10 Acts of Jihad in America That Americans Haven’t Heard About
By Robert Spencer
PJMedia.com
While the world’s attention is focused on the Islamic State, and its jihadis tell Americans that they will “drown all of you in blood,” jihad activity continues in the United States – although hardly anyone notices through the fog of mainstream media obfuscation.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg68NHNDmeE
Here are some recent acts of jihad on American soil that you may have missed – all from this spring and summer:
1. Seattle Muslim “on a jihad to kill
Americans” prime suspect in four murder cases
Seattle Muslim Ali Muhammad Brown, reported KING 5
News last Tuesday, is “currently in jail on $5
million bail for the alleged murder of a college
student in late June.” He has “already been charged
with gunning down two men at 29th and King Street in
Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood on June 1.” And he is
“now the prime suspect in a fourth homicide.”
The report noted laconically in its fifth paragraph,
without elaboration, that “multiple sources with
knowledge of the investigation say Brown told police
he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad
to kill Americans.”
NJ.com added, also deep in its story on Brown’s
murders: “Prosecutors say Brown is a devout Muslim
who had become angered by U.S. military intervention
in the Islamic world, which he referred to as
‘evil.’”
If these news outlets were committed to informing
Americans about the true nature and magnitude of the
jihad threat, this seemingly insignificant detail
would be in the headline and central to all the
reporting on this case. But this myopia they share
with the mainstream media in general.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pE3clp_fuI
2. Seattle Muslim who said gays should be
“exterminated” gets ten years for arson at gay
nightclub
Another Muslim from Seattle, Musab Mohamed Masmari,
was sentenced several weeks ago to ten years in
prison for pouring gasoline onto a stairway in a
famous gay nightclub, Neighbours, and setting the
stairway on fire last New Year’s Eve, when the club
was crowded and – if the fire had not been put out –
the carnage would have been great.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said: “One of
Masmari’s close associates was interviewed by
investigators and reported that Masmari confided in
him that he ‘burned a gay club’ and that he did it
because ‘what these people are doing is wrong.’” In
another report from February, we learn that an
informant told the FBI before this attack that
Masmari could be planning “terrorist activity,” and
that he had “opined that homosexuals should be
exterminated.”
This incident should have been the impetus for a
national discussion of violent Sharia enforcement in
the U.S., and an examination of what could be done
to stop Sharia vigilantism. Instead, the mainstream
media largely ignored the obvious motive; in this
report, it is discussed as “homophobia,” with no
hint that this was one of the first incidents of
violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jDl1E4aRQ
3. Friend of Boston Marathon jihad mass
murderer found guilty of hindering FBI investigation
In late July, according to the Los Angeles Times, “a
friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev was convicted Monday of hindering the FBI
investigation into the April 2013 blast by hiding
Tsarnaev’s backpack from authorities. Azamat
Tazhayakov, convicted in federal court on Boston,
now faces up to 20 years in prison.”
Azamat Tazhayakov could be a fool. A dupe. Or as his
defense attorneys have it, a “good kid.” A “mama’s
boy.” Or he could be a true believer like his friend
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hindering the investigation not
solely out of loyalty to his friend, but because he
believed in the same cause — that of jihad and Islam
— that motivated Tsarnaev to commit mass murder at
the Boston Marathon. But this question was evidently
not broached at his trial, as illuminating as it may
have been of Tazhayakov’s motives and actions. It
appears that to have investigated such questions
would have been “Islamophobic.”
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTc_kKfaGI
4. Texas: Two Muslims arrested on jihad
terror charges
Rahatul Ashikim Khan, an American citizen born
in Bangladesh, wanted to join the Somali jihad
terror group al-Shabaab. He was not Somali and did
not have any connection to Somalia. He just wanted
to wage jihad. Michael Todd Wolfe, a convert to
Islam from Houston, wanted to head to Syria for his
jihad. Wolfe’s wife told a person who turned out to
be an undercover FBI agent that her husband longed
to “perform a violent form of jihad.” Wolfe, she
said, “just wants to hop into Syria. He’s just ready
to die for his deen [religion].”
According to the FBI, Wolfe’s jihad aspirations
didn’t end with Syria. He,
indicated that he had learned that al Qaeda in Syria
was training brothers from other countries (foreign
fighters) and then sending those fighters back from
Syria to their home countries to conduct terror
attacks.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Gb-jUZRsE
5. Florida: Muslim who threatened “2nd
911″ found guilty of terror charges
In mid-June, a Tampa Muslim named Sami Osmakac was
convicted of plotting to bomb a Tampa bar and then
blow himself up in a jihad-martyrdom suicide attack
in another crowded area of the city. Osmakac said of
non-Muslims: “We will go after every one of them,
their kindergartens, their shopping centers, their
nightclubs, their police stations, their courthouses
and everything until we have an Islamic state the
whole world.”
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvn2Pa63X8
6. Muslim who wanted to murder 100,000
Americans cops plea
Ahmed Abassi, according to the New York Post, wanted
to derail a New York-to-Toronto Amtrak train. He
also discussed with another jihad terrorist “a plot
to release bacteria in the air or water to kill up
to 100,000 people.” He was also, according to
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, plotting to
“commit acts of terror and develop a network of
terrorists here” in the U.S.
Abassi could have gotten 50 years in prison, but he
“avoided terrorism charges by pleading guilty in
Manhattan federal court to lying on his visa
application and to immigration officials when asked
why he flew to the United States in 2013.”
Consequently, he could soon be a free man. What
could possibly go wrong?
7. Rochester, NY: Muslim charged with
plotting jihad murder of U.S. troops and Shi’ites in
western New York
The Associated Press reported on June 2 that Mufid
Elfgeeh, a Muslim businessman in Rochester, New
York, “bought two handguns and the silencers as part
of a plan to kill members of the U.S. armed forces
returning from war as well as Shiite Muslims in
western New York.”
AP, anxious as ever to deflect focus away from
Islamic jihad, in its lead paragraph here explains
that Elfgeeh was plotting to kill troops “as
vengeance for American actions overseas.” So why did
he want to kill Shi’ites as well? As vengeance for
Iran being a bitter enemy of his bitter enemy, the
U.S.? Obviously Elfgeeh is a Sunni Islamic jihadist
who wants to kill members of groups that he
considers to be enemies of Islam. But the AP will
never tell you that.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcLkBz5qNQ
8. Virginia: Two Muslims convicted of
piracy were ready to launch rocket-propelled grenade
at Navy ship
Two Somali Muslims, Mohamed Abdi Jama and Abdicasiis
Cabaase, each got over 40 years in prison last May
for plotting to shoot a rocket-propelled grenade at
the Navy ship Ashland.
They each got sentences slightly longer than 40
years, rather than life imprisonment, apparently
because the RPG that one of them was holding was
broken and incapable of firing, or could it be
because U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson
believed that life imprisonment was cruel and
unusual punishment? Is firing an RPG at a Navy ship
not cruel and unusual punishment for those on the
ship?
9.
Minneapolis: Muslima gets 3 years probation for
lying about funding jihad group
Also in May, according to KSTP.com, a Muslim woman
in Minneapolis named Saynab Abdirashid Hussein got
three years of probation for lying to a grand jury
about her efforts to raise money for jihad
terrorists in Somalia.
“On June 16, 2009,” said the report, “the defendant
lied to a United States Grand Jury saying that she
did not participate in raising money for the
individuals who left Minnesota to fight against
Ethiopian troops then present in Somalia assisting
with the internationally-recognized Transitional
Federal Government of Somalia.” Participate with
whom? Where are her partners in this endeavor now?
What are they doing? Does anyone know? Does anyone
care?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNeqgCEB-Q
10. Houston: Muslim arrested for making
terroristic threats and displaying hoax bomb after
four-hour standoff at Wal-mart
Mehrzad Malekzadeh was waving a knife around. He
also had what police described as “several unknown
devices” in his pockets. After a four-hour standoff
with police in the Wal-mart parking lot, which kept
customers trapped inside the store, Malekzadeh was
arrested and charged with “making terroristic
threats and displaying a hoax bomb, which are both
class A misdemeanor charges.” Bond was set at
$5,000.
America, here is your future. Here is the future you
have chosen by electing leaders who are — almost to
a man or woman — willfully ignorant about the nature
and magnitude of the jihad threat, and who
complacently trust that a Muslim community in the
U.S. that is largely under the control of the Muslim
Brotherhood will clean its own house. Here is the
future you have chosen by standing by and passively
acquiescing to the mainstream media’s willful
ignorance regarding this threat, and its
demonization and marginalization of everyone —
everyone — who told you about this threat honestly.
Incidents like this will one day, not too long from
now, be a more or less daily occurrence in the
United States. You can’t say you weren’t warned.
Robert Spencer is the director of
Jihad Watch
and author of the New York Times bestsellers
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and
the Crusades) and
The Truth About Muhammad. His
latest book is
Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About
the War We’re In. Follow him on Twitter
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