We are all aware of the barbaric acts of ISIS, al Qaeda and the others flying the Black Flag. Sadly their violence continues to kill innocents around the world and here at home. They fight in the cause of Jihad to impose their totalitarian religion on all people. But they are not the only ones working toward that goal. There are other Islamist groups who seem much less dangerous on the surface, but actually represent an even more insidious threat to free western society. They seek to use our very freedoms as weapons against us.
Yesterday, we reported on the vast increase in crime in Germany associated with Muslim migrants. Police cannot keep up with the wave of assaults, according to their internal memos, because Islam’s sectarian feuds have come with the refugees:
The previous year, that police agency had responded 93,000 times to assaults sparked by Muslim migrants. Most of those were not sexual assaults, but violent clashes brought on by the imported ethnic and sectarian hatreds the migrants brought with them. In addition, the report noted, Islamist recruiting was flourishing in migrant camps.
The story played out this Easter in Glasgow, Scotland. There Asad Shah, a Muslim man who was a good neighbor and a beloved shopkeeper, was murdered because of an ethnic feud imported from his native Pakistan. Tanveer Ahmed, a Sunni Muslim also from Pakistan, traveled 200 miles to kill Shah. Shah’s crime was partially that he wished Christian neighbors a happy Easter. But his bigger crime was belonging to a persecuted Islamic minority, the Ahmedi Muslims.
[O]nly the stone-cold and heartless could ignore the campaign of persecution that has been unleashed since upon Ahmadis by my fellow Sunni Muslims… [W]e would prefer to assume the best in Muslims, and insist that the extremists are but a “tiny minority.” A closer look reveals a dispiriting and disturbing truth.
This is because, as the previous case of Salmaan Taseer highlighted, to defend “blasphemers” in Pakistan is likely to get you killed even if you’re the powerful governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s richest province. Taseer’s killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was recently executed by the Pakistani state, but nevertheless glorified and anointed by the inquisitor mullahs…
After Qadri’s execution… Muslim leadership held widespread street protests in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, demanding that the government accept a list of their demands. These included imposing their version of Sharia as law, to immediately execute all blasphemers… the immediate release of all those convicted for killing to defend the “honor of the Prophet”… to expel all members of the Ahmedi community from Pakistan (that’s 2 percent of the population), and to terminate immediately the positions of Ahmedis working in government departments.
There’s a modest list of demands. The institution of sharia law, the execution of blasphemers, pardons for murders of ‘those who slander the prophet of Islam,’ and nation-wide ethnic cleansing.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Obama administration have joined in endorsing a heckler’s veto on freedom of speech in violation of America’s most deeply-held political principles.
In sharia, the word translated as “slander” is the Arabic word ghiba. It means to say anything about someone that they do not like, even though it is true.
Ambassador Ron Dermer said that the Southern Poverty Law Center claims to defend tolerance for those who "look different," but works to suppress those who "think different."