The War at Home

Ali-Muhammed-BrownAs the Islamic State beheads a third hostage and the world recoils in horror and reassures itself that all this has nothing to do with Islam, it is useful to remember that jihad activity continues in the United States – although hardly anyone notices amid the rush to dissociate Islam from the mounting violence committed in its name and in accord with its literal teachings.

Take, for example, a Muslim from Seattle, Ali Muhammad Brown. KING 5 News reported that Brown 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.”

That report also noted: “Ali Muhammad Brown said he considered it his mission to murder 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin as an act of ‘vengeance’ for innocent lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. ‘All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.’” This is a reference to the Qur’an: “We ordained therein for them: ‘Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal’” (5:45).

New York radio host Todd Pettengill, host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show,” said that Brown’s murder of Tevlin was evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.” Pettengill declared: “It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people.”

Pettengill is right. Domestic terrorism is indeed already here. And it was here before Ali Muhammad Brown went on his killing spree. Another Muslim from Seattle, Musab Mohamed Masmari, was sentenced on July 31 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. 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.

There are many more recent domestic terrorism cases as well. 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.” Shades of “slay them wherever you find them” (cf. Qur’an 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).

Then there was Ahmed Abassi, who, 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 fifty 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?

And let’s not forget Mufid Elfgeeh, a Muslim businessman from Rochester, New York. AP reported on June 2 that Mufid Elfgeeh “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, as anxious as Barack Obama or David Cameron to absolve Islam of responsibility for the evils done in its name, explained that Elfgeeh (like Ali Muhammad Brown) 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 AP will never tell you that.

The war is not just in Iraq and Syria (and Nigeria, and Thailand, and the Philippines, and Afghanistan, and Israel, and Egypt, and on and on). It is in the United States already. That war is the Islamic jihad against the West and the free world. There will be many more men like Ali Muhammad Brown and Musab Mohamed Masmari in the United States in the coming years. Actions like theirs will one day, not too long from now, be a more or less daily occurrence in the United States. But no need to be concerned: just remember, when things get really hot, that all this has nothing to do with Islam.

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  • truebearing

    Every Muslim is a warrior for Islam. If we intend to survive their jihad, we will all have to change our mindsets from that of spectators to participants in a battle for what we believe and our lives. The time of relying on the police, DOJ, FBI, or the military is over. Our president and Attorney General have made that abundantly clear. Every citizen must be prepared to deal with this evil scum.

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  • wildjew

    On our regional talk radio Face Book page, one conservative posted the following about British PM Cameron’s “Islam is a religion of peace” rhetoric: “Cameron has to tread gently–the Muslim population in England, especially London, is huge…and quite active!”

    I asked: “Why doesn’t the UK expel these “quite active” Muslims? Why don’t we expel our “active” Muslims post 9/11? Are we at war or aren’t we?

    Remember President George W. Bush said the following (before a joint session of Congress and the American people) only days after devout Muslims brutally attacked us:

    “I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It’s practiced freely by many ***millions of Americans*** and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.”

    (APPLAUSE)

    • Michael Garfinkel

      One can’t be reminded enough that George W. Bush’s declaration that “Islam is a religion of peace” was without question the most inane comment ever made by a president of the United States.

      • wildjew

        One of the reasons I keep reminding “my” side is because we (I include myself) were largely silent during the Bush years when we should have been crying out against Bush for doing this to us and our movement. I am talking about the conservative movement. I expect these declarations from the left. They should not be tolerated by us from conservative leaders. Mitt Romney pulled the same crap on us and no one called him on it either.

        • Michael Garfinkel

          You’re right, of course.

          We all knew Bush was out of his depth, but he appeared to be trying, at least, to do the right thing, and he was always being viciously attacked by the left.

          So the disinclination to confront Bush was understandable.

          • wildjew

            I voted for Bush. I am not certain how much he was out of his depth or to what degree he and his father have been compromised by years of lucrative financial dealings with the Saudis.

            I am ashamed to admit I began doing my due diligence following the 9/11/2001 Islamic attacks after I heard a left-leaning author on our local radio station talking about a book on the Bush political “dynasty” and the Saudi royal family dynasty, the relationship between the two. Paul Sperry (“Infiltration”) and left-leaning former CIA operative Robert Baer (“Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude) are also good resources.

            Back then during the Bush years I found David Horowitz’s email address. I wrote him about President Bush and the troubling things he was telling the public. I got the impression from David (as I did from other conservative activists) that criticizing Bush especially when we were in the thick of war would only redound to the benefit of our political opponents. Maybe. Maybe not. I do not think that is a good reason to maintain our silence. A local officer in our party put it like this: “Would you rather have Al Gore?!”

          • Michael Garfinkel

            He had a point, didn’t he?

          • wildjew

            It’s a compelling argument from a pragmatic standpoint. Bernie Goldberg wrote a piece a few weeks back on how Republicans / conservatives tend to circle the wagons around degenerates and low lifes because we do not want to give our enemies ammunition. I think it is perverse. Let the left circle the wagons around their degenerates.

            I am not a religious Jew but I try to draw inspiration from moral principles in our Bible (Tanakh) among which, silence in the face of a great evil means complicity. Because I believe in a God who judges, I believe (this is only a theory) Barack Obama is God’s judgment on this nation due in large part to our silence and complicity with Bush’s lies. People who are either atheists or agnostic will mock my theory, I am well-aware of that.

            Believers do not mock the notion that Obama is God’s judgement it is just that believers have all kinds of theories as to why including abortion. I go by God’s word. It works better that way. I think I understand the dangerous times we are living in and the centrality of Israel. Islam I believe is the instrument of God’s judgment. Will the West (Republicans) wake up before it is too late or will we keep nominating and electing base apologists on Islam like Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. Bush?

          • knowshistory

            I too voted for bush, even though I despised him. I despised the airhead gore, and the traitor Kerry more. I had to swallow vomit 3 times before I could pull the lever for that great enemy of our population, mcamnesty traitor McCain, because I knew a real muslim was worse than a mere traitor. I hated to vote for the fool Romney, that the republican party had been stuffing down our throats for many years, but he was better than the proven traitor, islamist, socialist, liar we already had.

          • wildjew

            I try not to pass judgment on Republicans (Independents) who voted to re-elect Bush in 2004 because John Kerry was such a traitor. For me, I felt it would be wrong to vote for Bush so I turned the president’s page, November 2004. Had it only been that he misled the American people about Islam, I might have voted for Bush. But in early October 2001 Bush announced his “vision” to establish a Palestinian Muslim-enemy state in Israel’s heartland it was a “bridge too far” for me. Then in August 2004 Bush and Rove codified this abomination for the first time in the history of the GOP in our national party platform where it remains to this day thanks to Mitt Romney who also championed the jihad against Israel. Make not mistake about it, a Palestinian terror state furthers the global jihad against Israel and the West.

            I too reluctantly voted for McCain and Romney in the general election (not in the primary), what was our choice? Apologists for Islam or a dangerous Muslim-born president with deep sympathies for the world of Islam. I struggled mightily before I voted for Romney, hoping maybe in vain were he elected he could be brought around. I cannot say, in light of what I wrote about God and judgment above, I was surprised Romney lost. Rove and other “Estatablishment” Republicans pushed mightily for Romney’s nomination, arguing he was the only one who could beat Barack Obama.

            Will Republicans again be misled by Karl Rove into nominating a traitor and an apologist on Islam in 2016? We shall see.

          • Michael Garfinkel

            Politics is pragmatism, if it is practiced well.

          • wildjew

            I don’t have an issue with a pragmatic approach to political issues so long as you do not violate fundamental moral principles. How about you?

          • Michael Garfinkel

            The definition of pragmatic means sensibly and with reason.

            In my view this precludes the kinds of violations you describe.

          • wildjew

            I disagree. I have known political pragmatists who sacrifice fundamental conservative principles for any number of pragmatic reasons. Google it. Pragmatism is often counterpoised with principle. That is why we have Barack Obama. Republicans jettisoned fundamental conservative principles for pragmatism during the Bush years.

          • Michael Garfinkel

            I just provided the dictionary definition of the word pragmatic.

            I get your point.

            I don’t see it quite the same way, but I agree that it’s usually unfortunate to pursue any endeavor without concern for moral and ethical considerations.

          • Sara

            Sadly the choice is always between bad and worse. Also, having a pres who will call Islam what it is won’t happen. The political correctness of our society is too deeply ingrained. Even if there’s a politician who has a personal view of Islam that’s not pc he won’t make that view public.

          • wildjew

            I agree with you, in the general election sadly the choice is between bad and worse (we had a choice last time between “Islam” Obama and Mitt Romney) but not in the primary. Republicans (millions) were convinced to vote for the least honest Republican nominee on Islam and then we lost to “IslamObama.” Watch Republican “Establishment” luminaries like Karl Rove yet again convince foolish Republicans to nominate the most dishonest Republican candidate in 2016. “Know your enemy.” Rove is our worst nightmare.

          • Sara

            Charisma is what wins votes. Somehow charisma and dishonestly usually go together in a politician.

      • laura r

        same mindset, just a horse of another color.

  • kT TK

    Instead of using enabling terms like “warrior”, muslim murderers should be called murderers and thugs

    • CowboyUp

      “Terrorist,” would be even more accurate, as it is openly the jihadis’ MO.

      • El Cid

        Terminology will be key in this fight. “Islamist” is a good try as well as “JIhadist”. These are already in use in the News.

        “Muslim” is most accurate and will force the “moderates” into a defensive position.

        “Muslim Terrorist” is perfect to my ear as it infers a judgment about the person’s motives on the right level.

  • wildjew

    I am glad Spencer posted this timely piece. Just yesterday a Ron Paul supporter complained on our regional talk radio Face Book page, everyone is beating the drums for war against ISIS and meanwhile we have domestic terrorism that is being ignored. I posted this piece on our Face Book page.

  • Bamaguje

    “It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people” – Pettengill.

    He (Ali Muhammad Brown) is not an American, but a citizen of the Islamic Caliphate. His people are ISIS, not Americans.

    • bribri

      Citizens of the Ummah do NOT care about “its people”, they only care about Crazy Muhammad and matching reality to his Crazy Book. That is why the Ummah has no issues with Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram, Al-Shebaab or Isis. The Ummah has murdered 10 million Muslims since 1945 and counting. The Ummah knows the score, and it rather send Americans to try protect the Ummah from the Ummah, than provoke the Ummah’s eternal wrath themselves. Lunatic asylum, founded 622, no cure.

  • Atikva

    The islamo-socialist regime and its supporters the media and the useful idiots may continue for a while to dismiss the obvious and try to disconnect islam from islamism, it’s only a matter of time before we will see them recant, deny, minimize, refute and search to excuse their inexcusable collaboration. Exactly as did the national socialists and their supporters a few decades ago.

    The only question is: how many more gunned down, tortured, bombed, raped, beheaded, hanged, stoned, acid-burned, etc.. innocent victims of the islamic ideology will it take before they finally admit the facts? Come on, Americana, William et al, how many more?

  • http://islesofmyst.webs.com Raibeart MacIlleathain

    Why no mention of Walid Shoebat or Joel Richardson, or others who see a connection between Islamic jihad and End-Time prophecy?

  • kafir4life

    The gutter cult of islam was invented by their pedophile “prophet” mohamandcheese. It all started one evening following momo’s carnal relationship with his favorite swine, referred to by momo as “dad”. Following his satisfaction with “dad”, momo made a meal of him, but wasn’t aware of the dangers of eating uncooked pork. What followed was a bout of intestinal distress. He decided to spread it out over the Arabian sands, and when he was done, it turned out that he had crapped the terror guide, the koran into existance.
    Allahu’s Snackbar – open 9-9. Our pulled pork is mohammedelicious!

  • Pete

    Leroy Johnson was just an innocent African-American who was gunned down, because he was shopping at a convenience store, by an African American, who turned to Islam.

    We cannot afford Islam.

  • Pete

    We are not making as much progress as we should, because of denial and stupidity.

    our current crop of christians frighten me more than any jihadist ever could

    -”P Joe in Houston” << Democrat voter in good standing

  • Justactsplease

    Not the main point of the article, but to me a significant point: a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…” has its origins in Judaism where it is taken as a LIMITATION, not a requirement. This execrable individual (among others?) has twisted it for his own disgusting purposes.

  • cree

    Spencer and many others have been trying to teach us, “know thy enemy.”

    The jihad is escalating, militarily and stealthily. More trepidation and warning signs have gone out. The need to inform has gone out. Not yet far enough.

    The many acts of “terrorism” before and after 9-11, 2001 affirms that the jihad that is inherent of Islam has made us their enemy. Their enemy we all need to become.

    • William

      Spencer is an Islamophobe who wants people to believe that Muslims are our enemy. Would he call Christianity the enemy, since the Olympics Park bomber was a Christian?

      • Pete

        Go to the corner of Prince Albert Road and the Baker Street (A41) in London and tell me that Spencer is lying.

        The Islamic Cultural Center is just down the road from the Sherlock Homes Museum. I have been to the Islamic Cultural Center and I know what the people are like.

        Why don’t you go there. so we can be rid of your fool azz.

        • William

          I’ve been in a number of Mosques and cultural centers in different parts of the world. Trust me, in real life Muslims are not scary.

          • Pete

            In real life they are scary. I almost got jumped at that one.

          • cree

            Convert, go over and join the fight. You’ll find out what real life is all about. I doubt you’d be able to handle it. You post to much like a pacifist idiot.

          • hyedenny

            I’ve said it to you before: tell that to my murdered and raped family members.

            Get a haircut, scumbag.

          • hyedenny

            Foley, Sotloff, and Haines thought muzzies were nice people too. Do you need the same kind of lesson they had?

          • iluvisrael

            Tell that to the 9/11 victims’ families you schmuck!

          • cheechakos

            Do you think they’d whip out beheading swords and attack you on their own ground? They don’t kill filthy infidels on their holy ground.
            And do you think you would be a valuable target? You are a nobody who would be more valuable as a convert than headless.

            They “aren’t scary”? Gosh and we thought they’d be wearing Halloween masks

          • El Cid

            Indeed. What was it that Marx said? Religion is the opiate of the masses. Yes, they are not scary, but they give their money to fund Hamas and their ilk, and they support the causes that will destroy America and the West from within. Their positions have to be confronted publicly and openly.

          • hyedenny

            I wish I had a dollar for every time you’ve posted that. Are you trying to convince yourself, or us?

            If the latter, it aint workin’. We’re more educated than that.

            “In real life” — give me a break!

      • Pete

        This is not some lame academic exercise that doesn’t matter. Some have us have lived in Seattle. It is personal. We do not need jihadis coming in and messing it up.

        Invite those people to your neck of the woods.

      • wileyvet

        Why do you persist in using a term that was invented, and propagated by a Muslim Brotherhood Islamic organization, in Virginia, for the express purpose of silencing all criticism or critical examination of Islam? You are doing exactly what the MB outfit wants, and using it precisely the way it was intended. Do you understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is, what its purpose is and who its ideological mentor was? Do you know who the Spiritual leader of the MB is? Its motto is telling:

        “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

        So, William, every time you use the word Islamophobe, you, like the MB, deflect attention away from their goals, which are directly driven by Islam. Muslims are the enemy. The enemy of enlightenment ideas, those that as an atheist you should appreciate. Those ideas and Islam are completely irreconcilable. Islam is about the society submitting only to Allah’s law, not secular. This is about 21st century ideas of reason verses 7th theology. It is about ither living with the freedoms that have emerged over centuries, or rule by the strictures of Islamic theocracy and doctrine. I am afraid there can be no coexistence or compromise with that. It is one or the other. Many will suggest that the MB and other Islamists are about politicizing Islam, as if after Hijra there was some other version. The history of the first 40 years after Hijra is Islam, as founded, practiced, implemented and guided by Muhammad himself in the first Islamic state at Medina. The only natural and acceptable condition for the Muslim is under Sharia, and the divine order of things is for Muslims to rule all others. Think about all the things you like, believe or care for. What about the people in your life? How about all your hobbies, interests and how you like to live your life. The things you do daily without limitation, restriction or interference. Now ask yourself if there is one single Islamic country, or Islamist group that would allow you to do those things unhindered, or without experiencing serious repercussions? Choose William. There is no middle ground as much as you would like to think so.

  • Pete

    Per Revelations (which not all Christians include in the Bible ) and Islam, not everyone makes it into heaven.

    Some people go to purgatory before they go to heaven. People should be very careful of their sins especially murder. If they think that it is just a little “oopsie” and G-d will make it all better because he can, they may be in for a rude shock.

    The ore you know the harder it is for you, but being like a bull in a china shop is not excuse either.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    Ali Muhammad Brown! What a fine specimen. Methinks he has that look. Yes, yes, if Obama had a son, he would look like this wonder. Well, get accustomed to this, folks. This Jihad is not a war with armies facing each other. It is little bands of lunatics who have crawled out of Trojan Horses who will make life more and more miserable for everyone in America. The only possible consolation that comes to mind would be when they behead liberals in media who seek to protect them and cover up their deeds.

  • Douglas J. Bender

    That is a picture of Bill Ayers; probably hence the name, “William”. Doubtful that the real Bill Ayers (Obama’s best bud and mentor, except when he’s not) is posting here, though.

  • nomoretraitors

    What’s sad is there’s more outrage over some supposed “racial” prank by Summit HS football players than by the murder of Brendan Tevlin (check out njdotcom and cbsnewyork)