Atlas Exclusive: Robert Spencer: Jihad with a Human Face

Jihad with a Human Face
By Robert Spencer

Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign
from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an
“insult to our intelligence,” and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads,
a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, “My Jihad is to stay fit
despite my busy schedule.”

The whole endeavor is reminiscent
of Alexander Dubček’s “Socialism with a human
face.” In Communist Czechoslavakia in 1968, Dubček limited the
power of the secret police and relaxed restrictions on speech; but when the
Czechs got too much of a taste for freedom, the Soviet tanks rolled in to
remind them of just how human the face of socialism really was.

And
now Hamas-linked CAIR is trying to paint a human face on the Islamic doctrine
that has caused untold suffering for human beings worldwide for fourteen
centuries, and continues to do so today. The leading Islamic supremacist
advocacy group in the U.S., treated as a reputable authority by the mainstream
media, as well as politicians and law enforcement officials around the country,
is trying to manipulate Americans into thinking that because some Muslims think
of jihad in benign, peaceful ways, therefore the ones who think of it in its
traditional Islamic sense, as a divine command to wage war against and
subjugate unbelievers, somehow don’t matter and are unworthy of attention.

But
just as sure as the tanks rolled into Prague, no matter how many Muslims think
that jihad involves patting puppies on the head and giving dollar bills to
noble, grateful homeless people, sooner or later the bombs go off and the heads
roll anyway. It’s like trying to convince people that because Lyndon Johnson
declared a war on poverty and legions of earnest high school counselors have
waged war on drugs, that therefore it’s “bigoted” to point out that the word war usually involves shooting and
killing people.

It
is indeed an insult to our intelligence – and it is part of a larger
initiative. Pro-Hamas Islamic supremacists such as Zahra Billoo of CAIR and
Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association of New York tweet about their
love of chocolate and children and their pious good wishes for the people of
Newtown, Connecticut, while simultaneously expressing their support for the
genocidal Palestinian jihad against Israel, even to the point of retailing
fabrications of the Palestinian propaganda machine. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi
apologist for the Islamic jihadis who are massacring his own people in Pakistan
and Indonesia, likewise made a great show of his grief over the Newtown
massacre, but couldn’t resist using it to retail Palestinian jihad propaganda,
tweeting: “As u pray for the #Newtown
children, pray for Palestinian children dying of poverty.” 

Zahra
Billoo and Linda Sarsour crave chocolate! How bad could they be? Plenty bad:
Billoo has advised
Muslims to shun law enforcement and called U.S. troops “terrorists.”
Sarsour has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA
agent – part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam. They are part
of the Islamic supremacist establishment that is attempting to lull Americans
into complacency about the nature and source of the jihad threat, and their
just-us-girls tweets about chocolate and cute kids are all part of that, after
the manner of the See How Hitler Loves
His Dogs photo spreads that Nazi authorities published long ago to humanize
der Führer. It’s a sweet jihad, a chummy jihad, a chocolatey jihad – but a
jihad just the same.

One clue to this phenomenon comes from jazz musician Tarek
Shah, who pled
guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons
training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought
was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent, “I could be
joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second.”

Of course, Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour will never slit
our throats. They will just kill us with kindness, insistently and self-consciously
trying to show the world that they’re cute and cuddly just like the girl next
door while fronting for an inhuman, oppressive ideology that, not
coincidentally, has one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines ever seen
on the planet.

Today’s jihad terrorists are adherents of a totalitarian,
genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain
circumstances are a good thing. Those murders are committed for the sake of a
societal vision that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good, even
while committing unimaginable atrocities to secure and retain power. But it is
not good, and anyone who still retains even rudimentary clarity of vision in
this increasingly befogged age can see that. 

That’s where Hamas-linked CAIR’s #MyJihad campaign and the sweet-tooth
tweets of Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour come in: to lull those few who may
still be awake into thinking that it won’t be so bad to accept the special
accommodations for Muslims upon which CAIR insists, and the continued enabling
of Islamic supremacism in U.S. foreign policy. After all, there will still be
time to stay fit on a busy schedule, and the need to do so after indulging one’s
chocolate craving. Coming from two hijabbed Muslim women, enslaved to the will
of men and subject to their every whim, this is abundantly reassuring – isn’t
it? There’s chocolate! How bad could slavery be?

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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Fitna

11 years ago

Good article Robert, how fortunate we are to have yourself and Pamela at the helm of the anti-Islamic movement to defend civilization against the most vicious, genocidal ideology in human history.
There are libraries full of texts recounting the thousands of jihads waged against non-muslims. Islam must never be underestimated, it has patience that lasts for centuries until muslims find the right moment when we think it’s safe and let our guard down, they strike.
Losing to Islam means the slaughter or conversion of non-muslims on an industrial scale, ask the Indians, Persians, Christians and Jews of the middle-east, they know all too well what happens when a real jihad is unleashed.
The vast majority of muslims were forced to convert to Islam with a sword at their throat or their wives and children. Then it’s a small matter for muslim parents to indoctrinate future generations into the same evil ideology.
Muslims have the upper hand right now due to Obama being in power, but more importantly, due to the masses complete ignorance of Islam but the war is far from over. The war will start in earnest once we have a critical mass of people who have ‘smelled the jihad’ and would work to defeat Islam.

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KKKK

11 years ago

“my jihad is…to stay fit despite my busy schedule” is a joke. everyone knows “Jihad” is “holy war,” and holy war it is .thousands of men, women, children, and unborn babies were killed on 9-11. more than 35000 have bene killed in “pakistan” alone since 9-11 (a figure that could be an underestimation). “jihad” has always since Mos flight to Medina been understood as physical, not inner. this is manipulation.

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Gleaner1

11 years ago

Given that the definition of Arihmetic is the application of pure logic to solve a problem, how much chocolate would it take to sweeten the images of one months jihad?
My Jihad – how to stir this sugar into my coffee despite my busy schedual? Phooy.
My Jihad – no really, how do i screw this fuse into this bomb despite my busy schedual?

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InfidelForLife

11 years ago

Mundus vult decipi. The world wants to be deceived, and, indeed, the propaganda machine is working overtime and extremely effective. In Europe, a normal, civil, intelligent conversation about Israel is no longer possible. At least 90% will regurgitate the same tired Fakestinian lies as if it is absolute, cast-in-stone truth. Historical knowledge and comprehension is near zero.
The “progressives” must be mighty proud of what they have accomplished in only half a century.

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Cottoneyed

11 years ago

Pamela, you and Robert are two of the most important people in this country today. Although, i dare say most Americans probably don’t know either one of you. But someday, i believe they will. I pray it’s sooner rather than later because if it’s later, i firmly believe Jihad will be in full bloom, as horrifying a proposition as that might be. I have 2 daughters, 11 and 9 years old, so my concern is for them and the terrible world that Islam would afford them. May the Lord grant both of you strength in the coming fight for the evil of this world has found a place in this Satanic “religion”. Is anybody but a few awake, truly awake, to this growing menace? May God help you and us.

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OrangeEnt

11 years ago

“Today’s jihad terrorists are adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain circumstances are a good thing. Those murders are committed for the sake of a societal vision that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good, even while committing unimaginable atrocities to secure and retain power.”
Hell, that sounds just like Democrats too….

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Wallace Brand

11 years ago

In 1974 at an elementary school in Ma’alot, three Arab terrorists killed 22 Israeli children. They injured 68.

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Gleaner1

11 years ago

@Cottoneyed – as an Englih father of two girls, i beg you to consider this.
My youngest went to Turkey on her first holiday away with her boyfriend and his parents in Aug 2009. She is/was a very pretty blond and at the time, 17. Attempts were made to snatch her coming out a Caf’e. We got her back, but she’s changed.
Islam is coming to us all, their safety is rightly your concern but if you let them read what goes on while they’re still young, they will be forarmed at least, and on their guard when away from you.
Be prepared – stay safe.

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Morgan Michaels

11 years ago

Well, that should convince rational Americans. Now all we need to do is convince the plurality, victims of pragmatic progressivism i.e. those that believe principle and certainty are perversion, appeasement and expediency, virtue.

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Larry A. Singleton

11 years ago

These are some questions I’ve sent to many Muslims. I have yet to get a single answer. I’ve sent the same thing to these dhimmi reporters. Still no luck:
If Islam is the religion of peace, where in Abdullah bin Humaid’s article on jihad can I find the equivalent of “Love Thy Neighbor”? “and good will toward men”? And explain its prominence in a book that’s considered second only to the Koran. Also address “jihad” as it’s defined in Reliance of the Traveller and answer the same question. Also compare Humaid’s “jihad” and Emmet Fox’ Sermon on the Mount and tell me which one best represents a spirit of Love and compassion. Explain.

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