[ April 18, 2024 ]
In a press conference after Sayfullo Saipov’s vehicular jihad massacre in Manhattan, New York Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller said, “This isn’t about Islam, this isn’t about the mosque he attends.” As he retailed this arrant nonsense, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stood behind him, nodding gravely.
Yet the repetition of a falsehood doesn’t make it any less false. In reality, Saipov had a massive amount of Islamic State material on his phone, and a note in his attack truck that said, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.” Clearly he thinks his attack was about Islam, even if Miller doesn’t.
And the NYPD suspected Saipov’s mosque of terror ties over a decade before his massacre. How, then, can Miller be sure that his mosque had nothing to do with the attack?
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He can’t, of course. Miller is making his claim that the attack has nothing to do with Islam or Saipov’s mosque not on the basis of any evidence, but on the basis of fear.
Yes, fear. Miller is afraid that if he acknowledges the obvious Islamic character of Saipov’s attack, he will be accused of “Islamophobia,” and his career will be ruined.
A Police Commissioner is supposed to be an impartial investigator, going wherever the evidence takes him. But Miller has effectively announced that he is not an unbiased investigator, and will not pursue lines of inquiry that lead him to ask uncomfortable questions about Islam or Saipov’s mosque.
Miller is not singular. In fact, not just some, but most public officials today would do exactly what he is doing. But is it wise? What if Saipov’s crime does have something to do with Islam, and with his mosque? Wouldn’t that be useful to know in attempt to prevent future massacres of this kind? Knowing one’s enemy enables one to devise effective ways to counter him.
While maintaining this has nothing to do with Islam, Miller is expecting truck rental companies to say something if they see something. He said last Wednesday: “We did extensive outreach to the truck rental business. We visited over 148 truck rental locations in this area. The industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the NYPD.” And “Miller said that if a company is suspicious of a would-be renter, they usually delay or simply deny a rental to let police investigate.”
Really? The companies deny rentals to suspicious characters? Is that so?
Sayfullo Saipov, the New York City truck jihad mass murderer, looks like a jihadi. But to acknowledge that would be to engage in racial profiling, and given the decidedly Islamic style of his facial hair (a hadith depicts Muhammad telling Muslims to trim their mustaches but not their beards, because the Jews and Christians trim their beards but not their mustaches), religious profiling, a manifestation of “Islamophobia,” as well.
Imagine now that you were the clerk at Home Depot when Saipov came in to rent his truck. You notice his beard, his demeanor, his overall appearance. But you know that what reporting him would be. It would be racist. Bigoted. Islamophobic. Just because this fellow looks like a jihadi doesn’t mean that he is one. After all, John Miller says this isn’t about Islam. You wouldn’t want to lose your job. You’d wouldn’t want to be known and hated nationwide as an “Islamophobe.”
But why would a clerk hesitate in such a situation? Because of the words of John Miller and so many others like him.
This is the focus of my new book, Confessions of an Islamophobe: how fear of being branded “Islamophobic” is causing massive numbers of people to perform their jobs incompetently, as in Miller’s case, and to overlook or excuse numerous human rights abuses that otherwise they would strongly oppose. Find out about the peculiar phenomenon of “Islamophobia,” and why it is so important to counter it — but not in the way John Miller thinks — in Confessions of an Islamophobe. Preorder your copy here now.
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. Coming in November is his new book Confessions of an Islamophobe. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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18 Comments
6 years ago
Just another dhimmi @$$hole.
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6 years ago
Why wouldn’t he side with the jihadists, he knows who pays for his campaigns and keeps food on his table. Dhimmis For Sale!
6 years ago
Ahh! The Mosque he attends!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!
SHUT UP MORON. We’re not children you mother……
6 years ago
it’s never about islam. never has was or is; we western people just make it all up for our entertainment
6 years ago
Any and every politician or civil servant apparently has their price. The speed with which the denial of this having anything to do with islam was publicized, would imply there is a prewritten script to cover such circumstance.
6 years ago
Well, New Yorkers, anyway. They sent Hillary to the Senate twice, 2 generations of Cuomos to Albany, believed De Blasio was their best choice, and Dinkins a few decades ago.
Chicagoans are just as stupid, if not even dumber.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
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6 years ago
Mosques are training centers for jihad, against non-believers, America, and our Constitution. Unless they are put under surveillance, and proven to NOT be such, they should be closed. They are anti-American to their core, as Islam has, and has always had, nothing short of world domination and destruction of all who stand in their way.
6 years ago
If a muslum were to publicly repudiate jihad and Shari’a would you believe them? After all, Islum is the only religion on earth that advocates for lying and dishonesty.
6 years ago
Because he has his nose so far up the ass of the mayor he forgot what the sun looks like and he is a coward to boot.
6 years ago
Ask why is he a traitor, and what mosque he attends?
Also why others need facts, and he does not. Only a simpleton-moron or a traitor would speak without facts
6 years ago
Nothing big enough has gone “bang” to change an American hating liberals mi
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6 years ago
He was ordered to by Big Bird.
6 years ago
The simplest explanation is usually correct: the Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller, in charge of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism is a douchenozzle, up-jumped ABC News correspondent and anchor. He is nowhere close to being a police officer and sees law enforcement from his perspective – as a libtard, liberal mainstream media hack busy kissing Comrade Di Blasio’s ass to ensure job security and perhaps further advancement.
I left New Yawk City in 1950, 67 years later it is one of life’s better decisions!
6 years ago
He was being compliant with Sharia law, using Taqiyya to protect Islam.
6 years ago
Many New Yorkers have sympathy for Islam, so many, it’s almost scary… 🙁
