“They are on a Jihad to deport as many people as they can who they believe are not in the United States legally.”
What’s that? They’re on an interior spiritual struggle to deport people? The irony here is that if confronted about Islamic jihad, Cuomo would doubtless say that it’s a beautiful thing, a spiritual struggle, and that we all must avoid “Islamophobia.” But here he uses “jihad” in a way that shows that he thinks of it in negative terms; will the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reprimand him, or give him a pass because he has been useful to them?
In any case, Cuomo could find out how Muslims have actually understood “jihad” in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. He might be surprised to discover that throughout the last 1,400 years, quite a large number of Muslims have understood jihad as meaning something quite different from an “interior spiritual struggle.”
If Cuomo did learn that, not only might he stop using this word so carelessly; he would also have to reexamine many of his bedrock assumptions about both foreign and domestic policy. Would Andrew Cuomo dare?
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“Cuomo: Trump Admin. Is on a ‘Jihad to Deport as Many People’ as Possible,” by Haris Alic, Washington Free Beacon, July 24, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) compared the Trump administration’s efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration to the zealotry of Jihad, an Arabic word describing a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty.
Cuomo made the comments while in Puerto Rico on Monday, where the governor had journeyed with a delegation of New York elected officials, students, and labor leaders to observe recovery efforts undertaken since Hurricanes Maria and Irma ravaged the island last year.
During a press briefing to publicize his visit, the governor was asked about his decision to issue a pardon to seven illegal immigrants residing in New York that were facing deportation by federal law enforcement for “minor convictions.”
The governor justified his actions, claiming the Trump administration had launched a “crusade” against those they do not “consider original Americans.”
“This administration is on a crusade against people who they do not consider original Americans,” Cuomo said. “Which is specious and hypocritical at best [because] unless you’re a member of a Native American tribe, then you’re really an immigrant to the United States.”
The pardons, which were issued on Monday, marked the third time Cuomo has intervened using his gubernatorial authority to shield illegal immigrants from “potential deportation.”
Citing what had been done in “Puerto Rico” and “at the border,” the governor claimed President Donald Trump and his administration were waging a “Jihad” on illegal immigrants.
“They are on a Jihad to deport as many people as they can who they believe are not in the United States legally,” Cuomo said….