Muslim terrorists are killing innocent civilians, and their acts are crimes that are unacceptable to any religion or body of law. They are also fodder for the enemies of Islam and Muslims to go beyond the terrorists and attack Islam itself, which is another crime. After the terror in Boston, the enemies of Islam found a golden opportunity to portray Islam as a religion of the sword (the word sword is never mentioned in the Quran) and all Muslims as terrorists. By contrast, there were fair-minded observers in the media who noted the hyperbole of the enemies of Muslims, such as the Likudniks of America, the pro-Israel lobby, and the advocates of war. I read the following headlines in this regard: - 5 of the Worst Reactions to the Boston Manhunt - 7 Worst Islamophobic Reactions to the Boston Bombing - The worst reactions to the Boston Marathon bombings - Worst reactions during the Boston manhunt In this column, I can only choose examples of the bad responses. These include the call by Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York who once backed the terrorists in Northern Island, to spy on Muslim Americans. The Likud-leaning National Review quoted King as saying that the police must infiltrate the Muslim community, and build up sources (of information) within the community as the threat comes from the latter. He also called for increased surveillance there. For his part, evangelist Pat Robertson said: Do not talk to me about “the religion of peace." This is not true. Meanwhile, Eric Rush, a frequent Fox News contributor, wrote sarcastically on Twitter that more Saudis should be invited to the Boston Marathon. When a reader asked him whether he was accusing the Muslims of being behind the bombing, he wrote, “Yes, they're evil. Let's kill them all." I spotted more bad responses, without any effort, in the media that I follow each day. Likud-leaning Commentary magazine raised the issue of immigration from Islamic countries, which members of Congress want to restrict. In another article citing that the two terrorist brothers had unlicensed arms, someone opposed any restrictions on bearing arms in the United States because any bid to do so would arguably fail. Another Likudnik website, which attacks Islam every day, chose to write about “the Islam Bomb" in one article, and how “Islam's World War Came to Boston" in another. Other articles warned of Islamic sleeper cells and an armed family in the neighborhood, and some even attempted to find “Saudi Connection to Boston Bombing." One article even bore the title “Calling Islam ‘Islam'," in the sense of being terroristic, and the article claimed Islam was the enemy. Another article was titled “God made me do it (the terror attack)." Perhaps I could return the accusations to those making them. Indeed, behind the large-scale and deliberate attack on Islam, is an attempt to cover up the role of the neoconservatives (all the examples above come from their symbols and their mouthpieces) in inciting Chechen extremists, such as the two brothers, against Russia. The despicable extremist James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, wrote in The Guardian back in 2004 that the Chechens were America's allies, and that the neocon war on terror did not include them. There is even a neocon outfit called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC), which comprises symbols from the war cabal like Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Midge Decter, Frank Gaffney, and Michael Ledeen. All these individuals from the ACPC are Likudnik Jewish Americans who had lobbied for war on Iraq since the 1990s, and before the terror attacks of 9/11. Today, I accuse them of killing one million Arabs and Muslims based on fabricated premises to serve Israel, using the lives of young American soldiers in foreign lands. They are terrorists of the same ilk as those of al-Qaeda and Chechnya. Terror is one and the same everywhere, and we, the Americans, and the whole world are paying the price of mutual terrorism. [email protected]
