MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Take one Obama Administration, toss in a pint of protest, add a generous amount of blind political correctness and questionable judgments, and let it simmer on high for a few years.  You’ve got yourself a homemade recipe for disaster that will one day leave a very bitter taste in the mouths of the American people …

By Robert Spencer – “Last Friday around 500 Muslims in New York marched to NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan to protest police infiltration of mosques and surveillance in Muslim areas. It is noteworthy that we have never, in 10 years since 9/11, seen Muslims anywhere in the U.S. mount a demonstration of comparable size against Islamic jihad terrorism and the supposed ‘hijacking’ of Islam by terrorists. Even worse, the protesters failed to explain how they would propose to stop Islamic jihad terrorism in the U.S. without this kind of vigilance.

One protester asserted: ‘Had this been happening to any other religious group, all of America would be outraged.’ That is probably true, because no other religious group has provided any cause for such surveillance. If any group did so, then it would be incumbent upon the NYPD and all other law enforcement bodies to do the same things they have done in reaction to Islamic jihad terrorism, while of course ending immediately any surveillance or other procedure that violates constitutional protections.

For these protesters to have behaved as if the surveillance of their mosques and communities was motivated by simple ‘racism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ required them to ignore a particularly significant elephant in the room: the ongoing and increasingly common reality of jihad terror plots in the United States. And ignore it they did: ‘We’re peaceful people. We don’t deserve to be under surveillance,’ said one protester. Another complained: ‘They think that all Muslims are criminals, and it’s not right.’

Those words recalled a prominent Muslim saying in 2010 that he wanted to combat ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘to try and put a good positive spin out there that Islam is a good, peaceful religion. We’re not all terrorists, you know?’

Those were the words of Naser Abdo, a Muslim soldier in the U.S. Army who was granted conscientious objector status because he did not want to fight against his fellow Muslims in Afghanistan. After gaining this status, Abdo found a novel way to put a ‘positive spin out there,’ and show that ‘we’re not all terrorists.’ He began plotting to construct bombs and detonate them in a crowded restaurant full of soldiers from Fort Hood, where another Muslim, U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan​, murdered 13 Americans in a jihad attack in November 2009. Abdo defiantly admitted his guilt in court, and even cried out, ‘Nidal Hasan Fort Hood 2009.’

Abdo’s case doesn’t mean that every self-described believer in Islam as a ‘good, peaceful religion’ is a murderous liar as he was, but it does illustrate the fact that assurances are not enough from peaceful Muslims—and protests against law enforcement certainly aren’t any help, either.” Read more.

Mother of Homegrown NY Jihadist: ‘My Son Was a Normal American Guy … Then He Became a Muslim and He Changed’ – “Sosa said her son’s personality began to change after the then-teenager swapped salsa for Islam about five years ago. ‘My son was a normal American guy,’ she said. ‘He did what young people do. Then he became a Muslim and he changed.’ … When he started reading the Koran in 2001, Sosa wasn’t happy because she’s a Catholic, but she noted that ‘in beginning, he wasn’t a fanatic.’ ‘He prayed and went to the mosque,’ she said. Over time, he stopped writing and listening to salsa music and spent his days praying, reading and sleeping. She said Pimentel’s fierce embrace of Islam — he converted in 2004, according to police — prompted her to move him back to the city from Schenectady in early 2010. ‘I brought him here because I didn’t like the way he was acting,’ she said… The move did not dampen his fervor.” Read more.