At some point someone must have thought that the attack in Little Rock met that threshold. We met with our Congressman during the summer 2010. He said that there are some who believe that trying Muhammad in State Court for murder, vice Federal Court for terrorism, was the best way to address the situation. This position and statement has bothered me greatly and remains in my mind nagging me over the “true” position of my government. We bought a memorial paver to be placed on the honor walk at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, GA. There was a limitation of the number of letters that could be used in each of the three lines allowed for the sentiment. We shortened and edited until the words fit. We were called a couple of months later if it would be alright to change the word jihadi to terrorist, as they didn’t want to offend “our Muslim friends.” We agreed to make the change because that was our original word of choice, but I told them that if they are trying to kill you then they aren’t your friends. The Army initially told us that the Little Rock victims did not rate the Purple Heart because they didn’t have enough information to determine whether Muhammad was acting as a member of a hostile force or at the direction of a hostile leader.
We put together a package and submitted it to the Army obtained completely from open sources in an attempt to get them to investigate the circumstances. Their answer was that since the attack was being treated as a “criminal act” they were ineligible. We have been in contact with the Department of Justice and their response was that it was an Army issue even though the terrorist aspects of the attack have never been formally addressed by the Department of Justice. The recent scrubbing of words deemed “offensive” from Federal and Department of Defense lexicon as a result of complaints from organization which purportedly represent all persons of Muslim faith and heritage in America.
I find it amazing that the loudest advocacy voice is CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism funding trial since 2001, and that this organization still has footing in Washington D.C. During the week of 13 December the Department of State hosted a closed meeting to discuss UN Resolution 16/18. This resolution has been introduced and championed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and refers to defamation of religion. The Secretary of State has actually said that if we cannot get it into law then we should be able to advance the issue through old fashioned shaming.
This effort is nothing more than a fig leaf to impose Islamic blasphemy laws on non-Muslim people. It removes open discourse which is guaranteed in the First Amendment under the right to free speech. That same First Amendment is being used as the basis to justify all aspects of Islam, especially the economic, political and military, as just a religion and therefore it is not to be scrutinized.
Our history is replete with examples whereby courts have ruled against religious organizations where their actions, even when justified by their religion, break the law of the land. Abdulhakim Muhammad said that the attack in Little Rock was justified by Islamic law. Are his and Nidal Hasan’s actions protected under the First Amendment? The answer is a resounding no!
Recently the Vice President made the unbelievable statement that the Taliban were not our enemy. There has been serious consideration to release the five worst human rights offenders who are also the most important Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo in order to get talks going to achieve a political solution to the Afghan War.
Since when did the longstanding policy of not negotiating with terrorist go by the wayside? I know that there are some Marines in Helmand Province who wonder who has been shooting at them for the last ten years, if the Taliban are not the enemy. I can only surmise that despite clear evidence of the intent and the ideology of the threat, this administration has thrown out the facts because they don’t fit a politically correct agenda.
FP: What might all of this lead to?
Long: I believe that we are being strangled slowly by “our own miserable hand.” By buying into the politically correct solution that the threat does not have a basis in the religious ideology that our opponents have chosen to bring here to hometown U.S.A., disarms those who are charged to carry out our projection. It distorts the facts. We dumb down and become disarmed intellectually. We obtain knowledge by understanding the meaning of language. We have to understand the language of our opponents as they understand it. We cannot look at their words and try to view it through a western view. I have read that words matter.
“The more generic the language, the less precise the knowledge: conversely the more precise the language, the more precise the knowledge.” We are giving the advantage to the enemy when we don’t determine what he is going to do by applying his understanding of his doctrine to the problem. If we are going to prevail, we need to know the enemy, not mask him into nonexistence. Instead of acting from a narrative, the government needs to act from fact, wherever the facts come from. Our lexicon should be getting larger out of necessity, not smaller out of sensitivity.
FP: What, if anything, can those of us who want to save this country do to make a change?
Long: We need to get out of our comfort zone. We know what happened in Little Rock. We know it was repeated at Fort Hood. These are acts of terrorism. The government does not get to identify only those instances where the perpetrators are caught before the act or when their efforts failed as terrorist acts. I know that there are lots of dedicated men and women who are striving to protect us. But there are going to be leakers that get through and cause pain and harm.
The sheer number and rapidly increasing number of attempts will result in an eventual successful attack despite the best efforts of dedicated government servants. This started out for us as just trying to get justice for our son and the other soldier wounded on 1 June 2009. We felt that they were entitled to the Purple Heart under provisions adopted in Army Regulation 600-8-22 on 28 March 1973 whereby soldiers killed as a result of an alleged international terrorist attack are eligible. As we have drilled down though, it has become apparent that this Administration has no intention to accept that anyone has died on their watch as a result of terrorism.
The issue is not that it happened, but that when they had the opportunity to be clear and transparent, they choose the path of denial. Their position that we are not fighting a religiously motivated enemy and their inability to speak openly and honestly about that causes a degradation of faith in our institutions. We need to stand up and be heard. Keeping this country safe is not a partisan issue. It is a part of the statutory oath required of all officials to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same. Not to do so, a disregard for the duty one is sworn to uphold and if not actually criminal, it borders on it. Don’t stand back thinking that your voice does not make a difference.
Those who would have us believe that are the same people who have pursued a politically correct whitewashing of the threat violent extremism brings to our freedoms. Speak out, write to your elected officials, let them know when they mess up and when they do well. After being stationed in Washington, I know that it is a different world inside the Beltway. Infuse your opinion and position into the informational void that exists which supports touchy-feely non-solutions to real problems. Most importantly, vote! Firing incompetence overcomes a lot of hurdles.
FP: Daris Long, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview and thank you for your fight for the truth.
Our prayers are with your son and with your whole family. Please know that our hearts are with you every step of the way in your battle to get justice for your son.
Take care for now.
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that is what you get when you put a clandestine Muslim chimpout in the oval office, and a Black Panther sympathizing chimpout as the Attorney General in the Justice Department. If either of the two Muslim terrorists had done this in China, they would have been tried in one day, shot at dawn, their families billed for the bullet and body disposal after they had their organs harvested for transplants.
To really understand the extent to which Obama ignored the Little Rock Shootings, and why, read the book "Islam and Barack Hussein Obama: A Handbook on Islam."
Article: "Recently the Vice President made the unbelievable statement that the Taliban were not our enemy."
The Vice President made it clear that the Taliban are NOT the enemy of the Obama administration. However, for the rest of us, the Taliban are indeed our enemy. A major problem for America and the Free World is that the U.S. government (and some other Western leaders), don't regard Muslim terrorists whose goal is world conquest and the imposition of cruel Islamic sharia law, as the enemy.
Who does the government regard as the enemy?
In 2009, Homeland Security declared the people to watch out for were veterans returning from the wars, pro-lifers and Tea Party attendees. In 2011, Homeland Security put out a video portraying white people as the most likely terrorists.
Google: Concentration camps in America
There are many. They are NOT intended for Muslim terrorists. People in Germany thought the murder of millions of innocents could never happen there. But it did.
I really think Biden is as Bill Cosby says: "Brain Damaged" He once commented on FDR's fireside chats on television (long before TV existed) and recently he was in San Francisco and mixed up the Baseball Giants and the Football 49er's saying he hoped the Giants would win NFC title – well they did that is,,,, the NY Giants. Biden is a brick with arms and legs.
Among the reasons to support gun control is the danger that terrorists have easy access to guns and can use them to carry out murderous attacks.
Do you think that the only sources of guns in this country are gun shops and gun shows? What a simple world you live in. What you are proposing is to disarm the citizenry and ignoring gun traffic across the Mexican border.
Disarming citizens does not in any way exclude disarming non-citizens. Gun traffic across the border should be halted to the extent that it is possible.
So if it clear even to you that non-citizens already ahve access to weapons, what is the point of disarming Americans?
which is disarmin americans. there will always be some guns. but perhaps the best way is to hold the giovt responsible for selling them. gun control has NO effect on non citizens or criminals ability to arm themselves. It has been prooven time and time again. the only reason you stay free is the ability to yourself. The govt and libs have ZERO problem with criminals arming themselves, thats a farce. they dont want avg deecent citizens to protect themselves. a gang banger with a bat is more dangerous than a citizen with a .50cal
What do guns matter? Anyone with a high school education should be able to walk in to a home center or wall mart and walk out with a decent bomb.
Or at least they would have before the curriculum was dumbed down, like it is today.
I doubt someone like Bashy Quraishy will like or even read this article. It not only shows Muslims in a bad light,it also shows them attacking Americans. There's no way in the world he'll care about the American victims of his co-religionists. He's proved that repeatedly on this website.
War on Islamists__Yea, that's right, I said it, "ISLAMISTS"-Muslims who think that this and this ideology based on a self made dictator and nothing more, gives them the divine right to kill, lie, torture, rape, enslave, kidnap and all other acts that depict the darker side of humanity. Make no mistake about it, we are at war with them and if our current administration (and hopefully soon to be ex-administration) actually think that we aren't then I suggest they look at history because Islam have been at war with us for a very long time now. In fact, since it's birth, just about, they have been at war with everyone who isn't of Islam. (cont'd)
agreed there is no such thing as 'moderate islam' either you are a jihadist or an apostate. but to believe that islam can be tamed is suicide. our failure to admit this simple truth is costing us lives. islam must be destroyed and its followers killed and rendered moot. anyone wants to disagree bring it, but remember that my way works, yours dosent and its being proved over and over again with the deaths of American troops as the legacy of PC
Terrorism isn't their only tool to conduct jihad. It seems lately their main tool are LIBERALS, spineless wonders who seem to be open gateways for these goons. It's easy to point them out. There the ones yelling, "freedom of religion" (for any religion other than Christianity), "christians are just as guilty of attrocities as Muslims so who are you to judge"…..They are the ones yelling "separation of church and state when Jews or Christians get in an uproar over godlessness" yet are dispicably silent when Muslims want to impose Shari'a in a town like Dearborn or want to have a prayer room in a government establishment.
Theres a couple of important pieces of information I'd like to point out in regards to the attrocities committed by Christians during the Christian Crusades. (cont'd)
First off, what you don't hear about in grade schools and universities are the ISLAMIC CRUSADES that took place before the Christian Crusades. The Christian Crusades were basically a retaliation for what the Islamists did. Also, when the Christians committed these detestable acts they were in violation with the teachings of Jesus however then the Islamists committed these attrocities they were in exact compliance with the teachings of Muhammad, something that the liberal, left leaning, American hating, godless community leaves out when they brainwash our kids. I guess we've already been trained that it's unacceptable and rude to offend Islam. What I find truly detestable is the unspoken fearful attitude we have in confronting it. The fact that we can't openly speak about it should present a problem to anyone not deserving of the title "GUTLESS" I'm sorry, but you know, that's the only word outside of profantity that I can honestly come up with that will describe what the current PC cesspool have turned this once proud nation into.
of the only two successful attacks on US soil since 9/11 (Little Rock Recruiting Center and Fort Hood).
The vast overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are non-violent stealth and deceptive jihadists that believe violent jihad attacks are counterproductive and harmful, because they invite wars against Muslims and also because they attract unwanted scrutiny, attention, and focus on Islam.
Indeed, non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad, such as mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme, relative to violent jihad attacks is employed by the Islamic world against the West astronomically far more prevalently and constitutes an exponentially far greater threat to the continued peace, prosperity, freedom, and security of the West.
Non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad is also what makes violent jihad attacks in the West possible. As a matter of fact, without a population of stealth Muslim jihadists already living in America as a convenient fifth column, the 9/11 jihad attacks would have been absolutely impossible. Without a convenient fifth column of stealth jihadists living in America and actively pursuing Dawa, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad could never have been converted to Islam. Without a convenient fifth column of stealth jihadists living in America, Major Nidal Hasan never could have perpetrated his violent jihad attack since he never would have been allowed in America in the first place.
Hence, the only common sense solution is to outlaw Islam and ban and reverse mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP. As Muslims never ever migrate to the West or anywhere else for that matter to assimilate and integrate, but instead to eventually subjugate and dominate via the eventual imposition of Sharia for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.
Indeed, anywhere and everywhere mass Muslim immigration is occurring in the world today, just like clockwork the vast overwhelming majority of Muslim immigrants flat out refuse to assimilate and integrate and instead form segregated Muslim only enclaves that over time inevitably morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia as fifth columns and in direct contravention to laws of the states in which they reside. Indeed, the government of France a few years ago counted 758 Muslim no-go zones in France alone.
Look what happened in Cote D'Ivoire last year, when the Muslims imposed Sharia on the country and at the same time not only rendered Cote D'Ivoire into the Dar al Islam, but also rendered the Christians, animists, and all other non-Muslim unbelievers into harsh and degrading dhimmitude. Indeed, Cote D'Ivoire was a victim of mass Muslim legal and illegal immigration for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.
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Non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad via mass Muslim immigration for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest is also happening in Nigeria today where the Christians are being driven out of the Muslim North via violent jihad attacks. Soon they will impose Sharia on all of Nigeria and like Cote D'Ivoire, the Christians, animists, and all non-Muslim unbelievers will also be rendered into harsh and degrading dhimmitude. The same process is also ongoing in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan today as well. As all those countries are in the latter stages of stealth demographic conquest.
Indeed, what we see happening in Cote D'Ivoire, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan today will also be happening in the USA and Europe tomorrow unless we make a course correction by outlawing Islam and banning and reversing mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP.
Not to mention that we also can't afford to continue accommodating mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage, as GWB like a Dhimmicrat on steroids used the 9/11 jihad attacks as a crisis to justify doubling the size, scope, and power of the federal government and to usurp our heretofore constitutionally protected rights and freedoms, ostensibly to protect the homeland, but in reality to create a false sense of security necessary so that the US could continue accommodating mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage. Thus, the instant the economy headed south in 2008, the national dept inevitably exploded through the roof and today we are on the fast track to becoming the next Greece.
Meanwhile, at the same time we are currently gutting our military and contemplating making draconian budget cuts. Why? To continue accommodating mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage.
Indeed, if GWB had employed common sense instead of employing big government leftism, not only would the national debt not be exploding through the roof and be out of control like it is today, but all those innocent Americans that were murdered in cold blood in violent jihad attacks in Arkansas and Texas would still all be alive and well today.
It's not rocket science, zero Muslim stealth jihadists living in America as a fifth column not only negates the threat of violent jihad attacks, but at the same time also ends the much greater threat presented via non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad from mass Muslim immigration for the purpose of stealth demographic conquest. Thus, we could simply roll back all the senseless expansion in the size, scope, and power of the federal government and at the same time get our financial house back in order.
Exactly! no need to disarm the 'good' guys! the bad will always have weapons.
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