Frustration

It’s gotta be frustrating to be a terrorist, trying to actually get PR for attacks in America.

It’s gotta feel almost like a scene from Monty Python and the Life of Brian – they keep launching attacks in the US (via proxies, for the most part) and the government keeps blaming it on…others!

  • Nidal Hassan’s attack on Fort Hood?  Workplace violence!
  • The attack on the recruiters in Little Rock?  Street crime!
  • San Bernardino?  Why, that was workplace violence too, silly peasants!
  • Omar Matteen?  Whose ISIS sympathies were so clear that the Administration felt the need to clumsily redact them from public releases on the subject?   Apparnetly his victims were killed by self-animating Republican guns.

It’s gotten to the point that Al Quaeda (remember them?) is telling its lone wolves to try to focus on WASPS, to try to prevent the American social-justice grievance industry from co-opting their attacks for their own purposes:

In the June 12 attack in Orlando, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 inside a gay nightclub. Although Mateen, who was later killed by police, told hostage negotiators he pledged allegiance to ISIS, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has characterized the attack as a hate crime against gays.

“I cannot tell you definitively that we will ever narrow it down to one motivation,” Lynch told reporters last week. “People often act out of more than one motivation.

“This was clearly an act of terror and an act of hate,” she continued. “We will look at all motivations and hope to come to a conclusion there.”

Although Al Qaeda does not take credit for Mateen’s attack in the online article, it urges more “lone wolves” to take up arms. Jihadists should target “areas where the Anglo-Saxon community is generally concentrated,” it states. “This class of the American community is the majority and it is the one that is in the American leadership.”

On the one hand, it makes good PR sense; strip out as many hooks for the left’s exploiting the narrative as possible.

On the other?  They’ve tried it once – and it didn’t end well for them.

10 thoughts on “Frustration

  1. From the Facebook page of Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, posted November 15, 2015:

    EDIT: “My friend Joseph from the United States wrote this on my wall after hearing my discussion with Dave Rubin and he gave me a FULL permission and copyright to share it under my name without any attribution” :

    “It must be incredibly frustrating as an Islamic terrorist not to have your views and motives taken seriously by the societies you terrorize, even after you have explicitly and repeatedly stated them. Even worse, those on the regressive left, in their endless capacity for masochism and self-loathing, have attempted to shift blame inwardly on themselves, denying the terrorists even the satisfaction of claiming responsibility.

    It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch:

    “We did this because our holy texts exhort us to to do it.”

    “No you didn’t.”

    “Wait, what? Yes we did…”

    “No, this has nothing to do with religion. You guys are just using religion as a front for social and geopolitical reasons.”

    “WHAT!? Did you even read our official statement? We give explicit Quranic justification. This is jihad, a holy crusade against pagans, blasphemers, and disbelievers.”

    “No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You guys are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so.”

    “Huh!? Who are you to tell us we’re not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being.”

    “Nope. We created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that’s why you did this. We’re sorry.”

    “What? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. We targeted unwitting civilians – disenfranchisement doesn’t even enter into it!”

    “Listen, it’s our fault. We don’t blame you for feeling unwelcome and lashing out.”

    “Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we’re not going to let you take it away from us.”

    “No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame.”

    “OMG, how many people do we have to kill around here to finally get our message across?””

  2. South Park, the Onion. IowaHawk. Satire cannot top real world events.
    I picked up City Pages last night. On page 6 they have this long rant against John Menard because in his management trainee program, they have material talking about the advantages of low taxes and less government interference.
    On page 5 they have this rant because high taxes are hurting charitable gambling.
    So on one page, they bitch about high taxes due to the negative impact. On the next page they talk about how good high taxes are.

  3. Headline: JOINT BASE ANDREWS OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, DC, REPORTS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION AND HAS BEEN PUT ON LOCKDOWN

    Lockdown? Air Force base on lockdown? Is our military being run by nanny state school marms? Are the men in uniform of the US Air Force crouching under their desks and cowering in corners? Or is ‘lockdown” on a military base means actively hunting down the shooter and dispatching him/her to their maker as quickly as possible?

  4. Nope, it the former, I missed this: All base personnel are being told to shelter in place.

    Are you freaking kidding me? Woe to all of us if our armed forces cannot, or are not allowed, to defend themselves.

  5. Military bases are “Gun Free Zones.” Unfortunately, the general public doesn’t believe it when we tell them.

  6. JPA, except for MPs, all military personnel are disarmed unless actually in combat or at the range. No kidding. So sheltering in place may be the best thing they can do, sad to say.

  7. bb is correct.

    When I was in the Air Force, we only carried in combat zones. Unfortunately, the standard issue side arm of the USAF at the time was a .38 S&W revolver. Many of the combat pilots bought Colt Pythons in .357 magnum and shells off the base or through black market sellers. They would load 3 issued .38 rounds and 3 of their .357 rounds, just in case.

    While I was up in Grand Forks, the only time ground crews carried weapons, was for a two week period in 1974. Apparently, some radicals had pledged to steal a nuke, so they armed everyone around the planes and doubled the usual group of SPs that accompanied the weapons to the planes going to the alert pad. They also had four SPs around the plane during uploads and downloads instead of the normal two.

  8. Just because this policy had been around “forever” does not make it less insane and counter-productive. At least in my view. Anyone know why this policy was put into effect in the first place?

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