Jihadi Du Jour

Muslims, or at least their self appointed spokesmen are totally incapably of finding fault within themselves. Everything bad that may be happening to them, any inconvenience, is caused not by their own attitudes and lifestyles but rather by those infamous infidels who are so incomprehensibly Islamophobic. What a great way to deal with a problem! Don’t you think so, gentle reader?

Today’s Washington Times has an article entitled Bush office is anti-Muslim, group says:

A Muslim civil rights group today blamed Bush administration policies for promoting “Islamophobia” and said the “war on terror” won’t stop terrorists.

“The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself,” said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot eradicate it by declaring a war against it. The war on terror is causing us infinitely more harm than the terrorists could have ever imagined.”

Yes, gentle reader, if you shift the problem’s focus from the cause to the effect the problem goes away... doesn't it? I seem to have learned otherwise but - hey - I’m just another infidel!

You cannot eradicate it [terrorism] by declaring a war against it, I agree! Do you know why? As long as the “war against terror” is not an all encompassing war against any terrorism anywhere around the globe, it remains merely a declaration, merely a bumper sticker… in spite of its tremendously high cost. You can only eradicate terrorism by fighting it on its own terms, using its own tactics and weapons.

Mr. Ahmed, who spoke at CAIR symposium at the National Press Club, said the war against terrorists is driven by an “irrational” fear that the Bush administration has inculcated in the American public. The chance of being killed in a terrorist attack, he said, is 1 in 80,000 over a lifetime.

Would Dr. Parvez Ahmed be man enough to look in the eye of a husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter of any of the victims of 9/11 and repeating that ludicrous statement? Below is a chart of the fatalities of that infamous day:

The youngest victim in the hijacked planes was 2, on Flight 175, the oldest was 82 on Flight 11. In the buildings the youngest person was 17, the oldest 89… The Wikipedia says: According to the Associated Press, the city identified over 1,600 bodies but was unable to identify the rest (about 1,100 people). They report that the city has “about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead.” Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers prepared the damaged Deutsche Bank Building for demolition. The average age of all the dead in New York City was 40. […]All of the fatalities were civilians except some of the 125 victims in the Pentagon. Would Mr. Ahmed care to repeat his idiotic “statistics”?

“It is important to bear in mind that terrorists cannot destroy America,” he said as a member of a panel discussing the symposium theme, “Attacking Islam: Implications for Social Cohesion and U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.” The U.S., he said, is too powerful and too resourceful for terrorists to destroy.

Does he mean, therefore, that America should get used to such minor annoyances as 9/11 and do nothing to stop any possible re-occurrence? It certainly would make life a lot easier for the terrorists if we just got used to the idea. There would be nothing to stop them from killing more Americans and eventually they'll come to dominate us by the sheer power of fear… Hmmm, I see! Do you think, gentle reader, that perhaps we should heed Ahmed’s words? Maybe he’s right… why should we interfere with terrorists? Just let the boys do their job unhindered!

The Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq has driven a deep wedge between Muslim’s and non-Muslim people in the United States, he said.

“Policies driven by fear will be naturally irrational. Thus in this state of irrationality the Bush administration often through their surrogates have resorted to fear-mongering. This has unleashed a vicious cycle, one in which fear leads to bad policies and bad policies lead to more fear.”

Hmmnnn… so Americans have no reason to fear terrorists, they are just a bunch of nice mischievous boys playing with explosives, hijacking planes, blowing up American embassies in Africa… just for some clean fun… they really mean no harm! Oh, silly me! To think I was ready to believe they really were a threat!

“The popular discourse in America today remains mired in stereotypical denouncements about Islam. As a result Muslims and their faith remained misunderstood, feared and shunned.”

If Ahmed truly believes that Americans have a wrong perception of people of his religious creed, perhaps he might start by telling the terrorists PR agents that they are projecting the wrong image… Oh, wait! They are only following the basic tenets of the religion of peace submission, as their extremist Imams care to interpret it. Hmnnn… perhaps, Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is merely engaging in some masterful doublespeak. Will it fly, or will the people see through the lies?

Dr. Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
(Photo from: Anti-CAIR)

Chaim

Cross-posted at: Freedom's Cost