By Joel Leydenwww.algemeiner.com/2016/01/12/after-philadelphia-attack-we-must-call-islamic-terror-what-it-is/
“Shots fired! … I’m bleeding heavily! I’m bleeding. Get us another unit out here!”
It was with these words that another act of Islamic terrorism was announced to the world.
It was Thursday, January 9, at
11:40 p.m., when
a man dressed in Islamic clothes approached the car of Philadelphia
police officer Jesse Hartnett and unloaded 13 bullets at point-blank
range. The police officer survived due to his bulletproof vest. Three
bullets ripped apart his left arm, and, with blood pouring out of a
ruptured artery, Hartnett gave chase after Edward Archer.
Archer, 30, soon admitted that he committed the attack on behalf of ISIS.
Under police questioning, Archer was specific about his alleged
motivation: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State
and that’s why I did what I did.” Archer, who is from a Philadelphia
suburb, traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and Egypt in 2012, FBI Special
Agent Eric Ruona said.
And yet, with the attacker’s confession and the FBI stating that he
had traveled to the Middle East, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney still
said the shooting had nothing to do with Islam.
“It is abhorrent,” he
said. “It does not represent the religion in any shape or form or any of
the teachings.”
It appears that Kenney is more concerned with the image of Islam than
the safety of the civilians and police officers he has sworn to
protect. Kenney’s words mirror those of Barack Obama, who still refuses
to use the words “Islamic terrorism.”
The attack in Philadelphia comes at a time of heightened fears about
terrorism nationwide, occurring a little more than a month after a
husband-and-wife pair in San Bernardino, California, murdered 14 people
in the name of ISIS. And hours before the shooting in Philadelphia,
Federal prosecutors announced that two Palestinian men who were born in
Iraq and came to the United States as refugees had been charged as part
of terrorism investigations.
We cannot place blame on the entire Muslim community. Like any
religious group, it has its good and bad individuals. And the last thing
we want to do is alienate the majority of moderate Muslims and corner
them into bonding with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and
ISIS. Donald Trump’s recent proposed ban on all Muslims entering the
United States is not what we want.
But at the same time, we must not be in denial as to where the roots of this terrorism comes from.
According to the Koran, the Islamic commandment of jihad (holy war
against the infidels — Jews and Christians) is the cure to the illness
of the Islamic nation and is the first and foremost commandment for all
Muslims striving to achieve victory and introduce the rule of Islam
worldwide.
It’s apparent that Philadelphia Mayor Kenney and the many Democrats that he associates with do not know this simple fact.
There
is a direct association between Islam and Islamic terrorism. Just ask Obama what the “I” in ISIL stands for.
If we can’t identify our enemies, we are sentencing democracy to
death by Islamic terror. If we can say “Jewish terrorism,” and arrest
Jewish terrorists today in Israel, Kenney and Obama can say “Islamic
terrorism.” Islamic terrorism has been around since the 7th century. It
is very well documented.
According to some scholars, though Islam teaches Muslims not to kill
women, children or the aged, jihad is an unlimited offensive to bring
the whole world under Islamic law.
Saying the words “Islamic terrorism” is not hate speech. It is free
speech that enables global law enforcement to investigate and locate
those who seek our very destruction.
We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. If we do, we might just lose them.
