Two years ago, Ahmad Al-Issa shared a post titled, “Why refugees and immigrants are good for America.” On Monday, the Syrian Muslim immigrant shot up a supermarket killing ten Americans.
Biden declared that he was "still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used. The guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that have apparently taken place to those weapons that are involved here."
Why do the modifications to the Syrian immigrant's weapons matter more than his motive?
Obama joined in, demanding that it is, “long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so.”
Guns don’t kill people. Muslim terrorists do.
Ahmad Al-Issa spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.
The media is spinning this as a mental illness, but if hating non-Muslims is a mental illness, then it’s a common one in his home country.
While Ahmad Al-Issa came to America at a young age with his family, the Al-Issa clan originated from Raqqa. The name of the Syrian city may not mean much to most Americans, but it was the former capital of the Caliphate of the Islamic State.
Or ISIS.
And that was after it had been previously taken over by the Al Nusra Front, linked to Al Qaeda, and by Ahrar al-Sham, which had coordinated with ISIS. Multiple Jihadist units and groups used the name ‘Raqqa’ to symbolize their determination to stake a claim to the Syrian city and region.
Raqqa has a sizable Sunni Islamist base even beyond ISIS.
While Al-Issa grew up in America, his family would have likely maintained an extensive network of family connections with Raqqa. Family members insist that Ahmad Al-Issa was not a radical, but he was clearly a committed Muslim and his Facebook page, since taken down, is filled with Islamic content, and with attacks on President Trump and on America over ‘Islamophobia’.
Colorado took in a sizable number of migrants with multiple charities, religious and secular, springing up to help the alleged refugees. And once again Americans are reeling from a terror attack because Democrats and some Republicans refuse to secure our immigration system.
There were plenty of warnings that Ahmad Al-Issa’s hatred for America and obsession with Islamophobia could turn violent. In 2017, he assaulted a fellow student claiming that he had made fun of his identity. The Syrian immigrant got off with a misdemeanor, probation, and community service. Just imagine if the system had done its job and locked him up instead.
The angry outbursts and claims of Islamophobia are now being spun as mental illness.
But the most obvious explanation for why a Syrian Muslim immigrant whose family comes from the capital of ISIS would shoot up an American supermarket isn’t mental illness.
Nor is the solution gun control.
Democrats and the media had attacked President Trump for suspending the migration of Syrians into America. When Biden overturned the suspension, the media cheered.
“Beyond contravening our values, these Executive Orders and Proclamations have undermined our national security," Biden had falsely declared.
The bodies of ten dead Americans show what national security with terror migration looks like.
In 2016, Judge Posner had prevented Governor Pence from blocking Syrian refugees. Posner bizarrely claimed that Pence's attempt to protect Americans from Islamic terrorists was the equivalent of forbidding "black people to settle in Indiana."
The Trump administration’s moves would not have stopped the Al-Issa clan from coming here in 2002, but it would have prevented future terrorists from taking more American lives.
Biden and the Democrats responded to the King Sooper shootings by preaching “common sense gun control”. But their gun control has yet to work in Chicago or New York. Meanwhile what Americans need isn’t fewer guns, but fewer immigrant and refugee terrorists.
The tragedy of the Al-Issa family arriving here in 2002, after September 11, is a case study in the obstinate refusal of our political elites to reckon with even the worst terror attacks.
President George W. Bush had postponed the Presidential Determination for the number of refugees imported into America because of the September 11 attacks. But he nevertheless went ahead and issued it in November 2001 which allocated 70,000 refugee slots.
And, insanely, boosted the Near East/South Asia category from 10,000 to 15,000 which had been set at 4,000 under Clinton. In 2001, some 3,000 had already been referred to through Syria, Jordan and Turkey. These numbers may sound technical, but they show the terrible policy decisions that led directly to the brutal murder of ten Americans in an ordinary supermarket.
The American victims of Ahmad Al-Issa's rampage included grandparents and employees, an actress, and a police officer who charged the Muslim shooter and paid for it with his life.
Colorado Democrats clamor that this shooting didn’t have to happen. They’re right, but not because of gun control. It didn’t have to happen if we just reformed our immigration system.
Ahmad Al-Issa grew up in America and hated every minute of it. He hated his host country, his classmates and his peers. Over the years, his hatred grew until it consumed him. Then it consumed in his victims in a murderous rampage aimed at non-Muslim Coloradans.
In 2019, Al-Issa had fashionably tweeted, #istandwithrefugees. It's the sort of thing that many in Boulder, in Colorado, and across America have irresponsibly tweeted.
And it’s a hashtag that kills.
Bush’s decision to let in the Al-Issa family after September 11 killed ten Americans. It was a tragic decision that he might not have seen buried in the numbers. But it happened anyway.
There’s really no excuse for it today after two decades of continuous Islamic terrorism.
Every day that we keep our border open, that we welcome in more migrants from terror states, we are pointing a loaded gun at our own heads and pulling the trigger. Most of the time the chamber is empty, but every now and then, the immigration gun fires and people die.
Biden and the Democrats would like to talk about Al-Issa’s weapon modifications after opening the border to gang members and terrorists. They want to push restrictions on Americans owning guns, instead of restrictions on their own resettlement agencies bringing in terrorists.
The problem is not that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS had a gun. The problem was that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS was in Colorado and in America.
The authorities and the media will go on lying to Americans. They will blame mental illness, as they do with every Muslim terrorist, and depict Al-Issa as the victim of Islamophobic bigots. The Democrats will turn the killer into the victim and his victims into the perpetrators as they have done so many times. They will tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Al-Issa’s religion and his family origins in the capital of the ISIS Caliphate should be ignored.
And even in the midst of so many burning issues, we must not give up the fight on this one.
There are hard, cold truths about Islamic terrorism that decades after September 11 we seem to be no closer to understanding than Bush was in November 2001.
We can stand with the terror refugees killing us. Or we can stand with their American victims.
Why do the modifications to the Syrian immigrant's weapons matter more than his motive?
Obama joined in, demanding that it is, “long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so.”
Guns don’t kill people. Muslim terrorists do.
Ahmad Al-Issa spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.
The media is spinning this as a mental illness, but if hating non-Muslims is a mental illness, then it’s a common one in his home country.
While Ahmad Al-Issa came to America at a young age with his family, the Al-Issa clan originated from Raqqa. The name of the Syrian city may not mean much to most Americans, but it was the former capital of the Caliphate of the Islamic State.
Or ISIS.
And that was after it had been previously taken over by the Al Nusra Front, linked to Al Qaeda, and by Ahrar al-Sham, which had coordinated with ISIS. Multiple Jihadist units and groups used the name ‘Raqqa’ to symbolize their determination to stake a claim to the Syrian city and region.
Raqqa has a sizable Sunni Islamist base even beyond ISIS.
While Al-Issa grew up in America, his family would have likely maintained an extensive network of family connections with Raqqa. Family members insist that Ahmad Al-Issa was not a radical, but he was clearly a committed Muslim and his Facebook page, since taken down, is filled with Islamic content, and with attacks on President Trump and on America over ‘Islamophobia’.
Colorado took in a sizable number of migrants with multiple charities, religious and secular, springing up to help the alleged refugees. And once again Americans are reeling from a terror attack because Democrats and some Republicans refuse to secure our immigration system.
There were plenty of warnings that Ahmad Al-Issa’s hatred for America and obsession with Islamophobia could turn violent. In 2017, he assaulted a fellow student claiming that he had made fun of his identity. The Syrian immigrant got off with a misdemeanor, probation, and community service. Just imagine if the system had done its job and locked him up instead.
The angry outbursts and claims of Islamophobia are now being spun as mental illness.
But the most obvious explanation for why a Syrian Muslim immigrant whose family comes from the capital of ISIS would shoot up an American supermarket isn’t mental illness.
Nor is the solution gun control.
Democrats and the media had attacked President Trump for suspending the migration of Syrians into America. When Biden overturned the suspension, the media cheered.
“Beyond contravening our values, these Executive Orders and Proclamations have undermined our national security," Biden had falsely declared.
The bodies of ten dead Americans show what national security with terror migration looks like.
In 2016, Judge Posner had prevented Governor Pence from blocking Syrian refugees. Posner bizarrely claimed that Pence's attempt to protect Americans from Islamic terrorists was the equivalent of forbidding "black people to settle in Indiana."
The Trump administration’s moves would not have stopped the Al-Issa clan from coming here in 2002, but it would have prevented future terrorists from taking more American lives.
Biden and the Democrats responded to the King Sooper shootings by preaching “common sense gun control”. But their gun control has yet to work in Chicago or New York. Meanwhile what Americans need isn’t fewer guns, but fewer immigrant and refugee terrorists.
The tragedy of the Al-Issa family arriving here in 2002, after September 11, is a case study in the obstinate refusal of our political elites to reckon with even the worst terror attacks.
President George W. Bush had postponed the Presidential Determination for the number of refugees imported into America because of the September 11 attacks. But he nevertheless went ahead and issued it in November 2001 which allocated 70,000 refugee slots.
And, insanely, boosted the Near East/South Asia category from 10,000 to 15,000 which had been set at 4,000 under Clinton. In 2001, some 3,000 had already been referred to through Syria, Jordan and Turkey. These numbers may sound technical, but they show the terrible policy decisions that led directly to the brutal murder of ten Americans in an ordinary supermarket.
The American victims of Ahmad Al-Issa's rampage included grandparents and employees, an actress, and a police officer who charged the Muslim shooter and paid for it with his life.
Colorado Democrats clamor that this shooting didn’t have to happen. They’re right, but not because of gun control. It didn’t have to happen if we just reformed our immigration system.
Ahmad Al-Issa grew up in America and hated every minute of it. He hated his host country, his classmates and his peers. Over the years, his hatred grew until it consumed him. Then it consumed in his victims in a murderous rampage aimed at non-Muslim Coloradans.
In 2019, Al-Issa had fashionably tweeted, #istandwithrefugees. It's the sort of thing that many in Boulder, in Colorado, and across America have irresponsibly tweeted.
And it’s a hashtag that kills.
Bush’s decision to let in the Al-Issa family after September 11 killed ten Americans. It was a tragic decision that he might not have seen buried in the numbers. But it happened anyway.
There’s really no excuse for it today after two decades of continuous Islamic terrorism.
Every day that we keep our border open, that we welcome in more migrants from terror states, we are pointing a loaded gun at our own heads and pulling the trigger. Most of the time the chamber is empty, but every now and then, the immigration gun fires and people die.
Biden and the Democrats would like to talk about Al-Issa’s weapon modifications after opening the border to gang members and terrorists. They want to push restrictions on Americans owning guns, instead of restrictions on their own resettlement agencies bringing in terrorists.
The problem is not that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS had a gun. The problem was that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS was in Colorado and in America.
The authorities and the media will go on lying to Americans. They will blame mental illness, as they do with every Muslim terrorist, and depict Al-Issa as the victim of Islamophobic bigots. The Democrats will turn the killer into the victim and his victims into the perpetrators as they have done so many times. They will tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Al-Issa’s religion and his family origins in the capital of the ISIS Caliphate should be ignored.
And even in the midst of so many burning issues, we must not give up the fight on this one.
There are hard, cold truths about Islamic terrorism that decades after September 11 we seem to be no closer to understanding than Bush was in November 2001.
We can stand with the terror refugees killing us. Or we can stand with their American victims.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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Comments
Clinton/Gore ignored Islam for 8 years. At least
ReplyDeleteW was better. Then, with Ground Zero still hot,
he bleated “Religion of Peace”.
The Left and Swamp uses Islam, Unions, Black and
Hispanic crime, Feminism, Media to weaken American
Unity to Left/Swamp advantage. We live in a cruel
world, and predators watch.
A wise couple knows not to get into a spat while
closing on a house. Can Americans learn the
virtue of unity from this?
Charlie
Excellent perspective and insights about Islam Daniel. Another fine essay.
ReplyDeleteWhile everyone is busy hyperventilating hysterically about 'existential' climate change, they're completely missing the real existential threat: Islam.
As you know, Islamic doctrine requires every Muslim to fight the unbelievers until all of mankind submits to Islam or is exterminated. The 1400-year zero-sum global Islamic War of manifest destiny must continue until the world is either 100% Islamic, or 0% Islamic. They're deadly serious about it, and have a successful strategy for victory. We have neither acknowledged the war against us, nor do we have a strategy for victory. We are losing the war badly.
Co-existing isn't an option. Only winning or losing. Their rules, not ours. Therefore, worldwide forced Islamic proscription is the only objective that gives us victory and ends the war. Not genocide, but rather the "liberation" of 1.8 Billion Muslims from Islam. This is the greatest legacy America can bequeath to the world, both as a moral imperative and obligation, and for the existential national security of our progeny.
We're all consumed by our own superior woke intellect and virtue, tolerating the backward values of a hostile totalitarian political ideology and 1.8 Billion strong Ummah pursuing our enslavement and extermination. The Chinese, however, have clear eyes about Islam. They won't be steamrolled by the Ummah, as they're demonstrating right now with the Uighurs.
One of these days, after the West and Russia have willingly allowed ourselves to be destroyed by the Ummah, the final conflict will be between the Ummah and China.
Everyone must pick a side in this global war. Kafirs vs Ummah. After that's done, we can all go back to our individual pissing matches, but for now, we must all stick together to win the overarching global war against 1.8 Billion adversaries. This way we can have a leadership role in the post-war administration.
Otherwise, we can let China do all the fighting and heavy lifting alone, having all the risk and expense, then we can let them toss us scraps as they see fit in a post-war world where they alone are the supreme administrator calling all the shots.
Apologies to Daniels Greenfield and
DeleteTriplett, for understating the supreme
existential threat of Islam. Compare
the rants of an unemployed German,
autistic Swedish girl, malcontent
academics, to a millennium and half of
brutal, unrelenting suppression of
our species.
Islam is a worldwide mental disease.
It doesn’t yield to half measures.
Greenfield and Triplett say it best;
read it again and again.
Charlie
The lefties blame this sort of thing on guns because they are very simple people who have a very hard time understanding physical realities. They are much happier in their magical world of rainbows, unicorns, global warming, and bad white people.
ReplyDeleteEven if we weren't allowing untold numbers of criminals and potential terrorists, we would still be creating another problem; e.g., the settling of some 100,000 so-called Somali refugees into a single congressional district gave us the anti-Semitic Omar. The U.S. can't continue to be the world's depository of the countless indigent and oppressed hoards, or we will lose any semblance of cultural unity and be nothing more than a collection of disparate groups. Take that plaque off the Statue of Liberty and replace with one that says, "Only Approved Applicants Accepted."
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