{"id":16051,"date":"2009-12-12T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16051"},"modified":"2009-12-12T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:54:49","slug":"the-wake-up-call-nine-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16051","title":{"rendered":"The wake up call nine years late"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article in the Washington Times this morning entitled “Muslims: Youth arrests are wake-up call<\/a>” quotes a local imam who has apparently been asleep for the last nine years;<\/p>\n

Area Muslim leaders on Friday said the five American men arrested in Pakistan for purportedly attempting to join al Qaeda were lured into embracing the terrorist ideology via the Internet. The leaders said they now will wage a cyber counterattack. wire<\/p>\n

“This is a wake-up call involving our youths – Muslims and Catholics,” Imam Mahdi Bray said outside the Islamic Circle of North America’s mosque in Alexandria, where the men worshipped and participated in youth-group activities.<\/p>\n

“They see great injustices, and their emotions and passions are stirred as they should be. … But we are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of our youth through slick, seductive and destructive propaganda on the Internet. We will respond in kind on the Internet. Silence in cyberspace is not an option,” Mr. Bray said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, I don’t why he said “Muslims and Catholics” because none of the five arrested were Catholics. Catholics aren’t traveling to the Vatican and blowing themselves up among throngs of tourists, in case no one noticed but me. <\/p>\n

Secondly, we’ve known the internet is a major tool of terrorists since Al Gore invented the damn thing – why is this incident the wake-up call? Wasn’t 9-11 the wake up call? Or was that just a wake up call for Christians? If CAIR and MAS could bring themselves to form the words “terrorist” in their crooked little mouths and point fingers at real terrorists instead of making excuses for them, maybe these five half-wits wouldn’t have considered jihad a form of social justice.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> trumpets the fact that Muslim leaders are “abandoning” their silence on homegrown jihadists;<\/p>\n

American Muslim organizations, jolted by the spate of cases, are abandoning their hesitation to speak out about the issue. While underlining that only a tiny minority has become radicalized, two major groups — the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations — said this week that they would launch counter-radicalization programs aimed at young people.<\/p>\n

Several U.S. and international terrorism analysts say that American Muslims, as a group, remain more prosperous, assimilated and moderate than those in Europe. But the analysts also note that immigration trends, the global spread of a militant Islamism and controversial actions by the United States and its allies since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks increase the chances that U.S. Muslims could carry out a domestic attack.<\/p>\n

“The U.S. is experiencing what countries like the U.K. have gone through several years ago,” said Sajjan Gohel, director of international security at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a research organization in London. “The worry for the U.S. is there will be a similar blow-back of homegrown terrorism.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, if the Muslim leaders had the cojones<\/em> to speak up a decade ago instead of calling the rest of us racists, maybe we could have precluded this “wake up”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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