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By Shavana Abruzzo
Brooklyn Daily
Deny, defend, avoid, or apologize, but there’s no escaping our chronic radical Muslim problem.
All corners of the globe — from Africa and Asia, to Europe, Australia, and the Americas — can bear witness to extremist Islam’s terror trade, and moderate Islam’s incapacity to deal with it.
The fall out? Innocent world citizens trapped in the middle.
The worst-case scenario arrived in London last week, when cowardly, cleaver-wielding fanatics ran over a British soldier with a car, and then hacked him to death on the street in front of horrified pedestrians, in a new stomach-churning low for Islamo-fiends.
Lee Rigby, 25, a husband and father, risked his own life to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, but ended up being a victim of jihadis in his own country, leaving courageous passer-by Ingrid Loyau-Kennett to do what decent Muslims should have done long ago. She confronted the killers and demanded an answer.
Nearly 100 British imams — only 100? — weren’t as brave. They co-signed a letter of condemnation, as if the crumb of damnation was enough to repair the butchered Muslim reputation.
The Rocky Horror Muslim Show continued on this side of the ocean.
On the same day, 16 Palestinian Muslims were arrested in connection with a multi-million-dollar cigarette-smuggling racket that allegedly funneled money to terrorists, mirroring similar past plots to finance terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
One defendant is linked to the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge murder of Yeshiva student Ari Halberstam, another is a supporter of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik serving a life sentence for his failed 1993 plot to blow up the World Trade Center, and several others were Brooklyn residents, their identities and operations likely familiar to the borough’s tight-knit Arab community.
Yet there has been no no thumbs down from that selective quarter.
Pro-Palestinian gasbag Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York, ignored the arrests on Twitter, instead tweeting about racial profiling in the U.S.
Sarsour’s choosy condemnations are disturbing. She has railed against Uncle Sam for “backing Israel with cash and weapons against my own people,” but feared to cross Hamas’s despicable criminal justice system in the Gaza, pockmarked with random arrests, silenced detentions, torture, and unfair trials for Palestinians.
She has also discounted her own reputed terror ties, including a brother-in-law serving a 12-year prison sentence in Israel for his association with Hamas, a cousin who, according to Sarsour, has been in Israeli jails for 25 years, and a family friend doing a 99-year prison stretch there.
She and other Muslim Americans have an obligation to expunge their holy warriors as zealously as they downplay terror plots, attack vital counter-terrorism initiatives, and mock the use of informants.
The clear and present danger can’t be over-stated enough. Muslim lands have been rife with Muslim problems from the time of their inception to the present day.
The troubled Muslim psyche has now become a world migraine, and Muslims must replace their inertia against Islam’s terrorists with swift and substantial action, so that we can all have peace.
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