Daniel Pipes — Daniel Pipes has an interesting blog entry on the Islamist who gunned down a slew of Jewish charity workers in Seattle — a story that has been largely whitewashed by the larger media.
Notable excerpts:
Haq’s parents were among the founders of the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities in southeast Washington State and Naveed himself is described in one newspaper account as growing up “surrounded by their work.” Chillingly, soon after returning from a Christian experimentation to his home mosque, Haq set out to murder Jews. The Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities needs close scrutiny. Stephen Schwartz notes in “The Shadow of Seattle” that “the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities, and an associated property, are affiliated with the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). NAIT is controlled by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and ISNA is an arm of the ultraradical Wahhabi clerics and state religious administration of Saudi Arabia.”
In conversation with a 911 dispatcher, Haq said: “I’m upset at your foreign policy. … I’m an American too but I just want us out of Iraq.” His outburst points to a duality in Haq’s identity: a U.S. citizen by birth, he despises “your” foreign policy. Who is “you”? Also indicative of his mentality is a quote ascribed to him by Seattle Police Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske, that he “wanted the U.S. to leave Iraq, that his people had been mistreated.” Who are Haq’s people, Iraqi Muslims? That’s interesting, seeing that his family comes from Pakistan.
related link:
Anti-American and Jew-hating Saudi funded books now penetrating American secular schools.
Second Generation Terrorists: Bred and born in the good ol’ USA – Complete with citizenship. Just peachy.
Well I guess we will just have to put all those muslims into concentraion camps.
Did you ever watch Escape from LA, where you had the choice of death or going to the island? I think that would work.
Horsefeathers, John. One person was killed in an assault by a man who is reportedly bipolar. Do you even know the definition of the word ‘slew’? Hint: One doesn’t qualify. As tragic as this event was, it could have been much worse. Stop misrepresenting it.
And, BTW, Haq is a convert to Christianity.
Don’t you all think he’s mentally ill?
Podesta, he shot SIX people. That may or may not qualify for “slew,” but its obviously more than one. (No, I don’t think “gunned down” means kill.)
There are some mental problems there. He is now trying to plead guilty, but his mental state is in question.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/280881_shooting11.html
I’m with Improbus… only I’m not being facetious. If those camps exist around the nation like the conspiracy theorists say then let’s start using them.
4 And, BTW, Haq is a convert to Christianity.
Your point being?
From the linked articles:
“Chillingly, soon after returning from a Christian experimentation to his home mosque, Haq set out to murder Jews.”
“Eye-witnesses report that Haq announced, “I’m a Muslim American; I’m angry at Israel,” and then began shooting;”
“Most surprising of all, he was baptized into the Word of Faith Church last December, but returned to Islam shortly thereafter.”
Something I found interesting:
“To my delight, Jeff Jacoby often writes in the Boston Globe on subjects I wish I could take up, and that was the case this week. His Aug. 6 column, “A tale of 2 stories about anti-Semitism” wonders why the drunken antisemitic rant of Hollywood’s Mel Gibson on July 28 became “the big national story about anti-Semitism,” rather than the Haq rampage on the same day. “By any rational calculus, Jacoby argues, the latter “was far more significant” and “should have been a huge story everywhere. ”
Jacoby’s comments are nonsense. Untreated or untreatable bipolar and schizophrenic people commit delusional acts of violence throughout the world every day. Heck, there was a schizophrenic woman in Seattle who randomly attacked a woman, leaving her paralyzed and blind, within a week or so of Haq’s rampage. These stories don’t get the same treatment as Mel Gibson’s confirmation of his long suspected anti-Semitism because they are so common. Having a celebrity let all his hatred hang out openly is not.
9 Having a celebrity let all his hatred hang out openly is not.
Added to that, I’m sure people who thought Mel’s movie was anti-semitic were thinking “I knew it!…”