Decapitation by drone strike: A routine act of state terrorism by the US government.
October 9, 2014
We have reached a point in our nation's descent
into psychotic tribalist fear where people of stature and apparent sobriety
unabashedly use the expression "final solution" when discussing the existence
of Muslims.
For Zumwalt. "those similarly motivated" is an expansive
category, which includes not only "al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, the
mullahs of Iran, Somalia's Shababb, [and the] Khorasan group," but also their
Muslim victims. On the basis of murkily sourced atrocity accounts and
propaganda videos of dubious provenance, Zumwalt concludes that the victims of
ISIS exhibit a "Muslim death wish" by supposedly allowing themselves to be
killed without seeking "to overpower their captors."
"The message to take from Muslim victims unwilling to save
themselves to pursue their promised afterlife should be clear: their murderers
will never be convinced to stop killing," asserts Zumwalt. An unspoken but
undeniable corollary of his view is that wholesale annihilation of Muslim populations
is strategically necessary and morally justifiable, because Muslim victims of
terrorism are infected with the same "ideology" as their captors.
Zumwalt is a prominent mouthpiece for the Military-Industrial
Complex, and it's not surprising that his views are echoed by other members of
the Pentagon-aligned Commentariat. For example, Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer
claims
that Syrians under siege by ISIS have pleaded, "Please bomb us! We'd rather be
bombed and dead, than raped by ISIS."
For Zumwalt, the only good Muslim is one who has been
violently dispatched to his anticipated paradise. Shaffer refines that message
by suggesting that good Muslims display their virtue by begging for the US
government to kill them.
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Yes, Robertson was referring specifically to the
much-dreaded and nearly omnipotent ISIS, but his core audience consists of
people who have been convinced that all Muslims are, at best, latent Jihadists
who seethe with unconsummated and irrepressible lust to slit the throats of all
infidels.
ISIS "is doing to America [sic] journalists what every true
follower of Mohammed wants to do to you and yours: subjugate or murder you," shrills
Gary Cass, who apparently regards himself as a pastor of some variety.
"They believe they have been given a mandate by Allah [Satan] to dominate the
world."
"God has a plan, and he revealed it at the birth of Ishmael,
the father of the Arabs," Cass pontificates. "The Arab Muslims are God's sworn
enemies and are ordained by God to be against everyone."
Terrible, having bad blood like that. This leads to Cass's
second "solution" – "Depart All Muslims Now" (which he puckishly reduces to the
acronym DAMN), which means either mass sterilization, mass expulsion, or some
combination of the two.
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Peddling mass murder: Cass at the pulpit. |
"Muslims in America are procreating at twice the rate of
other groups," writes Cass. Displaying either culpable ignorance of the
historical resonance of his suggestion, or depraved delight therein, Cass said
that our options are either to "force them all to get sterilized, or we wait
for the `Army of Islam' to arise in our midst and do what Muslims always do,
resort to violence."
It has been said that contemporary tyrants read Orwell as an
instruction manual. Cass makes similar use of Exodus
1:8-10, which describes how Pharaoh, alarmed over Hebrew fecundity, employed
quasi-genocidal means to reduce their numbers for the purpose of strategic
pre-emption.
Neither forced conversion, government-inflicted barrenness,
nor mass expulsion offers an appropriate remedy, according to Cass, which
leaves us with his final "solution": "Violence."
Since "every mosque in America is conspiring to kill you and
yours," Cass maintains, "we must be prepared for the increase of terror at home
and abroad.... Muslims cannot live in a society based on Christian ideals of
equality and liberty. They will always seek to harm us. Now the only question
is how many more dead bodies have to pile up at home and abroad before we crush
the vicious seed of Ishmael in Jesus' name?"
Genocidal warfare – a systematic campaign to eradicate all
Arabs – is a severe form of mercy, Cass assures his readers, admonishing them
to "take the lesser pains now so our children won't have to take greater pains
later."
That's right: He wants us to annihilate the "seed of
Ishmael" (which, by his definition, would include Arab Christians, as well as
non-Arab Muslims) for the children.
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Children like this young girl, presumably ... |
Paul Hollrah, a Senior Fellow with a dodgy organization
called the Lincoln Heritage Institute, agrees that we confront a monolithic
Muslim menace. His approach is a shade more subtle than Cass's – it would have
to be, given that Cass's manifesto is practically an abdridged transliteration
of Mein Kampf – but just as comprehensive. Hollrah urges legislative action to
criminalize the religion of Islam, coupled with the use of holographic propaganda
to re-program Muslims imprisoned in concentration camps.
"Accordingly, we must resolve that `What is sauce for the
(Communist) goose is sauce for the (Islamic) gander," he continues, calling for
the transposition of the Communist
Control Act of 1954 into a measure targeting Muslims. His proposed
legislation would define Islam as "the agency of a hostile foreign power"
constituting "a clear and present danger to the security of the United States,"
and designate its followers as people "directed and controlled in the
conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services. Therefore, the
organization of Islam shall be outlawed in the United States."
After enacting this measure, and ensuring that "eyes and
ears are planted in every mosque and Muslim center in the United States," American
Muslims could be cattle-penned with "jihadists and other soldiers of the faith"
who are "warehoused in various CIA black sites, as well as prison compounds in
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay."
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...and this little girl. |
Since the typical jihadist (like all other Muslims,
presumably) has "the intellectual capacity of an angry chimpanzee," it would be
possible to reprogram him through the use of a holographic simulacrum of the
Prophet Mohammed. This apparition, which would float "in mid-air … some fifteen
or twenty feet above the floor" like the computer-generated idol
Landru from Star Trek, would tell captive Muslims that terrorism is a sin,
and that terrorists who kill the innocent will suffer "eternal hellfire."
Such "drastic measures" are justified, Hollrah maintains,
because "we are dealing with religious fanatics whose only goal in life is to
kill us all, and for no other reason than that we exist."
That characterization may be true of an immeasurably small
fraction of Muslims, who reside within a larger number of Muslims whose anger
toward the West often grows out of entirely legitimate grievances with U.S.
foreign policy. It is also the case that an increasing number of Americans
believe that "infidels" cannot be secure as long as Muslims exist. This
implacable enemy, we are told, includes followers of Islam who have
distinguished themselves by preaching peace, reconciliation, and civic
responsibility; all of this, we are told, is mere "taqiyya" – strategic deception
by people conducting an insidious "stealth jihad" in the service of the incipient
"global caliphate."
"Mohammed’s teaching only teaches one thing," Oklahoma State
Representative John Bennett declared during a town hall meeting in
Muskogee. "And that’s the violence that we’re seeing today in ISIS and the
beheading in Moore and other places."
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Crew-cut Crusader: Bennett. |
Bennett was referring to the horrific murder
allegedly committed by Alton Nolen at Vaughn Foods. Hours after being
terminated from his job, Nolen returned to the business brandishing a knife,
with which he attacked two women. One of them was stabbed with such ferocity
that her head was severed. The other survived the assault, which was ended by a
co-worker who shot the assailant.
Like other
similarly ill-informed and irresponsible people, however, Bennett insists
that the murder at Vaughn Foods was an act of mini-jihad inspired by the
teachings Nolen had absorbed at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City,
which the Republical legislator pretends is a roiling cauldron of radicalism.
In a post on his
Facebook page, Bennett claimed that "The Quran clearly states that non-Muslims
should be killed" and urged Oklahomans to be "wary of the individuals who claim
to be `Muslim American.’ Be especially wary if you’re a Christian."
Confronted about his casual defamation of at least 40,000
Muslim residents of Oklahoma,
Bennett replied that ISIS cadres are invoking the
Quran while committing "beheadings in Iraq and Syria and if they aren’t
stopped, the same will happen here."
"Muslim Americans who subscribe to Islam are just as bad as
ISIS," Bennett pronounced in a television interview, dispelling any ambiguity.
With respect to condemning ISIS, Bennett was pushing against
an open door: Both the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC)
had emphatically, explicitly, publicly, and repeatedly denounced the group.
"This wasn’t just political rhetoric," the Imam maintains.
"This was meant to dehumanize us and depict us as a threat that had to be
removed, by force if necessary, from our country. We reached out to the GOP
leadership, and we got no response, although we did get support from many of
our neighbors and partners in the interfaith movement. Things calmed down for a
while– and then ISIS started beheading people, and the hate messages started to
trickle in again."
Imam Enchassi points out that "There are tens of thousands
of Muslims living in Oklahoma, and we have categorically condemned all
terrorism, including the crimes committed by ISIS. Those acts are intolerable,
not only as offenses against our faith, but as crimes against all standards of
decency and rules of civilized living."
The anti-ISIS demonstrations in OKC were not hastily
arranged PR exercises, Enchassi emphasizes, but entirely consistent with his
teachings and the practices of the mosque he leads.
"I’ve been condemning terrorism for more than twenty years,"
points out Enchassi. "My sermons
are all publicly available. There’s nothing hidden; there’s no double-talk
involved. I’ve taught how to recognize someone who is planning to commit acts
of terrorism, and about our religious duty to cooperate with authorities in
identifying and, where necessary, prosecuting people involved in such crimes."
This long and public history of peace-making and outreach
did nothing to inoculate Dr. Enchassi and his fellow congregants against the
viral outbreak of fear and hatred that was so diligently nurtured by Bennett
and his comrades.
According to Megan Kelly, Fox News’s pneumatic herd-poisoner, the
atrocity at Vaughan Foods was "the first beheading on American soil by someone
who apparently self-radicalized" at the mosque where Dr. Enchassi teaches.
"In public, the mosque Noel worshipped at has denounced his
alleged actions," Kelly continued, her voice theatrically heavy with
insinuation. She introduced an anonymous figure called "Noor," who was shrouded
in shadow to "protect his identity."
"To the public, the mosque will not promote terrorism or any
kind of radical acts," drawled "Noor." "But when they’re among friends and
congregants only, they will promote the true teachings of Islam, which include
the offer to non-Muslims – the choice, rather, that they must either convert,
live under Islamic rule, or be fought against."
"Noor" recited the familiar catechism of professional
mosque-baiters – accusing the local Muslims of practicing "taqiyya " and "stealth
jihad," and discussing beheading as an appropriate remedy for refractory non-belief in Islam.
"The last time I was in the mosque as 2011 … at the request
of law enforcement," the anonymous accuser told Kelly, who claimed that Dr.
Enchassi and his colleagues routinely preached sympathy for terrorism and
subtle messages of violent subversion.
"I know who `Noor’ is, and from what I’ve observed he is a
troubled man," Enchassi told me. "He attended our mosque for a while, then
joined a local white supremacist group before winding up at with a Christian
congregation that spends a lot of time bashing Muslims."
Stuart, who claims he was drunk at the time, execrated the woman as a "f***ing
Muslim bitch." The victim, in fact, was
a Christian refugee from Lebanon – although this distinction shouldn’t
matter for those devoted to exterminating the "seed of Ishmael."
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Knife-wielding lunatic assaults Christian: Stuart. |
In some ways, "Noor" is the photographic negative of Alton
Nolen, Enchassi suggests.
"Nolen made it clear that he doesn’t like white people," the
imam related to me. "And this fellow being called Noor has similar problems
with non-whites. If you examine the material from Nolen’s Facebook page, it’s
clear that he was not a conventional Muslim. Some of what he said and wrote is
quite a bit like the beliefs of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and some of it
seems to be adapted from Satanist literature as well. He certainly wasn’t in
any way representative of our congregation. It’s hard to say that he was
representative of anyone, other than people inclined toward criminal violence."
A representative sample of Dr. Enchassi’s teachings can be
found in
his pre-Christmas sermon from 2010 – for which "Noor" may have been in
attendance, either on his own, or as an informant. The theme of that homily was
the respect that Muslims should have for Jesus – who is revered by them as a prophet
– and for Jews and Christians as "People of the Book – people who were worthy
to receive the Book before us."
"A long time ago, brothers and sisters in Islam, Allah sent
the prophets, one after another, with the same message" of peace, reconciliation,
respect, and love, explained Dr. Enchassi. Rather than exhorting his audience to
pursue domination, the imam described how Muslims once embarked on what they
believed to be a divinely appointed migration to Ethiopia in order to live
under a Christian king who would "uphold justice"
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"There are some parts of the world [where] Muslims and
Christians don’t get along – not because they’re Muslims, and not because
they’re Christians, but because … there is injustice being done," observed Imam
Enchassi. "Sometimes that injustice is being done by Muslims. Sometimes that
injustice is being done by the Christians. Sometimes that injustice is being
done by the Jews. That does not make Muslims and Christians ultimate enemies.
Neither does it make Muslims and Jews ultimate enemies… As Muslims we are
ordered by Allah to stand up for justice. It doesn’t matter who’s the person
who is being unjust. We are to stand up to those who are being unjust. Even if
they are Muslims? Even if they are Muslims."
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"Look at us in
Oklahoma City, brothers and sisters in Islam," declared Enchassi. "There are
those who are legislating laws against Islam and Muslims. We will stand firm –
but that does not mean that everybody in Oklahoma City is with those people." He
expressed appreciation for local Christians, Jews, and others of no faith other
than that in human decency who had spoken in defense of the Muslim population: "Those
are people who understood what justice is."
In the teeth of officially sanctioned persecution, Enchassi
continued, it was a Muslim’s duty to display "love and compassion …to the
followers of the prophet Jesus – peace be upon him."
"At a time when Islam is being attacked … we have a
principle – don’t attack back," he concluded, paraphrasing an admonition from
the Sermon on the Mount.
This is indeed an alien doctrine to "Christians" of the sort
who claim a divine mandate to "crush the Seed of Ishmael" in pursuit of a "Final
Solution" to the Muslim Question.
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