The problem is us
IBD writes about the Holy Land Foundation trial that we’ve previously discussed:
several leaders of the Muslim establishment in America last decade conspired to infiltrate the U.S. political system, change Middle East policy and gradually Islamize America. At the same time, they hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists. Of course, they couldn’t do this out in the open. So they set up benign-sounding nonprofits and charities to “camouflage” their traitorous activities…
During a secret meeting at a Philadelphia hotel, the charity’s president and other prominent Muslim leaders were recorded allegedly plotting ways to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charity. “I swear by Allah that war is deception,” said Shukri Abu-Baker, now on trial in the federal terror-funding case. “We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart…Deceive, camouflage, pretend that you’re leaving while you’re walking that way. Deceive your enemy.”…
Sami Al-Arian: The popular and respected Muslim activist was a White House guest of both presidents Clinton and Bush. He assured his hosts he was both peace-loving and patriotic. “I am a very moderate Muslim person,” he said. “I also condemn violence in all its forms.” All the while, Al-Arian was secretly running a U.S. beachhead for Palestinian terrorists…
Abdurahman Alamoudi: This pillar of the Muslim community also went from the White House to the Big House. But not before developing the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplain corps, and acting as a goodwill ambassador for the State Department. He, too, strongly denounced terror. “We are against all forms of terrorism,” he claimed. “Our religion is against terrorism.” Privately, however, he raised major funds for al-Qaida and was caught on tape grumbling that Osama bin Laden hadn’t killed enough Americans…
he was recorded saying the following: “Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you. Either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I think if we are outside this country, we can say, ‘Oh, Allah, destroy America.’ But once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.”…Five days after the 9/11 attacks, he called them “legitimate” and rallied young Muslim men at his mosque to carry out more “holy war” and “violent jihad.”
We can hardly expect others not to take their religion seriously, and if that turns a good number of them into Islamic supremacists, that is, in one sense, entirely Islam’s problem, not ours. It is our responsibility not to be the gulls and dupes of those who want to deceive and conquer us. In this task Americans — at least the leaders, the media, and a good portion of the population — are currently failing.