John Walker Lindh is a citizen of the
United States who was born in Washington, D.C. in the year 1981. Lindh was not
born a Muslim. He converted when he was 16 years old and then traveled to Yemen
in order to learn Arabic. In 2000 he traveled to Afghanistan and underwent an
educational and training course in al-Farouq, an al-Qaeda training camp. He
made contact with the organization of Mujahadeen in Pakistan, and was caught in
2001 in Afghanistan serving as a jihadist with the Taliban. He was convicted of
fighting for an illegal organization and sentenced to twenty years in the Terre
Haute prison in the state of Indiana.
In prison, Lindh continued to preach to his
fellow prisoners and exhort them to be persistent in their jihad against the
United States and the jihad to enforce Muslim Shari'a law on all of humanity.
As a result, the prison authorities limited his participation in public prayer
to only one time per week, on Friday. He appealed to the court, demanding to be
allowed to participate in public prayer five times a day. The judge of the
federal court, Jane Magnus-Stinson, found - contrary to the opinion of the prison
authorities - that despite the fact that Lindh does not recognize the legality
of the American court or the authority of her honor the judge, he nevertheless
has the right to pray in public and to meet with his comrades five times every
day, even if it means that the prison must beef up its security arrangements in
order to accommodate his wishes.
This is not an isolated case. The United
States has been driven for the past several years by "political
correctness", which censors any reference to a person's faith, even if
this faith instigates him to wage holy war against the United States. According
to this approach, if someone claims that the United States is the "little
Satan", Americans must accept this characterization as correct and legitimate,
and if the American is uncomfortable with this, he should do some soul
searching to ascertain the reason that caused the Other - who is clearly
miserable, hungry and neglected because of the crimes of the United States - to
regard him as Satan.
Political correctness is what dictates
conduct in the highest echelons of leadership in the United States: most
citizens of the country consider it to be unacceptable to say that President
Obama comes from a Muslim family, and believe that it is not legitimate to refer
to Obama's religion in any way. This is why the campaign against Obama, that
was based on this fact, failed to prevent him from being re-elected.
The federal investigative bodies have also
been seized by American political correctness; and two years ago, in keeping
with instructions from above, training programs for the FBI agents and other
investigative agencies were changed, so that today, an interrogator is
forbidden to relate to the religion or beliefs of someone under investigation,
even if his faith or beliefs actually incite him to murderous jihad against the
state. Authorities of the state forbid the use of the expression "Islamic
terror", and laundered expressions such as "ideological
violence" must be used instead.
The slaughter that Major Nidal Malik Hasan
perpetrated against his comrades at the Fort Hood base in Texas, in order to
prevent them from going to Afghanistan, is described by the authorities as
"workplace violence". For the adherents of political correctness, the
fact that Hasan was in contact with Anwar Awlaki, the Yemeni-American terrorist
who was subsequently eliminated, does not contradict the theory of political correctness that characterizes Islam as a
religion of peace and love, hugs and kisses. "Islam" - so they
believe - is based on the Arabic word "salam", which means
"peace", because the superficiality that characterizes the American
media discourages people from looking it up and discovering that the real meaning
of the word "Islam" is "surrender" or
"submission".
The writer of these lines, together with an
American colleague, an attorney by the name of David Yerushalmi, published an
article about two years ago, "Shari'a and Violence in Mosques of the
United States" (http://www.meforum.org/2931/american-mosques).
This article is based on analysis of data and material that was collected in
approximately one hundred mosques across the United States. Included in this
material are two interesting pamphlets, in clear English: one is "40
Hadiths on Jihad" (a hadith is part of the Islamic oral tradition that
relates to the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad), and this booklet
is a song of praise to jihad, to the jihadist and to his reward in the world to
come. Jihad in this booklet is not against illness, poverty, neglect and
corruption, and not even against the evil inclination, but against anyone who
is not Muslim, and implicitly, every American who does not convert to Islam.
Another booklet that is distributed in
mosques of the United States is entitled "What should you do if you are
arrested or investigated by the racist, fascist and criminal police, or the
racist, fascist FBI?". This guide book is written - according to what is
printed on the title page - by Dr. al-Hajj Idris Muhammad, and is issued by the
publishing house "al-Amin" in New York. In this booklet the writer
instructs the reader in how to withstand interrogation relating to his religion
and jihad against the "Great Satan", by exploiting the rights of
freedom of speech and freedom of expression. These rights are considered the
most important rights in the United States, even if by exercising them, the
United States is rendered less able to fight the enemies who conduct their
jihad against it from within and from its prisons.
Problematic Islamic activity also exists
within the institutions of higher learning in the United States. This writer has collected flyers in the mosques of one
of the academic institutions, that instruct Muslim and Arab students how to
manage charitable funds, how to stand up to law enforcement agencies, how to
conduct oneself and how to identify and protect oneself from intelligence
agents who infiltrate Islamic groups. All of this is, of course, legal, but
smells quite bad.
Many mosques in the United States are built
today in quiet and serene residential neighborhoods, despite the residents
having officially expressed their objection to the building of these mosques.
Obviously, in every quiet suburb where a mosque is built, the price of the
houses goes down, since the commotion associated with the arrival of the
worshipers disturbs the peace and quiet in these areas. Residents are compelled
to appeal to the courts to prevent the mosques from sounding the call to prayer
on loudspeakers in the early hours of the day because the non-Muslims do not
want to wake up at five in the morning. The courts tend to reject these suits
and allow the mosques to disturb the quiet of the early morning watch in the
name of political correctness. Planning authorities are also influenced
negatively by political correctness, allowing mosques to be built even if it
will cause a significant devaluation in the prices of real estate and large
losses to the owners of the houses, who originally bought their homes in a quiet
place and at a high price.
The building of mosques gained momentum
after the planning authorities of New York - who are guided by political
correctness - allowed a mosque to be built near Ground Zero, the place where
the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which were attacked by Islamic
terror on the 11th of September 2001, used to stand. The fact is that no
Muslims live in this area; nevertheless, even the objection of many individuals
and groups failed to overcome the political correctness of the planning
authorities.
In the United States today, there are
approximately seven million Muslims, and their numbers are increasing quickly,
owing to the fact that they have a higher birth rate than the low average
American rate standing at 1.6 children per woman, and also because of
immigration. The Muslims have established organizations such as the Council on
American-Islamic Relations - CAIR - whose main mission is to improve the image
of Islam in American public opinion. The fact that the people who now head
these organizations or headed them in the past are connected to the Muslim
Brotherhood and radical Islamic movements does not put a damper on the desire
of government leaders to cozy up to these organizations, because they are are
driven by the obsession to endear themselves to Islam, and they consider these
organizations to be the authentic representatives of the Muslims in the United
States.
Many investment companies in the United
States offer their clients investment plans that are consistent with Islamic
Shari'a.
Islamic money, much of which comes from oil
profits, is invested in academic institutions, and the conduct of an academic institution that receives
significant donations from an Islamic source is influenced by these donations.
About one year ago the University of Yale closed the Yale Initiative for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) which was headed by a Jewish
professor by the name of Charles (Asher) Small, immediately after this
university received a large donation from a Saudi source. The Carter Center,
the research center of former president Jimmy Carter, operates out of Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia, with Saudi money. Is there a connection between
this fact and Carter's book: "Palestine - Peace, not Apartheid"?
The activity of Islamic institutions in the
United States often focuses on Israel, and more than a few of these
institutions hold yearly events called "Israeli Apartheid Week". Surprisingly,
there are Jewish students and staff members, and even Israelis, who take part
in this anti-Israeli activity, which are obviously driven by clear anti-Semitic motives. MK Jamal
Zahalka from the Israeli Arab National Democratic Assembly party is a star from
this movement who is in great demand. The Jewish students are intimidated, and taking a
pro-Israeli stance makes them a target for criticism and even violence by those
who wish to portray Israel as an apartheid state. The Jewish students are also
afraid to express pro-Israeli positions in class, because there are lecturers,
and not only from Arab or Muslim countries, who might lower the grades of a
student who dares to challenge the statement that Israel is an apartheid state
The picture in the United States is disturbing; in my opinion
the United States is treading in Europe's footsteps of 15 years ago; what one
sees today in the United States we saw in Europe 15 years ago, and if America
doesn't wake up it will find itself in another 15 years in the situation that
Europe is in today.
Thanks to Nurit G.
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