MAYOR DE BLASIO, YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

In the wake of the Muslim terrorist murdering eight on a bike-lane in Manhattan, one minister wrote to her congregation:

·       As Unitarian Universalists and as New Yorkers, we join in grief after yesterday's terrorist attack in lower Manhattan. We are called to solidarity with our Muslim siblings who are shouldering the double burden of an attack on their city and of the threat of being viewed with greater suspicion or hostility because of a man who falsely – horrifically – claimed this violence in the name of their God. We know that this attack that took eight people’s lives and injured many others, was an attack on all of us. As the act was intended to breed fear, pain, and hatred, so we, as people of faith, are called to respond with courage, healing, and love. 

However, it was also an act frequently directed by the Qur’an, a fact that this minister does not want to engage:

• “Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion (Islam) reigns supreme, (Qur’an 8:37)

• “When the Sacred Months are over, kill those who ascribe partners [like Jesus] to God wheresoever ye find them; seize them, encompass them, and ambush them; then if they repent and observe prayer and pay the alms, let them go their way’.” (Qur’an 4:5)

• “…kill the disbelievers wherever we find them” (Qur’an 2:191) and “murder them and treat them harshly” (9:123), and “Strike off the heads of the disbelievers” (8:12, and 8:60).

Are these surah meant to be taken literally? Despite the protestations by Western Muslims otherwise, they are! Here is but one small example. Ibn Khaldun, the 15th century Tunisian historian, states:

• In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force... The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.

In light of these teachings (and many more like them found the in Qur’an), the history of Islam, and the escalating Islamic terrorism, perhaps more should be done than offer condolences and holding interfaith peace vigils. Perhaps, instead, Islam and its history must be carefully examined to evaluate whether this is a death cult trying to destroy the West, as the Muslim Brotherhood has attested to in their motto:

·       "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur`an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!"

This should explain a lot, but it doesn’t for many. New York City mayor, Bill De Blasio, just stated:

·       “Last thing we should do is start casting dispersions [sic] on whole races of people or whole religions.”

Against this unwillingness to examine Islam, Robert Spencer appropriately responded:

·       In other words, we’re not going to study the motivating ideology behind yesterday’s jihad attack. We’re going to pretend it isn’t what it is. We’re going to pretend it is not being spread in New York mosques. We’re going to pretend that Islam is a religion of peace. Sure, more people will get killed in jihad attacks that could have been prevented, but at least we won’t be “Islamophobes.” https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/de-blasio-last-thing-we-should-do-is-start-casting-dispersions-sic-on-whole-races-of-people-or-whole-religions

Instead, De Blasio promised that it would be business as usual:

·       “But the minute you start generalizing it, especially to a whole religion, then unfortunately we’re sending the exact negative message that a lot of our enemies want and the terrorist wants to affirm — that this nation is somehow anti-Muslim. We’ve got to do the exact opposite. We’ve got to show we respect all people in America. That’s about as American of a value as there is.”

An unwillingness to identify the underlying problem translates into an unwillingness to act and to protect the people who De Blasio represents. And yes, Bill, protecting the innocent against the aggressor is an American value, even if it isn’t in your book.

To compound his guilt, even though it is well-known that Mosques have been complicit in terror, De Blasio ordered that Mosques should no longer be surveilled.

It seems that our elite institutions are also complicit, maintaining the obvious falsehood, claiming that Islam is the “Religion of Peace.” However, it seems that they too have succumbed to their politically correct rhetoric and cannot see beyond the smoke-screen they’ve generated.