The Truth About the Wave of Anti-American Demonstrations
In Tunisia, a country that is relatively secular by Arabic-speaking standards, the most extreme Islamists are especially frustrated. They are strong enough to cause trouble but not strong enough to pose a serious challenge to power. The Muslim Brotherhood controls the government but is in a serious coalition with moderates and is being cautious as a result. This makes the radicals all the more provocative. And since the Brotherhood, in part, sympathizes with them, it will not fully crack down.
In Egypt, the radicals are a front for the Muslim Brotherhood government. The Obama administration has taught them that radicalism and anti-Americanism pay, or at least cost nothing. The Brotherhood regime would like to figure out a way to prove it hates the United States without any cost. Now it knows how to do so. Let the radicals go into the embassy with no interference by the security forces, and the Obama administration will still give it $1.6 billion (including security assistance to an army now controlled by the Brotherhood!), help it buy two German submarines, plan to cancel $1 billion in debt, and make its president an honored guest at the White House. Since what the radicals do doesn’t injure the regime’s interest, it will let them do what they want. The Brotherhood will even join in the demonstrations. There’s nothing to lose.
In other places the goal is to build the revolutionary Islamist movement. And when everyone forgets about this silly little video there will be more pretexts: American support for governments including those of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Israel; anniversaries of past events; terrorists being held in prison; politicized Muslim religious festivities.
–The very numerous Islamists and lots of mainstream Muslim clerics and intellectuals stir up hatred of the West every day even when you aren’t watching. You see the demonstrations outside the embassies but you do not see the lessons in the classrooms, the sermons in the mosques, the articles on the websites, and all of the myriad ways that hatred is spread and radicalization carried out. And virtually no one dares dissent — or they would be quickly shouted down and threatened with death — except in the little ghetto enclaves of liberals and in the few more balanced newspapers and less radical television stations.
There is no end to their list of grievances. You can’t deny them an opportunity to make anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Christian propaganda because they will find one or invent one. You cannot appease someone who is totally determined never to be appeased and who prefers to advance step by step to total power, the fundamental transformation of their societies, the destruction of Israel, and the expulsion of the United States and all of its interests in the area stretching from Morocco through Indonesia
And as the Westerners waste time, ink, and conscience on “What did we do wrong?” and “Why do they hate us?” and “How can we prove we really love Muslims?” the radicals go on arming and organizing. The ultimate irony is that even if America gives them guns (Libya, Syria) and money (Egypt, Pakistan), or intervenes diplomatically on their behalf (Gaza Strip), or proclaims them the absolute best of buddies (Turkey), this will make not one iota of difference.
Imagine a capitalist trying to win over a convinced communist, or a Jew trying to convert the anger of a confirmed Nazi into friendship. At any rate, even the most clever act of contrition or politically correct statement will end up being filtered through the Middle Eastern society and the determined Islamist (and nationalist) propaganda interpretation.
Some years ago, the then-U.S. ambassador to Egypt, a man with a strong command of Arabic and a good understanding of the Middle East, wrote a beautiful September 11 anniversary declaration. It was perfectly worded, wonderfully balanced, and full of respect for Islam and the Arabs while also asserting American rights, defending American society, and pointing to the full horror of the terrorist attack. In the most polite of terms, he asked Egyptians not to accuse the CIA or Israel of having staged the assault but to understand that it had indeed been done by Osama bin Laden.
The immediate reaction was a massive wave of verbal attacks on the ambassador from the biggest newspapers and the most powerful journalists, including those with strong official backing. And this was under Mubarak. The general theme was: Who do you think you are, some kind of imperial governor, telling Egyptians what to think and do? A few brave souls defended the ambassador, but even then it was a lynch mob. The difference is, under Mubarak, it was just a blowing off of steam and an exploitation of prejudice. Nobody did anything; a generally pro-American policy continued.
In a country with a regime that generally supports U.S. interests, a bit of anti-Americanism is the “price of doing business.” In a regime opposed to the United States (and I include Turkey here), such behavior is like a hydroelectric dam generating power to keep the regime in office.
To keep the current situation in perspective, note that while a public opinion poll right now would show anger across the board in any Muslim population, the size of the demonstrations are not so large. Compare a few hundred demonstrators storming the U.S. embassy to 100,000 during the anti-Mubarak phase in Tahrir Square or the 1,000,000 who came out a few weeks later at the Muslim Brotherhood’s call.
So these waves of demonstrations are relatively small ways of advancing the ideological readiness of the masses to accept the radical Islamist groups’ programs. Of course, they benefit far more the main Islamist group, which means the Muslim Brotherhood in the Sunni Muslim world. And once the agitation is well advanced, the big groups can call out their forces and reap the I-hate-America benefits.
What Muslim leaders won’t go along with this fully, though even they feed and appease it a bit for their own benefit? Those like Mubarak who know that the problem is not some silly video but the revolutionary Islamists who want their heads. The governments left in that category include Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Iraq. One might add Afghanistan, too.
Qatar plays both sides, as does Pakistan. Syria’s dictatorship today portrays itself as a bulwark against Islamism when it was promoting revolutionary Islamism up to the moment of the civil war. Iran, Gaza, Egypt, Turkey, and Lebanon are all controlled by Islamists of various varieties.
Then there are the courageous but always neglected real moderates in places like Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, people for whom the West does pretty much nothing.
Generally speaking, Western policies are the exact opposite of what they should be. There is no sign of change in that regard.
If the Western elite doesn’t get any of this, it is necessary to educate and build a new elite. If the fashionable Middle East “experts” speak nonsense, you better find someone else to listen to. If politicians don’t get it, some who do comprehend what’s going on must be elected. If the mass media keeps missing the point, there must be an alternative mass media that can explain the truth to people.
This is not a theological dispute. This is not a therapy session. This is not a contest to say the right things so you get invited to a Washington dinner party. It is a political struggle for power in which the losers end up dead or fleeing into exile or having their diplomats shot dead.
Exactly! “If the Western elite doesn’t get any of this and shows over many years incapability in doing so, it is necessary to educate and build a new elite. If the fashionable Middle East “experts” speak nonsense you better find someone else to listen to. If politicians don’t get it, some who do comprehend what’s going on must be elected. If the mass media keeps missing the point there must be an alternative mass media that can explain the truth to people.”
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Excellent, Mr. Rubin.
An ominous development: CNN’s headline this morning is an opinion piece about “the reality of Evangelical Islamophobia.” The leftist press is working overtime, trying to use this incident to make its domestic “enemies” look bad.
Where to begin…
You wrote:
“And virtually no one dares dissent—or they would be quickly shouted down and threatened with death”
I ask: so why do you persist in proposing engaging so-called moderates??? They are doomed to fail – they have no effective response against those who take their Islam seriously – and they have no chance. I argue they are not nearly as moderate as you pretend.
You carefully parse all the different Muslim nations in your list, but this is an example of missing the forest for the trees. They all aspire to dominate with Islam, in their own nations and beyond. This is a fundamental pillar of Islam. They all prove willing to exploit Muslim terror to further their Islamic goals, so is there really any difference? Your minute parsing only drags non-Muslims into the weeds where we fail to gain a meaningful perspective on the global thrust of Islam. The cycle goes like this: terrorize, deny, demand, secure concessions, rinse, repeat until Islam Über Alles. There is no moderation. Instead, the 20th Century has proven to be a steadily accelerating trend towards mayhem, genocide, mass colonization of non-Muslim communities in Dar ul Islam, and totalitarianism of various flavors.
You wrote:
“Then there are the courageous but always neglected real moderates in places like Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, people for whom the West does pretty much nothing.”
So what? As stated above, they are absolutley inneffectual. Further, by implication, you imply that Islam’s heinousness or its descent into madness is somehow due to a failing on our part. NO. ISLAM’s heinousness is in no way our responsibility, its trajectory is not our fault. And by the way, we have a non-establishment clause which prevents America from becoming Ask-The-Imam America. Those Egyptians who chafed at the American Ambassador’s reasonable 9/11 statement (reasonable to Western sensibilities) were on some level correct. We are in no position whatsoever to direct Muslims on how to interpret their hate filled religion, in fact, events show ubiquitously how such efforts fail and lend the more literal interpreters of Islam a potent weapon. Useless lies and nostrums like “Religion of Peace”, “The Vast Majority of Muslims are Peaceful”, “Winning Muslim Hearts and Minds”, “reset” and NASA Muslim outreach, have had the exact opposite effect. We see that plainly today. Imam Bush was a catastrophe, and Mullah Obama has been orders of magnitude worse. Stop it already!
Finally, you wrote:
“Generally speaking, Western policies are the exact opposite of what they should be. There is no sign of change in that regard.”
On the substance of that comment we agree, but ironically I say you are pushing the same broken policies, engagement, cultivation of inneffectual moderates, and again imply that we aren’t doing enough to alter Islam. Repeat: WE ARE NOT TO BLAME.
We do need a completely different approach: one which jettisons old-think and one which begins to insulate our civilization from the volcanic and malign hatred of Muslims everywhere. The extent we can actually influence Islam is the extent to which we can deprive Muslims of access, technology, money, and influence of and in he West. Our goal should not be the suicidal effort to reform that cancerous religion, but the subversion, erosion, and destruction of it.
It IS beginning to look like an existential battle, isn’t it? If so, the destruction of Islam or at least its leadership is the only answer. Start with the Mullah leadership in Tehran. Their destruction would make the rest if them duck and cover for a while. And then immediately go after whoever first raises their keyffiyeh or shemaghs with intent to do harm. A couple of follow up hits like that would do it, most likely. It’s not like they can defend themselves against the full force of our military or anything.
Changing the current American leadership is looking like an even more dire necessity (if that’s possible) than before.
“This is not a theological dispute. This is not a therapy session. This is not a contest to say the right things so you get invited to a Washington dinner party.”
Thank you Mr. Rubin.
Like Diana I was taken by this sentence in the article: “If the Western elite doesn’t get any of this and shows over many years incapability in doing so, it is necessary to educate and build a new elite.”
I certainly agree that electing Romney would help, but I don’t think it is that simple. I think the folly of our elites which have lost the capacity to defend us will only be ended by collapse. I don’t see any other way to get a new and effective elite – the current one needs to be totally discredited first. A complication is that evidently about half of the US electorate sees no danger – they think the President is doing fine. I had thought that the because the electorate got rid of the Pelosi led congress so emphatically in 2010 it would clearly be unwilling to continue with Obama this year. Evidently not.
I wouldn’t necessarily believe the polls. The entire leftwing establishment — generally including pollsters — is trying to get O re-elected. Many of these same people didn’t see/predict the tsunami of ’10. The people were fooled by O the first time, and a good many of them know it. How much O enthusiasm do you see this time as opposed to last? It’s pretty much dead. Many of the states now considered “toss-ups” will, in fact, go to Romney. Unless there’s massive fraud, of course, in which case all bets are off. Hopefully the TSA won’t start using it’s hollow-point bullets on us when we take to the streets.
Compared to you all the other mid-east experts are complete idiots. Great essay.
I wonder if anyone in the Obama administration can understand this (I know, who am I kidding).
Islam always has the answer, they just have to pose the right question.
I think about this and I keep coming up with the same conclusion, over and over. There is no way to resolve this “war of cultures”. Perhaps we shouldn’t even try. Consider what would happen were we to remove ourselves from these lands.No diplomatic contact. None. Not even at the United Nations. No trade. None at all. No foodstuffs, no computers, no airplanes, no petroleum purchases. No generators. No light bulbs. Nothing. Let their world turn as dark and as backwards as they like. No free immigration. Certainly no visas on an automatic basis. This is what they aspire to. Let them have it.
All of it.
And IF ANY of their current immigrants here in the west complain, send them back. Why should we fund our demise by allowing Dearbornistan or Londonistan a say in the matter. After all, we’re giving them what they ask for. That the west not overwhelm their poor backward societies. No IMF or World Bank loans. No Dept. of Agricutural aid or assistance. No banking connections. Let them establish their Caliphate of their own choosing. Isn’t this what they seek? NOT ONE EUROPEAN NATION WOULD COMPLAIN. Not one.
A lot of people would say that we can’t do without petroleum. That’s absolutely true. But we have our own. Think of that! We really do have our own. Couple that with the fracking boom and lo and behold, we have an excess of energy. Tie that together with coal, of which we have centuries of abundance and we are MORE than completely self-sufficient.
Send our fracking technology to Europe. Let them find their abundance or let them build more nuclear plants.
This idea that we have to be held hostage by anyone is ludicrous. We DON”T have to be.
Let it be a dark and cold land from Morocco to Pakistan. Bangladesh and indonesia. For just one week and you can bet there would be the biggest crackdown on this bullshit. Some of them have nukes? That would take fifteen minutes to isolate and destroy. Including every weapon beyond small arms.
As to the Muslims here in the US and or Europe, assimilate or go home. The idea that they will construct enclaves and no-go zones and import their radicalism onto our lands and hold whole societies in stand-offs is crazy. A lot of people would and will think that this is a crazy idea. But is it? Do they really think it can be negotiated?
Interesting thoughts about Muslim immigrants. Since 9/11, my question has been “Why don’t they go ballistic like their overseas co-religionists do?” Think about it. Why aren’t there a thousand American muslims raging in front of the State Department or the White House right now? Why aren’t they burning cars in the streets? They know the American authorities won’t do anything to them. They’re just as safe here as they would be in the streets of Cairo or Tripoli – maybe safer. So what’s stopping them?
Maybe Mr. Rubin can offer an explanation. Is it that American Muslims simply don’t feel the anger and frustration? Or that the MB and Hezbollah operatives in this country (and you know they’re there) know there’s no chance they can take over our government, so why bother? Or is it all underground – jihad and sharia preached in mosques and discussed in private but not acted on?
After 9/11, I promised myself that I would not condemn or suspect ordinary American Muslims unless they gave me a very good reason to – like protesting or aiding jihadists through actual acts of violence. So far, apart from a relative handful of lame attempts, they haven’t done much to make me worry. I really wonder why not.
“So far, apart from a relative handful of lame attempts, they haven’t done much to make me worry. I really wonder why not.”
The answer seems to be perhaps that these passive Muslims over here in our America have so prospered materially in our filthy environment and profane society, and that very prosperity trumps what their Koran says they must adhere to privately in order to remain sincere Muslims. They’re avoiding all boat-rocking insofar as they can.
So, I’ve been saying that these passive Muslims over here are indeed straddling a hedge of long sharp thorns dangerously close to their testicles. They remain only as “observant” as publicly required…..hence they’ve become the very hypocrites which their Koran rumbles against.
Hence internally, these passives’ vulnerability over here can possibly be exploited, if only we had the wit to know how….call it maybe blackmail in reverse.
They should be challenged….be made to challenge…..their co-religionists’ zealotry.
We Americans need to learn that we can use the Muslims’ own subversive tactics internally against them……hopefully that’s going on right now, discretely.
Encourage this well publicized Shiite-Sunni conflict right over here.
A thought.
Well said. And precisely, BTW, why occasional American Muslims do go ballistic and shoot up, say, Army bases. They can no longer handle the dilemma posed between their proclaimed faith and their proclaimed culture. Of course one can only wonder how many sleeper cells Al Qaeda has here, also, just waiting.
Been to detroit lately? A muslim riot there within the last month.
They are biding their time.
The ‘homegrown’ islamists in the UK are active (see the reports about the flag burning etc at the US Embassy in London), and are making trouble. But here, as most probably in your country, the MSM do not and will not report on these things, be it vile demos against home-coming troops or when they run sex rings with white girls they’ve groomed, never mind ‘honour’ killings …
If our current administration can keep us occupied elsewhere and not on what is important (economy, foreign policy, over regulation, out of control national debt, etc., etc.) they have a better chance of stealing another election. Our current administration has allowed a pack of barbarians to take control of several Middle Eastern countries and what’s going on now has been a God send to them. Anyone remember, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”? People with half a brain know this current middle east conflagration is not about some poorly written and acted video. I’m still not sure if it’s by design, more likely it’s due to possibly the worst foreign policy since Carter. It makes no difference to me if half, or more than half of the Muslims in the middle east are “peaceful”. They are not in control.
Shona Tova Barry.
In the case of the West’s relationship with Islam, history has proven that it’s better to be feared than to be loved. They don’t fear us, and it’s time they did.
I’ve been saying that for ten years, and no one will listen to me. The Arab mentality is “strong horse/weak horse”. We’ve been playing weak horse since 9/11. Today, if we ran a 12-aircraft ARCLIGHT strike through the center of Cairo, and then struck the Aswan High Dam with a large, dirty nuke, Egypt would be dead – the entire country – for the next 500 years. The rest of the Muddled East would be shocked into behaving for the first time since Barbary. It’s cruel. It’s unusual. It kills men, women, children, and all kinds of other living things. But it sets a standard — if you screw with us, you will cease to exist. If Al Qaeda tried to do something in any other country, they would be torn limb from limb, not out of purity but out of sheer, unmitigated gut-wrenching FEAR. They will never love us. They will never respect us. The only thing left is fear. We have the capacity. Will anyone – ANYONE have the courage to do it? Not anyone currently in Washington, from either party. Yet another million people may die IN THIS COUNTRY if we don’t. What price is too much? It’s time to teach Islamists fear.
I agree that Pershing’s response (to the Muslims in the Philippines) is the proper one. However does any American really think that the president could get away with such a thing and stay in office more than 5 minutes? Especially after the lies and mud-slinging by the media following the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan? (Both of which were justified, but not if you follow the MSM). I’m afraid that we will not do what is proper until after an attack on major U.S. cities, by which time it will be far too late and we will go totally overboard in the other direction.
Excellent article Mr. Rubin. I agree with you on everything except the mass media not getting it. They get it all too well but choose to cover it up.
And you get it.
For the clerics and foot soldiers of these staged events their goal is to 1) make Islam the only religion followed in the world and 2) to implement sharia globally. It’s not a hidden ball situation. That’s the Quran-ahadith plan for the world. Anyone who spends 20 hours or so with MEMRI clips and articles knows this to be true. Though there are many other concerns individuals may have, that’s the foundation for everything we’ve seen all over the world for decades.
To say “this is not a theological dispute” is only true in the modern western “personal relationship with God” sense of theology. In Islam, everything is a theological question.
The middle east Muslims don’t like us. They never did like us. They never will like us. So why give them US guns, money. and the blood of our sons and daughters.
Rent the 1966 movie, “The Sand Pebbles” starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy sailor aboard the gunboat, San Pablo, in 1920s China. The same unappeasable agitation is well portrayed in response to what has been referred to as gunboat diplomacy. Foreign imperialist devils, Communist agitators, screaming crowds, bumbling impotent leadership, and ordinary people just trying to live normal lives lived then as well as now.
I remember “Sand Pebbles” very well. I saw it in Taipei or Hong Kong at about the time it came out.
So, your mention of its East Asian culture clashes here in this context is an excellent, willfully overlooked opportunity by us Americans to cite publicly its close analogy to our contemporary conflict and culture clashes in Central/West Asia.
We’re spinning our wheels inside our Muslim war in so may cases…the tragedy of our murdered Ambassador [in Muslim North Africa] a case to compare, because we simply don’t grasp the futility of our judging Asian Muslim/Islam by our Western American standards. We can’t continue this way. Our State Department and Military need hard courses in the Central/West Asian mind-set. It’s no where near our own.
We’re simply not “wired” the same way. We’re opposites in almost every respect.
I think it’s entirely possible that the Obama administration knows that what you say is true, that the youtube video was a convenient pretext and that it wasn’t even that in the case of the Ambassador’s murder. I don’t think they are stupid people, although I think it’s likely they consider us to be so which is why they’ve been pedaling their ridiculous narratives about what caused the rioting and the killing and how there was certainly sufficient security in Libya and they had no actionable intelligence to suggest otherwise and so on. But I don’t think they actually believe any of that.
I also think that they are comfortable with the notion that at the end of this phase of transformation in the Middle East and north Africa there will be radical Islamist regimes hostile to the United States in power or seriously contending for power all over the place. What I haven’t been able to figure out is what the Obama people want out of that. A decline in American influence? Means we no longer have to be the world’s policeman? So no need for a robust military? More money to spend on social programs? We become a version of current day Britain? Maybe it’s as simple as all that.
I think it’s a mistake to take what the Obama people are saying at face value and assume they just don’t know any better or refuse to accept the obvious. I think it would help to figure out what his end game is supposed to be. Before he actually gets to play it. Which the way things are going for Romney our current President might get his chance for another 4 years.
Team O won’t like this, will the media report it? Not likely, it’s up to us to get the word out – POTUS pushed to restrict free speech via the UN and now it will be used against him, wow…just wow.
“In December the Obama Administration pushed a UN resolution that banned criticism of Islam.
The Obama Administration helped the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) push through their resolution condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on religion. Team Obama led the way for the resolution to pass through the General Assembly.
Now the Iranian Regime is threatening to sue Barack Obama using that same blasphemy law.
Press TV reported:
A senior Iranian official says US President Barack Obama could face legal action in connection with the production of an anti-Islam movie by an American Jew.
“A complaint could be filed with US courts against Obama for his violation of articles 18 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) calling for respect of faiths,” Javad Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (SCCR), said on Sunday.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/iranian-regime-threatens-to-sue-obama-using-new-un-blasphemy-laws-he-signed/
If you have not seen the video “Innocence of Muslims” on YouTube, then perhaps you should watch the first few minutes of it. If you do, then you will understand how silly and incomprehensible this “demonstration” is.
You will also see yet another example of how the media just can’t stop covering for Obama. The video is so lame and stupid, nobody could take it seriously. I thought it was a joke (because, it really is), but the State Department is actually trying to sell us on the fact that the attacks on our embassies were not premeditated follow-on 911 attacks. NO, they were in response to this silly video.
The major news outlets in the U.S. lack credibility when they uncritically allow Islamic organizations and the State Department to make these assertions.
The video is silly, but the coverup is scary.
Mohammad’s Koran commands that Muslims conquer all of humanity for Islam with no freedom from Islam allowed. All Muslims believe this or they are not really Muslims. Notice how there has been nothing in the way of American Muslims, or I should say Muslims living in America, speaking out for free speech.
“Muhammad declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion against all the rest of mankind.” -John Quincy Adams
If its true, as has been reported, that Ambassador Stevens was Gay and that the USURPERS Regime was fully aware that he was gay . That would explain why the fact that he had been recently sodomized was quietly dropped from the Regime’s briefings and is not getting more attention. Perhaps they are aware that he had recently had consensual homosexual sex and was not sodomized by his captors at all. It would also explain his love of working in Arabic countries where despite Islams protestations Homosexuality is rampant.
Can anyone explain ‘Shrillary’s ‘ and the WIMP in the White Houses and their acolytes in the Lame Stream EneMedia preposterous suggestion that people, instantaneously ‘INFLAMED ‘ and turned in to ‘Islamic Rage Boys’ after viewing, or maybe NOT, a Youtube Video nevertheless remember to grab the RPG’s heavy machine guns and explosives before ‘rushing’ out to “PROTEST”.
The entire situation with the Middle East attacks smells of a setup. The embassies were poorly guarded. Information about the return of the U.S. ambassador to Libya was apparently leaked. Egyptian security forces had information about an attack as early as September 4, and the U.S. State Department had information about an attack two days before 9/11, according to British media.
Add all that to the failure to take even the simple common-sense precautions of stepping up security at embassies in the Mideast around the anniversary of 9/11 and there is an inescapable sense of intent here.
So while the liberal media and blogosphere go on about Mitt Romney “politicizing” 9/11 and the GOP springing a “September surprise,” the real answers about who gave birth to this plot may be closer to the White House and an administration that is known to have high-level connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/7051/white-house-deflects-responsibility-for-islamist-attacks/#ixzz26gsme5Zh
So all the previous attacks were caused by this same film??????? How stupid does the media think we are with this white wash—–oops guess that they think we are pretty stupid when one looks at the current polling.
But enjoy a sample of attacks on the US and they really started on Feb. 26 1993. If that date isn’t familiar to you see the end of the list.
Dangerous world
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html
2001
Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)
2002
June 14, Karachi, Pakistan: bomb explodes outside American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12. Linked to al-Qaeda.
2003 1
May 12, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide bombers kill 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners. Al-Qaeda suspected.
2004
May 29–31, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take foreign oil workers hostage in a nearby residential compound, leaving 22 people dead including one American.
June 11–19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr., an American, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks.
Dec. 6, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: terrorists storm the U.S. consulate, killing 5 consulate employees. 4 terrorists were killed by Saudi security.
2005
Nov. 9, Amman, Jordan: suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan, killing 57. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
2006
Sept. 13, Damascus, Syria: an attack by four gunman on the American embassy is foiled.
2007
Jan. 12, Athens, Greece: the U.S. embassy is fired on by an anti-tank missile causing damage but no injuries.
Dec. 11, Algeria: more than 60 people are killed, including 11 United Nations staff members, when Al Qaeda terrorists detonate two car bombs near Algeria’s Constitutional Council and the United Nations offices.
2008
May 26, Iraq: a suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills six U.S. soldiers and wounds 18 others in Tarmiya.
June 24, Iraq: a suicide bomber kills at least 20 people, including three U.S. Marines, at a meeting between sheiks and Americans in Karmah, a town west of Baghdad.
June 12, Afghanistan: four American servicemen are killed when a roadside bomb explodes near a U.S. military vehicle in Farah Province.
July 13, Afghanistan: nine U.S.soldiers and at least 15 NATO troops die when Taliban militants boldly attack an American base in Kunar Province, which borders Pakistan. It’s the most deadly against U.S. troops in three years.
Aug. 18 and 19, Afghanistan: as many as 15 suicide bombers backed by about 30 militants attack a U.S. military base, Camp Salerno, in Bamiyan. Fighting between U.S. troops and members of the Taliban rages overnight. No U.S. troops are killed.
Sept. 16, Yemen: a car bomb and a rocket strike the U.S. embassy in Yemen as staff arrived to work, killing 16 people, including 4 civilians. At least 25 suspected al-Qaeda militants are arrested for the attack.
Nov. 26, India: in a series of attacks on several of Mumbai’s landmarks and commercial hubs that are popular with Americans and other foreign tourists, including at least two five-star hotels, a hospital, a train station, and a cinema. About 300 people are wounded and nearly 190 people die, including at least 5 Americans.
2009
Feb. 9, Iraq: a suicide bomber kills four American soldiers and their Iraqi translator near a police checkpoint.
April 10, Iraq: a suicide attack kills five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen.
June 1, Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Muhammed, a Muslim convert from Memphis, Tennessee, is charged with shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting center. One is killed and the other is wounded. In a January 2010 letter to the judge hearing his case, Muhammed asked to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, claimed ties to al-Qaeda, and called the shooting a jihadi attack “to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.”
Dec. 25: A Nigerian man on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit attempted to ignite an explosive device hidden in his underwear. The explosive device that failed to detonate was a mixture of powder and liquid that did not alert security personnel in the airport. The alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told officials later that he was directed by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. The suspect was already on the government’s watch list when he attempted the bombing; his father, a respected Nigerian banker, had told the U.S. government that he was worried about his son’s increased extremism.
Dec. 30, Iraq: a suicide bomber kills eight Americans civilians, seven of them CIA agents, at a base in Afghanistan. It’s the deadliest attack on the agency since 9/11. The attacker is reportedly a double agent from Jordan who was acting on behalf of al-Qaeda.
2010
May 1, New York City: a car bomb is discovered in Times Square, New York City after smoke is seen coming from a vehicle. The bomb was ignited, but failed to detonate and was disarmed before it could cause any harm. Times Square was evacuated as a safety precaution. Faisal Shahzad pleads guilty to placing the bomb as well as 10 terrorism and weapons charges.
May 10, Jacksonville, Florida: a pipe bomb explodes while approximately 60 Muslims are praying in the mosque. The attack causes no injuries.
Oct. 29: two packages are found on separate cargo planes. Each package contains a bomb consisting of 300 to 400 grams (11-14 oz) of plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism. The bombs are discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia’s security chief. The packages, bound from Yemen to the United States, are discovered at en route stop-overs, one in England and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
2011
Jan. 17, Spokane, Washington: a pipe bomb is discovered along the route of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial march. The bomb, a “viable device” set up to spray marchers with shrapnel and to cause multiple casualties, is defused without any injuries.
See also U.S.-Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations; Suspected al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts.
FEB 26 1993 Under Clinton first time towers attacked
Check out Kevin DuJan’s post on terror attacks, he put together a little quiz, it certainly gets the point across
http://hillbuzz.org/updating-the-no-pattern-here-list-for-2012-things-the-corrupt-media-tries-desperately-not-to-blame-on-islam-61494
It really doesn’t take that much to attract,and become a target for, Muslim hate and intolerance, does it? Since the first 9/11, the bloggers at thereligionofpeace.com have chronicled the depraved acts of these brutes. Most of their victims are just regular folks just living their lives, like you and me. Scroll to the bottom and click and read until you just can’t stomach any more….
It seems to me that the Muslim rage has been brought on by Muslims. For centuries they have refused to adopt more modern ways. The more moderate ones do not overthrow the rigid religious. Although they send their young to American colleges, they return to their homeland and participate in the same old customs. Other countries have risen above their third world status by adapting and using the resources they have available. Look at what Israel has done with their sliver of land.
I don’t know why the US continues the same old mantra….that their religion is one of peace. Time and time again, members commit horrific deeds and it is pretty much ignored and/or excuses are made. Major Hassam was given benefits many Americans would have loved and appreciated but his hatred just overwhelmed him. I think we should stop babying them and start dishing out punishment….and never apologize.
Let them kill themselves. Cut all diplomatic ties. Protect Israel. If they manage to harm US interests in the region, retaliate times 10, then 100, then 1,000, then 10,000.
They’ll go quiet within a few months.
Let them stem in their own juices.
The White House WIMP Barry HUSSEIN Soetero Kardashian the Unqualified, Incompetent, Inept USURPER and his corrupt RACIST Regime are desperate to continue their absurd stance that its only an insignificant minority of ‘Radicals’ and ‘Extremists’ who are giving pure peaceful Islam a bad name. When reality is exactly the opposite.
Islam is a Hate and death CULT which demands constant bloodletting and if they have no ‘Kafirs and JEWS’ to kill they turn on each other. The violent Sunni/Shia schism has been around as long as Islam has and as each calls the others APOSTATES it makes the preposterous hubris of claiming there to be 1.5 Billion Muslims all the more crass and ridiculous. Islam and the Koran’s (the ACTUAL and UNALTERABLE word of their God according to ITSELF and to Muslims ) stated aim is WORLD DOMINATION and peace for Muslims is only possible when ALL the world is ruled by Islam. Until that day the world is divided into Dar al Harb ( the pace of war and struggle) and Dar al Islam (where Islam Rules). Similarly when you hear a Muslim claim ‘we don’t kill innocents’ he really means it but what he conveniently forgets to tell you is that under Islam ONLY Muslims can be considered Innocent.
So while there may be many “moderate’ Muslims what there most certainly is not is a “Moderate” Islam. It is ‘moderate’ Muslims who are the REAL Misunderstanders of Islam,and Left Wing moonbats and deluded RINO’s who chant this same mantra of a ‘moderate’ Islam are just uneducated Politically Correct, Multi Culti naive , gullible FOOLS.
Uh, hard as it is to acknowledge, Obama was elected by our fellow citizens to be the Preezy of the United Steezy.
Don;t like it? Vote him out. Send Romney money. Its the only chance there is.
We lose this election, its euroland for us.
19,207 deadly Islamic jihad attacks since 9/11
So much for the White House WIMP and his corrupt Racist Regime’s ‘instantaneous Rage Boy theory’ then.
You can find them all listed here.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2001-2003.htm
The really way to combat this problem is to pour in the money that we are giving these foreign countries into alternative sources of clean energy here at home and to increase some of our own oil drilling in order to reduce and eventually eliminate our dependence on the oil in these countries. Let’s demand that our elected officials create incentives tend laws that reward American companies who seriously work towards creating automobiles and business that use alternative fuel resources which will keep us from depending on the nations that hate us but will always accept the handouts!
I am signing all the petitions I can get my hands on to stop funding to the Middle East. You can too. Here’s one from the ACLJ (American Center for Law & Justice) It may not be much but it’s something.
Stop Funding Middle East Terrorists
There are 2 issues at once. Attack on diplomats and Muslim attack.
The first issue predates Islam. It cannot be allowed. Mob entry into a US embassy should be met within the hour by US takedown of their embassies in the US in DC and NY, adding more consequences if needed.
The second issue is clouded by not realizing the US is a contractual society and we face opponents which are trading societies. With a contractual society, the consequence, even horrendous ones, of getting into a conflict with us is over there in another building out of sight, functioning like civil or bankruptcy court. With a trading society, the force is right there in the transaction. Whether it is the threat of the Mother of All Battles, or the muzzle of the machine-pistol pushed into the GI’s nose in pre-partitioned Berlin, force is a part of the bargaining. The trading folks do not realize the empty bargaining table really has a giant six-gun on it within reach of the contractual person. The contractual folks fail to realize that the six-gun should be plopped visibly on the table to minimize the distance between actions and consequences. Failing to do so causes failure in communication and increases blundering and worsening.
What would have happened if the State Department person asked by Saddam Hussein about US attitude if he invaded Kuwait would have replied something about the President just might want to have your guts for garters, so let me get back to you.
President Roosevelt told Imperial Japan to get out of Hanoi, Saigon, Haiphong etc. as they were too close to the Strait of Malacca (at Singapore, the only connect between the Pacific & Indian Oceans). Their refusal to get out was the cause of the attack on Pearl Harbor as it was their only fallback position. This was Trader vs. Contractual and the Japanese got it all wrong because of US failure to communicate the presence of the invisible six-gun. What would have happened if President Roosevelt had sent a telegram to the Emperor, mentioning that the duration of his reign should not be judged by the US Congress?
Muslims in the US are mostly Early Verse Enthusiasts. They recognize the validity of the Later Verses in the Koran, but want to let their involvement limited to donating.
I doubt the Muslim wish to try Sharia can be stopped. It is a Muslim Spring into Sharia. We would do better by recognizing the separation of Early and Later Verse Enthusiasm and by refusing Dhimmi behaviors. Trading societies are acutely aware of values. First call on aid to their nations should be spending on US Embassy security, which would include moving it offshore if necessary.
I think that rep. Allen West understands perfectly what’s going on. I further believe that his leadership is desperately needed right now.
Sounds good, thanks.