Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by Robert Spencer & David Horowitz

Author:Robert Spencer & David Horowitz [Spencer, Robert & Horowitz, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government, Specific Topics, Censorship
Amazon: B005R3336I
Publisher: The David Horowitz Freedom Center
Published: 2011-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

Islamophobia and National Security

Stigmatizing critics of the Islamic jihad as "Islamophobes" not only threatens free speech; it cuts large holes in our security defenses against a terrorist attack. In April 2009, Barack Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. While serving as Los Angeles' deputy mayor, Alikhan (who once called the jihad terror group Hezbollah a "liberation movement") blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an outreach program: "We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities."49 But Alikhan and other Muslim leaders claimed that the project manifested racism and "Islamophobia," and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study the mosques and gain invaluable contacts in the Muslim community that might prevent terrorist attacks. Alikhan's reward for this disservice was to be appointed by President Obama to a key role at Homeland Security, the department charged with managing the defenses of the entire country. And in December 2010, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution condemning "Islamophobia."50

49 "Los Angeles police plan to map Muslims," Associated Press, November 9, 2007.

50Joe R. Hicks and David A. Lehrer, "Hyperbole rules in Muslim debate," Los Angeles Daily News, December 26, 2010.

The effect of the multifaceted societal onslaught against critical observations about Islamic jihadists has been a weakening of necessary defenses. On November 5, 2009, Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan gave a neighbor a copy of the Qur'an and told her, "I'm going to do good work for God."51 Later that day, he entered a center at Fort Hood in Texas where soldiers receive medical examinations before deploying overseas. Shouting "Allahu akbar," Hasan pulled out a handgun and began firing.52 Before he was finished he had murdered thirteen unarmed American soldiers and wounded 30. Yet long before this massacre, Hasan had displayed unmistakable signs of sympathies for jihadist terror. Major Hasan routinely harassed his colleagues with harangues about Islam, and proclaimed that he was "Muslim first and American second."53 His business card read "SOA," a well-known acronym among jihadists for "Soldier of Allah."54

51Nick Allen, "Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infi- dels should have their throats cut," Telegraph, November 8, 2009.

52James C. McKinley Jr. and James Dao, "Fort Hood Gunman Gave Signals Before His Rampage," New York Times, November 8, 2009.

53 Nick Allen, "Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut," Telegraph, November 8, 2009.

54 "Inside the Apartment of Nidal Malik Hasan," Time Magazine, n.d. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1938378_1988330,00.html

Hasan gave a PowerPoint presentation to his colleagues in which he proposed to show "what the Qur'an inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.

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