My latest in PJ Media:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been heavily criticized for apparently trivializing the 9/11 jihad attacks when she characterized them as “some people did something.” However, in a recent interview (with Al Jazeera, which is as anti-Semitic as she is), Omar revealed what was really important to her about those attacks, in which 3,000 Americans were killed: she wanted to make sure that in light of them, no one thought ill of Islam or blamed all Muslims: “What is important,” she said, “is the larger point that I was speaking to, which is about making sure that blame isn’t placed on a whole faith, that we as Muslims are not collectively blamed for the actions of terrorists,” Omar added.
We hear this often: jihad terror attacks are committed only by a minuscule fringe of the global Islamic community, and so it is of paramount importance that we not point fingers at Muslims in the aggregate, or at Islam itself, as if they were responsible for those attacks.
And of course it’s true. No one should ever be held responsible for something which with he or she had nothing to do, and no one should blame innocent Muslims for the actions of terrorists. Everyone takes that for granted. But Ilhan Omar’s words to Al Jazeera only obfuscate the fact that jihad terrorists are indeed galvanized by teachings of Islam that mandate everlasting war against the infidel.
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