Qaida share nearly the same ideological roots, even if they may disagree on tactics. Al-Qaida is more violent, the Brotherhood more focused on “dawa,” incremental implementation of Sharia law, but all leading to final Muslim domination. That’s why Omar Ahmad, onetime chairman of CAIR, could say that “Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
Nor is Walid altogether right when he denies that AQ has any supporters in “any Western countries.”
Then Tarek Baydoun has gotten himself onto some more speed dials. Last week he got some notice in the Press & Guide by agreeing with Mayor O’Reilly’s criticism of Sharron Angle. Today Niraj Warikoo quotes Baydoun slamming Gadahn: “’He's either mentally ill or utterly evil,’ Baydoun said. ‘He has nothing to do with any faith tradition. He's disconnected from Muslim-American as can be.’”
Except Azzam does have something to do with a faith tradition, as he converted to Islam and joined Al Qaida so he could do jihad. And he’s been working pretty hard at it ever since, including dodging who knows how many drones. There’s no mistake that he couches his sermon to area Muslims in Islamic terms:
Know that jihad is your duty as well, and you have an opportunity to strike the leaders of unbelief and retaliate against them on their own soil. As long as there is no covenant between you and them, here you are in the battlefield just like heroes before you.Baydoun’s usual defense to bad facts is to cite the imaginary wall of separation between Islam and Islamic terrorism. He called the Ft. Hood massacre “an outrageous attack [that] has nothing to do with religion. It was strictly criminal.” Before that, he blamed 9/11 “on American policies and power, while denying that any of the hijackers could be “affiliated with Islam.”
Apparently, Allahu Akhbar! is an Arabic phrase meaning, “I’m an atheist criminal, and I’m going to sacrifice my life to prove it!”
Maybe Azzam won’t get many takers on his recruitment message. But I’ll wager he’s as good at knowing what the Ummah is thinking as Walid will ever admit to. And Al-Qaeda had always been an effective recruiter, including recently, inspiring Nidal Hasan, Abdulmutallab, Faisal Shahzad, and all those Somalis from Minnesota. And it only takes a few.
Do you believe all this? First sabotaging our miserable house, and now our miserable suburbs.
I’m glad Barbara Billingsley isn’t around to have to see this.
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I remember long before 9/11 watching Peter Arnett interview bin Laden. And even though I had no clue as to who bin Laden really was or what he represented, I remember thinking that Arnett was acting arrogant and that the man from the cave would have the last laugh.
After reading Mayor O'Reilly's letter to Messr. Gadahn, I'm having a similar reaction. While the letter is quite witty and clever (funny, even), I think it underestimates the all-too-real threat that the Muslim community poses wherever it is highly concentrated in the US. Indeed, I remember reading some time ago the work of a Muslim cleric in America, perhaps Shamim Siddiqi, who advocates circling major US metropolitan areas with densely populated Muslim communities. I suspect Dearborn is quickly becoming one of those Muslim population centers. Others exist such as Patterson and Jersey City in NJ. Areas of Los Angeles. Areas of New York, most notably Brooklyn. There is also a growing Ummah enclave around one side of Atlanta.
I remember after 9/11 every one saying not all Muslims are terrorists, blah, blah, blah. And while I generally believe that to be true, I remember questioning those repeating these platitudes, how they really knew if represented truth. For example, I don’t know many Muslims. I’ve never been to a mosque. Sure, I heard president Bush tell me Islam was a religion of peace, but I had no first hand knowledge to make that determination myself. And I still don’t. I largely have to go based on what I see and hear.
So I think there is a danger in Muslims creating these population centers which essentially can become future no-go zones. Few non-Muslims, if any, will really know what goes on within these population clusters. And of course, once you have densely populated communities, you may unwittingly open the door for sharia within these communities. I believe the Muslims have a plan and that they are executing on their plan.
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