Daniel GreenfieldAugust 17, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog
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.
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