Leftists import bigoted killers and blame “Islamophobia.”
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Diversity is our strength so it couldn’t have been too shocking that an Afghan Muslim refugee was responsible for America’s single worst Islamophobic killing spree. Much as another Afghan, Omar Mateen, brutally carried out the single largest massacre of gay people in America.
Americans are generally fairly tolerant so liberals decided to import bigoted immigrant killers.
When the migrant surge began, politicians and the media assured us that Afghans would make profound contributions to America. They have already set two particularly ugly national records.
And that was bound to happen.
Long after the last American soldier had left Afghanistan, the fighting between Sunnis and Shiites continues in the terrorist state with ISIS-K carrying out bombing attacks on Shiite mosques.. The massive influx of Afghan refugees to America has brought the bloody ethnic, tribal and religious clashes from that failed state to America.
Including the true and undiluted Islamophobia that only Sunnis and Shiites are truly capable of.
“I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque,” Joe Biden had tweeted. “While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community. These hateful attacks have no place in America.”
“The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly intolerable,” Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham tweeted. “We will continue to do everything we can to support to the Muslim community of Albuquerque and greater New Mexico during this difficult time. You are New Mexicans, you are welcomed here, and we stand with you.”
CAIR offered a $10,000 reward for the perpetrator of the “hateful shooting spree” and demanded that Biden make it his responsibility to “protect Albuquerque Muslims from further harm”. But when the perpetrator turned out to be a fellow Sunni Muslim, CAIR is no longer describing his actions as “hateful”, but “deranged”. Soon he’ll be dismissed as mentally ill.
The media was even less circumspect, interviewing local Islamists who claimed that they feared American intolerance and the media warned that “another Islamophobic attack could happen”.
The killing of four Muslim men from “South Asia”, the last of them outside a Lutheran Family Services refugee services office, was indeed Islamophobic in the most traditional way.
The alleged perpetrator, Muhammad Syed, a Sunni Muslim refugee from Afghanistan, was reportedly angry at his daughter’s marriage to a Shiite Muslim.
And took it out on some local Shiite Muslims in Albuquerque which is now the new Afghanistan.
Since the withdrawal, four Afghan refugees have been accused of sexual assault, two involving children and two involving adult women. Some 324 Afghans with terror ties have popped up on watchlists. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg that we actually know about.
In the 6 years since he arrived in America, Syed had racked up quite a record.
In 2017, the Afghan Muslim refugee, along with his wife and son, had been accused of assaulting his daughter’s boyfriend. That was in 2017. Next year, Syed was accused of grabbing his wife by the hair and throwing her out of the car. Then he allegedly attacked her at a Human Services office and pulled out “a large chunk of hair” from her scalp.
That same year, his son called the police claiming that Syed had been beating his mother, while he and his sister tried to hold him back. The beating left the younger Syed covered in blood.
By 2020, Syed was allegedly busted for refusing to comply with police orders after running a red light. Police reports indicate that four years after coming to America, Syed still only spoke “pashto” except for apparently the term “mother______r”.
Syed may not have enriched our culture, but we had clearly enriched his.
“I am deeply disturbed by the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque. As law enforcement continues to investigate these heinous attacks, we remain clear that we stand with the Muslim community in New Mexico and around our country. Hate has no place in America,” Kamala Harris had tweeted.
Hate has a huge place here and Kamala and her boss have made plenty of room for it.
Syed’s killing spree wasn’t domestic terrorism as we understand it. The Afghan Muslim refugee, who told police that he had fought in his country’s special forces, was settling communal grudges and disputes the same way that his countrymen usually do.
Men beating wives and family members isn’t unusual in Afghanistan. Neither is responding to a daughter’s rebellious relationship with murder. The case is only notable because it’s in America.
And because top elected officials, including Biden and Kamala, are in denial about it.
Democrats frequently remind us that other Muslims are the leading targets of Muslim terrorism. That’s true insofar as Islam has a rich 1,360 year history of fatally settling theological differences. The world’s greatest ‘Islamophobes’ are Muslims who have been killing each other and members of variant sects because, beginning with Mohammed, for most of their history the inherent violence of Islam leaves few other options for resolving religious differences except “submission”. Cultural differences end with slavery, forced marriage, repression and genocide.
In the decades since the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, Biden, Kamala, local officials in New Mexico and most of the country’s political elites and cultural establishment have learned to respond to Islamic violence with cries of Islamophobia. But what happens when Islamic violence is no longer being directed at Americans, but at other Muslims?
Americans are some of the least hateful people in America. Polls and surveys show that we are less racist, more tolerant of religious differences, and more willing to share spaces with people who are different than they are than most of the rest of the world.
And, it ought to go without saying, Afghanistan.
Taking in massive numbers of Afghan Muslim refugees has had the opposite effect. Multiple Afghan refugees have already been caught up in ordinary domestic physical and sexual offenses. And that’s just the recent arrivals, not longtimers like Syed in New Mexico.
The mass migration of Afghans to America means that we now have to police cultural, gender, and religious disputes in a population that could not, even with our extended help over the course of two decades, settle those differences in their own country. Now we have been cursed with the even more hopeless task of trying to settle Afghan differences in America.
The Albuquerque killings, like the assaults on military bases housing refugees, and the sexual assaults off those bases, is a warning of the scale and hopelessness of the task before us.
From Omar Mateen, the perpetrator of the second deadliest mass shooting in America at the Pulse nightclub, to Muhammad Syed, Afghan immigration means violence, terror and death for everyone as the norms of a deeply broken culture pop up in cities like Albuquerque.
Syed, who violently clashed with his family members and had repeated run-ins with the law until his violent impulses allegedly turned lethal, is not an outlier, he is the face of the future.
Our future.
What happened in Albuquerque is just what happens when Afghanistan comes to America.
Wellington says
Frankly, I don’t care if Muslims kill other Muslims, which has been going on since Islam’s inception in the 7th century (Note to all Muslims: Islam is not the world’s oldest religion as Islam claims; it is a made-up religion by a rather vague historical figure called Mohammed and is basically a rip-off of other religions, especially Christianity and Judaism). But I do care about Muslims killing other Muslims or, even more troubling, Muslims killing non-Muslims in Western nations. Keep your pathetic and hate-filled religion confined to Islamic lands.
And yes, I know you have instructions from your fictional Allah to spread Islam across the Earth and dominate everyone but eff that. God, what a travesty and burden Islam has been for mankind. Any good it has done (not much) is almost infinitely outweighed by its many wrongs perpetrated upon humanity for a very long time now.
CogitoErgoSum says
I could probably live with their religion if they would keep their religion to themselves. The problem I have is that they try to make everybody else follow the rules of their religion. What other religion in the world does that? Oh yeah, the Religion of the Woke. It’s so ironic that our desire for freedom of religion has brought us two religions that want to wipe out freedom of religion.
Jayell says
Islam…….is basically a rip-off of other religions, especially Christianity and Judaism’…
Absolutely right. But a good commercial ‘rip-off’ merchant will make their spurious product virtually indistinguishable form the original – ask anyone who’s bought a ‘genuine Rolex’ watch in a market at a suspiciously ‘reasonable’ price. The Disciples of the Great Prophet, however, were too busy forcing a sale on their credulous clientele using Al Capone tactics to bother noticing that their Mickey Mouse merchandise fell to pieces as soon as you looked at it too carefully; which is why anyone attempting a ‘consumer protection’ exercise with this product is likely find themselves on the wrong end of the ‘Al Capone tactics’ to this day.
somehistory says
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for laying it all out. there is no place on earth where mozlums get along with anyone. Each feels superior, each feels he has a *right* to do as he pleases, when he pleases and that no one has the right to disagree.
The mozlum guy who helped this alleged murderer……and the evidence is strong, bullets from his guns,…..said that this guy “hated” other mozlums of the differing sect. Hate, unrestrained by any self-control when the hater feels as if he has a *right* to express his hatred, leads to murder.
Infidel says
Daughter elopes w/ a shi’a, and since he can’t murder his shi’a son-in-law, he takes it out on 4 unrelated shi’a residents of Albuquerque! What a genius!
After his jail sentence, or acquittal – whichever happens – he should be put on the next flight to Kabul. I know he won’t be, but he should
somehistory says
“In 2017, the Afghan Muslim refugee, along with his wife and son, had been accused of assaulting his daughter’s boyfriend. ”
that beating didn’t do the trick; and perhaps others turned him in for the assault. For murdering four…or even just two…people, he should get the death penalty; or life without parole. Either is too good for him.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
From the Jerusalem Post
“Taliban kill one of their ex-leaders from minority Hazara community”
“The Taliban killed one of their former leaders who was known as the first commander of the group hailing from the minority Shi’ite Hazara community, officials confirmed on Wednesday, adding that he had rebelled against the de facto government.”
wherever they are, they murder others….mozlums and non.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Somehistory.
gravenimage says
An Afghan Muslim Refugee Carried Out America’s Worst Islamophobic Killings
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Yep–odd how that happened…
I had wondered when I first heard about this if the killer was not himself Muslim.
And now Muslims are claiming that this has nothing to do with Islamic sectarian hatred:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-muslims-reject-sectarian-label-put-killings-2022-08-17/
Now it has nothing to do with ideology, and is all about “revenge and personal feuds”. Never mind that the “revenge” is for his daughter having married a Shia Muslim.
And of course Muslim apologists wee quick to claim that these killings were “Islamophobic” before the killer was discovered to be Muslim himself.
Ade Fegan says
Not my prophet
Jayell says
‘Hate has no place in America,” Kamala Harris had tweeted.’
Very good, Ms. Harris, so stop the grotesque grovelling-on-the-ground, posterior-in-the-air purveyors of institutional sacred spite getting into America in the first place. And as for…..’local Islamists…claimed that they feared American intolerance’…. this must be the most transparent example gratuitously deluded, bigoted self-projection that any vaguely sentient specimen claiming ‘human’ status has ever had the sheer undiluted audacity to attempt. There’s the saying ‘you can take a ‘refugee’ out of the Third World, but you’ll never take the Third World out of the ‘refugee’; and the ‘refugee’ here demonstrates that point admirably, along with the rest of his charming compatriots. Perhaps it’s time for these ‘refugees’ to ‘seek refuge’ from ‘American intolerance’ back home whence they came before they succeed in making America look too much like ‘home’ to them.
Michael Copeland says
“Between us and you enmity and hatred forever”, Ms Harris, is the “excellent pattern” praised in Koran 60:4, part of Islamic law (with the death penalty for denying any verse).
That is what is taught in the mosques, Ms Harris.
It is Islamic doctrine.
Jamie James says
I fail to see how Islam is a religion, no other religion forces people to join it or kill all non-believers. If you consider these facts, they are exactly what you would expect from a cult. There is the truth, Islam is a barbaric cult.
gravenimage says
Islam is a religion–it is just an evil religion.
Lenny Leaps In says
Let us hope for Taiban vs ISIS in Afghanistan
gravenimage says
They are pretty much the same–just different Islamic thugs; same ideology.