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Religion of Peace Update

Posted on | November 27, 2010 | 13 Comments

No sooner had I compiled an extensive report on the rape jihad in England than we have this headline:

Somali-American accused of plotting
to bomb Oregon tree-lighting event

Sven Olsen Mohamed Mohamud had gotten in touch with an “unindicted associate” in Sweden Pakistan and expressed an interest in anti-abortion activism “violent jihad.” So the feds arranged a sting and supplied the fanatical Lutheran Muslim with a van rigged up with phony explosives:

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody.
Mohamud yelled “Allahu Akhbar” and tried to kick agents and police as the arrest came, according to prosecutors.

Of course, if Mohamed Mohamud and Sven Olsen were both boarding a plane in Portland, the decision of whether Mohamed or Sven got an enhanced TSA screening would have to be as random as a coin-flip. Or else the ACLU would say “Allahu Akhbar” “see you in court.”

More at Memeorandum.

UPDATE: We now have a photo of the suspect, and a report from the New York Times, which includes this stunning paragraph:

The arrest marks another episode in which Somalian-Americans are accused of radicalism. In 2009, after a sweeping federal investigation of more than 20 young Americans believed to have joined a militant Islamist group in Somalia, authorities charged two of the men with providing material support for terrorism. In 2008, another man under investigation blew himself up in an attack in Somalia, becoming the first known American suicide bomber.

Did you see that? They said “militant Islamist”! The New York Times actually referred to the Religion of Peace™ by name! That’s Change We Can Believe In.

Meanwhile, the FBI’s press release about the arrest is online.

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin posts photos of the “broad strata of society” implicated in jihadi terrorism.

UPDATE III: The word for this is “pathetic”:

I’m not aware that any “right wing blogs” tried to “turn this into a defeat for the Obama administration” and I certainly didn’t make any partisan political references.

Michelle Malkin does make an important point when she says, “Violent jihad. Two words the current occupant of the White House won’t say together and about which he remains in stubborn denial.”

But then again, Malkin also often excoriated the previous occupant of the White House — that would be the Republican, President Bush — when he rhetorically obscured the specific nature of the jihadist danger.

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  • http://norunnyeggs.com steveegg

    Of course, if Mohamed Mohamud and Sven Olsen were both boarding a plane in Portland, the decision of whether Mohamed or Sven got an enhanced TSA screening would have to be as random as a coin-flip. Or else the ACLU would say “Allahu Akhbar” “see you in court.”

    And if Mohamud were cross-dressing in a burka, the TSA would be forced to let him go on his merry way to joining 72 others dressed like him.

  • http://norunnyeggs.com steveegg

    Of course, if Mohamed Mohamud and Sven Olsen were both boarding a plane in Portland, the decision of whether Mohamed or Sven got an enhanced TSA screening would have to be as random as a coin-flip. Or else the ACLU would say “Allahu Akhbar” “see you in court.”

    And if Mohamud were cross-dressing in a burka, the TSA would be forced to let him go on his merry way to joining 72 others dressed like him.

  • Anonymous

    WTF are there so many Somalis allowed to immigrate and become naturalized citizens. What special skills do these people possess that we don’t already have on hand? Please explain this to me.

  • Neil

    That’s odd, no mention by CNN of his religion or political affiliation. Would that have been the case if a Christian and/or Tea Partier and/or Republican had been the attemped bomber?

  • Anonymous

    What special skills do these people possess that we don’t already have on hand?

    In the D.C. area, there are lots of Somalis — and Ethiopians and Eritreans — working as cab drivers. In times of famine and civil war, many were admitted as refugees. The “family reunification” provisions of the immigration law (Ted Kennedy’s legacy) mean that once Immigrant X establishes himself as a naturalized citizen, he can then bring over Brother Y and Sister Z, who bring over their spouses and children, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

    As Peter Brimelow has explained, this kind of “chain immigration” is really at the root of America’s immigration problem. There is seldom any objection to the arrival of one or two families — Mexican or Malaysian or Mongolian or whatever — in a community. What tends to cause problems is when you have a fairly rapid influx of one group, who cluster together in enclaves, so that suddenly there is a section of town known as “Little Tijuana.”

    Such problems might be averted by wise policy reforms and common-sense administration. But wisdom and common sense are shouted down by Democratic politicians — who aim to exploit immigrants as an electoral bloc — and identity-politics practicioners, while liberals in the media wring their hands over exaggerated fears of provoking “backlash” if they report accurately about the problems.

  • http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/ Old Rebel

    But it’s not just the Democrats — “Boy Genius” Rove imagined he and W were going to transform Hispanics into Republicans by backing amnesty.

    Both parties are busily electing a new people.

  • Ellie Light

    Why are we allowing Muslims into this country?

  • http://twitter.com/RightKlik RightKlik

    I don’t want to reinforce unfair stereotypes, but I was really surprised this guy didn’t turn out to be a disgruntled right-wing Tea Partier protesting the health reform bill.

  • Charles Johnson

    You are all just raaaaacists.

  • http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson

    I love being smug.

  • Charles Johnson

    So what is wrong with a war on Christmas?

  • Quartermaster

    Islam is the religion of pieces, not peace. Muslim immigration needs to ended 20 years ago and the overwhelming majority of those here thrown out. We’ve imported a fifth column.

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