Radical Islamists of the world, rejoice! Your cause is protected speech here in America. On Sunday, Obama’s adopted home town played host to a conference titled “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam,” which was put on by Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a world-wide Sunni network devoted to the restoration of the caliphate and the recruitment of children as young as 9 to jihad. HT boasts a chilling list of murderers among its graduates, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Asif Muhammad Hanif, a British man who blew himself up outside a bar in Tel Aviv, killing four people (including himself) and wounding more than 50; and Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric currently banned from Britain who praised the 9/11 attacks, raised funds for Hezbollah and Hamas and called for attacks on the Dublin airport because U.S. troops transfered there on their way to Iraq.
During the course of the full-day forum at the Oak Park, IL Hilton, Steve Emerson says, men-they were in the front of the room-and women-they were in the back (“to prevent people from behaving like animals”) listened to stuff like this:
“Secular capitalism has made me devalue my skin” and “has kept my family in ghettos,” said one speaker, an African-American who went on to blame it for the fact that he smoked marijuana and his grandmother played the lottery. Capitalism, he added, is a form of economic “terrorism” and “causes us to be sent to mental hospitals.” Barack Obama’s presidency, he said, “is only a scheme or con” to trick people into thinking that things will get better under capitalism.
Surely Muslims of every radical stripe are laughing in their jalabiya sleeves, and not at the above-quoted ludicrousness. For lurking behind the convert’s nonsense is that malevolence that continues to threaten us, and not-Obamic apologies to the contrary-because of what we’ve done, but because of who we are, and who they are. As FOX.com reports,
Sheikh Abdul Qadeem Zalloom, the former global leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, says anyone who rules by a non-Islamic system should “either retract or be killed . . . even if this led to several years of fighting and even if it led to the killing of millions of Muslims and to the martyrdom of millions of believers.” Hizb ut-Tahrir’s official ruling on the permissibility of hijacking planes says, “If the plane belongs to a country at war with Muslims, like Israel, it is allowed to hijack it, for there is no sanctity for Israel nor for the Jews in it.” And one of the organization’s more recent leaflets, published in March, calls for the declaration of “a state of war against America.”
What makes this all so much more horrifying is that this radical jihadi organization, which the Anti-Defamation League says is “banned in several Arab and Central Asian countries, as well as Germany and Russia,” has managed to make dupes of the State Department terror-watchers-and the rest of us-by keeping itself off their list.
