From Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, The Free Beacon reports that the mosque attended by the NOLA Jihadist taught fairly standard Democrat progressive doctrine.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Islamic terrorist who killed 14 people in the New Year's Eve attack on New Orleans, lived near a Houston mosque led by a radical imam who once preached that Hitler massacred Jews because "they like to take control of the economy," video footage shows.
The Jewish people "have many problems, but that's one of the main problems--they like to take control of the economy," Imam Eiad Soudan of Houston's Masjid Bilal mosque said in November 2023, according to footage released by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "Everywhere they go, whatever is the rule, as long as they get to the goal, the means don't matter."
"They seek corruption in the land," Soudan continued. "Hitler hated the Israelites so bad because of the economy thing, they were in control of the economy." He referred to Hitler as "this guy ... with the nice moustache."
Also at Instapundit: Mosque Near Home Of New Orleans Attacker Reportedly Tells Locals Not To Speak Directly To Feds Or Media. Hit the link for that.
If Islam really were the religion of peace that virtually every non-Muslim politician in the Western world has been insisting it is for the last twenty-plus years, we would expect a certain kind of reaction from the mosque that jihad mass murderer Shamsud-Din Jabbar frequented. Yet a mosque that is within walking distance of Jabbar's Houston home has offered just the opposite reaction. Law enforcement and intelligence officials are unlikely to take any notice, lost as they are in woke dogmas and fantasies, but if protecting the American people were their first priority, they would be paying close attention.
On Wednesday afternoon, Masjid Bilal ISGH (Islamic Society of Greater Houston) issued this statement:
Assalamu Alaikum [Peace be upon you] Brothers and Sisters,I'm sure many of you have heard about the tragic events that took place in New Orleans this morning that are now being classified as an "act of terror" by the FBI.
I want to emphasize the importance of everyone to stay very vigilant and aware of your surroundings. The safety of our community is the most important thing.
Only their own community's safety is important.
If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do not respond. If approached by the FBI and a response is necessary, please refer to CAIR and ISGH.It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts. Please stay safe.
JazakAllahu Khairun [May Allah reward you with blessings]
Masjid Bilal Management
This statement was as notable for what it didn't say as for what it did. The mosque expressed no shock, horror, or even disapproval of Jabbar's jihad attack. It offered no condolences to the families of the victims. It offered nothing regarding what it planned to do to ensure that other members of the congregation didn't misunderstand Islam in the way that Shamsud-Din Jabbar supposedly did. It didn't include a word about cooperating with law enforcement efforts, or affirming the mosque members' patriotism and renunciation of jihad violence.
Douglas Murray states the obvious truth, which is no minor thing in the Empire of Lies.
[I]t is obvious that a considerable campaign of recruitment inside the United States is still ongoing. The New Orleans terrorist appears to have been radicalized while in the United States. Whether that was online or via a network within the US will soon be learned.
But we should hope that the full force of the law -- and law enforcement agencies -- comes down on any and all such groupings.
Many in the intelligence community and the police are indeed working hard on such cases. But there is a societal torpor about this work.
If the New Years Eve attack had not been jihadist, but had -- for instance -- been some far-right white supremacist, every corner of our media and politics would be rightly lining up to demand answers. We would be asking who the people were who had put such a person up to such an attack. Who had helped him? Who had encouraged him? Who had said it was all right -- in fact good -- to do such a thing?
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Even after almost a quarter of a century, it is still different with jihadists. There are too many people who think that there are "cultural sensitivities" that have to be respected. People talk about making sure that whole communities are -- rightly -- not smeared by association.
Yet if people are worried about guilt by association, why not cut that out by being very clear indeed about the sort of people, including Muslims, who do in fact encourage terrorism?
Take the most prominent Muslim group in the United States -- the Council on American Islamic Relations. As well as being an unindicted co-conspirator in past terrorism cases, CAIR�s leadership is still full of people who are not anti-terror, but actually pro-terror.
It is quite an achievement if you think about it. To lead a Muslim American organization and praise terrorism, only to then complain that too many people conflate Muslims and terrorism. Ever think you�re part of the problem, guys?
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The fact that there isn't more outrage about groups like CAIR and people like Awad is because they are not as rare as we might wish. And there is too little wider societal courage to call these people out.
That is a very incisive point. If this really were just a few rogue Muslims, there would be no "cultural sensitivities" about denouncing Islamist terrorism.
The trouble is that there is a widespread and popular support for terrorism in the Muslim community -- that's why there are "cultural sensitivities." If this really were "just some extremists," no one, Christian Jewish or Muslim, would have any problem condemning jiahdism.
But it's not "just some extremists." Support for terrorism is common among Muslims, and thus the "sensitivities."
In happier news: Israel vaporized one of the perpetrators of the October 7th terror-rape attack.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) announced Tuesday it launched a drone strike that killed a top Hamas commander who was behind last year's Oct. 7 attack on the Kibbutz Nir Oz.
The IDF identified Hamas commander Abd al-Hadi Sabah as the perpetrator behind the kibbutz attack, which resulted in the deaths or capture of nearly half of the community's 400 residents, per Fox News. The kibbutz is located in southern Israel, near the Gaza border.
Sabah was discovered hiding in a shelter in a designated humanitarian area of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, the IDF said.
Of course. Of course.
Cowardly savages.