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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"34"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-932289680180534744"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-21T12:06:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-21T12:06:43.534-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Joe Biden has made it clear that he doesn’t intend to fight Al Qaeda. Instead he’s going to fight other Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s735\/biden%2Ballah2.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"349\" data-original-width=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/biden%2Ballah2.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Biden administration’s newly released National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism mentions Al Qaeda only once in its 30 pages. Even though the FBI continues to break up Islamic terrorist plots against America, the document only defines Muslims as victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust last month a Seattle Muslim convert was arrested. The convert had discussed driving a \"semi-truck\" through \"the gay pride parade in downtown Seattle\". Even though the arrest came shortly before the anniversary of the ISIS massacre at the Pulse nightclub, both Biden and the media ignored the potential plot and the fact that the Pulse shooting was Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I wish to see the kuffar (non-Muslims) as I kill them, I want to strike terror in them and make Allah pleased for doing so,” the Seattle convert \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/seattle-hipster-converted-islam-joined-isis-behead-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehad\u003C\/a\u003E boasted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same month another Muslim convert pled guilty to plotting to attack an Ohio synagogue and murder a rabbi. A third Muslim convert in Brooklyn was also sentenced that month for promoting terrorist plots against Americans. American converts to Islam are a major source of recruits for domestic terrorist plots. Despite that, Biden’s strategy ignores their existence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a flashback to the Clinton era, the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism claims that the only serious terrorist threats come from the militia movement and racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the only racists whose existence the Biden administration will admit to are white racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMicah X. Johnson, a black supremacist who murdered 5 police officers in Dallas, is described as an “anti–authority violent extremist”. Racist and supremacist terrorism can only be practiced by members of the majority against “minority populations”. It can’t work the other way around.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAntifa is also rolled together into “anti-government”, a category that encompasses the militia movement, black supremacists, white anarchists, and everyone who isn’t a white racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorists, like the three in May, don’t even make the list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two categories, anti-government and racists, tell us little about the actual domestic terrorist threat, but a great deal about the Biden administration’s agenda for exploiting terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither you’re with the Biden administration or the “anti-government extremists”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism redefines the terrorist threat as coming first and foremost from political opponents of the Biden administration. And it defines that threat as a primarily political and ideological battle rather than a violent threat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new strategy doesn’t come up with any new ideas for fighting terrorism. Its ideas fall into the murky territory of preventing terror through everything from internet censorship to critical race theory. Biden is rebooting Obama’s CVE or Countering Violent Extremism program to target Americans in a battle of ideas against “misinformation” and “racism”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis also defines the administration’s two approaches: indoctrination and suppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism redefines domestic terrorism as a domestic ideological struggle against people who disagree with Biden and his partisan party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy’s concluding sentence speaks of “finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.” It warns of “an information environment that challenges healthy democratic discourse” and cautions that, “today’s digital age requires an American population that can utilize essential aspects of Internet–based communications platforms while avoiding vulnerability to... harmful content deliberately disseminated by malicious actors online.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe binary model is a choice between people who believe everything the media tells them or terrorists. Fighting terrorism requires a national security system that indoctrinates its citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy blithely notes that “the Department of Homeland Security and others are either currently funding and implementing or planning... digital programming, including enhancing media literacy and critical thinking skills, as a mechanism for strengthening user resilience to disinformation and misinformation online for domestic audiences.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA one-word term for this is ‘propaganda’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “broader priority” is “enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation” on the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElected officials don’t address “polarization”, they’re a product of it. They enhance faith in government by keeping their promises instead of indoctrinating and censoring the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernments that suppress “misinformation” to fight “polarization” are totalitarian states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media had previously blamed President Trump’s election on “misinformation”. The new strategy blames “misinformation” for domestic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the best way to fight “misinformation” is with suppression and indoctrination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy document suggests that the Biden administration will be engaging in more “robust” efforts to “assist online platforms with their own initiatives to enforce their own terms of service”. It defines “private–sector online platforms” as the front line in this new suppression campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut censorship is very 2016. The 2021 terrorism strategy is much more ambitious than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration will only acknowledge two terrorist threats. The first threat comes from “anti-government extremists” which justifies a crackdown on any kind of political opposition and a suppression of “conspiracy theories”. The second threat comes from racists which creates an urgent need to tackle “the threat posed by domestic terrorism” with “substantial efforts to confront the racism that feeds into aspects of that threat”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat “means tackling racism in America” with a civics education that covers “when racism and bigotry have meant that the country fell short of living up to its founding principles”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s code for embedding critical race theory in schools to teach students that America is evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to think of anything more likely to encourage new recruits to ISIS and other terrorist causes than divisive racist materials that devalue our country and our common heritage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the strategy is also much more ambitious than that, “prioritizing efforts to ensure that every component of the government has a role to play in rooting out racism and advancing equity.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s easy to miss the significance of what the Biden terrorism strategy is doing here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism has defined domestic terrorism as being caused by conspiracy theories, misinformation, racism, and hostility to the government. Fighting domestic terrorism means recreating the government bureaucracy and its policies around “equity” and the agendas of “critical race theory” while rooting out their opponents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as Biden’s purge of the military \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bishop-garrison-bidens-racist-tool-military-purge-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edefined military readiness\u003C\/a\u003E and national security around a willingness to embrace critical race theory, identity politics, and hatred of America, this new counterterrorism strategy makes it the basis for national security across the government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery arm of the government is not only being tasked with imposing the racial discriminatory and wealth redistribution elements of “equity”, but with viewing any opposition as terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr a gateway to terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration abused national security to target its Republican political opponents by falsely accusing them of treason and acting as foreign agents of Russia. With Biden appeasing Putin, the Russian smear is no longer viable, but the domestic terrorist smear is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new strategy document will serve as a basis for using national security to target Republicans as domestic terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden doctrine creates a phantom terrorist movement of conspiracy theories and misinformation that is as vaporous as the Russia smear and seeks to tie any violence to political opponents who engage in “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the Democrats and their media have defined virtually any disagreement as “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”, most conservatives can be accused of terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat that will do is make it much easier to surveil and monitor political opponents by manufacturing networks that are based around “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe strategy document begins by redefining terrorism from an organized, even in the loosest sense, movement to “lone actors” who “mobilize to violence with little or no clear organizational structure or direction.” The document skips over the vital question of whether they are part of any movement calling for terrorism, instead it claims that their “fluid” ideologies “connect and intersect with conspiracy theories and other forms of disinformation and misinformation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has turned away from dealing with domestic Islamic terrorists with a clear connection to a terrorist movement like ISIS to defining ideas as dangerous without regard as to whether those ideas, theories, or movements are actually calling for violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy discarding the existence of any actual terrorist movement or infrastructure, the Biden administration has set a very low bar for defining terrorism and an even lower bar for complicity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere doesn’t have to be any linkage between the perpetrator of a violent attack and the conservatives who will be blamed for acting as a “gateway” with their “conspiracy theories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis will mean censorship and deplatforming, but also surveillance and worse things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism defines political opponents and anyone resistant to critical race theory or who questions the government as either a gateway to terrorism or possibly even inciting terrorism. This strategy will be used to target conservative non-profits through the IRS, to remove conservative speech from the internet, and to surveil hundreds of thousands of conservatives on the pretext of fighting domestic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Islamic terrorists continue to plot actual attacks, Biden is plotting to terrorize Americans.\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/932289680180534744\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/932289680180534744"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/932289680180534744"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines.html","title":"Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JA2lBZhA__8\/YNC494gYG9I\/AAAAAAAATUM\/apqcya6Ki0wIuVqgQb4fFqbuTJfT3ZSFgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/biden%2Ballah2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3582469782822382065"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-21T04:47:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-21T04:47:00.380-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Criticizing BLM is Unforgivable, Killing Jews is Understandable"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2019, Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old girl who had been hiking in Israel with her father and brother, was blown up by a bomb. Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, who ran a charity that handed out clothes and food to the poor, had enough time \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/teenage-girls-murder-shows-what-loyal-and-disloyal-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eto kiss Rina on the forehead\u003C\/a\u003E, before she died.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s676\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"449\" data-original-width=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\"I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust,\" the Rabbi at her gravesite chanted the words of Psalm 91. \"Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbdel Razeq Farraj, who was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngo-officials-alleged-terror-activities-arrests-and-affiliations\/\"\u003E indicted\u003C\/a\u003E for authorizing the attack, had been named as a career PFLP terrorist who had served 6 years in prison and had been arrested six times. The year that Rina was murdered, Farraj\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/funder\/new_israel_fund\/\"\u003E took part in an Adalah youth even\u003C\/a\u003Et in partnership with a PFLP affiliate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdalah is one of the anti-Israel hate groups funded by the New Israel Fund (NIF).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/adalah\/\"\u003Ean NGO Monitor report\u003C\/a\u003E, the NIF has directed $720,481 to Adalah. George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, who has also funded J Street, is another major donor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast fall, Beth Badik, a J Street supporter who serves on the regional committee for the anti-Israel NIF, and Barbara Penzner, a Reconstructionist cleric who had signed a J Street petition opposing a ban on BDS and another calling for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bokertov.typepad.com\/btb\/2006\/03\/is_your_rabbi_o.html\"\u003Eengagement\u003C\/a\u003E with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jweekly.com\/2006\/03\/24\/u-s-shouldn-t-give-one-dime-to-a-terrorist-government\/\"\u003Ea terrorist government\u003C\/a\u003E, demanded that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston kick out the ZOA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zionist Organization of America is the country’s leading pro-Israel group so Badik and Penzner’s animosity toward it and to Morton Klein, its unapologetically pro-Israel leader, was understandable. The anti-Israel Left had spent generations trying to seize control of the organizational establishment of the Jewish community in order to cut off support to Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they didn’t have far to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBadik, who is a supporter of one anti-Israel group and affiliated with another, also sits on the  JCRC of Boston's Israel \u0026amp; Global Jewry Committee. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was bizarre was the accusation in Badik and Penzner’s op-ed, “We’re Calling for ZOA to Be Kicked out of Boston’s JCRC”, the petition backed by J Street, the NIF, and a number of other anti-Israel groups, and the JCRC’s final response affirming the bizarre accusation that Morton Klein, the son of Holocaust survivors, was supporting white supremacists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir evidence was that Klein (pictured above) has called Black Lives Matter “a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence promoting, dangerous Soros funded extremist group of haters” and correctly noted that its ranks are “filled with hatred against Jewish people.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only had the Boston JCRC and Jewish organizations failed to condemn the BLM riots which had vandalized synagogues and assaulted Jews, especially in\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/farrakhan-supporter-led-la-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E the Fairfax Pogrom in Los Angeles\u003C\/a\u003E, but they had decided to treat criticism of the black supremacist hate group as racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Boston JCRC had any standards, it’s the anti-Israel organizations calling for ZOA’s removal which should have been condemned and kicked out of any Jewish community alliance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeginning with J Street.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Ilhan Omar had attended J Street’s gala dinner and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/ilhan-omar-praises-breaking-the-silence-exhibit-on-occupation-in-hebron-606162\"\u003Epraised an exhibit \u003C\/a\u003Esmearing Israel. It’s chosen to honor Jimmy Carter who had falsely accused Israel of being an apartheid state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the anti-Israel groups were attacking the ZOA for opposing BLM, neither they nor the Boston JCRC seemed particularly interested in actually defending Jews against antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anti-ZOA petition was obsessed with social justice, election integrity, and the other shibboleths of a leftist establishment that is incapable of actually talking about Jewish issues as an end, not a means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJ Street, which was behind the petition, had defended Rep. Ilhan Omar, even as ZOA and Klein had condemned her antisemitic tweets. Just as J Street has called for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thejewishadvocate.com\/articles\/j-streets-hamas-challenge\/\"\u003Emaking a dea\u003C\/a\u003El with Hamas. The J Street campaign to oust the ZOA attacked it for condemning George Soros while neglecting to mention that Soros had been a major funder of the anti-Israel organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf JCRC Boston and J Street consider Klein’s statements provocative, what of Soros’ belief that the \"resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe\" is caused by Israel and that the “attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby’s success in suppressing divergent views.” What are these except typical antisemitic tropes and defenses of antisemitism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHas J Street ever \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/12\/soros-war-against-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ebeen asked\u003C\/a\u003E to condemn these statements by its own backer?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if “rhetoric that has been associated with antisemitic tropes” is a cause for expulsion, then how can the Boston JCRC justify letting any Soros-funded group remain in its umbrella group?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it gets worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Boston Workmen’s Circle, one of the groups petitioning to kick the ZOA out, proudly notes in its own literature that members of the Workmen’s Circle included Communists and that “The first member expelled from the Workmen’s Circle was kicked out in 1901 for working on behalf of the Republican Party.” A member of the group recently wrote an angry open letter to Chelsea Clinton celebrating the fact that one of her heroines was a Marxist and a Communist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though the Communists killed countless Jews and ethnically cleansed the Jewish communities under their rule, forcibly closing synagogues, imprisoning and killing Rabbis, and banning the entire Hebrew language, that doesn’t get you condemned by the JCRC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BWC even held \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/circleboston.org\/category\/tags\/young-adults?page=1\"\u003Ean event\u003C\/a\u003E featuring \"longtime BWC member \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/professor\/Alice_Rothchild\"\u003EAlice Rothchild\u003C\/a\u003E\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERothchild is a radical anti-Israel activist who is a member of the anti-Israel JVP BDS hate group that was considered too extreme even for the Boston JCRC. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERothchild has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/professor\/Alice_Rothchild\"\u003Edescribed herself\u003C\/a\u003E as a \"self-hating Jew\", falsely claimed that “the anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that can now be found in Muslim countries began almost entirely with the founding of the State of Israel\", and posted on an antisemitic site that, “If I believed in a wrathful God, I might wonder why the Jewish National Fund forests were burning?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Hamas has produced horrific suicide bombers and incredible social service agencies building schools and hospitals and caring for the forgotten population. Hamas grew out of a response to Israeli oppression during the First Intifada,\" Rothchild was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/terra-incognita-no-neo-colonialism-for-gaza-strip-444883\"\u003Equoted as\u003C\/a\u003E saying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the JCRC, uplifting the voices of the worst sorts of deranged antisemitism from the Left isn’t a problem, but Morton Klein condemning BLM, Soros, and other Jewhaters is a crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Badik and Penzner op-ed argued that failing to kick out the ZOA would “convey an astonishing lack of empathy, decency and basic compassion, for people of color, for immigrants and Muslims”. The only astonishing thing here is the utter lack of interest in Jewish interests by leftist activists who claim to be Jewish and even more falsely to speak on behalf of Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere is their basic compassion, their empathy and decency toward the Jewish synagogues and small businesses hatefully assaulted by Black Lives Matter rioters, and for the Jews of Israel living under the shadow of Islamic terrorism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New Israel Fund, in which Badik plays a role, and which is one of the leftist groups that demanded the expulsion of the ZOA, has funded BDS organizations and groups linked to terrorism. The lack of basic compassion, empathy, and decency that is required to be a member of the New Israel Fund is astonishing. As is the disinterest from the Boston JCRC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriticizing Black Lives Matter is unforgivable no matter how many synagogues they trash, but Jewish lives are worthless to organizations with ‘Jewish’ in their names, but not their hearts.\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\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\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3582469782822382065\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/criticizing-blm-is-unforgivable-killing.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3582469782822382065"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3582469782822382065"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/criticizing-blm-is-unforgivable-killing.html","title":"Criticizing BLM is Unforgivable, Killing Jews is Understandable"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tJle3Ft03js\/YH-Ye2TbpCI\/AAAAAAAATBY\/yyWY1inbJ5w84vxwoJaRRDLDjs7vXuVuACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201404.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2991780029733442038"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-14T12:20:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-14T12:20:10.648-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"iran"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Yemen"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Takes \"Death to America\" Terrorists Off Terror List"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Biden administration responded to protests against its stolen election by embedding a domestic extremism office into the National Security Council. The man in charge of making it happen, Joshua Geltzer, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/01\/biden-puts-leftist-who-denied-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epreviously denied\u003C\/a\u003E that Black Lives Matter was a terrorist threat and had attacked the Trump administration’s response to Antifa and BLM violence in Portland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat means that the only domestic extremists the NSC will be fighting are Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while the Biden administration is preparing to double down on Obama’s abuse of the national security state to target his political opponents, it’s also giving real terrorists a pass.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7bka-uwE0KQ\/YClbpmuDkmI\/AAAAAAAASxY\/eXYJJg7IqAMzNPP1g9HqCyPZPTsLXBzOwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s650\/houthis.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"436\" data-original-width=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7bka-uwE0KQ\/YClbpmuDkmI\/AAAAAAAASxY\/eXYJJg7IqAMzNPP1g9HqCyPZPTsLXBzOwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/houthis.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EJoe Biden, whose biggest bundlers included\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/11\/bidens-biggest-fundraisers-are-tied-islamic-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E the Iran Lobby\u003C\/a\u003E, announced he was ending support for American allies fighting the Houthis, and then went even further by preparing to remove the terrorist organization whose motto is, “Death to America”, which took American hostages and tried to kill American sailors, from the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe motto of Iran’s Houthi Jihadis is, \"Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam.\" The Houthis took over parts of Yemen as a result of the chaos unleashed by Obama’s pro-Islamist Arab Spring. Since then they’ve been engaged in a protracted war while causing a local famine by confiscating food from the local population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, the Trump administration had finally secured the release of three American hostages, Sandra Loli, an American aid worker who had been held for 3 years, another American who had been held for a year, and the body of a third American, in exchange for 240 Houthis, including three dozen Islamic terrorists who had been trained in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/two-americans-held-hostage-by-iran-backed-forces-in-yemen-freed-in-trade-11602687328\"\u003Euse of missiles and drones\u003C\/a\u003E by Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike those launched at the USS Mason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Houthis lived up to their “Death to America” slogan by repeatedly launching cruise missiles at the USS Mason which had been protecting shipping in the area. And they lived up to the second half of their slogan by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/07\/islamist-group-whose-motto-death-israel-ethnically-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eethnically cleansing\u003C\/a\u003E the remaining local Jewish population, locking them up, and confiscating their homes and land. Local reports stated \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/283682\"\u003Ethat the\u003C\/a\u003E Houthis were “cutting off water \u0026amp; electricity to Jewish homes and preventing Jews from purchasing food.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“No Jew would be allowed to stay here,” one of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yemen-jews\/yemens-jews-latest-victims-of-northern-conflict-idUSL0740222720070508\"\u003EJewish refugees \u003C\/a\u003Esaid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Iran-backed Islamic terrorists fight using \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/082c0b7b6253468e97da5ee0c3f43066\"\u003E18,000 child soldiers\u003C\/a\u003E. The soldiers, many abducted, some as young as 10, are taught to hate America and to kill enemies of Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this stopped Biden’s State Department from taking the Houthis off the terror list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Secretary Blinken has been clear about undertaking an expeditious review of the designations of Ansarallah,” the State Department claimed. “After a comprehensive review, we can confirm that the Secretary intends to revoke the Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist designations of Ansarallah.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E‘Ansarallah’ or ‘Defenders of Allah’ is what the Houthis call themselves. Blinken had only been confirmed on Tuesday. By next Friday, he had already somehow completed the “comprehensive review”, amid all the other minor business like China, Russia, and a global pandemic, and decided that the Islamic terrorists whose motto is “Death to America” aren’t really terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow can the Biden administration deny that Islamic Jihadis backed by Iran who attacked Americans are terrorists? The State Department claimed that this, “has nothing to do with our view of the Houthis and their reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the kidnapping of American citizens.\" Not to mention the attacks on the USS Mason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Biden administration isn’t even going to pretend to care about attacks on our military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bidenites are claiming that they're taking the Houthis, whom they don't deny are terrorists, off the list of designated terrorist groups because of the \"humanitarian consequences\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a lie, no matter how often you hear it in the media, because Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021-translations.state.gov\/2021\/01\/10\/terrorist-designation-of-ansarallah-in-yemen\/index.html\"\u003Ewould be\u003C\/a\u003E providing licenses to “humanitarian activities conducted by non-governmental organizations in Yemen and to certain transactions and activities related to exports to Yemen of critical commodities like food and medicine.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s despite the fact that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen was caused by the Houthis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENevertheless the media, echoing propaganda from the Iran Lobby and Qatar, a close terrorist ally of Iran, has falsely claimed that the Houthis are the victims of the Yemen famine. A number of politicians, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans, as well as various aid groups, have pushed this same disinformation campaign about the causes of the Yemen famine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica and its allies have spent billions providing food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to Yemen. That aid has been seized by the Houthis who have used it for their own troops or to resell on the black market. This is a familiar problem from Syria to Somalia, and aid groups have refused to honestly address their complicity in aiding the terrorists who caused the crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no money in admitting that the aid an organization is providing is being seized by the terrorists, prolonging the conflict and worsening the humanitarian crisis. Some aid organizations share the same goal as the Houthis of worsening the crisis because it boosts their donations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why international aid organizations don’t want to talk about the Houthis taking their food donations, or about their use of child soldiers. “It’s a taboo,” an anonymous aid official \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/082c0b7b6253468e97da5ee0c3f43066\"\u003Ehad said.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Secretary Pompeo announced that the United States was finally designating the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization, the United Nations took the lead in claiming that it would cause a humanitarian crisis. But the UN's World Food Program \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2019\/01\/ap-investigation-shows-its-iranian-terrorists-not-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehad already admitted\u003C\/a\u003E that its food shipments weren't getting to the starving people because the Houthis were intercepting them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Middle East director for UNICEF also admitted that the Houthis were seizing food.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn Associated Press investigation \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2019\/05\/media-finally-reports-iran-really-causing-famine-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efound \u003C\/a\u003Eentire stores seling \"cooking oil and flour displaying the U.N. food program’s WFP logo.\" The former Houthi education minister said that 15,000 food baskets that were supposed to go to hungry families instead went to the Houthi terrorists whom the Biden administration is defending. Massive amounts of aid have been pumped into Yemen, and the famine has only grown worse because the Houthis have used starvation as a weapon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to end the famine is to end Iran’s grip on Yemen through its Houthi terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s obviously not what Biden or the Democrats have in mind. The loudest Democrat voices against designating the Houthis as a terrorist group have a troubling history with Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Reversing the designation is an important decision that will save lives and, combined with the appointment of a Special Envoy, offers hope that President Biden is committed to bringing the war to an end,” Senator Chris Murphy tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurphy had been among the loudest voices against the designation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Murphy had met with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last year. That same year, he had advocated lowering sanctions on Iran for “humanitarian reasons”. Biden had also joined the push to use the pandemic as a pretext for reducing sanctions on the terror state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same year, the Left succeeded in forcing out Rep. Elliot Engel, one of the few remaining pro-Israel Democrats, and replaced him with the militantly anti-Israel Rep. Jamaal Bowman, whose election was backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her antisemitic ‘Squad’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEngel, who had served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was replaced by Rep. Gregory Meeks, a strong backer of the Iran Deal. Meeks’ position was cheered by Iran Lobby groups. As far back as 2009, Meeks had declared at a hearing, “I have developed a tremendous appreciation for the work of the National Iranian American Council. I am pleased that we will hear the perspective of NIAC’s President, Mr. Trita Parsi.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmails released allegedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/iranlobby.net\/collaborating-with-irans-ambassador\/\"\u003Eshowed\u003C\/a\u003E Parsi telling Iran's Foreign Minister, \"I am having a meeting with Gilchrest and Meeks, and they asked for our assistance in getting some communication going between the parliamentarians.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency, the official state news agency of the Islamic terrorist state, Chairman Meeks allegedly stated that he was willing to travel to Iran and had been engaged in dialogue with Iranian legislators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeeks took the lead in attacking the designation of the Houthi Islamic terrorists as terrorists, arguing that, “No solution in Yemen will be sustainable unless the Houthis are involved.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that gets at the real reason why Biden and Democrats oppose the designation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not about humanitarian aid, which would have kept on going anyway, only to be stolen by the Houthis. It’s about supporting Iran’s bid to take over parts of Yemen in order to control shipping and tighten the grip of the Islamic terrorist regime over the entire region.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘diplomatic’ solution advocated by Biden and the Democrats would finalize Iran’s grip over parts of Yemen. Designating the Houthis as terrorists would get in the way of another in a series of Islamist dirty deals with Iran that began with Obama and that will continue on under Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while the Democrats insist loudly that the Houthis must be part of the solution in Yemen, they just as vocally cry that the Republicans must be isolated and eliminated in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats militarized D.C. with an armed occupation and are criminalizing political dissent. They have claimed that one riot, after a year full of them by their own activist wing, requires a permanent state of emergency that will be run through the National Security Council.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is not only taking the Houthis, and likely other Islamic terrorist groups, off the terror list, it’s putting the domestic political opposition on its terror list. This is an extension of the same Obama policy that illegally shipped foreign cash to Iran even while it was using the NSA to spy on pro-Israel members of Congress and on the Trump campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are happy to fight terrorism by designating their domestic political opponents as terrorists while removing the “Death to America” Houthis who have kidnapped and killed Americans, who fired on the USS Mason, and ethnically cleansed Jews, from the terror list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what do the Houthis plan to do with their newfound support from the Biden administration?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to sanctioning the Houthis, the Trump administration sanctioned three of their leaders, beginning with Abdul Malik al-Houthi. The Houthi leader has made it clear that he intends to build up the same missile program that was used to attack the USS Mason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“To have rockets that could reach far beyond Riyadh, this is a great achievement,” he said, referring to the Saudi capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also promised to send terrorists to fight against Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Many of Yemen's tribesmen are ambitious to fight against Israel, and they are looking for the day to participate along with the freemen of the Islamic nation against the Israeli enemy,\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the terrorist group that the Biden administration and the Democrats are bailing out even while they’re criminalizing the Republican political opposition as terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Death to America” is something that the Houthis and their Democrat supporters can agree on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2991780029733442038\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/biden-takes-death-to-america-terrorists.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2991780029733442038"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2991780029733442038"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/biden-takes-death-to-america-terrorists.html","title":"Biden Takes \"Death to America\" Terrorists Off Terror List"}],"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\/-7bka-uwE0KQ\/YClbpmuDkmI\/AAAAAAAASxY\/eXYJJg7IqAMzNPP1g9HqCyPZPTsLXBzOwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/houthis.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5260446368168541205"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-30T12:15:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-30T12:15:57.734-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"DOJ"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The DOJ Forced a New Jersey Town to Accept a Mosque, a Chinese Immigrant Family's Son Joined Hamas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hAfyiX1NaFA\/X3SvF-DWS6I\/AAAAAAAAScw\/nwrWlmokctc0dFbVNDZjyoPQh7HBXVN1ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/xie.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"250\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hAfyiX1NaFA\/X3SvF-DWS6I\/AAAAAAAAScw\/nwrWlmokctc0dFbVNDZjyoPQh7HBXVN1ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/xie.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen federal investigators showed up at the Xie family home in Basking Ridge, there was a courtesy Porsche loaner in the driveway. The pleasant New Jersey community has become the place where successful Chinese immigrants move after they’ve outgrown places like Fort Lee. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the earlier generation of Jewish residents, they came for the schools and suburban living. The neighbors of the Xie family on the tree-lined street are mostly Jewish and Asian upper middle class professionals employed by Fortune 500 companies and living the American dream.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Xie home with its soaring gables, its two car garage, and the Porsche out front, signaled that they had made it. And with access to good schools, their children would outdo them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJonathan Xie probably never will. His guilty plea to one count of concealing attempts to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization puts an end to the case against him, and likely to the future his parents might have planned for him: a degree from an Ivy League college, a prestigious profession, and another big house like theirs in a leafy suburb.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years after Jonathan graduated from high school, federal investigators were going through the familiar and humiliating process of carting boxes past the loaner Porsche and the two car garage. Something had gone very wrong. Like a surprisingly diverse number of American teens, Jonathan had decided to convert to Islam, become an Islamic terrorist and kill lots of people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially Jews. And possibly anyone in Trump Tower. Including President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Islamic terrorism in America is still mostly the hobby of first and second generation immigrants from Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Egypt, Xie was far from the first non-Muslim teen to pick up the basics of Islam and try to join a terrorist group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut there were two unique things about the Xie case. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJonathan came from an immigrant group with a strong sense of familial identity. When he declared that he had become a “revert” to Islam, he turned his back on his family, his culture, and his family’s Christian faith.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then there was his choice of terrorist organization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeens who convert to Islam in some quiet suburb used to choose Al Qaeda, and these days pick ISIS. But Jonathan wasn’t drawn to any of the flashy globalist jihadist newcomers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe chose Hamas. And the Muslim Brotherhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"As-salamu alykum. My name is Jonathan and I reverted to Islam a few weeks ago,\" his first letter to Hamas, a year after graduating high school, went. \"I was wondering if non-Palestinians\/non-Arabs would be allowed to join the Al-Qassam Brigades.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn another email, he mentioned, “As a Muslim living in the US, I would like to support the Palestinian resistance as much as possible.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was the sort of polite letter that Jonathan must have been taught to write when applying for internships or colleges, but he was instead applying to join the military wing of a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group known for firing rocket launchers at school buses and blowing up entire families in pizzerias. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Xie was using the correct Islamic language, his roster of political terminology, referring to Israel as an “apartheid” state, ranting about “neo-liberalism”, and building a YouTube playlist of videos supporting Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, both Arab Socialist Baath Party regimes, North Korea’s Communist Party, and Iran’s Shiite Houthi and Hezbollah terrorists, was strongly suggestive of a particularly radical strain of leftist politics easily available online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXie’s hatred for Israel and Jews vied only with his hatred for President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Donald Trump, he should be hung from the gallows!\" he ranted in one post. \"I went to NYC today and passed by Trump Tower, then I started thinking about bombing it and I was imagining that the explosion would kill Trump.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Xie's Instagram rantings could be mistaken for posturing, he tried to follow through on his plans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I'm joining the army,\" he claimed. \"Not to fight for Jewish internets (sic)... but to learn how to kill.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd he actually did apply to join the military. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe boasted of donating money to Hamas, and he actually did donate to the terrorist group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile he was fantasizing about becoming a terrorist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I want to shoot the pro-israel demonstrators,\" he pondered in one, referencing a 4chan meme about vehicular attacks. \"Maybe I should rent the truck of peace.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn a video, Xie brandished a gun and showed off a Hamas flag \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nj\/press-release\/file\/1164941\/download\"\u003Ewhile\u003C\/a\u003E denouncing \"Zionism\" and threatening, “I’m gonna go to the f____ pro-Israel march and I’m going to shoot everybody.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I should do lone wolf,\" he speculated elsewhere. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Watch their blood and dead bodies litter the streets,” he fantasized in yet another message.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter all that, much of it public on social media, combined with showing an undercover FBI employee how to donate to Hamas, his guilty plea concedes the obvious. Xie did little to conceal his plans or attitudes. And while his defenders have attempted to blame mental illness, that excuse has been employed so often for Islamic terrorists that it has lost all its credibility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what drove a Chinese-American teen to convert to Islam and try to join Hamas?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same year that Xie graduated from high school in Basking Ridge, likely chosen by his family because it has the 2nd and 3rd highest ranked high schools in New Jersey, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, with the assistance of the DOJ, won a victory allowing it to build a mosque, despite zoning issues, and collecting over $3 million in fees and damages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe DOJ’s lawsuit was one of the closing acts of the Obama administration. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBasking Ridge, home to the country’s oldest white oak tree that George Washington once picnicked under, has been slowly trending leftward. Hillary Clinton narrowly won its home area. It’s a place where some of the NYPD and FDNY firefighters who commute to New York City live, and where the multicultural employees of multinational corporations buy homes, so that American flags and Black Lives Matter signs can alternate as you drive through the township. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven before the DOJ’s intervention, Muslim prayers were\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2016\/12\/the_untold_side_of_the_bernards_mosque_story_di_io.html\"\u003E being held\u003C\/a\u003E in a municipal building and Islamic lessons were being taught in a public school cafateria. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXie’s parents may have come to Basking Ridge for its schools, but Islamization had arrived first.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is said to be \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingthethreat.com\/the-cancer-that-is-isna\/\"\u003Eaffiliated\u003C\/a\u003Ewith the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA is in turn\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/730\/new-disclosures-tighten-isna-muslim-brotherhood-bonds\"\u003Erooted in the\u003C\/a\u003E Muslim Brotherhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I support the Hamas faction of the MB,” Xie had posted, referring to the Muslim Brotherhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat role did the growing Islamization of Basking Ridge play in a Chinese-American teen converting to Islam and plotting the murder of Americans? It’s hard to know. The same DOJ that enabled the Islamic Society’s mosque also prosecuted Xie for taking Islamic teachings literally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pleasant township with its excellent schools had become another American training ground for Islamic terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I am not afraid to die,\" Xie stated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the old site of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge were the teachings of the Koran about the \"character of non-believers\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Seize them and slay them wherever ye find them,” one verse coolly mentioned.\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5260446368168541205\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/the-doj-forced-new-jersey-town-to.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5260446368168541205"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5260446368168541205"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/the-doj-forced-new-jersey-town-to.html","title":"The DOJ Forced a New Jersey Town to Accept a Mosque, a Chinese Immigrant Family's Son Joined Hamas"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hAfyiX1NaFA\/X3SvF-DWS6I\/AAAAAAAAScw\/nwrWlmokctc0dFbVNDZjyoPQh7HBXVN1ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/xie.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7522970909429244935"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-08T15:31:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-08T15:31:17.229-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Los Angeles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terror"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How an Islamic Terror Sheikh Ended Up Selling Meth in Orange County"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The end of what law enforcement had called the most imminent Islamic terrorist plot since September 11 came when Gregory Vernon Patterson left his cell phone behind at a gas station.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatterson and his roommate, Levar Haley Washington, had joined Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, a prison Islamic terror group, and had been conducting a robbery spree to finance terror plots against the LAX airport, the National Guard, and local synagogues during the High Holy days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe shotgun robberies by the organization, whose name meant the Association of True Islam, were going well. The gang of criminal Jihadis had pulled off eleven gas station robberies in LA and Orange County to raise funds for their terror spree until Patterson dropped his phone during a robbery at a gas station in Torrance. The phone led authorities to the South Central apartment being used by Patterson and Washington where they found Bin Laden posters and a target list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe target list included LAX which was convenient because Patterson already worked there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWashington and Patterson were busted while trying to rob another gas station in Fullerton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatterson told cops that robbing gas stations was “part of a jihad against the U.S., particularly against American oil companies who are stealing from our countries” and that he wanted to die for Allah. The gas station robberies had been meant to raise money to buy weapons and to provide training to Patterson, who had no criminal record, in how to be a terrorist.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2xlxYhJ34Do\/X1fb0M1aU2I\/AAAAAAAASZs\/BYw6rXtChSAHQMMRqX8Pr-xAmvoXXdy0QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s500\/james%2Blevar.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2xlxYhJ34Do\/X1fb0M1aU2I\/AAAAAAAASZs\/BYw6rXtChSAHQMMRqX8Pr-xAmvoXXdy0QCNcBGAsYHQ\/w625-h375\/james%2Blevar.jpg\" width=\"625\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatterson and Hammad Riaz Samana, a Pakistani, had all attended the Jamaat-E-Masijudal mosque where Washington had recruited the black convert and the Pakistani Muslim. The two terrorists swore allegiance to Washington and the shotgun robberies of gas stations began.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWashington, a former Crip, had done time in Folsom State Prison where he found a copy of the Koran, began calling himself Abdur Rahman, and was recruited by a terror mastermind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were two unique things about the 2005 terror plot. As Daniel Pipes pointed out at the time, it was the first “large-scale” terror plot organized by Americans, not Muslim immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it was also the first Islamic terror plot in America that was organized from prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKevin Lamarr James, a Crips gang member, had been sent away for a decade for a robbery in 1996. A member of the Nation of Islam, James made the same journey as Malcolm X and many other black Muslims, away from the racist black nationalist UFO cult, and to mainstream Islam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn one hand, he had gotten a tattoo of Allah and on the other, the star and crescent of Islam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe charismaic James created Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh or JIS to spread true Islam, recruit prisoners, and set off a wave of Islamic terrorist atrocities against American targets in California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMembers were told to swear an oath of secrecy, to wage war on infidels, especially Jews. In prison, they practiced Arabic, studied Islamic theology, and trained in martial arts. Out of prison, they were told to blend into society and build the Caliphate in America through Jihad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the time the robberies began, a Jihadist group had been secretly operating in Folsom Prison for nearly a decade, and was about to make the leap to carrying out attacks on the outside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of their target dates for a terror attack was the fourth anniversary of September 11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This incident is the first in a series of incidents to come in a plight to defend and propagate traditional Islam in its purity,” James, who had changed his name to Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, allegedly declared in a press release for the attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are not extremists, radicals, or terrorists. We are only servants of Allah.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut James hadn’t picked the best servants for his deity. When Patterson left behind his phone, the authorities followed the trail right back to Folsom Prison and JIS’ mastermind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe four-man cell was charged with levying war against the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut James was the one with the brains. While Washington, his patsy, was slapped with a twenty-two year prison sentence, his ‘Sheikh’ who had built an entire terror group in prison, denied everything and then claimed that he suffered from a really bad childhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Your honor, I'm thoroughly embarrassed and appalled by my actions. I don't even recognize who I was three years ago. Never before in my life before meeting these people, did I believe in violence or targeting innocent civilians,” the terror sheikh gushed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJudge Cormac Carney, who would later illegally declare the death penalty to be unconstitutional, called James' missive “the most powerful letter I’ve ever received.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe naive judge was also impressed by all of James' prison college classes and his evolution and repentance, and described him as a victim from a disadvantaged background.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the portion of James’ letter that Judge Carney read out loud in court, the terror mastermind vowed that, “My country need never fear from me again.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was in 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was freed in September 2019. And in August 2020, he was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/convicted-terrorist-supervised-release-indicted-federal-grand-jury-charges-selling\"\u003E busted \u003C\/a\u003Eselling meth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames, now living in Orange County and officially being called Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, had been selling nearly pure methamphetamine for thousands of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd all of this was going on while James was on supervised release.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FBI had called the terror plot by Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, \"probably the one that operationally was closest to actually occurring\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Americans watched so-called 'home grown' terrorists unleash multiple bombings in the city of London. Some in this country may have mistakenly believed that it could not happen here. Today we have chilling evidence that it is possible,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe terror plot had been aimed at military targets, as well as a number of Los Angeles congregations, including, allegedly, the ultra-progressive B’nai David-Judea, which would have been struck by armed gunmen pushing their way inside and opening fire on Yom Kippur.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe heavy security presence at Los Angeles synagogues, which includes heavily armed guards and bulletproof vests, is part of the legacy that James and his True Islam terror group left there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames had built up a terrorist operation in prison backed by manifestos and operational documents making him the closest counterpart to the Blind Sheikh. Instead he was given a lighter sentence because the same charismatic gang member turned preacher, who had convinced hardened criminals from rival gangs to believe in him, had turned a judge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESelling meth may have been the alleged hobby of a newly freed criminal, or something more. Traffic in certain drugs, including methamphetamines, has been used by Islamic terrorist groups to finance their operations. It’s unknown whether this is the case here, but the FBI, after Obama, is less likely to be looking for it or to even know what to be on the lookout for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh fell afoul of the FBI in 2005, law enforcement was acquainted with the methodology, infrastructure and strategies of Islamic terrorists. During the Obama administration, a cultural revolution was waged against counterterrorism from the inside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf James is up to anything these days, the FBI is unprepared and unready to find out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFifteen years later, the terror plot, once a major event, has been largely forgotten. And the same is true of most Islamic terrorist attacks except for September 11. As the country enters another September and begins a countdown to 9\/11, everything afterward is being forgotten.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Black Lives Matter riots, a white Muslim illegal alien stabbed a New York cop, grabbed his gun, and opened fire on other officers while shouting, “Allahu Akbar”. Despite wounding three cops and claiming, “my religion made me do it,” there’s been little coverage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the midst of a pandemic and nationwide race riots, we should not forget that there is more than one threat vector. Islamic terrorists don’t go away just because no one is paying attention. And the same prison system that helped produce the wave of BLM violence has also incubated Islamic prison terror cells like the one that plotted to kill Americans on another September 11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nation of Islam has been a feeder for both Islamic terrorism and Black Lives Matter violence. All three are deeply violent, bigoted, and possessed of a feverish hatred of America.\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\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7522970909429244935\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/how-islamic-terror-sheikh-ended-up.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7522970909429244935"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7522970909429244935"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/how-islamic-terror-sheikh-ended-up.html","title":"How an Islamic Terror Sheikh Ended Up Selling Meth in Orange County"}],"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\/-2xlxYhJ34Do\/X1fb0M1aU2I\/AAAAAAAASZs\/BYw6rXtChSAHQMMRqX8Pr-xAmvoXXdy0QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w625-h375-c\/james%2Blevar.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}}]}});