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In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s1600\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack home, the Blackburn Muslim Community page announced that \"Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world\" and prayed that Allah \"bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BMC page had previously promoted a “charity” event to raise money for “Palestinians” by the Human Relief Foundation, which had been banned by Israel over its\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6728\/ngo-links-to-middle-east-terror\"\u003E ties to Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe town has produced no shortage of Jihadists, including the youngest terrorist in the UK, as well as a number of Jihadis who traveled to join ISIS, an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid, and a terrorist who played a key role in an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1374130.the-al-qaeda-look-out-blackburn\/\"\u003EAl Qaeda plot \u003C\/a\u003Ethat targeted New York and D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlackburn is one of the most segregated towns in the country and has been described as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/e\/\"\u003Ea “no-go zone”\u003C\/a\u003E. The area that produced the Temple Terrorist has one of the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9648477\/Author-visited-Muslim-mosques-Britain-reveals-no-areas-white-men.html\"\u003E highest Muslim population\u003C\/a\u003Es outside of London and some claim that flying the English flag has been effectively outlawed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe setting couldn’t be any better for the media to whitewash the murderous terrorist with the familiar excuses that he was the victim of failed integration in the United Kingdom. His family, in an even more familiar excuse, is claiming that he “was suffering from mental health issues”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat, along with the claim by FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno that the terrorist, \"was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community\", is becoming the very familiar narrative for covering up the latest Muslim terror attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut antisemitism, like Islamism, was part of the air that Faisal Akram breathed in Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalim Mulla, Blackburn's former mayor and current Labour councilor, claimed that Israel was behind ISIS and school shootings in America. Last year, four Muslim men from Blackburn took part in a \"Palestinian\" convoy while shouting, \"F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters and show your support for Palestine. Rape their daughters and we have to send a message like that. Please do it for the poor children in Gaza.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESiddiqui aka Lady Al Qaeda, on whose behalf the Texas synagogue attack took place, was married to the nephew of 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and had assorted recipes for mass murder in her possession when she was captured. Despite graduating from Brandeis, a formerly Jewish university, she demanded at her trial that jurors undergo DNA tests to prove that they are not Jewish. And the Aafia Foundation posted bizarre antisemitic rants about the \"degree of poisonous venum (sic) within the heart of American mainstream jewry\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hatred of Jews, like the hatred of all non-Muslims, is a crucial motive for Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Blackburn is a miserable place, the tale of the Akram family may reveal why. The official family statement by the terrorist’s brother, Gulbar Akram, claims that \"although my brother was suffering from mental health issues we were confident that he would not harm the hostages\" and denied that the FBI had rescued the hostages from being killed by his brother. \"Don’t believe the bull#### in the media they were released from the fire exit and Not rescued.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Blackburn Community message describes the terrorist as having brothers named \"Gulbar\", “Malik” and the \"Late Gulzameer Akram\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo brothers named Gulbar Akram and Gulzameer Akram in Blackburn had been locked up \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5795467.brothers-jailed-360-000-car-crime\/\"\u003Eover\u003C\/a\u003E stolen cars. Another time, a Blackburn resident named Gulbar Akram almost \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/5937249.mans-nose-almost-sliced-off\/\"\u003Ehad his nose\u003C\/a\u003E sliced off. A Gulzameer Akram \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/1954164.170-000-cash-factory-based-terrace-house\/\"\u003Eran a\u003C\/a\u003E massive counterfeiting operation from a Blackburn home. A Malik Akram was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/18335578.man-38-jailed-following-girl-blackburn-college-ask-phone-number\/\"\u003Elocked up\u003C\/a\u003E for harassing girls. Were all of them members of the same clan?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best way to cover up a terrorist attack is to shift the context. And that’s what they’re doing. But it’s important to dig into the true context to understand the true origins of the Texas attack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his book, Among the Mosques, ex-Islamist Ed Husain described Blackburn as “another global hub for the Deobandis and the Tableeghi Jamaat” where the mosques pray for the destruction of the enemies of Islam and texts declare that “there can be no reconciliation between Islam and democracy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Deobandis, who control many of the mosques in Blackburn, originated the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAafia Siddiqui, better known as 'Lady Al Qaeda', is a Deobandi, the terrorist on whose behalf Faisal Akram took a synagogue hostage, and a popular cause with Pakistanis. A few years ago the Pakistani Senate had even named the Islamic terrorist, the “Daughter of the Nation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndian Mujahideen co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal had plotted to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/islamic-terrorists-previously-discussed-trading-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Etake Jews hostage\u003C\/a\u003E a decade ago in order to force 'Lady Al Qaeda's release. British Muslim “charities” were a major source of funding to the Jihadist group as they are for many Pakistani Jihadist enterprises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile much has been made of the advocacy on behalf of Siddiqui by CAIR and other Islamist colonists in America, top Muslim politicians in the UK also vocally demanded her release, including Lord Nazir Ahmed and Lord Altaf Sheikh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Husain visited Blackburn, he warned that, \"it is clear that a caliphist subculture thrives here, a separate world from the rest of British society.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETableeghi Jamaat, whose mosques are known as \"breeding grounds\" for Jihad, is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/686\/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions\"\u003Eclosely intertwined with Pakistani Islamism\u003C\/a\u003E and vectored Islamic terrorism. Quite a number have joined Al Qaeda. It is no coincidence that so many Islamic terrorists have come out of Blackburn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor is it a coincidence that the latest Islamic terrorist attack on America originated there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal Akram traveled to Texas, where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ sleeps at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth. He was one of many Muslim pilgrims seeking to extricate her. Just last fall, the Dallas-Forth Worth CAIR and the Pakistani terror regime claimed that Aafia Siddiqui had been assaulted in U.S. custody in the latest effort of many on behalf of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaisal’s target, a progressive Reform Temple which happened to carry the traditional name of Congregation Beth Israel despite its social justice activist clergyman’s hostility to Israel, was ideally selected to fit Muslim antisemitic obsessions with both Israel and Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe antisemitic rants, the hostage crisis, and the rapid cover-up are all regular features of life for Jews in Europe. Changing demographics are making them a new reality for American Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny American city or town can become the new Blackburn. That’s the harsh lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPakistani antisemitism and obscure Jihadist movements are not local issues, they are global threats. The poison nurtured in a declining British post-industrial town blew up in Texas. We are all interconnected, and that interconnectedness has made the Jihad into a global enterprise. Ideas, tactics, and organizations that once took centuries to colonize the world can travel around it at the speed of the internet and a terror plot can happen at the speed of a jet plane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can either police our borders, control our immigration, and build walls around our nations, or we must be resigned to being hunted, stalked, and killed anywhere and at any given moment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Blackburn, Muslims anticipate the Texas Jihadist ascending to the “highest ranks of Paradise\" where he will enjoy the company of 72 virgins. More Muslims from Blackburn, marinating in the same hatred for America, for Jews, and for anyone unlike them, will follow in his footsteps.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4496137467401668650\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4496137467401668650"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/texas-synagogue-terrorist-came-out-of.html","title":"Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgTDSNXn1ZlbUV0pVUts3jyg2wILr0G2WGOGVSYHj2pEfkGGHeL3UFuFjPcKYml9T5mN1V2AObYg5QT0QGZN34fLAEoZ2KYm_T4ToutCj6G3e7D0MO9UUUFNODfwO7ecM9706Oxd3efM3Mlk0X0knWompiZG4C5ElKk_VofGhkamEKnBHb4p94=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-373032760439711815"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-03T14:52:19.680-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feminism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taliban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2001, the Taliban blew up the giant Buddha statues. Now they’re charging tourists \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307\"\u003Efive bucks\u003C\/a\u003E each to go see the statues that aren’t there. Considering the Islamic knack for destroying statues, tombs, historic buildings, and anything that isn’t a mosque, tourism can be tough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately the Taliban have the opium business to fall back on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s792\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"792\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile officially the Taliban deplore drugs, their takeover was partly backed by the country’s drug lords who were eager for an end to America’s war on drugs. Planting season has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistans-opium-business-cranks-up-as-the-taliban-look-the-other-way-11637491200?mod=djemalertNEWS\"\u003Earrived\u003C\/a\u003E and everyone is expecting a lot of drug money to start flowing into the Taliban’s terrorist coffers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban response to international complaints has been the familiar drug shakedown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the international community recognizes our government and we receive aid and development assistance, then poppies will definitely disappear,” a Taliban governor told the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer U.S. administrations had offered aid in exchange for suspending the drug business. And while Afghanistan’s only real cash crop didn’t go away, the Jihadist bosses of the opium OPEC were willing to occasionally reduce production in exchange for cash from Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is directing over a hundred million in aid to Afghanistan, but what the Taliban really want is the $9 billion in money from the former government they had overthrown. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat includes the $1.3 billion in gold \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/08\/biden-tried-send-pallets-cash-taliban-kabul-fell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Esitting in\u003C\/a\u003E Manhattan vaults near Ground Zero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban would like that gold, but so would the families of the victims killed by the Taliban’s Al Qaeda allies on September 11. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 9\/11 families had sued the Taliban and won $7 billion in damages. But back then the Taliban didn't have money just sitting around in downtown Manhattan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's no longer the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's problem is the familiar one facing the Obama administration over judgements won by terror victims against Iran and the PLO. How do you funnel money to the terrorists without letting their victims get hold of it? The answer is that you pay secret ransoms or send “humanitarian aid”. Withholding money from terror victims to pay terror bosses looks tacky, so just turn the money into ransom for American hostages or medicine for crying local children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so despite the fact that the Taliban negotiate with all faiths other than their own in bad faith, the Biden administration is still negotiating with the terrorists who broke every previous deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after Thanksgiving, some of Biden's boys from the State Department, USAID, the Treasury Department, and assorted spooks, flew off to talk turkey with the Taliban in Qatar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe assortment of departments and agencies in the delegation to the terrorists was an interesting one. The State Department's diplomats love to appease terrorists, USAID is there to dole out \"humanitarian aid\", the spooks are there to ask the terrorists for info on the other terrorists, and the Treasury Department is there to discuss economic sanctions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how to bypass them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll it takes is certifying that the Taliban are nice folks now and it’s time to work with them on feeding and clothing the Afghan people, not to mention educating the girls of Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after the Taliban banned women from television, Biden's State Department spokesman Ned Price released a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-delegation-meeting-with-taliban-representatives\/\"\u003Estatemen\u003C\/a\u003Et praising the Taliban's \"openness to engaging with the international community on full access to education\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrice further claimed that the Islamic terrorist group which closed most schools to girls had actually \"welcomed efforts to verify and monitor progress to enroll women and girls in school at all levels.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, apparently, also \"asked for support in the education sector.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreferably in the form of cash, heroin, or Black Hawk helicopter parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Taliban, 75% of girls are back in school. And if you believe that, you probably work for the State Department. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s newfound feminism is as suspect as that of Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden, but they want money and Joe Biden wants to give it to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe levers for extracting that cash are a combination of blackmail and victimhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will cash in on opium while the people starve. And then ask for money in exchange for shutting down the drug trade and then getting the people something to eat. The remaining Americans and Afghan visa recipients are also hostages who can be traded for more dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s another reason why so very few of the visa recipients ever made it to the airport. And why the majority of those who did had no visas and no vetting, but probably did pay off the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban can only make so much money from charging tourists to see the missing Buddhas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last year should have been a comprehensive education in why the Taliban can’t be trusted. After agreeing not to conquer Afghanistan, they went ahead and did it anyway. While they were doing that, the Biden administration, which is almost as trustworthy as the Taliban, assured the media, which is almost as trustworthy as the Biden administration, that everything was fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow everything is fine again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Taliban aren’t beheading members of female sports teams, they’re showing a great deal of “openness” to “engaging with the international community” on their feminism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’ll even field a fully progressive approved all-female sports team of men in burkas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration promised to leave Afghanistan, but the United States never leaves anywhere. Aside from taking in tens of thousands of Afghans into our country, we’re still on the hook for feeding, clothing, and educating the Afghans in Talibanland, not to mention Pakistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven once the Taliban get their billions and their UN seat, we’ll still be sending them aid. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn December 2000, the State Department \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/fact-sheet-us-humanitarian-aid-afghan-people-0\"\u003Eboasted\u003C\/a\u003E that it had sent $113 million in \"humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people\". It further bragged that the \"United States is the largest single donor of assistance to Afghans, and has a long record of providing such assistance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the while it acknowledged that the Taliban were mischievously harboring Osama bin Laden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat money stolen from American taxpayers covered \"food, housing, health and education programs\" for the Afghans. And the State Department shamefully bragged that \"of every ten dollars\" in aid, \"nine dollars is a United States contribution.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year the Taliban contributed four airplanes directed at killing thousands of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving learned nothing in twenty years, the Biden administration and its career diplomats expect Americans to continue funding a Taliban welfare state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time the Taliban really believe in feminism, they insist. This time they’re really committed to fighting terrorism. And this time they surely won’t host another terrorist attack on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as we pay them enough.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/373032760439711815\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/373032760439711815"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html","title":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg5k8-eJmSmCw4s8P2tiK4Ldc5PjUtK47X8Csp56U-koeLR26wFNZkBtUzFdLI-CTC4Z-EgHMiPPgWSeaoYKrxUOusUlX6riaX2dxds0eZXNc_Z7aEfobJ6Jx-mndMYQF42oAQIlxmErj-7KritYOHLyfBVPsWWoCFVU69m5KgIT7-CtpEpzTk=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5221521504155046215"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-08T12:39:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-08T12:39:04.273-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn 2001, the Taliban blew up the giant Buddha statues. Now they’re charging tourists \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307\"\u003Efive bucks\u003C\/a\u003E each to go see the statues that aren’t there. Considering the Islamic knack for destroying statues, tombs, historic buildings, and anything that isn’t a mosque, tourism can be tough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately the Taliban have the opium business to fall back on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMW46eY5f9Wfd62MEiBMCXXY23BqFnLjgFK2Ek5dqBfPF2gjhZ2qmzYL6hrf6LgkcPAaJIJOl0jlQKMR27lfts3psFj6inoUKzy8-fub0o9jqIjbU4U1m7yf8Imyf1N8PcglukUc15rIKDMYCUXQ7ruzxCwKua0nxrJLIg2a7hYUtq6jae8Mk=s1200\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMW46eY5f9Wfd62MEiBMCXXY23BqFnLjgFK2Ek5dqBfPF2gjhZ2qmzYL6hrf6LgkcPAaJIJOl0jlQKMR27lfts3psFj6inoUKzy8-fub0o9jqIjbU4U1m7yf8Imyf1N8PcglukUc15rIKDMYCUXQ7ruzxCwKua0nxrJLIg2a7hYUtq6jae8Mk=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile officially the Taliban deplore drugs, their takeover was partly backed by the country’s drug lords who were eager for an end to America’s war on drugs. Planting season has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistans-opium-business-cranks-up-as-the-taliban-look-the-other-way-11637491200?mod=djemalertNEWS\"\u003Earrived\u003C\/a\u003E and everyone is expecting a lot of drug money to start flowing into the Taliban’s terrorist coffers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban response to international complaints has been the familiar drug shakedown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the international community recognizes our government and we receive aid and development assistance, then poppies will definitely disappear,” a Taliban governor told the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer U.S. administrations had offered aid in exchange for suspending the drug business. And while Afghanistan’s only real cash crop didn’t go away, the Jihadist bosses of the opium OPEC were willing to occasionally reduce production in exchange for cash from Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is directing over a hundred million in aid to Afghanistan, but what the Taliban really want is the $9 billion in money from the former government they had overthrown. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat includes the $1.3 billion in gold \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/08\/biden-tried-send-pallets-cash-taliban-kabul-fell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Esitting in\u003C\/a\u003E Manhattan vaults near Ground Zero.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban would like that gold, but so would the families of the victims killed by the Taliban’s Al Qaeda allies on September 11. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 9\/11 families had sued the Taliban and won $7 billion in damages. But back then the Taliban didn't have money just sitting around in downtown Manhattan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's no longer the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's problem is the familiar one facing the Obama administration over judgements won by terror victims against Iran and the PLO. How do you funnel money to the terrorists without letting their victims get hold of it? The answer is that you pay secret ransoms or send “humanitarian aid”. Withholding money from terror victims to pay terror bosses looks tacky, so just turn the money into ransom for American hostages or medicine for crying local children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so despite the fact that the Taliban negotiate with all faiths other than their own in bad faith, the Biden administration is still negotiating with the terrorists who broke every previous deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after Thanksgiving, some of Biden's boys from the State Department, USAID, the Treasury Department, and assorted spooks, flew off to talk turkey with the Taliban in Qatar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe assortment of departments and agencies in the delegation to the terrorists was an interesting one. The State Department's diplomats love to appease terrorists, USAID is there to dole out \"humanitarian aid\", the spooks are there to ask the terrorists for info on the other terrorists, and the Treasury Department is there to discuss economic sanctions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd how to bypass them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll it takes is certifying that the Taliban are nice folks now and it’s time to work with them on feeding and clothing the Afghan people, not to mention educating the girls of Afghanistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after the Taliban banned women from television, Biden's State Department spokesman Ned Price released a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-delegation-meeting-with-taliban-representatives\/\"\u003Estatemen\u003C\/a\u003Et praising the Taliban's \"openness to engaging with the international community on full access to education\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrice further claimed that the Islamic terrorist group which closed most schools to girls had actually \"welcomed efforts to verify and monitor progress to enroll women and girls in school at all levels.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, apparently, also \"asked for support in the education sector.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreferably in the form of cash, heroin, or Black Hawk helicopter parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Taliban, 75% of girls are back in school. And if you believe that, you probably work for the State Department. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban’s newfound feminism is as suspect as that of Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden, but they want money and Joe Biden wants to give it to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe levers for extracting that cash are a combination of blackmail and victimhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban will cash in on opium while the people starve. And then ask for money in exchange for shutting down the drug trade and then getting the people something to eat. The remaining Americans and Afghan visa recipients are also hostages who can be traded for more dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s another reason why so very few of the visa recipients ever made it to the airport. And why the majority of those who did had no visas and no vetting, but probably did pay off the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban can only make so much money from charging tourists to see the missing Buddhas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last year should have been a comprehensive education in why the Taliban can’t be trusted. After agreeing not to conquer Afghanistan, they went ahead and did it anyway. While they were doing that, the Biden administration, which is almost as trustworthy as the Taliban, assured the media, which is almost as trustworthy as the Biden administration, that everything was fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow everything is fine again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Taliban aren’t beheading members of female sports teams, they’re showing a great deal of “openness” to “engaging with the international community” on their feminism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’ll even field a fully progressive approved all-female sports team of men in burkas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration promised to leave Afghanistan, but the United States never leaves anywhere. Aside from taking in tens of thousands of Afghans into our country, we’re still on the hook for feeding, clothing, and educating the Afghans in Talibanland, not to mention Pakistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven once the Taliban get their billions and their UN seat, we’ll still be sending them aid. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn December 2000, the State Department \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/fact-sheet-us-humanitarian-aid-afghan-people-0\"\u003Eboasted\u003C\/a\u003E that it had sent $113 million in \"humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people\". It further bragged that the \"United States is the largest single donor of assistance to Afghans, and has a long record of providing such assistance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the while it acknowledged that the Taliban were mischievously harboring Osama bin Laden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat money stolen from American taxpayers covered \"food, housing, health and education programs\" for the Afghans. And the State Department shamefully bragged that \"of every ten dollars\" in aid, \"nine dollars is a United States contribution.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year the Taliban contributed four airplanes directed at killing thousands of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving learned nothing in twenty years, the Biden administration and its career diplomats expect Americans to continue funding a Taliban welfare state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis time the Taliban really believe in feminism, they insist. This time they’re really committed to fighting terrorism. And this time they surely won’t host another terrorist attack on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as we pay them enough.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5221521504155046215\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5221521504155046215"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5221521504155046215"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/12\/biden-admin-praises-talibans-openness.html","title":"Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s 'Openness' to Women’s Rights"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjMW46eY5f9Wfd62MEiBMCXXY23BqFnLjgFK2Ek5dqBfPF2gjhZ2qmzYL6hrf6LgkcPAaJIJOl0jlQKMR27lfts3psFj6inoUKzy8-fub0o9jqIjbU4U1m7yf8Imyf1N8PcglukUc15rIKDMYCUXQ7ruzxCwKua0nxrJLIg2a7hYUtq6jae8Mk=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2596259678383017781"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-09T20:48:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-09T20:48:02.585-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti-Semitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"San Francisco"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"San Francisco State University Prof Says Jewish Pot is Making Black Men Gay"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EWesley Muhammad believes that the U.S. government and the Jews are using marijuana to make black men gay. The “Pot Plot” is a popular theory in Muhammad’s Nation of Islam cult. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the Saviours Day Convention in Chicago, an official Nation of Islam event, Wesley Muhammad claimed\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/nation-islam-official-wesley-muhammad-\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"It is Jewish genius that has helped… to weaponize the weed so that it may effeminize the black male of America. And be clear, it is Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam that is standing in between the total demasculinization of the black man in America.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DUfM4dtpaHk\/YXrrhynAOoI\/AAAAAAAATjI\/Chx-BUYW5icvoOLyheL8YHGqBw8PPxo7wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s733\/image_2021-10-28_112719.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"459\" data-original-width=\"733\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DUfM4dtpaHk\/YXrrhynAOoI\/AAAAAAAATjI\/Chx-BUYW5icvoOLyheL8YHGqBw8PPxo7wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-10-28_112719.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESome years back, Wesley Muhammad's lecture, “How to Make a Homosexual: The Scientific Assault on Black America\" was canceled at a Philly black beauty expo because of its hateful content. But what wasn't good enough for the 23rd Annual International Locks Conference, a black natural hair expo, is unfortunately all too welcome at San Francisco State University. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not too surprising that a black “wholistic” hair expo has higher standards than the most antisemitic university in America. Or that Muhammad fits in so well at SFSU.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It is clear that the two most powerful lobbies in America - the Jewish and the Homosexual - are hellbent on the information in this lecture, 'How To Make A Homosexualm (sic)' NEVER makes it to the public's awareness,\" Muhammad complained on Facebook.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Francisco State University has however been happy to provide Muhammad with a platform despite no shortage of ethnically Jewish and gay people on the faculty and in the administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWesley Muhammad's bio at the taxpayer-funded university notes that he is a lecturer in the Africana Studies Department of SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies. It mentions his publications in the Final Call newspaper of the Nation of Islam hate group, and his book, \"Understanding the Assault on the Black Man, Black Manhood and Black Masculinity\" which contains thoughtful chapters such as \"Why Saggin is Faggin\" and \"Birth of the Black Man (God)\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt also notes that Muhammad is a \"helper of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan\" and a member of the executive council of the Nation of Islam hate group, and mentions his role in Tariq Nasheed's Buck Breaking documentary which claimed that black people were a master race and that white slave owners turned black men gay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I thank the Honorable Brother Minister Farrakhan for granting me permission to return to the place that I love, the classroom,” a Facebook account with Muhammad’s name posted. “This Pestilence From Heaven has made it possible for me do the Labor that I love at the Headquarters of my Beloved Nation of Islam AND teach about Black Religion and the Black God in the Africana Studies Department at San Francisco State University.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"All Praises Belongs (sic) To Allah,\" he concluded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA course listing shows Muhammad teaching courses on “Black Religion” and “Malcolm X in the Context of Black Nationalism”. The courses are taught online which apparently allows Muhammad, a top official in the Nation of Islam, to teach remotely.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat the Nation of Islam killed Malcolm X only adds another layer to this obscene farce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy describing the pandemic as a \"pestilence from heaven\", Muhammad echoed Farrakhan's remarks that the coronavirus was one of Allah's \"great plagues\". But Muhammad additionally claimed that \"we've documented the first area codes that were devastated by coronavirus in America were Jewish area codes\" implying that the virus was aimed by Allah at the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA lecturer celebrating the coronavirus for allowing him to teach remotely and claiming that black gay men are the products of a Jewish conspiracy may seem out of place on today’s college campuses where a Chinese composer was forced out of the classroom for showing an Othello movie and at Yale an American Indian student faced the threat of sanctions for a party invite touting fried chicken, but there are two sets of rules. And at SFSU, the bigots have always enjoyed the second set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the 90s, Khalid Muhammad, another Nation of Islam figure, was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jweekly.com\/1997\/05\/16\/black-muslim-s-upcoming-talk-fuels-fires-at-s-f-state\/\"\u003E invited\u003C\/a\u003E to deliver a speech by the Pan Afrikan Student Union which advertised tickets as being $7 for students and $15 for \"Zionists, Uncle Toms and other white supremacists.\" During his speech Muhammad \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/1997\/05\/30\/ex-farrakhan-aide-urges-violence-in-s-f-state-speech\/\"\u003Eranted \u003C\/a\u003Eabout \"hook-nosed, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud so-called Jews\" and urged his racist audience to \"use violence when necessary.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days though Nation of Islam officials aren’t just SFSU campus speakers, but lecturers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all part of the ugly atmosphere of antisemitic hatred that has been mainstreamed at the public university where taxpayers pay the bills for the professors and groups that hate them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESFSU was also where, more recently, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amchainitiative.org\/mohammad-h-hammads-tumblr-postings-5713-111013\/\"\u003EMuhammad Hammad\u003C\/a\u003E, the president of the General Union of Palestine Students, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/21\/terror-investigators-probing-former-sfsu-student-group-leaders-online-postings\/\"\u003Einvestigated\u003C\/a\u003E after making violent threats toward Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Francisco State University had been ground zero for campus antisemitism. It was where \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/hatem-bazian\"\u003EHatem Bazian\u003C\/a\u003E, the co-founder of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/organizations\/students-for-justice-in-palestine-sjp\"\u003EStudents for Justice in Palestine\u003C\/a\u003E, the hate group that now has chapters on many campuses, got his start. A column by the coordinator for SF's Jewish Community Relations Council described the scene as \"Hatem Bazian and a group of about 25 students storm the offices of the student newspaper, the Golden Gater. They destroy hundreds of copies of that day's edition. They yell anti-Semitic and racist epithets in the newsroom\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then not much has changed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA lawsuit filed more recently in 2017 by Jewish students \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stopuniversitysupportforterrorists.org\/news\/san-francisco-state-university-top-ten-colleges-promote-jew-hatred-and-incite-terrorism\"\u003Echarged that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"SFSU has not merely fostered and embraced anti-Jewish hostility — it has systematically supported these departments and student groups as they have doggedly organized their efforts to target, threaten, and intimidate Jewish students on campus and deprive them of their civil rights and their ability to feel safe and secure as they pursue their education.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, SFSU's Rabab Abdulhadi, the faculty advisor for GUPS, took part in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2021\/10\/15\/faculty-panel-says-sfsu-violated-academic-freedom-when-event-with-palestinian-terrorist-was-cancelled\/\"\u003Ea seminar\u003C\/a\u003E featuring a terrorist airplane hijacker after having already \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/san-francisco-state-haven-supporters-terrorists-frontpagemagcom\/\"\u003Emet with that same terrorist\u003C\/a\u003E during an SFSU funded trip. No wonder that SFSU was one of the universities singled out by the David Horowitz Freedom Center as one of the “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/top-ten-schools-supporting-terrorists-frontpagemagcom\/\"\u003ETop Ten Schools Supporting Terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt San Francisco State University, the question isn’t whether it’s an antisemitic campus, but just how antisemitic it is. And even by SFSU standards, the “pot plot” is a new low. At San Francisco’s premier public university, students can not only interact with faculty who support terrorists, but who believe that the Jews are using marijuana to turn black men gay. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow low can SFSU go? Wesley Muhammad makes it clear that there’s no low too low.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2596259678383017781\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/san-francisco-state-university-prof.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2596259678383017781"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2596259678383017781"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/san-francisco-state-university-prof.html","title":"San Francisco State University Prof Says Jewish Pot is Making Black Men Gay"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DUfM4dtpaHk\/YXrrhynAOoI\/AAAAAAAATjI\/Chx-BUYW5icvoOLyheL8YHGqBw8PPxo7wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-10-28_112719.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8961593102655801710"},"published":{"$t":"2021-09-22T23:06:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-09-22T23:06:07.268-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The War on Terror Sacrificed Thousands of Lives to Avoid Tough Political Decisions"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The infrastructure of Islamic terror is made up of three groups: domestic infrastructure, financial infrastructure, and organizational infrastructure. The domestic infrastructure consists of the populations who are the source of Islamic terrorism, the financial infrastructure comes from the state sponsors and billionaire funders of terrorism, and the organizational infrastructure is represented by the terrorist groups like Al Qaeda that run training camps and plan operations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-59yUfUDXN0s\/YUvvBMgYU6I\/AAAAAAAATeQ\/79CNpy0bLZAv3iBAhuyxCTareFsP_6W6gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s674\/pm%2Bkhan%2Bscreenshot.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"403\" data-original-width=\"674\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-59yUfUDXN0s\/YUvvBMgYU6I\/AAAAAAAATeQ\/79CNpy0bLZAv3iBAhuyxCTareFsP_6W6gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/pm%2Bkhan%2Bscreenshot.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EGoing after training camps and terror leaders made sense, but it was also the most difficult militarily, requiring the deployment of troops to distant countries to engage in guerrilla warfare in hostile environments and counterterrorism in enemy cities, and the easiest politically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf the three infrastructures, domestic, state, and organizational, Osama bin Laden had the smallest constituency. Political leaders, Republican or Democrat, knew that they could expect to pay the smallest political price for targeting him or other Al Qaeda terrorists on the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe War on Terror was structured to focus on the least politically difficult targets while avoiding the most politically difficult targets. What initially began as a broad spectrum campaign that detained large numbers of domestic Islamists and went after Islamist billionaires who were funding the terrorists narrowed down to nation building in response to political pressures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpending the lives of thousands of American soldiers was easy compared to the political challenges of rooting out the domestic Muslim Brotherhood operation, its mosques and organizations, or trying to hold Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing after Al Qaeda training camps and leaders made sense, but in isolation it was a strategy that was doomed to fail because it targeted terrorist middlemen rather than their state sponsors or the growing Muslim populations in the United States that were being recruited for terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Al Qaeda leadership could always fade away, amplify their propaganda, and crowdsource terrorism to local Muslim populations while we spent our strength chasing them around the world. And that’s exactly what they did. While we tried to fight a conventional war, a new generation of Al Qaeda and ISIS propagandists, some operating inside our countries, used the money from their state sponsors to recruit and train the so-called “lone wolves” over the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one has yet come up with an answer to this new strategy for conducting domestic terrorism in America except to “partner” with Islamist groups on how to “deradicalize” terrorists. That and the Obama administration initiating a CVE program of arguing with the terrorists on Twitter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis sort of thing is a politically safe strategy that avoids the explosive problem of a growing domestic Islamist population and an increasingly influential Islamist organizational infrastructure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2001, the Islamist groups were mostly marginal. In 2021, they’re an integrated part of the leftist intersectional movement, and presidents and senators advocate for their causes. What would have been politically difficult in 2001 has long since become politically untenable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the Europeans, our political elites argue that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism because politicians adopt the narratives that fit the political realities, not the military ones. The same process that led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal resulted in a generation of mishandling the War on Terror by following the politically easy narratives of hunting terrorists while neglecting the backers and recruits who could continually regenerate their movements.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe conviction that Islamic terrorism was the product of a tiny minority of extremists huddling in caves and training camps was a deliberate misunderstanding of how terrorism actually worked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl Qaeda was a startup operation drawing on the support of powerful countries and wealthy donors above, and on recruits from massive populations of devout Muslims below. Islamic terrorist groups are just the community organizers of the Jihad, recruiting the latter for the causes of the former. Terrorism could no more be defeated by destroying Al Qaeda than the Left was beaten when ACORN was broken up. It’s easy enough for the big money to restore old organizations or form new ones that draw on the same conditions in the same populations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganizations are the most fragile of the three groups, but also the easiest to reconstruct.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Jihadists, like the Taliban, can simply outwait us knowing that as long as the money and the people are there, it’s only a matter of time until they can rebuild their operations. Until then they’re happy enough to let us pour billions into the countries they plan to inherit in the vain hope of convincing their people that an inclusive government is better than tribal supremacism\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the political establishment, Democrat and Republican, found two decades of war much more palatable than having to deal with the difficult political realities of Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there’s no sign of that changing any time soon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThousands of dead Americans are far more conceivable than admitting that the real axis of evil wasn’t just a few countries with dictators, but encompasses the wealthy Muslim countries that are our allies, and that Islamic terrorism is rooted universally in the Koran and locally in ethnic tribalism, and cannot be countered by overthrowing a dictator and offering democracy lessons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStanding up to oil-rich kingdoms would have cost far fewer lives than spending decades in Afghanistan, but it would have also blown up the economy and international trade. Fundamentally rethinking immigration would have been even more painful for the party of demographic change and for the party of cheap labor. War was the cheapest political option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it may be comforting to remember that we have been down this road before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican leaders spent the first generation of the Bolshevik revolution bailing out the Soviet Union from famine and war, doing business with it, enabling its conquests, and finally letting the Communists take China and all of Eastern Europe before we learned our painful lesson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lesson was learned not because our leaders grew smarter, but because the ruthlessness and scale of the enemy became inescapable. Even then we spent the Cold War trying to figure out how to live in peace with the big Communists while fighting brushfire wars with the little Communists, leading to lots of lives lost and what looked like a pathway to our defeat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union eventually collapsed while Communist China adapted, leaving us with a new war with an enemy that we keep enabling because it’s politically and economically cheaper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt took a generation after Tiananmen Square for our leaders to slowly realize that we are on a collision course with Communist China. So it shouldn’t surprise us that they have yet to come to the painfully obvious conclusion about the Jihad even two decades after September 11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe didn’t defeat the Soviet Union. Our economic and social setup outlasted theirs. Communist China and the Islamists assume that their social and economic systems will outlast ours, and that they can exploit fractures and weaknesses in our systems to corrupt and conquer us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union thought the same thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur various enemies were correct in assuming that our political leaders lacked the will to make the necessary decisions. Where they erred was in assuming too much and pushing too far. The Japanese made that mistake in Pearl Harbor, the Soviets in Berlin, and Al Qaeda on 9\/11. The Jihadists haven’t made one final mistake yet, but history suggests that they will.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, to its friends and enemies, and to its own patriots, can be an infuriating mix of weakness and strength, idealism and corruption, division and unity. And it’s never entirely clear, even to us, when the tipping point that turns one into the other will unexpectedly arrive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe great tragedy of the aftermath of September 11 is that our leaders proved willing to sacrifice soldiers, but not the dream of a democratic world order, and instead sacrificed lives to that dream. They took the road that was easiest for them and hardest for so many military men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe War on Terror only became a forever war because we failed to confront two of the three pillars from which the enemy draws its strength. After two decades, we’ve seen the limitations of a military option that is not combined with foreign policy and immigration decisions that would cut off the true economic and demographic sources of the enemy’s strength. Until our leaders are ready to make the hard choices and our people are ready to elect those who will, the forever wars will go on, not just in distant countries, but in the streets of our own cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe have failed to identify the enemy. And until we do, we can never win.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8961593102655801710\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/the-war-on-terror-sacrificed-thousands.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8961593102655801710"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8961593102655801710"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/the-war-on-terror-sacrificed-thousands.html","title":"The War on Terror Sacrificed Thousands of Lives to Avoid Tough Political Decisions"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-59yUfUDXN0s\/YUvvBMgYU6I\/AAAAAAAATeQ\/79CNpy0bLZAv3iBAhuyxCTareFsP_6W6gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/pm%2Bkhan%2Bscreenshot.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}}]}});