What Would It Take For You To Go On Jihad?

What Would It
Take For You To Go On Jihad?
By Robert Spencer

What would it take for you to
commit mass murder in the name of Allah?

Would you do it for money? For
love? Out of a sense of justice? Out of a sense of religious duty?

Absurd as they may seem, these
are serious questions, for as jihad mass-murder plots are being uncovered in
the United States more frequently than ever, those are accused of perpetrating
them and several Islamic groups are increasingly charging entrapment: that
overzealous FBI agents pushed poor innocent Muslims into taking part in a jihad
plot that otherwise would never have existed.

And so it was last Wednesday,
when a young Muslim named Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was
arrested after trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in
front of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City – which he wanted to do, he
said, “for the Muslims,” to “make us one step closer to run the whole world.”

Almost immediately, Islamic supremacists
claimed that Nafis was a victim of entrapment. Cyrus McGoldrick of the New York
chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
tweeted: “FBI leads idiot in an #entrapment case. Thank God we give them so
much money to manufacture crimes.” And Islamic supremacist journalist Mona
Eltahawy, who demonstrated her fascist tendencies by spray-painting over the
American Freedom Defense Initiative’s anti-jihad New York subway ad, claimed: “We’ve
seen many other entrapments here in US.”

Indeed, the same claim has been made in connection
with numerous other jihad cases in the U.S., including that of Mohamed Mohamud,
a Muslim in Portland, Oregon, who tried to murder those who had gathered for
the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Mohamud’s case is similar to Nafis’s,
in that both involved Islamic jihadists attempt to explode bombs that they did
not know were harmless decoys supplied to them by FBI agents, rather than the
real thing. Islamic advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked CAIR have also
complained about law enforcement officials’ use of informants inside mosques,
claiming in some cases that the jihad plots thereby thwarted would never even
have existed in the first place if undercover agents hadn’t started meddling.

Yet charges of entrapment are silly for Quazi
Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, Mohamed
Mohamud or any Muslim caught in a jihad terror plot to try to pursue. For there
is every indication that Nafis and Mohamud were more than willing to do
whatever was necessary to enable them to murder large numbers of Americans. Nafis
himself said that he had come to America from Bangladesh to engage in jihad
activity; his goal being to “destroy America.” Thus blowing up the Federal
Reserve Bank was not something he had to be enticed into doing.

What’s more, the very fact that Nafis went
ahead with his plots ought to be sufficient indication in itself that there was
no entrapment. Think about it: what would it take to lead you to
participate in a terrorist mass-murder plot? If undercover agents approached
you and tried to entice you into working to kill large numbers of innocent
people, how hard would it be to convince you to do it?

Speaking strictly for myself, I have absolutely
no worries of ever being entrapped in this way; there is simply nothing, under
any circumstances, that anyone could say to me to convince me to blow anyone
up. And so if someone showed up and started trying to cajole me into doing so,
I would find him irritating, but I wouldn’t even come close to doing anything
that would enable anyone to portray me as guilty of anything. Quazi
Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis and
Mohamed Mohamud, in contrast, went ahead with their jihad mass-murder plots.
Law enforcement agents were not to blame and cannot justly be held accountable
for their choices.

These increasingly common charges of
entrapment should be seen for what they are: yet another attempt to divert
attention from the ugly reality of Islamic jihad activity in the U.S. and around
the world, and to place the responsibility for jihadist misdeeds upon
non-Muslims – specifically the ones who are trying to thwart the jihadists’
plans. After 9/11, we were assured again and again that the vast majority of
Muslims in the U.S. and worldwide were peaceful, and sincerely condemned such
violence perpetrated in the name of their religion. Yet over nine years later,
we still have yet to see a sincere and effective effort within mosques to
expose and report those who hold to the beliefs that led to those attacks.

Instead, we get more finger-pointing. And
that means we will also get more jihad.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad
Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His
latest book is Did Muhammad Exist?.

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Beagle

11 years ago

Some crimes don’t happen without the predisposition. Suicide bombing is one of those crimes. The instant someone proposed suicide bombing something I would Google the FBI on my smartphone and click the number.
“Predispositon” vitiates any claim of entrapment.

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Madeleine

11 years ago

Predisposition is absolutely the truth. The FBI’s job is to say..let’s just see how far this punk muslim American hating kid will take this terror attack?
This punk muslim American hater took it to the last detail. This punk muslim kid used his ‘FREE WILL’. He was so intent and hell bent on his jihad attack that he wanted to do it all by himself. The coward didn’t want to be a martyr though, because he wanted to go back to his native country and show off to all his family and friends.
This punk muslim American hater could have been working with other haters, that perhaps the FBI had no knowledge of. I mean, the sky is the limit with these sleepers.
There are a lot of predisposed I am sure, I am also sure that the FBI, is up to the challenge and has proven to be able and confident and successful. Praise G-d!

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hosteslik kursları

11 years ago

Some crimes don’t happen with no predisposition. Suicide bombing is just one of individuals crimes. The moment someone suggested suicide bombing something I’d Google the FBI on my small smartphone and click on the amount.
“Predispositon” vitiates any claim of entrapment.

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Warren

11 years ago

The entrapment defense might make sense if a guy is enticed by an attractive police woman, but never for a terrorist attick.

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Hayat

11 years ago

Are there so few real jihadists our crack counter-terrorists have to keep supplying young wanna-bes support, encouragement, companionship, facilitation, cell phones, trucks, a parking spot next to the FRB, and “bombs?”
This is the war on terror?

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Thomas Wells

11 years ago

Fry the punk’s ass. Unfortunately the “public catch” by the FBI has been low IQ, low hanging fruit. One hopes that the various anti-terrorist agencies are aware of ,and monitoring, the more competent jihadists operating in America.

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InfidelForLife

11 years ago

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill

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EthanP

11 years ago

When they caught him, I asked myself exactly this question. What could make “me” do this. The answer, of course, NOTHING! All those defending Islam, how many terrorist attacks in the USA and West have been committed by non Muslims. One: Oklahoma City.
And this “innocent” Muslim thought he had a REAL bomb and thought he was detonating it!

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Larry A. Singleton

11 years ago

Still no print function? Or am I not seeing it?

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