Opuscula U.S. media: Blind in one eye, Can’t see with other

Cite EU terror attacks; ignore attacks on Israelis

In a not-at-all-surprising evidence of “Israel doesn’t exist” thinking, U.S. networks, discussing the latest Islamist attack in New York City, cited similar attacks in Europe.

Israel, which has suffered similar attacks for many years, was ignored with the exception on one (1) instance noted by CNN.

But then, so was the alleged “white supremist” attack in Charlottesville, VA.¹

A quick sampling from the Internet

In 2016 alone, there were 12 vehicular ramming attacks and 100 stabbing attacks thwarted by security forces in Israel. From September 13, 2015 to August 2017, 55 people were killed in terrorist attacks and 812 people (including uninvolved Palestinians) injured. There were 184 stabbing attacks and 129 attempted stabbings; 161 shootings, 60 vehicular attacks, and one vehicular (bus) bombing – as well a higher rate of miscarriages, depression, and a 50% increase in post-traumatic stress disorder among young children. ²

In Israel, car-ramming attacks have featured heavily in a wave of Palestinian terrorism and violence that has killed at least 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese since October last year. Some 215 Palestinians have been killed in the terror wave; Israel says most were attackers or would-be attackers who died in the course of carrying out attacks. Additional car-ramming attacks, some of them lethal, were carried out by Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank in late 2014.

In May 2013, two Islamists smashed their car into British soldier Lee Rigby before attempting to behead him on a London street in broad daylight.

The pair, who were of Nigerian heritage, said they attacked the 25-year-old fusilier to avenge the deaths of Muslims at the hands of British troops.

Just 18 months later, a man claiming to be acting in the name of radical jihad ran over and killed Canadian soldier Patrice Vincent, also injuring a second man.³

A snapshot of planned and executed attacks on Israelis in Israel ... and elsewhere (including NYC): http://tinyurl.com/y9smgvdg ⁴

A Palestinian terrorist struck and wounded three soldiers as they walked with their unit on the side of Route 60, near the Shiloh junction in the West Bank around 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Two of the soldiers were seriously wounded, and were transported – one by helicopter and the other by ambulance – to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem. The third soldier, Lt. Daniel Albaz, was taken to Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva where he described for reporters how the white four-door car plowed into them.⁵

Benjamin Netanyahu, flanked by security service agents, spoke into the television camera. The truck attack that had just resulted in the deaths of four Israeli soldiers in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem was “part of the same pattern inspired by Islamic State, by ISIS, that we saw first in France, then in Germany and now in Jerusalem. This is part of the same ongoing battle against this global scourge of the new terrorism. We can only fight it together, but we have to fight it, and we will.” Netanyahu, speaking on January 8, was referring to the ISIS-claimed truck attacks in Nice, which left 86 people dead on Bastille Day, and in Berlin, which left 12 people dead at a Christmas market in the center of the German capital.

Anyone reading Netanyahu’s statement at face value would believe that the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) had inspired scores of Palestinians to conduct vehicle attacks in the group’s name. The Jerusalem attack was perpetrated by a 28-year-old Palestinian named Fadi Qunbar. While Qunbar may have been inspired by the extremist group—evidence for that is yet to surface—this is not the case more generally in vehicle attacks perpetrated by Palestinians, experts say. They say that ISIS and other jihadist groups witnessed the success of vehicle attacks used for years by Palestinians, and then adopted those tactics for attacks in Western countries.⁶

(CNN) Once again, a driver has plowed into a crowd of innocent pedestrians, turning a car into a lethal weapon.⁷

This time, it was in New York's lower Manhattan, where the driver of a rental truck drove down a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center. The city joins a list of cities worldwide that have fallen victim to a growing trend.

Here's a look at some recent similar attacks and the possible motives behind them.

CNN then lists a number of vehicle-as-weapon attacks; with one exception (Charlottesville VA) the vehicles all were driven by Islamists. The list includes:

— New York, October 31, 2017 (I)

— Barcelona, August 17, 2017 (I)

— Charlottesville (VA), August 12, 2017 (Racist)

— London, June 3, 2017 (I)

— Stockholm, April 7, 2017 (I)

— London, March 22, 2017 (I)

— Nice, July 14, 2016 (I)

— Berlin, December 19, 2016 (I)

— Columbus (OH), November 28, 2016 (I)

— Jerusalem, January 8, 2017 (I)

— St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, October 20, 2014 (I)

All other attacks in Israel were ignored by CNN’s “journalists,” but other media ignored even that.

(CNN) Here is some background information on terror attacks involving vehicles used as deadly weapons by radicalized individuals or terror groups.⁸
Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch encouraged its Western recruits to use trucks as weapons. A 2010 webzine article, "The Ultimate Mowing Machine" called for deploying a pickup truck as a"mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah."

In September 2014, ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani called for lone wolf attacks using improvised weaponry, "If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock or slaughter him with a knife or run him over with your car or throw him down from a high place or choke him or poison him."

While only a few of the attacks happened on U.S. soil, President Trump has called on Homeland Security to use extreme vetting for potential visitors and immigrants to the U.S. The left, as expected, objects to this as focusing on Islamists . . . despite the fact that of the majority of the vehicles were driven by Islamists.

NOT ALL MUSLIMS are jihadists, terrorists. I have known and worked with Muslims — some observant and some not — a number of times in the U.S. and ridden in Arab buses and taxis without concern in Israel. I do not believe “the only good (pick an attribute) is a dead (attribute).” AT THE SAME TIME, given the preponderance of attacks on “infidels,” — that is, anyone who is not a member of Daesh⁹ or similar extremist group — by Islamists, I fail to understand why the U.S., or any country, would welcome, sans “extreme vetting” by qualified personnel, people whose goal is to maime and murder the country’s citizens. I’m not convinced that Homeland Security has the ability to perform the vetting, but I am convinced U.S. embassies and consulates lack any capability in this area. Should the U.S. continue to let locals vet potential tourists and immigrants – that is, to this scrivener’s mind, akin to having the fox watch the chicken coop and, as the attacks around the world prove, not a satisfactory option.

Bear in mind that ramming vehicles into people is just one of many ways vehicles have been used by Islamists, Basques, home-grown crazies (e.g., Timothy McVeigh) and others¹⁰.

Resources

**1 New charges for Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/y96cnst4
**2 Sacrifice the Children: http://tinyurl.com/y769r4zx
**3. Before Nice, Palestinian terrorists used cars as lethal weapon: http://tinyurl.com/ybosng6r
**4 Jewish man among 5 Argentineans killed in NY attack: http://tinyurl.com/y9smgvdg
**5 Palestinian strikes three IDF soldiers with vehicle in west bank terror attack: http://tinyurl.com/qa8jrvo
**6 Experts say ISIS ramming attacks were inspired by Palestinians, not vice-versa: http://tinyurl.com/ycfos63f
**7 Vehicles as weapons: http://tinyurl.com/m4sr8e8
**8 Terrorist Attacks by Vehicle Fast Facts: http://tinyurl.com/ybshehae
**9 What does Daesh mean? ISIS 'threatens to cut out the tongues' of anyone using this word: http://tinyurl.com/o7dzwyq
**10 List of mass car bombings: http://tinyurl.com/ycxlzscc

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

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Daesh (ISIS) promise Coming to America

 

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Even though the White House won't admit there are Muslim terrorists out to rule the world, the truth is there are (Muslim terrorists out to rule the world) and they blatantly advertise the fact.

A fact ignored at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the lackeys who fondly follow their master's misdirection. What is the problem? Are the terrorists invisible to the fools within the Beltway?.

According to the "gentleman" in the White House, one can't say "Muslim" (or "Islamist") and "Terrorist" together. These people are simply misguided souls that want to take over the world and if they have to slaughter everyone who objects, then so be it; hand me my sword, Ā’ishah (bint Abī Bak).

There ARE "good" Muslims who try to live in the current age.

There are idiot Christians and Jews who would prefer to live in the age of inquisitions (Christians) or unmitigated-by-Talmuds Torah ("law" is redundant with Torah).

Fortunately, most Christians and Jews protest loudly and work diligently against the idiots I their ranks. Muslim voices, when heard, are relatively soft-spoken.

Or perhaps it's just the media that ignores the voices of "moderate" Muslims.

Just what IS a "moderate" Muslim, anyway?

I wonder what the leader of the formerly great United States has to say about his Muslims and their "New Era."

Egypt attacks Daesh in Libya This Sisi Is no sissy

 

IN MY LIFETIME I HAVE KNOWN OF TWO TRUE EGYPTIAN LEADERS.

The first was a real hero, Anwar Sadat who came to Jerusalem to have tea with his former foe, Menachem Begin. I watched from my balcony in Holon as his plane - alone in the night sky - came to land at Lod, and I watched, via tv, as the motorcade made its way to Jerusalem.

Unfortunately, he was not long back in Egypt when he was assonated.

The second is the incumbent, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

According to an article in the UK's Guardian heded Libya and Egypt launch air strikes against Isis after militants post beheadings video,

President Sisi had vowed to ‘avenge the criminal killings’ after release of video purporting to show killing of 21 Christians, believed to be kidnapped Egyptians

The article continued

Egypt reported that its war planes had struck Isis targets in Libya, shortly after President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi vowed revenge for the release by Isis-affiliated militants of a video of a mass killing of Christians.

The statement said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning safely. It said the strikes were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers”.

“Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them,” it said.

Libya’s air force meanwhile announced it had launched strikes in the eastern city of Darna, which was taken over by an Isis affiliate last year. The announcement, on the Facebook page of the air force chief of staff, did not provide further details.

The only problem with the Al-Sisi-ordered air strike was that it came too late.

Egyptians in Libya have for some time been targets of Islamists. This time, ISIS martyred only non-Muslims.

Although late in coming, the air strike DID happen, however there was no report of causalities on the ground.

So far, neither the U.S. president nor the UN has condemned the Egyptian air raid into neighboring Libya (but then neither criticizes Egypt for its dealings with Hamas in Gaza - all condemnation is focused on Israel).

For all that, Al-Sisi is to be commended for taking an appropriate action against Daesh (a/k/a ISIS/ISIL) sending the air force of a Muslim state to seek retribution against Muslims in a neighboring Muslim state for the deaths of non-Muslims.

Al-Sisi has been at war with Daesh for months, primarily in the Sinai, but this is the first time Egypt has blatantly taken the battle to the Islamist radicals outside of Egypt's borders.

 

It's an Israeli plot - of course

Posts by Anonymous Coward User ID: 68078755 on the Godlike Productions web site naturally blame Israel for all the fighting in the region. And people like Anonymous Coward - an apt name - are allowed out of the asylums; gives one pause.

Image? Muslims Vs. Daesh

 

AS LONG AS DAESH (A/K/A ISIS, ISIL) WAS KILLING JEWS, Muslims around the world were silent. No matter that the attacks took place in Israel or someplace in Europe, or even in North America, the Muslim world was, at best, silent or, at worst, applauded as it did when Muslims piloted commercial airliners into the two Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon.

Now, however, non-Jews are being targeted along with Jews, and the world is starting to see the Islamist threat is not just against the Jews and Israel.

PERHAPS, and admittedly is is just speculation, the Muslim leadership is starting to realize that by indiscriminately targeting all "infidels" those "infidels" will start taking indiscriminate revenge on all Muslims.

TO BE FAIR I know that not EVERY Muslim is a terrorist, and I know that not every terrorist is a Muslim. Every country - and the United States is no exception - has its own homegrown crazies.

But until recently, any Muslim voices raised against Daesh have been like whispers in a hurricane.

Now, for whatever reason - the threat of backlash, the reality that the Arab world - and maybe the Muslim world as well - has had enough, is causing Muslims to speak out, boldly and loudly, against Daesh.

Imam Tareq Yousef Al-Masri speaks out against Islamist violence and tells his congregants that the reason Muslims are hated is because they hate. (A YouTube video worth watching>)

Unfortunately, there are other imans, in particular Imam Anjem Choudary of London.

In a AFP release headed Muslim Scholars Call to 'Kill and Crucify' ISIS Terrorists, Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious center of learning, has called for the killing and crucifixion of terrorists from the Islamic State group (ISIS), expressing outrage over their murder of a Jordanian pilot.

In a statement after the burning alive of Maaz al-Kassasbeh, the Cairo-based authority called for the "killing, crucifixion and chopping of the limbs of Islamic State terrorists".

The statement comes a month after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a highly unusual and surprising speech to Islamic clerics at Al-Azhar University last week, in which he called on Muslim leaders to reform Islam to rid the Muslim world of terrorism.

Meanwhile, Jordan Executes Jihadist Prisoners in Response to ISIS murdering - by burning to death - a Jordanian pilot.

Jordan executed two jihadist prisoners at dawn on Wednesday, after vowing a harsh response to the Islamic State (ISIS) group's murder of a Jordanian pilot.

Would-be Iraqi female suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and Iraqi Al-Qaeda member Ziad al-Karboli were executed at 4:00 a.m. local time, government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said.

"The death sentence will be carried out on a group of jihadists, starting with Rishawi, as well as Iraqi Al-Qaeda operative Ziad Karbuli and others who attacked Jordan's interests," a Jordanian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had told AFP.

IT IS INTERESTING to note that, as this is keyed, there are NO protests from the left-wing UN or Arab liberals, and absolute silence from Abu Mazen, all of whom would be gnashing teeth and ranting had Israel done what Jordan did.

King Abdullah II ibn al-Hussei described ISIS as a “cowardly” organization, and added that its killing of al-Kassasbeh will only strengthen Jordanians.

“We have received with all sorrow, grief and anger, the news of the martyrdom of the brave pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh, may Allah bless his soul, at the hand of the terrorist and cowardly Daesh organization, this criminal, stray gang that has nothing to do with our true religion,” the King said in a statement quoted by the Jordan Times and in which he used an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

“At this difficult time, it is the duty of all citizens to unify their ranks and show the true character of the Jordanian people when they face hardships and plights, which will only strengthen us and reinforce our unity,” added Abdullah.

Next door, Egyptian President Al-Sisi Delivers Speech That May Change the World Forever and called to combat extremist ideology and said: “We need to revolutionize our religion.” Calling for “religious discourse that is in keeping with its times,” Al-Sisi warned that “the Islamic nation is being torn apart and destroyed” by extremism.

It might well be noted that Al-Sisi is waging an internal war with Islamists who want to remove him and restore one of their own (Mohamed Morsi). It also is worth noting that while the world castigates Israel for tightly controlling its border with Gaza, Egypt has (a) hermetically sealed its border with Gaza, (b) destroyed the smuggling tunnels from Egypt into Gaza, and (c) created a 500 meter wide by 13 km long structure-free zone according to Aljazeera. (The liberal UK Telegraph put the Egyptian move in a different light, leeding with The Egyptian authorities are demolishing hundreds of houses along its impoverished border with the Gaza Strip to create a buffer zone that will slow the flow of weapons and militants between the two territories.

Army officials told residents in the eastern Rafah area to evacuate their homes on Tuesday. They later confirmed that they planned to empty more than 800 houses – home to about 10,000 people.

Again, the UN and its friends remain silent. When Israel prevents unrestricted flow of people and goods to and from Gaza, the nation is condemned. When Egypt closes its border - not a sound.

It seems the only Muslims that stand solidly with Deash are Iranians and "Palestinians"; other Muslims are starting to distance themselves from a group that no longer limits its hatred to Israel and, to a lesser extent, the U.S.

Perhaps reality is starting to set in for the Islamic world. Perhaps.