July 29, 2006

Sudden Jihad Syndrome Evidenced in Seattle Slaying by a Muslim

Earlier this year Daniel Pipes discussed and provided many examples of Sudden Jihad Syndrome, the phenomenon in which an apparently non-violent Muslim will attack non-Muslims with murderous intent.

The Seattle attack yesterday is another perfect example.

The gunman, Naveed Afzal Haq, 31, was arrested without a struggle at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, where the shooting took place. He was later charged by Seattle police with one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder.

Haq is a U.S. citizen, police said, and their initial conversation with him by phone while he was inside the building indicated that he was a Muslim.

Police would not disclose the content of the conversation, but Amy Wasser-Simpson, the federation's vice president, told the Seattle Times in a story on its Web site the man got past security at the building and shouted, "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel," before he began shooting.

There's nothing surprising about this. The Koran says in many verses that it's the duty of Muslims to kill non-Muslims. From the Koran:

[3.151] We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.

[4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.

[5.33] The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement...

(Additional, similar verses are here.) The guy just did what his sacred text, the Koran, told him to do. The Koran teaches young children who are raised by it to kill non-Muslims.

Islam, far from having reformed over the centuries, embraces these verses in the Koran. From a January post here:

Sheikh Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan, a professor of Islamic law at Al-Imam University, who frequently appears on Saudi TV recently made anti-Christian comments on Saudi Al-Majd TV.

Al-Fawzan: "Someone who denies Allah, worships Christ, son of Mary, and claims that God is one third of a trinity - do you like these things he says and does? Don't you hate the faith of such a polytheist who says God is one third of a trinity, or who worships Christ, son of Mary?

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"But if this person is an infidel - even if this person is my mother or father, God forbid, or my son or daughter - I must hate him, his heresy, and his defiance of Allah and His prophet. I must hate his abominable deeds. Moreover, this hatred must be positive hatred. It should make me feel compassion for him, and should make me guide and reform him."

There's no getting around this. This is what the Koran teaches. Islam is not a "love-thy-neighbor" religion. Islam is an "oppress-and-kill-thy-neighbor" religion, as we see in Islamist activity worldwide.

Where is the protest from the Islamic community over yesterday's killings in Seattle? Where is the rally, the march, in which all leading Islamists gather Muslims and say loudly, publicly, for all to hear, that anyone who does such a thing is lost to Islam? Nothing of the kind happens. There are a few lukewarm statements on sites such as the CAIR site, and that's it. Those statements are strictly of the CYA variety. And the reason is that the Islamic community doesn't disapprove. Because they can't. Because the Koran explicitly encourages such actions.

Let's put this in perspective. In many public places, we are banning smoking because of the possible effects of second-hand-smoke on non-smokers.

Should we not apply a similar approach to Islam, which has the possible effect of murder on non-Islamists?

As Cathy Seipp has recently said:

I HAVE NO IDEA how many Mexican immigrants would be reasonable to allow into this country. But obviously for everyone who makes the cut, someone else does not.

And as long as there are millions of hard-working, pro-American immigrants from Latin American and Asia who would like to come here but can't, why are we letting in anyone from a culture where much of the populace is at least sympathetic to the notion of this country being ruled by Sharia law?

That is a very good idea.

We also need to monitor the mosques and find out in detail what they're teaching.