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The Investigative
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July 15, 2016
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Award-Winning Documentary About Islamic Terrorists Becomes Hate Speech
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At what point over
the past 20 years did citing statements and literature by Islamic
terrorists become banned "hate speech?"
A documentary that I produced in 1994 for PBS concerning civilizational
jihad won numerous awards, yet YouTube in recent days removed a video
posted by CounterJihad that covered the very same topic in much more
limited scope.
Both my film, "Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America," and
CounterJihad's "Killing for a Cause: Sharia Law & Civilizational
Jihad" expose the Islamification of the West waged by the Muslim
Brotherhood and its front organizations in the U.S. The Brotherhood, born
in Egypt in 1928, is the fountainhead of nearly every deadly Islamist
organization on the planet today.
I quoted Abdullah
Azzam, the Muslim leader most responsible for expanding the jihad into
an international holy war, speaking in Brooklyn, N.Y.: "The jihad, the
fighting, is obligatory on you wherever you can perform it. And just as
when you are in America you must fast – unless you are ill or on a voyage –
so, too, must you wage jihad. The word jihad means fighting only, fighting
with the sword."
CounterJihad quotes from a Brotherhood governing
document: "The (Muslim Brotherhood) must understand that their
work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the
Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by
their hands and the hands of the believers."
YouTube in its "hate speech" policy explains that it refers
"to content that promotes violence or hatred against individuals or
groups based on certain attributes, such as: race or ethnic origin,
religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation/gender
identity."
Neither project did any such thing.
All that's changed over the past two decades is the ability of Muslim
Brotherhood front groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) to successfully exert their will on a very sensitive and politically
correct media and cultural elite.
YouTube eventually reposted CounterJihad's video, but the
exercise is telling.
CAIR and its cohorts -- including the Muslim Public Affairs Council and
the Islamic Circle of North America -- spend millions to portray all
Muslims as the real victims of every Islamic terrorist massacre against
innocent Westerners.
After every Islamist terror attack, they rush to the microphones to
blame U.S. foreign policy for inciting the sadistic killers, often before
law enforcement confirms anything. They reinforce recruitment propaganda
that says the West has engaged in a "war
with Islam" and therefore deflect responsibility from the
murderers themselves.
Their latest stunt is a report on the contrived
term "Islamophobia," which suggests that those who fear Islamic
terrorism are racist and behave irrationally toward Muslims.
They have become incredibly effective at inflaming tensions between
Muslims and Westerners, who by and large harbor no ill will toward each
other.
Their "war on Islam" and claims of Islamophobia distract from
the underlying agenda of Islamic terrorists.
They intend to establish a global empire known as a Caliphate governed
by Sharia law. They are engaged in a full-scale overt and covert war to
cripple every Western ideal that stands in their way.
CAIR sabotages prospects of unification by telling Muslim Americans to
not cooperate with law
enforcement. They assist in raising money for radical mosques and their
fiery imams in the U.S. through their actions. They preach solidarity with
their Middle Eastern terrorist overseers.
CAIR's roots are firmly planted
in a Hamas-support network in the U.S. created by the Muslim
Brotherhood. Every statement it issues includes that asterisk at the end,
although one would be hard-pressed to find anyone working in the media
brave enough to cite it.
San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook and Orlando gunman Omar
Mateen found resonance in the videos of the late al-Qaida ideologue Anwar
al-Awlaki, which indoctrinated them with radical Islamist teachings and
instructed them to become martyrs. The jihadists behind the carnage in
Brussels and Paris were all directed and influenced by ISIS.
Let's stop the nonsense.
By portraying all non-Muslims as enemies, CAIR and its allies fail to
educate anyone about the true nature of Islamic terrorism.
If CAIR and its fellow travelers were truly concerned about Muslims in
the U.S., they should reject assaults on the values of Western culture and
condemn those who exploit Islam as the inspiration for horrific murders.
That's not hate speech. It is a truth that was just as valid 20 years
ago as it is today.
Steven Emerson is the Executive Director of the Investigative Project on
Terrorism.
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