{"id":20473,"date":"2019-12-09T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=20473"},"modified":"2019-12-09T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:11:56","slug":"20473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=20473","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pensacola Jihadi\u2019s Victims Would Be Alive Today<\/a>
\nIf we were honest about the threat we face.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a tweet he\u00a0appears to have sent out<\/a>\u00a0before he embarked upon his killing spree\u00a0at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday, jihadi\u00a0Mohammed Saeed\u00a0Alshamrani\u00a0included a succinct refutation of\u00a0George W. Bush\u2019s\u00a0explanation for jihad terrorism, \u201cThey hate us because of our freedom\u201d: \u201cO American people \u2013 I\u2019m not against you for being American, I don\u2019t hate you because your freedoms.\u201d He also showed why our current approach to the jihad threat is not just wrong, but dangerous.<\/p>\n

Alshamrani, a second Lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force, also gave a jihadi\u2019s explanation for why he had decided to kill Americans at the base that was giving him aviation training:\u00a0, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but against humanity.\u201d\u00a0Alshamrani\u00a0went on to elucidate exactly what those crimes were:\u00a0\u201cWhat I see from America is the supporting of Israel which is invasion of Muslim\u00a0countrie\u00a0(sic), I see invasion of many countries by\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0[sic] troops, I see Guantanamo Bay. I see cruise missiles, cluster bombs and UAV.\u201d\u00a0He added:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m against evil, and America as a whole has turned into a nation of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

This statement, if it did indeed come from\u00a0Alshamrani, as appears likely, makes clear that he was a jihad terrorist. He was killing because of America\u2019s supposed crimes against Muslims; that rules out the alternative explanation for his acts, that he was lashing out after some negative incident or mistreatment at the Naval Air Station.<\/p>\n

Alshamrani\u00a0has\u00a0shown\u00a0yet again that the prevailing politically correct obfuscation and denial regarding the jihad threat\u00a0is actually deadly. If we had a realistic approach to the jihad threat,\u00a0Mohammed Saeed\u00a0Alshamrani\u2019s\u00a0victims would be alive today.<\/p>\n

Of course, many credulous Americans<\/a>\u00a0will believe his list of grievances, and think that if we just stop committing these supposed \u201ccrimes,\u201d that the jihad will disappear. Actually grievance\u00a0lists\u00a0such as\u00a0Alshamrani\u2019s\u00a0are common from jihadis, who have to couch their jihads as defensive in the absence of a caliphate. In Sunni law, only the caliph can declare offensive jihad.\u00a0So\u00a0when there is no caliph, all jihad must be defensive.The enumerated grievances are pretexts that enable a jihadi lawfully to kill in accordance with Islamic law.<\/p>\n

Alshamrani\u00a0was in the country to get aviation training. No one flagged him as a potential jihadi. No one would even have dared to question him to try to ascertain his thoughts about the United States and the global jihad. Any effort to have done so would have been denounced as \u201cIslamophobic,\u201d and would have been career suicide for whoever did the questioning.<\/p>\n

We saw this with the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer, Major\u00a0Nidal\u00a0Malik Hasan, who was praised and promoted despite alarming his colleagues with his talk of violent jihad. None of his superiors dared do anything except promote him; they knew that if they questioned him about his\u00a0loyalties, they would be the subject of a CNN feature story the next week on \u201cIslamophobia in the Military,\u201d and they would be looking at a dishonorable discharge.<\/p>\n

Thirteen people died at Fort Hood because of the politically correct assumption that Islam is a religion of peace and that to raise suspicions about any Muslim is \u201cIslamophobic\u201d and evidence of nothing more than bigotry and racism. Four more people have now died at the Naval Air Station Pensacola because in the ten years since the Fort Hood jihad attack, we have learned nothing. All the same taboos are still firmly in place. To point out that there is no reliable way to distinguish genuine friend from concealed foe among our \u201callies\u201d from Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or anywhere else\u00a0will do nothing but\u00a0invite\u00a0scorn and\u00a0derision, and\u00a0earn one a place on the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s \u201chate\u201d list.<\/p>\n

How many more Americans must die before law enforcement and intelligence\u00a0officials dare to examine and discard the comforting falsehoods and fantasies they have embraced regarding Islam and jihad? How many more\u00a0Mohammed Saeed\u00a0Alshamranis\u00a0must there be before our government and military authorities recognize that Islam is not actually a religion of peace at all, but one that teaches warfare against unbelievers in its core texts, and consequently\u00a0that any devout and knowledgeable Muslim may believe that it is a good and even holy thing under certain circumstances to kill those unbelievers?<\/p>\n

This is an unpleasant but readily demonstrable fact. It does not mean that every devout Muslim is or ever will be a jihadist. It does mean that we must be realistic and careful regarding the sentiments of the personnel we train from countries where the teachings of Islam are well known and revered. If we aren\u2019t, nothing is more certain than the fact that there will be more massacres in America like the one in Pensacola on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pensacola Jihadi\u2019s Victims Would Be Alive Today If we were honest about the threat we face. In a tweet he\u00a0appears to have sent out\u00a0before he embarked upon his killing spree\u00a0at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday, jihadi\u00a0Mohammed Saeed\u00a0Alshamrani\u00a0included a succinct refutation of\u00a0George W. Bush\u2019s\u00a0explanation for jihad terrorism, \u201cThey hate us because of our … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moslems-jihadis","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20483,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions\/20483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}