Thursday, November 19, 2009

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 07:27 PM PST

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good
men do nothing" Edmund Burke

As the story of Nidal
Hassan unfolds, it becomes painfully clear that the Jihadi Shrink who
opened fire on US troops at Fort Hood did everything but spray paint,
"I Am Going To Kill You All" on the wall, before he actually
carried out his attack. Not only did Hassan put a Jihadist abbreviation on
his business cards, he delivered repeated lectures justifying Jihad,
accused the soldiers he was supposed to treat of War Crimes and was
already being investigated for contacts with Al Queda and for defending
suicide bombing online.

At a time when snow globes are
banned at airports and detectors are positioned in every Federal building,
in the heart of the United States Army, a Jihadist like Nidal Hassan could
openly and freely express his sympathies and affinity for terrorism. But
the thing that Nidal Hassan had going for him, that the snow globes and
baby bottles filled with breast milk didn't, is that Hassan was a Muslim,
and ever since 9/11, Americans have been repeatedly warned against
criticizing Islam. Told over and over again that Islam is the Religion of
Peace, and that just because all our foreign terrorists happen to be
Muslims acting in the name of Islam does not actually matter. Just as all
those Japanese planes flying toward Pearl Harbor and the German factories
producing tanks meant nothing in the 1930's.

Hassan's superiors
were well aware of what he was, but none of them wanted to risk a charge
of Islamophobia. And so they remained silent and soldiers died. That is
not a chant you will hear from anti-war activists at the gates of the
White House, but that is exactly what happened. And Hassan's case is from
unique. There is no telling how many terrorists have flown under the radar
because officials were afraid to be accused of profiling or charged with
racism. We may never know what reports were never paid attention to
because it has become more acceptable to lose American lives, than detain
a Muslim.

In the face of Islamic terror, there are endless desks
staffed by good men who do nothing and say nothing. Because they have been
told that it is more important to be silent, than to take action, when it
comes to the Islamic Jihad against all non-Muslims. It is more important
to search everyone, than to profile Muslim terrorists. It is better to
have lax security, than to have good security that may make some of our
friends from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan feel upset. That is how we did it
before 9/11. And that is how we are doing it today, as Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed gets his lawyers and the media does the hard work of
manufacturing Nidal Hassan's PTSD by Proxy defense for him out of thin
air, and the radical Imams whom Nidal Hassan came into contact with are
whitewashed with the usual thin paste of the Religion of Peace.

But silence on Islam kills. It kills when we remain silent about
the Nidal Hassans in our midst. It kills when people look away as honor
killings among Muslim families continues to grow. It kills as Muslim gangs
like the Muslim Boys in the UK form and it kills as Muslim riots claim the
lives of innocent people, as they repeatedly do in Europe. But when it
comes to Muslims, there is a code of silence that falls over even the most
committed officials. A directive that warns them to look away, to make
excuses and to blame anything and everything but Islam. To deny the truth
and cover up the crime.

While Hassan is one example of the cost of
silence, honor killings are another. The willingness of American and
European social workers to ignore abuse in Muslim families as "part of
their culture" or worse yet to recruit Muslim police officers who often
take the victim right back to the abuser, is part of the same Culture of
Silence on Islam.

As Nidal Hassan spun his web of hate
right in the faces of the men and women who were supposed to stop his
kind, Honor Killings develop right in front of the faces of those who are
supposed to prevent them. And both Hassan and Honor Killings share a
common premise, the belief by Muslims that in the absence of Sharia, or
Islamic Law, they have the right to apply Sharia and take the law into
their own hands.

While it is easy to try and dismiss Islamic crimes
as emotional or disturbed. To assume that a man who opens fire on soldiers
or a father who kills his own daughter is crazy, that is an American
interpretation of events. One that treats behavior deviating from social
conventions as demonstrating psychological or emotional instability. But
that presumption ignores the fact that while their behavior may deviate
from American social conventions, they accord with the social conventions
of many Muslim nations.

Nidal Hassan's behavior might seem deranged
to Americans, but is considered normal and praiseworthy back in the
mosques of Gaza or the West Bank. While to his classmates, Hassan might
have seemed deranged, he was in fact a perfectly normal Palestinian Arab
Muslim. The problem was that he happened to be a Palestinian Arab Muslim
living and working among Americans. Yet liberals who routinely boil
everything down to cultural differences can't seem to grasp that the
difference between homicidal mania and religious martyrdom is in this case
a religious and cultural difference as well.

Nidal Hassan did not
just snap one day. Nor did he act out of anger. Instead he studied the
issue. He read the Koran many times. He even tried to distinguish which
soldiers were specifically guilty of death and should be killed. Hassan is
a mass murderer, but he is an Islamic mass murderer, following codes
similar to those used by Al Queda, Hamas and the Taliban. The codes spun
off from the same Islamist teachings that have helped create generations
of willing suicide bombers and willing terrorists.

The actions of
Jordanian, Iraqi and Pakistani men who murder their daughters or sisters
may be abnormal by Western standards, but are behaving in a way that is
considered acceptable and even praiseworthy in their own cultures, where a
family's honor is tied to the chastity of its women, and where individual
rights are subsumed within the family and the tribe. Their behavior is
wrong by objective human standards, but approved of by their culture and
beliefs. And it is unrealistic to imagine that immigration is the same
thing as moral transformation.

Liberals who condemn such talk as
bigoted, are ignoring the fact that it is about ideology, not about race.
Last week the London Times carried an interview with a British former
altar boy who had gone to fight with the Taliban and was eager to kill
fellow British troops. Adam Gadahn, the Al Queda spokesman, is a grandson
of a member of the Board of Directors of the ADL and an editor for The
Chronicle Christian. Jose Padilla started out as a member of a Latin
street gang. The only thing they had in common was not race, but ideology.
The ideology of Islam.

Muslims may be from any race
or ethnicity, but what they have in common is a religion of death that is
dedicated to imposing Islam by stealth, by deceit and by force across the
world. That same ideology has infused the culture of the Muslim world, its
music, its heroes, its literature and its politics. A Muslim immigrant to
the West carries it along with him, and if he does not, he is likely to
become a member of a Wahhabi Mosque that does.

To ignore this and
to remain silent about it, is to allow for the triumph of evil. There is
no telling how many men and women remained silent as Nidal Hassan moved
his way up through the ranks. There is no telling how many more Nidal
Hassans there are in the military, in our schools and neighborhoods and
all around the country. And the curtain of silence that surrounds them
gives them ample room to plot and finally to act.

Silence on Islam
kills. It kills because it turns every Muslim atrocity into a surprise
attack that is quickly stifled, because Islam is the Cult of Death whose
name we dare not speak. And as long as we dare not speak it, evil will
triumph.