Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Terrorism Motive that Dare Not Speak Its Name Friday Edition

The FBI arrested a man named Rezwan Ferdaus on Wednesday who had not only developed detailed plans for a murderous spree in the name of Allah but had also collected most of what he needed to pull it off. He also built detonators that his “accomplices” could use to trigger IEDs in Iraq. When his contacts told him that one of his devices had killed American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, his pleasure evident. In truth, the device never worked because his contacts were FBI agents, and the devices they gave him and his glee at their reported success only added to the case against him.

According to reports, Ferdaus’ plots involved “jihad” and “his desire to carry out the will of Allah”. Nevertheless, this is what the DoJ spokesman had to say about Ferdaus’ motivations:

“I want the public to understand that Mr. Ferdaus’s conduct, as alleged in the complaint, is not reflective of a particular culture, community or religion,” Ortiz said.

“In addition to protecting our citizens from the threats and violence alleged today, we also have an obligation to protect members of every community, race and religion against violence and other unlawful conduct,” he said.

This is an outright lie. Ferdaus’ alleged conduct is reflective of a very particular “culture, community, or religion”. It is the same “culture, community, or religion” that requires honor-killings, female genital mutilation, the murder of innocents celebrated by chants of “Allahu Ackbar”. This “culture, community, or religion” controls several nations and sends it acolytes forth to slaughter in the name of its God. But we can’t say its name, now can we, even when the jihadist under arrest says he sought to kill “enemies of Allah”.

Folks, we need to get straight on this or we’re going to wake up one day to find that quite a few of our fellow Americans didn’t get a chance to wake up thanks to someone like Rezwan Ferdaus. Our Department of Justice has adopted a suicidal level of political correctness for no good reason at all and its hesitancy to call a jihadist a jihadist is going to get some of us killed.

And now, links!

• New Solyndra news. The company actually defaulted on its loan last year but the administration restructured it so that it could keep pulling money from it. If you’re keeping score, that makes the second loan restructuring we know about to keep Solyndra and its Obama-backer out of big trouble. (via memeorandum)
• More Operation Fast and Furious news. The Department of Justice did a lot more than watch guns walk over the border; they gave guns directly to the Mexican cartels that have killed at least 200 people since the operation started. One of them was this journalist, murdered for reporting on the cartels (via mediagazer)
• What in the name of all that’s holy is wrong with PETA?
• I find a useful article at The Art of Manliness at least once a week. Not only did they have a very good recent article on wet-shaving but they also ran this sorely-needed piece on the etiquette of introductions.
• I almost watched the new Terra Nova show, but then I realized I wasn’t likely to enjoy a collaboration between Steven Spielberg (who edited the guns out of E.T. and turned War of the Worlds into a story of a horrible father and his sniveling and rebellious brats) and Brannon Braga (Star Trek: The Next Generation, the most overtly socialist television show I’ve ever seen). It turns out my instincts were right. Read Kurt Schlichter’s brutal review of the pilot.
• Yet more advice for the up-and-coming barbarian.
• ThunderLOLcats HOOOO!
• Hockey season starts in less than two weeks. Time to get your game faces on!
• The Blogprof is hanging up the keyboard. Unfortunately, he had to choose between his blog and his job, and a man has to pay the bills. I’ll miss him. He did good work. I hope his employer will realize that a little free expression from an academic is not a bad thing after all, even if it is conservative free expression.

UPDATED: Had to fix one of the links. The perils of working on two or three things at once is that it’s very easy to swap links. Thanks, EricH!

Other Posts of Interest:

• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Running the Gunwalkers to Ground Sunday Edition
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Great Moments in Government Meddling Friday Edition
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Fast and Furious Update Wednesday Edition

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