Anwar al-Awlaki on Capitol Hill and the Problem of “Extremists” and “Moderates”

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Anwar al-Awlaki on Capitol Hill and the Problem of “Extremists”
and “Moderates”

By Robert Spencer

In 2002, PBS produced a documentary on the life of Muhammad,
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. I wrote in a National
Review article
at the time that the documentary presented an “attractively
packaged, sanitized version of Islam.” It features Islamic apologist Karen
Armstrong; Daisy Khan, the deeply
deceitful
“moderate”
who shot to national prominence in the Ground Zero mosque controversy, and
others of that ilk.

But it is also noteworthy for capturing the slain jihad
terror mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, leading Muslim prayers on Capitol Hill. Al-Awlaki
was involved in many of the recent jihad mass murder plots in the United
States; he was in contact with Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad mass
murderer; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas underwear jihadist; and
others,

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Of course, the New
York Times
hailed al-Awlaki on October 19, 2001 as one of “a new generation
of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West,” and so he was widely
reputed to be a “moderate” at the time, but that’s just the point. One of the
supposed “gotcha” quotes that Leftists and Islamic supremacists like to use
against me is one in which I said that there is “no distinction in the American
Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists.” The PBS documentary,
however, shows that to be absolutely true: no one was getting up and walking
out on al-Awlaki, or saying he shouldn’t be preaching or leading the prayers.
Many argue that al-Awlaki really was “moderate” then and became “radicalized”
later, but even then, there is no record of his former friends and associates
repudiating his new “radical” views.

What we do not see is Muslims in the U.S. pronouncing takfir
on those who believe in the Islam of al-Awlaki — that is, declaring them
non-Muslim and excluding them from Muslim communities. The reality is that one
who holds to the idea that jihad (violent and non-violent) must be waged
against Americans in order to impose Sharia upon them is not put out of
American mosques, and those who by their actions earn the media title of “extremist”
move freely among Muslims in the U.S. until they commit their act of “extremism.”

More evidence of this comes from the same PBS documentary.
For also present for al-Awlaki’s sermon was Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad, along
with (I believe) his henchman Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper. Awad and Hooper, of
course, are routinely cited in the mainstream media as if they were “civil
rights leaders.” And also present was another man who had been an employee
of Hamas-linked CAIR
: Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer, who is now serving a 20-year
sentence for jihad terror plotting
.

So if there is a distinction in the Muslim community between
peaceful Muslims and jihadists, it certainly wasn’t evident at this Capitol
Hill prayer meeting, where a jihad mass murder mastermind preached the khutba
for a group containing a jihad terror plotter, two leading “moderate” Muslim
spokesmen, and a congressman’s chief of staff.

Further indication of the lack of distinction between “extremists”
and “moderates” came last week, when Awad teamed with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
among others, to announce
that the production
of a whitewashed movie about Muhammad, so as to fool
the ever-credulous kuffar. And why not? As head of Hamas-linked CAIR, Awad has
been fooling the kuffar for years, as has Qaradawi, who has won praise as a
reformist from Saudi-funded pseudo-academic John Esposito and counts former
London Mayor Ken Livingstone among his friends.

Qaradawi is the most popular Islamic preacher in the world. He said
on al-Jazeera
: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews]
people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was
carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though
they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was
divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of
the believers….”

Qaradawi continued: “I’d like to say that the only thing I
hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an
opportunity to go to the land of Jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair.
I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and
thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom.”

Awad is consistent, at least. He must think that nothing
will shake the faith that government, law enforcement and the media have in Hamas-linked
CAIR as a “civil rights” organization. And he’s probably right.

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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kate b
kate b
11 years ago

Karen Armstrong, the ex-nun and Daisy Khan…..you can fool some of the people some of the time; however the regular Joe you can’t fool; paper qualification has nothing on common sense.

Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
11 years ago

Qaradawi thinks to end his days in a wheelchair and said so in Feb. 2012. That’s interesting in the 2009 Ft. Hood shooter, Maj. Hasan, is now a quadrapeligic who needs a wheelchair because he took a bullet in the spine. I think this is more than mere coincidence.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
11 years ago

Totalitarian systems and their propagandists always make the same mistake: they underestimate the people and actually start believing their own nonsense.
No matter how much they try to whitewash: one day -the sooner the better- Islam will collapse under the colossal weight of its own lies, at least in civilized countries. No matter the amount of propaganda, no matter the utter stupidity of the masses: do not underestimate the intelligence of individual, average free people.
One day these will wake up and make the sheep aware of the truth and danger.

john jay
john jay
11 years ago

pamela:
spencer’s post is about as well written and lucid on this topic as one could ever expect to read.
his argument is totally convincing. logically irrefutable.
and, thus, totally ignored by the left. the truth about islam does not suit the left’s agenda. the left is entirely content to share our subjugation with islam.
of that, you can be sure.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

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