The Left's Manufactured Muslim Crisis
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Men and women, some whose clothes were still marked
with gray ash, walked dazedly toward Union Square.
Many did not know what to do or where to go. So they
kept on walking. They knew the country was under
attack, but they did not know how bad it was or what
might still be heading for them.
Behind
them lay a changed city and thousands of American
dead. Ahead was the bronze statue of George
Washington, facing into the devastation and raising
his hand to lead his men forward in victory. Around
its base, with the destruction of the World Trade
Center as their backdrop, leftists had set up shop,
coloring anti-war posters even while rescue workers
were risking their lives at Ground Zero.
In the coming days, the statue of Washington would
be repeatedly vandalized by leftists drawing peace
signs and “No War” and “War is Not the Answer”
slogans on it. But that moment crystallized my
realization that while Muslim terrorists had carried
out the attack, it was the left we would have to
fight.
While some New Yorkers had gone to help the victims
of Islamic terrorists, the left had rushed to aid
the terrorists. Unlike the rest of us, they were not
shocked or horrified by the attack. They were
treasonously working on ways to spin the murder of
thousands of Americans to protect the enemy.
The greatest obstacle to defeating Islamic terrorism
is still the left.
The left helped create Islamic terrorism; its
immigration policies import terrorism while its
civil rights arm obstructs efforts to prevent it and
its anti-war rallies attack any effort to fight it.
In America, in Europe and in Israel, and around the
world, to get at Islamic terrorists, you have to go
through the left.
When a Muslim terrorist comes to America, it’s the
left that agitates to admit him. Before he kills,
it’s the left that fights to protect him from the
FBI. Afterward, leftists offer to be his lawyers.
The left creates the crisis and then it fights
against any effort to deal with it except through
surrender and appeasement.
Islamic violence against non-Muslims predated the
left. But it’s the left that made it our problem.
Islamic terrorism in America or France exists
because of Muslim immigration. And the left is
obsessed with finding new ways to import more
Muslims. Merkel is praised for opening up a Europe
already under siege by Islamic terror, Sharia
police, no-go zones and sex grooming and groping
gangs, to millions.
The left feverishly demands that the whole world
follow her lead. Bill Gates would like America to be
just like Germany. Israel’s deranged Labor Party
leader Herzog urged the Jewish State to open its
doors.
And then, after the next round of stabbings, car
burnings and terror attacks, they blame the West for
not “integrating” the un-integratable millions who
had no more interest in being integrated than their
leftist patrons do in moving to Pakistan and praying
to Allah on a threadbare rug. But “integration” is a
euphemism for a raft of leftist agenda items from
social services spending to punishing hate speech
(though never that of the Imams crying for blood and
death, but only of their native victims) to a
foreign policy based on appeasement and surrender.
Islamic terrorists kill and leftists profit from the
carnage.
The ongoing threat of Islamic terrorism is a
manufactured crisis that the left cultivates because
that gives it power. In a world without 9/11, the
Obama presidency would never have existed. Neither
would the Arab Spring and the resulting migration
and wholesale transformation of Western countries.
In the UK, Labour used Muslim immigration as a
deliberate political program to “change the
country.” In Israel, Labor struck an illegal deal
with Arafat that put sizable portions of the country
under the control of terrorists while forcing the
Jewish State into a series of concessions to
terrorists and the left. The same fundamental
pattern of Labour and Labor and the whole left is
behind the rise of Islamic terrorism.
Muslim terrorism creates pressure that the left uses
to achieve policy goals. Even when it can’t win
elections, Muslim terrorism allows the left to
create a crisis and then to set an agenda.
The left’s patronage of Islamic terrorists for its
own political purposes follows a thread back to the
origin of Islamic terrorism. Islamic violence
against non-Muslims dates back to the founding of
Islam, but the tactics of modern Islamic terrorism
owe as much to Lenin as they do to Mohammed.
Today’s Islamic terrorist is the product of
traditional Islamic theology and Soviet tactics. The
USSR did not intend to create Al Qaeda, but they
provided training and doctrine to terrorists from
the Muslim world. The “secular” and “progressive”
terrorists of the left either grew Islamist, like
Arafat, or their tactics were copied and expanded
on, like the PFLP, by a new generation of Islamic
terrorists.
The earlier phase of Islamic organizations, such as
the Muslim Brotherhood, had been inspired by
fascists who were seeking to use them in their own
wars. Over this layer of secret societies plotting
takeovers and building networks of front groups, the
Soviet Union added the terror tactics that had been
employed by the left. And the leftist mad bomber
became the Muslim suicide bomber. Terrorism in the
Muslim world has evolved from functioning as a Third
World proxy army for the left, in much the same way
as guerrillas and terrorists from Asia, Africa and
Latin America had, to a diaspora whose migrations
lend a domestic terror arm to a Western left whose
own spiteful activists have grown unwilling to put
their lives on the line and go beyond tweeting words
to throwing bombs.
With the Muslim Brotherhood, the origin organization
of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Hamas, among many others, so
tightly integrated into the American and European
left that it is often hard to see where one begins
and the other ends, Islam has become the militant
arm of the purportedly secular left. Western
leftists and Islamists have formed the same
poisonous relationship as Middle Eastern leftists
and Islamists did leading to the rise of the
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Arab Spring. Leftists
expected Islamists to do the dirty work while they
would take over. Instead the Islamists won and
killed them.
Having learned nothing from the Hitler-Stalin pact,
the left has replayed the same betrayal with the
Mohammed-Stalin pact in the Middle East and now in
the West. But the end of the Mohammed-Stalin pact
will not be a Socialist totalitarian utopia, but an
Islamic theocracy of slaves, terror and death.
On September 11, I saw with my own eyes how eager
and willing leftists were to rush to the aid of
Islamic terrorists even while their fellow Americans
were dying. Nothing has changed. Every Islamic act
of brutality is met with lies and spin, with mass
distraction and deception by the treasonous left.
Every effort to fight Islamic terrorists is
sabotaged, undermined and protested by the enemy
within.
Since September 11, the left has trashed the FBI’s
counterterrorism and has now succeeded in destroying
the NYPD’s counterrorism while transforming the FDNY
into an affirmative action project. What the
September 11 hijackers could never accomplish on
their own, the leftists did for them by defeating
the three forces that had stood against Islamic
terrorists on that day. And it would not surprise me
at all if some of the “No War” scribblers have gone
on to play an influential role in that treason.
The left has crippled domestic and international
counterterrorism. American soldiers are not allowed
to shoot terrorists and the FBI and NYPD can’t
monitor mosques or even be taught what to look for.
Islamic terrorism has achieved unprecedented
influence and power under Obama. ISIS has created
the first functioning caliphate and Iran marches
toward the first Jihadist nuclear bomb. The mass
Muslim migration is beginning a process that will
Islamize Europe far more rapidly than anyone
expects.
The Jihad would not be a significant threat without
the collaboration of the left. Without the left
standing in the way, it’s a problem that could be
solved in a matter of years. With the aid of the
left, it threatens human civilization with a dark
age that will erase our culture, our future and our
freedom.
We cannot defeat Islam without defeating the left.
That is the lesson I learned on September 11. It is
a lesson that appears truer every single year as the
left finds new ways to endanger us all.