Excellent analysis from Bill Gertz at the Washington Times. A segment is below but read the whole thing. This has been my point to you about the obsession with denial: We will never stop this madness until we focus on the main tumor of terrorism: Islamism. Ignoring that is like saying “What does it matter?” where the tumor on your skin came from, or what it really is? Investigating the source of cancer is key to stopping it before it stops you. Ignoring that cancer is afoot condemn you as it is allowed to metastasize throughout the body. This is Radical Islamism as the source of terror matters.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s failure to recognize political Islam as a driver of jihadist terrorism is partly to blame for the FBI not identifying one of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2011 as a security risk, according to U.S. officials and private counterterrorism analysts.
The FBI revealed last week that it was warned by a foreign government in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed Friday, was tied to “radical Islam” but the FBI was unable to confirm the links.
“The fact is religion has been expunged from counterterrorism training,” said Sebastian Gorka, a counterterrorism specialist with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The FBI can’t talk about Islam and they can’t talk about jihad.”
Added Patrick S. Poole, another counterterrorism specialist, about FBI policies on Islam: “I have zero doubt it affected their investigation of Tsarnaev.”
A U.S. official said FBI policies of playing down Islamic links to terrorism resulted in the FBI not identifying Tsarnaev, 26, or his brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, who was charged with last week’s bombing, as Islamist terrorists.
Instead, the FBI is limiting its description of the two men as ethnic Chechens who became “radicalized” prior to the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and more than 200 injured in the attack using two homemade bombs placed in pressure cookers and remotely detonated.
Tammy, the picture you added says it all.
Before we condemn the FBI’s myopia, be aware of Bill O’Reilly’s exposé of radical Christian terrorists (warning: graphic imagery).
By the way, here is the “COEXIST” sticker Tammy needs.
Must fear netting an innocent Muslim in their efforts to keep us safe more than anything. Scooped up the Elvis impersonator in minutes. If our intelligence community remains hamstrung more terror attacks by terrorists from terrorlandia are likely.
Depending on who you read, there are those who say America has already been infiltrated/metastasized with “terrorist cells” throughout the major cities in our country for some time now, even before 9/11. Bush’s inability, or desire not to secure the border helped facilitate easy access for would be terrorist getting into the country by simply walking across the border. OBummer’s policies and sympathies to Arab countries have helped them thrive and even come out of the shadows with political correctness.
When you consider Saudi VISAs have increased by 500% since 9/11, it’s a shameful disgrace that when you “follow the money” as Tammy says, our leaders have knowingly been sleeping with the enemy all along, to our detriment.
Regarding the terrorists getting welfare; They were allowed into the U.S. under asylum rules. I do not know, but I am guessing that asylum entrants are not banned from receiving welfare like normal immigrants. So would be interesting to see how many asylum seekers are being let in and how many receive welfare and how long do they receive it, eg, still getting it after 2 years here.
Excellent question.