The Baraklash!
Barack Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. This is a partial list of attacks on American citizens on American soil by Jihadists acting in the name of Jihad, or violent Islamicists justifying their act in the name of Islam, since that time. (Attacks on American citizens overseas are excluded for reasons of space).
Feb. 12, 2009 – Pakistani-American Muzzammil Syed Hassan was the CEO of the first American Muslim TV network broadcast in English, Bridge TV. Hassan beheaded his estranged wife, Aasiya Zubair, after she filed for divorce. Her body was found at the TV station. When he was arrested, he said he “felt an incredible amount of relief” after he killed the woman.
April 12, 2009 – Upon learning that they had patronized a strip club, a Muslim man shoots and kills his brother-in-law and another man in Phoenix, Arizona.
June 1, 2009 – In a drive-by shooting, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad – a convert to Islam who had traveled to Yemen and was deported to the U.S. for overstaying his visa – opened fire on U.S. soldiers standing in front of a Little Rock, Arkansas, recruiting office. Muhammad killed one private and injured another. When he was arrested Muhammad explained that he had planned to kill as many soldiers as possible and was given the assignment by Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.
November 2009 – Iraq-born Muslim man Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, intentionally hit his daughter with his car and killed her because she had become “too Westernized.” He also attacked the mother of the girl’s boyfriend. Police said, “It occurred because [of] her not following traditional family values. He felt she was becoming too westernized, and he didn’t like that.” His daughter had backed out of an arranged marriage.
Nov. 5, 2009 – Muslim gunman Nidal Malik Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, fatally shoots 13 people and wounds 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas.
Dec. 4, 2009 – A Muslim graduate student from Saudi Arabia, Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, stabbed his non-Muslim Islamic studies professor, Richard T. Antoun, to death to avenge “persecuted” Muslims. One of his roommates said, “He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting his country for no reason.”
April 14, 2010 – A Muslim convert, James A. Larry, 33, became angry that his family would not convert to Islam and shot his mother, pregnant wife, infant son and two nieces in Marquette Park, Illinois. He pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and the intentional homicide of an unborn child. “He was upset at his wife and their family — he felt disrespected that they would not join his religion,” Assistant State’s Attorney Jim McKay said. “It didn’t matter if they were young or old, pregnant or not. He wanted them dead.” Larry also shot his 13-year-old nephew in the face, but the boy survived. When the man was arrested, he told officers Allah told him to kill his family, according to court records. According to a police report, he said, “I wish I had more bullets. I wish I had more bullets.”
April 30, 2011 – Rahim Abdul Alfetlawi, 46, shot his step-daughter in the head at point-blank range in Warren, Michigan, after she refused to strictly adhere to Muslim customs. The family claimed the motive was not religion.
Sept. 11, 2011 – Three Jewish men are discovered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with their throats slit from ear to ear and nearly decapitated. Authorities believed the murders were not random, and thousands of dollars in cash and marijuana were left at the scene. According to reports, authorities believe Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, both Muslims, may have been responsible for the triple homicide.
Jan. 15, 2012 – A Jordanian Muslim man, Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, 57, gunned down Iranian medical student, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a friend of his daughter and a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam. He later killed his Christian son-in-law after his daughter married him without permission. Assistant Harris County District Attorney Tammy Thomas told a district judge, “He said, ‘I killed that b–ch, and you’re next. No one insults my honor as a Muslim and gets away with it.’”
Feb. 7, 2013 – Yusuf Ibrahim, 28, shot two Coptic Christians to death and beheaded them in Buena Vista, New Jersey. He also removed their hands before burying their bodies in the backyard of an abandoned house. Quran 8:12 states, “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”
March 31, 2013 – Reshad Riddle walked into an Ashtabula, Ohio, church and fatally shot his father after an Easter service. After the shooting, witnesses say, walked through the church holding the gun and shouted that the slaughter was “the will of Allah. This is the will of God.”
April 15, 2013 – Muslim Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonate two pressure cooker bombs during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring an estimated 264 others. After the bombing, they killed an MIT policeman, stole an SUV and exchanged gunfire with police. Tamerlan was shot and his brother drove over him with the stolen SUV. Tamerlan was pronounced dead at the scene. After a manhunt, police found Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in a man’s backyard. Dzokhar has been sentenced to death.
Aug. 4, 2013 – A Muslim convert, Daymond Agnew, 34, went to an Ace Hardware store on a “mission from Allah to help people” before he fatally stabbed employee Daniel Joseph Stone 17 times.
March 6, 2014 – Registered sex offender James Cosby, 46, is accused of bludgeoning his lesbian daughter to death and shooting her lover in Port Bolivar, Texas. Police believe he then dumped the bodies near a ferry gate. In his bedroom, Cosby had the Quran open to a page that says homosexuality is a sin, family advocate Quanell X told KHOU-TV. “It’s quite unfortunate but he had a real, real warped understanding, in my opinion, of the religion of Islam and its position on the gay lifestyle and what one should do,” Quanell X said.
April 27, 2014 – A 30-year-old Muslim man, Ali Muhammad Brown, is accused of shooting to death two men in Seattle and a man in New Jersey. According to local reports, he told police the killings were “vengeance” for U.S. actions in the Mideast. According to court documents, he said they were “just kills” and that he was “just doing my small part” as a self-styled jihadist.
Sept. 25, 2014 – Alton Nolen is accused of beheading a woman in Moore, Oklahoma. Co-workers reported that Nolen had been trying to convert them to Islam. Nolen reportedly used “some Arabic terms” during his attack and had an interest in beheadings. Nolen told a judge, “I’m Muslim. My question is, do you have any Muslims that can represent me as a Muslim?”
Dec. 20, 2014 – Muslim man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley brutally murdered two New York City police officers. Police believe Brinsley was seeking revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police. Brinsley fled after the slaughter and eventually shot himself to death on a subway platform. Brinsley’s abandoned YouTube channel contained a video showing him heading to pray at Brooklyn’s Masjid At Taqwa, a mosque that has been linked to terrorist and anti-police activity.
Oct. 23, 2014 – 32-year-old Zale H. Thompson, who had recently converted to Islam attacked four New York City police officers with an 18-inch metal hatchet. The incident occurred on a crowded sidewalk in Queens. Thompson, was a frequent visitor of websites such as al-Shabaab and ISIS which promote Islamic terror.
Feb 14, 2015 –Two men in Detroit are stabbed by a Muslim who first verified that they were unbelievers.
May 3, 2015 – In Garland, Texas, Pamela Geller, along with her group the American Freedom Defense Initiative, hosted a “Draw Muhammad” event. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix responded to a call to “avenge the prophet” and traveled to Garland, where they were shot and killed by a security guard after opening fire in an apparent attempt to get into the building. The guard was wounded in the attack. Islamic radicals have since called for Geller’s head, and vow to kill anyone who “blasphemes” Muhammad.
July 16, 2015 – Four U.S. Marines have been shot dead in an attack, reportedly by a lone Islamic gunman, on U.S. Navy facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said five people died in all, including the gunman. Two law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooting suspect was identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24.
Nov 4, 2015 – A Mercedd student vowing to behead and ‘praise Allah’ stabs four others on campus.
Dec 2, 2015 – In San Bernardino, married couple Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people and injured 22 others in a killing spree at a company Christmas party.
Jan 7, 2016 – In Philadelphia, a man shoots a police officer three times ‘in the name of Islam’
Feb 11, 2016 – In Columbus, Ohio, Four people at a Christian-owned restaurant with an Israeli flag are slashed by a Muslim wielding a machete yelling ‘Allah Akbar.’
June 12, 2016 – In Orlando, Florida, an attack on a gay nightclub during ‘Latino’ night leaves 49 dead, 50 injured.
Again, Barack Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. This is a full and compete list of attacks on Islamics, Pakistanis, Arabs, or anyone likely to be mistaken for a Muslim by American citizens either on American soil or abroad, in the name of America:
2009 to, 2016 – None.
That is, total Muslims killed by Americans for their religion: None. Total wounded: None. Total number of American conspiracies caught before perpetrating such an act by law enforcement: None.
The total of innocent Americans killed on American soul in the name of Islam is above 115 just during the seven years and a half of Mr. Obama’s presidency. The total number of victims aboard, American or otherwise, is immense, perhaps beyond calculation.
My question is this: When is Mr. Obama, or anyone in the Leftwing media-government establishment, going to stop lecturing us and hectoring us about the dangers of an anti-Muslim backlash, and start mentioning the danger Muslim culture brings with it?
Mr. Obama in a recent public speech denounced the idea of using the term ‘radical Muslims’ rather than his preferred term of ‘extremists’ and his preferred method of pretending not to be able to guess what the killer’s motivation was, and his preferred excuse of not wanting to rush to judgement about his beloved and adored Religion of Peace, on the grounds that the danger from having himself, or anyone, criticize a whole religion on the basis of a few, well, a the majority, extremists, well, the mainstream of the orthodox and traditional thought in their faith, acting in a way no other religion acts, has ever acted, or is likely to act.
Not one Buddhist in history, not one Christian, not one Jew, not on Shintoist, proclaimed that suicide bombing an innocent civilian target in the name of their faith was acceptable. Recent polls show that the majority of Muslims abroad, and a healthy quarter or so of Muslims in Europe and America, hold suicide bombing innocent civilian to be licit.
At some point, fear of prejudice against Islam has to give way. Even if it were a reasonable fear, an even if two or three Episcopalians had entered mosques and ignited suicide vests filled with TNT, killing seven to ten innocent Muslims in the last seven years, that would still be an order of magnitude less than the number of Muslim attacks on Americans in that same time span.
But since, at the time of this writing, the number of American attacks on innocent Muslims in the name of Episcopalianism is exactly zero, and will remain exactly zero for the rest of time, the terrified, panic-stricken belief that naming the enemy, subjecting the peoples among whom the enemy lodges and rests to greater scrutiny, and forbidding the enemy from recruiting, will produce a worldwide anti-Muslim backlash and thereby play into the enemy’s hands makes about as much sense as, for example, saying calling Nazis by name will lead to terrifying Germanophobia, and mass killings of innocent Germans by angry Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, and Communists.
Note to Homosexuals and Hispanics: the Leftwing media-government says it loves you and will care for you, and yet when your people are shot by the dozens, you are blamed, you are disarmed, and the motive and name of your enemy is obscured. Whether they are stupid or dishonest does not matter. Whether they are trying their damnest to try to get you killed in a bloody massacre or whether it is merely outrageously homocidal criminal negligence does not matter. The end result is the same.
Meanwhile, they tell you all whites hate you, and all straights hate you, and all Christians hate you. It is true that homosexual acts are sins, and will ruin your life, and we Christians think your life will be better and holier and purer if you eschew such acts. Because you are made in the image and likeness of God.
But they say we are lying when we say that, and that our motive deep in our hearts, unknown even to us, is a psychopathological fear and hatred of homosex.
But weigh the options. If we are lying, our desire to bring you into our Church has some sinister hidden motive, but you are still alive. If they are lying, their desire to protect Muslims and disarm you means you are coughing up blood in immense pain as you breath your last breath, and the last thing you see is your killer dancing in joy, blood splattered on his clothing from chin to boots. And the last words you hear are praises of Allah.
So one side or the other is lying. Which is the greater risk to you and to your loved ones if you guess wrong?
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
