AP: In Wake of NYC Islamic Jihad, The Real Victims Are…Muslims – "Mosques Near NYC Face Hostility"
Pamela Geller November 4, 2017
Sixteen years after September 11th, this is what we've come to.
Bloodshed, mangled bodies, children who have lost their mothers, mothers who have lost their sons or daughters in the cause of Allah are the pretext to a massive media propaganda campaign to promote Islam (it's peace), enforce sharia (opposition to jihad terror is "islamophobia") and to apologize to the real victims, Muslims.
It is clear that Islamic supremacist groups and terror-tied Muslim groups like CAIR look forward to these jihad bloodbaths, rubbing their hooves in glee.
The media chases after them like dogs, running CAIR's deceitful dawah verbatim.
Terror-tied groups get massive airtime to proselytize for Islam and defame and smear any American who opposes jihad terror.
Who held the first press conference after the San Bernardino attacks, attended by all mass media? Hamas-linked CAIR.
The quotes that the AP uses in the article (scroll) are pro-terror and viciously anti-American, and yet the hard-left news org sees this as honorable and sympathetic.
Note the AP headline: "Bike path killings" – yes, it was an attack on bike paths.
"Allahu Akbar!" Rant
New York Times: Don't Be Afraid of "Allahu Akbar," It's Just an "Everyday Phrase"
Becoming Numb To Mass Murder Terror Attacks ' A Good Thing,' Vox Writes
New Yorker on NYC jihad massacre: terror is "evil opposite" of Islam, Muslims "fear being tarred"
NY Deputy Police Commissioner: "This isn't about Islam, this isn't about the mosque he attends"
Dhimmi de Blasio: "Last thing we should do is start casting dispersions [sic] on whole races of people or whole religions"
VIDEO: Jake Tapper insists that 'Allahu Akbar' can be beautiful in wake of NYC jihad slaughter
Muslims in NJ City Fear Another Backlash After Latest Attack
Uzbek Muslims face new fears after deadly truck attack in NYC
Sharia-compliant NBC News reports on non-existent "backlash" against Muslim Americans in wake of NYC Islamic attack
IN AFTERMATH OF BIKE PATH KILLINGS, MOSQUES NEAR NYC FACE HOSTILITY AGAIN
Much like after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Muslims who object to terrorism are the targets of threats.
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
PATERSON, N.J. — In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest terror attack in the U.S.
Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim man accused of using a truck to mow down people on a New York City bike path in the name of the Islamic State militant group, lived in Paterson.
Dr. Mohammad Qatanani, imam at a mosque in Paterson, N.J., says that after Tuesday's bike path attack and arrest of a Muslim man, "It's the same feeling (that followed the Sept. 11 attacks). People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people."
The city saw a surge of anti-Muslim harassment after 9/11, particularly after it was learned that as many as a half-dozen of the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field lived or spent time in Paterson, which is 20 miles outside New York.
After the attack Tuesday that left eight people dead, "it's the same feeling again," said Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, the region's most influential mosque. "People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people. Because this guy was a Muslim, Muslims will be blamed anywhere and everywhere."
THREATS AGAINST MOSQUES BEGIN
By Thursday, it had already begun. The Islamic Center of Passaic County had received eight telephone threats, prompting police to assign extra patrols to the area.
"They say they're going to kill us, they're going to burn the place down, all using extremely foul language," said the mosque's president, Omar Awad. "They say, 'We're going to come rip your … beard off.' "
The New Jersey office of the Council on American Islamic Relations reported that threats had also been made against the Omar Mosque, next door to the apartment house where Saipov lived. Mosque officials did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
Tensions have flared within the Muslim community as well, with two men getting into a fistfight at a mosque in a dispute over the cause of Saipov's alleged radicalization.
Until this week, Saipov, who came to the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan, was just one more recent arrival in a city that is home to immigrants from more than four dozen countries.
Neighborhoods have been dubbed Little Ramallah or Little Istanbul for their respective Arab and Turkish residents. Peru has a consulate in the city to serve the large number of Peruvians.
Islamic leaders in the city of 147,000 people estimate Paterson's Muslim population at 25,000 to 30,000. The Islamic Center of Passaic County, formed nearly three decades ago in Paterson, draws about 2,000 people for Friday communal prayers.
Now some are afraid they will be made to answer for the actions of a man who many leaders of the community say they didn't know.
What are Muslim leaders doing to teach against these Quranic texts and Hadith that call for jihad.
Saipov did not attend the Passaic County mosque, Qatanani said. As for the Omar Mosque, congregants disagreed over whether he prayed there.
Ramy Elhelw, 30, of Hoboken, said he never saw Saipov there. "This is not somebody we recognize in any way, shape or form," Elhelw said. "A person who does something of this nature is a deranged human being."
THE PATH TO RADICALIZATION
But Abu Mohammed, a 46-year-old Palestinian construction worker and olive oil importer who came to America at 18, said he saw Saipov worship there.
He condemned Saipov's alleged crimes, but he also said he understands what can send a law-abiding Muslim down the path of radicalization.
"It's simple: They see the U.S. terrorizing Muslims left and right for the last 27 years, hundreds of thousands of them," Mohammed said. "That's terrorism, and terrorism creates terrorists. The one who starts the fight is more guilty."
Upon hearing Mohammed's remarks to reporters at the Omar Mosque, an elderly man yelled at him and punched him in the face, and they scuffled.
He punched him for telling the truth. That is said at that mosque all the time.
After 9/11, Muslims in and around Paterson reported that people screamed anti-Muslim insults and threw objects at them, particularly after false rumors spread that people were dancing in the streets to celebrate the attacks. Several Muslims were assaulted, and mosques received bomb threats.
Since then, Muslim leaders have gone to great lengths to try to ease the hostility by reaching out to law enforcement officials and local residents. The local FBI office, which began meeting with Paterson Muslims in 1999, said tips and other information from the Muslim community were extremely helpful after the 9/11 attacks, and they praised local residents who served as translators when investigators did interviews.
Many people here worry that President Trump's statements – including calling Saipov an "animal" – will inflame tensions.
Aref Assaf, a Palestinian active in Paterson's Muslim community, said Muslims have been at the forefront of efforts to counter extremism.
"This guilt by association is hurtful for those of us who are working so hard to see this curse wiped from the face of the Earth," Assaf said.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
Previous US Begins First Airstrikes On ISIS In Somalia
Next Deserter Bowe Bergdahl Gets Dishonorable Discharge But No Prison Time - Despite The Lives He Cost