Kneecapped by Sensitivity

Yesterday, I discussed how multiculturalism is making our prosecution of World War IV more difficult. Today, via other bloggers, I provide specific examples, and from more than one level.

First, via Daniel Pipes, we learn that Islamofascists have infiltrated law enforcement on at least three occasions. I think it's a safe bet that they weren't "persecuted" by getting any special scrutiny for being Moslem before being hired. The one closest to home occurred in Chicago. It is also the least alarming example.

On Jan. 6, 2005, the Chicago Police Department fired Patricia Eng-Hussain, 30, just three days into her training, on learning that her husband, Mohammad Azam Hussain, 36, was arrested in September 2004 and is charged with failing to tell U.S. immigration officials about his role as an active and founding member of Mohajir Quami Movement-Haqiqi, a Pakistani group accused of murders, kidnappings and extortion. On arrest, Hussain admitted he had spent time at a Pakistani "death camp" and learned to use weapons and explosives. Suspicions about Eng-Hussain were aroused when she asked for time off to be in court. She had previously taken the stand as a defense witness.

Maybe this could have been headed off by a thorough background check, and maybe not. But this is a time of war, and I would recommend we start being much more careful.

Second, via Jihad Watch, we can read about the sorry media coverage and poor prosecutorial follow-through of the theory that Islamofascists might be involved in the now-infamous Armanious murders.

The mainstream media [bold added] has done a poor job of covering this case. It has not bothered to explain that the difficulties Copts experience in Egypt are not “old” or even “centuries-old” (as the New York Times put it) — they are as old as when the Muslim invaders first conquered Coptic Christian Egypt. They don’t come from anything Copts have said or done to Muslims, but from the supremacist nature of Islamic beliefs. But in the media in general there has been no understanding of this and no discussion of the Sharia [emphasis added] — or of how apostates in Islam are to be treated, or of what punishment is to be meted out to those who dare (as the Armanious family dared) not to act as the despised and cowed minority they were in Egypt, but as free and equal and proud citizens of this country.

No statement has come from the Hudson County Prosecutors Office [bold added] that shows any sign that that Office has considered these questions, or fully investigated the Copts’ suspicions and allegations. This may not have been a Sharia-inspired killing on American soil, but nothing that has yet come from Edward DeFazio or anyone else seems to deal adequately with the indications that it was. White House Wilsonians seem intent on bringing “democracy” to Iraq, as if that will somehow solve the problem of Islam, and of the jihad that they persist in identifying solely by one of its tools, terrorism [emphasis added]. Meanwhile, an unknown number of Muslims in the United States — possibly including the killer of the Armanious family — are working to solve the problems of Islam by laboring, in one way or another, to bring Sharia to this country.

This passage echoes my sentiment that we need to discuss the ideology that animates our enemy much more frankly. Also, the italicized passage underscores why I detest the phrase "War on Terror." The whole entry is worth a read and further elaborates on how the term "Islamophobia" is being used to keep us from looking at Islam critically, something our very lives depend on us doing.

-- CAV