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by Daniel Pipes
February 8, 2005
updated Aug 7, 2009
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I published a column by this title today, documenting thirteen cases of presumptive Islamist terrorism, when the first response of the police, prosecutors, and politicians is to look the other way, insisting that there is no link.
But my column lacked space to include all the prior cases, and no doubt future ones will come along, so here is an ongoing factual appendix:
![]() Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. |
Moustafa Chaouki wrecked car outside a McDonald's resturant in Brescia, Italy. |
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Additionally, some airplane incidents might have been whitewashed. The year 2001 saw the shooting down over Ukraine of a Sibir airliner from Israel to Russia, killing 77, ascribed to the accidental launching of a Ukrainian military missile; and the crash of American Airlines 587 in New York, killing 265, where the NTSB found "no evidence [of] … any criminality" despite the possible presence of an Al-Qaeda operative.
Readers are invited to send other examples of denying Islamist terrorism to me at the address below. (February 8, 2005)
![]() The firebombed house of D. de Haas. |
![]() Ali Warrayat, the Home Depot assailant. |
Read this headline: "Paris: Gang suspected of killing Jew nabbed." Then the subheadline: "Ilan Halimi, 23-year-old Parisian man, found tied to tree, naked, wounded, with burns covering his body; police arrest 13 suspects, say act not motivated by anti-Semitism."
OK, so that seems pretty clear, just another dead Jew. But hold on a moment, what is this we see down the page, right down at the bottom? "We think there is anti-Semitism in this affair," Rafi, Ilan's brother-in-law, told the European Jewish Press. "First because the killers tried to kidnap at least two other Jews, and secondly because of what they said on the phone. When we said we didn't have Euro 500,000 to give them, they answered we should go to the synagogue and get it," Rafi stressed. "They also recited verses from the Koran. We didn't know what they were saying but the police told us," he said.
Now the police say that they are "not motivated by anti-Semitism, but added that they have not yet discovered what led the group to commit the acts." So what pray do the comments made by the victims family amount to other than possible evidence of a religious motive?
According to AFP, police are still hunting for the gang's suspected leader, a 26-year-old man named Youssef Fofana, who nicknames himself "Brain of Barbarians" and is described as "extremely dangerous." So far 12 people accused of the crime have been arrested in France and one in Belgium.
![]() Paul Schrum |
Jabbar graduated from Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City and was a 2005 graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, where he majored in biology. He He had no criminal record. His Web site offers such services as writing term papers and technical reports. His family lives in an enclave of million-dollar homes; its own house is valued at $1.6 million. Jabbar told police he had for several months planned to kill someone. (June 17, 2006)
![]() Michael Julius Ford |
![]() Omeed Aziz Popal. |
![]() Director Berel Weiss looks at some of the damage to the Toldos Yakov Yosef-Skver school. |
![]() Brian Allen Washington, accused of murdering a police detective. |
Tahmeed Ahmad, 22, born in Kuwait and a naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted (according to an FBI criminal complaint) buying two butcher knives at a Miami Lakes-area Wal-Mart and "two magnum bottles of vodka he hoped to use as Molotov cocktails" at a liquor store. Armed with these late on Oct. 21 he drove to the west entrance at Homestead Air Reserve Base, chanted "Death to America," and "charged the military police officers." An officer fired his handgun at Ahmad but missed. Ahmad was arrested and charged with assaulting a U.S. government employee. He told guards he wanted to kill soldiers; to the FBI, he admitted that he would have used a gun but could not get one because he had not lived long enough in Florida. For unexplained reasons, Ahmad had once been on a federal terrorist watch list. Despite all this, the FBI concluded that the first-year mathematics teacher at Miami Central High did not have terrorism on his mind, but rather "suicide by cop." His mother, Gulnaz Ahmad of East Flushing, N.Y., added that he is mentally ill and had recently been in a mental institution. "I don't why he was depressed and why he was so sad," she said, tearfully. "He needs help." (Oct. 23, 2007)
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