Norway & terrorists who aren’t Muslims? Say it ain’t so…

The world was recently shocked by the brutal terrorist attack committed by Anders Behring Breivik, a White Christian, in Oslo, Norway, which thus far has left 93 people dead and a similar number wounded. Predictably as the news story broke, however, some media outlets quickly pronounced without facts that this dreadful attack was perpetrated by Muslims.

In fact even after Breivik has basically confessed to this crime against humanity, irresponsible media still blame Muslims for the attack on-line.

SEE: Norway’s 9/11 (Investor’s Business Daily)

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/579222/201107221832/Norways-911.htm

Anti-Muslim bigot Michael Savage recently even went as far as to not only blame Muslims but also liberalism and even President Obama indirectly for the attack.

SEE: Michael Savage -Norway’s 9/11 – July 22, 2011 part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA2Ove2ccvA

 

Perhaps, Investor’s Business Daily, Michael Savage and Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post need a refresher course in terrorism in America, primarily committed by White folks who are not Muslims.

In March of this year, White supremacist Christian Kevin Harpman attempted to bomb a MLK Day parade in Washington State.  In January of this year in Arizona, Joseph Loughner killed 16 people including a federal judge and injured 14 in a shooting rampage.  And let’s not forget the February 2010 suicide attack of Joseph Stack, who wrote an anti-government, anti-IRS manifesto, then flew an airplane into a building in Texas, which killed an African-American war hero, who worked for the IRS.

In the case of Loughner and Stack, their acts of terror were not labeled as terrorism by the government or corporate media and were dismissed as acts of mentally unstable persons, almost like they had a bad moments or a bad day.  When it comes to non-Whites or foreigners, especially when they’re Muslims, the terrorist label seems so easily applied.  The inverse, however, is not.

Below is a refresher of some terror incidents in America as of 2001 in which Muslims were not involved. (Compiled by The American Muslim – Sheila Musaji).

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamophobia_can_be_a_useful_term/0018676

– Jim D. Adkisson opened fire in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville TN killing two and injuring seven (a note found in his SUV indicated this was intended as a suicide attack and said the church was apparently targeted because of its support of liberal social policies),

– Alabama Free Militia, five members of anti-immigration militia were arrested for planning a machine gun attack on Mexicans.  During raids by federal agents, authorities seized 130 hand grenades, two machine guns and more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition

– Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd’s clinic in AlbuquerqueNM

– The Animal Liberation Front targeted a UCLA professor with a firebomb due to her research on animals,

– Daniel L. Barefoot, Sharon Renee Barefoot, Jonathan A. Avery, Jonathan Maynard, Marvin G. Gautier and Rossie Lynwood Strickland , six members of the Nation’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan pleaded guilty to a variety of weapons and conspiracy charges in connection with an illegal gun trading scheme in the early 2000s to finance a plan to blow up the Johnston County, North Carolina, courthouse.

– Philip Bay planned a massacre of fellow Virginia Beach students

– John Patrick Bedell, an anti-government extremist walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.

– Kody Brittingham, a Marine is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.

– Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many others at Virginia Tech before committing suicide,

– Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, two white power skinheads plot to target an African American High School and kill 88 blacks and decapitate 14 more (the numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic to white supremacists) and although expecting to fail try to assassinate Barack Obama,

– Demetrius Van Crocker a white supremacist from rural TN attempted to acquire Sarin nerve gas and C-4 explosives that he planned to use to destroy government buildings,

– James Cummings dirty bomb plot, Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

– Matthew L. Derosia rammed a SUV into the front entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota

– John Earl, a Catholic priest drove his car into the Northern Illinois Health Clinic and pulled out an ax before being shot at by a security guard,

– Earth Liberation Front members plead guilty to burning The Center for Urban Horticulture at the Universityof Washington.

– Paul Ross Evans left a package at a women’s health clinic in Austin, Texascontaining an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery and theft) was found guilty of the crime

–  David Anthony Fuselier and 4 other members of the American Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan were convicted in federal court in Louisianaon conspiracy and intimidation charges for burning a cross at the residence of three African-American men in Longville, Louisiana. The five men, who all pleaded guilty, had burned the cross in an attempt to coerce the victims into leaving the community

–  Matt Hale of the WorldChurchof the Creator was convicted in 2004 of soliciting the murder of Chicagofederal Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow

–  Jeffrey Harbin who has ties to the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was formerly a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, arrested for transporting 12 grenade-like improvised explosive devices.

– Kevin William Hardham has been charged with illegal possession of an explosive device and attempting to use a “weapon of mass destruction,” after leaving a backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane, Wash

– Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened, He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana.

– Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, LA,

– David Hull, PennsylvaniaKlan leader was convicted of a variety of illegal weapons charges in connection with an alleged plot to use hand grenades to attack abortion clinics; he also allegedly told an informant that he had turned his car into a “suicide bomb on wheels.”

– Hutaree “Christian warrior” militia.  Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michiganand Ohioare arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.

– An Idaho Mountain Militia Boys plot to kill a judge an a police officer and break a friend out of jail is uncovered,

– Vadim Ignatov shooting attack on Muslim home in Oregon

– Bruce Ivins anthrax attacks kill five across the U.S.with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets,

– JDL plot by Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque and the office of Congressman Darrell Issa in CA foiled,

– Jerry and Joe Kane, two “sovereign citizens” gunned down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.

– Anarchist Joseph Konopka was found in possession of deadly amounts of sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide

– William Krar is charged for his part in the Tyler poison gas plot, a white supremacist related plan, his weapons cache included a half a million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers, and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases.

– James J. Lee wearing explosives and carrying a gun took hostages at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Marylandbefore being killed by police. He was protesting the channel’s “anti environmental” message and programming encouraging birth of humans who he called filthy

– Ryan Daniel Lewis was convicted of arson in a number of incidents on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front in CA

– Thomas Hayward Lewis, a white power skinhead arrested in MobileAlabamafor vandalism and cache of explosives found in his home

– Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizonaat a political gathering

– Donny Love, Sr. has been indicted for his alleged role in bombing of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego.  Multiple nail-laden pipe bombs exploded at a Federal Courthouse in San Diegocausing “considerable damage” to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away. The F.B.I. is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in San Diego

– Keith Luke went on shooting spree in MA to kill as many non whites and Jews as possible,

– Dennis & Daniel Mahon send mail bombs to a diversity office in Scottsdale AZ that injure three,

– Alberto Martinez – two officers were killed at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq by a deliberately placed mine,  Staff Sergeant Alberto B. Martinez was charged, but was acquitted in a court martial trial at Fort Bragg, NC,

– David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan crashed his car into the Edgerton Women’s Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions

– Justin Carl Moose plot to bomb abortion clinics.  The FBI alleges he referred to himself as the “Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden”

– Donny Eugene Mower was arrested on federal charges of attacking a reproductive health clinic in Madera CA, and authorities said he also is responsible for vandalism and menacing signs left at the city’s Islamic center.

– Robert Pickett discharged a number of shots from a weapon in the direction of the White House,

– Richard Andrew Poplawski – Three Pittsburgh police officers are fatally shot and a fourth wounded by Richard Andrew Poplawski, who had posted his racist and anti-Semitic views on white supremacist websites.

– Project 7, two members are arrested plotting to kill judges and law enforcement officials in order to kick off a revolution,

– Charles Carl Roberts IV went into an Amish school in Lancaster County, PA and killed 5 girls before committing suicide,

– Daniel and Timothy Robinson arrested in possession of materials to make bio-chemical weapons

– Scott Roeder Assassination of Dr. George Tiller

– Daniel James Schertz, N GA White Knights member pleaded guilty to building pipe bombs designed to blow up buses carrying Mexican and Haitian migrant workers from Tennessee to Florida

– Kyle Shaw bombing of a Starbucks in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, police said his motive was to emulate “Project Mayhem” a series of assaults on corporate America

– Joseph Stack’s suicide flight into an IRS building.

– Roger Stockham was arrested in a car laden with explosives outside one of the nation’s largest mosques in Dearborn MI

 

– Texas Militia former leaders plot to attack the Federal Building in Houston,

– Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, a pair of “Patriot” movement radicals who wanted “to attack the political infrastructure”—threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.

– Jomar Falu Vives a Fort Carson, CO soldier and Iraq war veteran accused of killing 2 people and wounding another in drive-by shootings,

– U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting by James Wenneker von Brunn,

– Lonnie Vernon and 4 others were arrested on charges connected with an alleged plot to kidnap or kill state troopers and a Fairbanks, Alaska judge

– Clayton Waagner, claiming to act on the part of the “Virginia Dare Chapter” of the Army Of God mailed hoax letters containing a white powder to 554 clinics,

– white supremacists planned to bomb a series of institutions associated with the black and Jewish communities including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,

– Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend on the Red Lake, MN Chippewa reservation, then went to Red Lake H.S. where he killed 7 people and wounded 5 others before committing suicide,

– Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.

– Alexander Robert Youshock’s plot to bomb a school in San Mateo, CA

 

 

DawudWalid

Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), which is a chapter of America's largest advocacy and civil liberties organization for American Muslims and is a member of the Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC) Imams Committee. Walid has been interviewed and quoted in approximately 150 media outlets ranging from the New York Times, Wall St Journal, National Public Radio, CNN, BBC, FOX News and Al-Jazeera. Furthermore, Walid was a political blogger for the Detroit News from January 2014 to January 2016, has had essays published in the 2012 book All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim, the 2014 book Qur'an in Conversation and was quoted as an expert in 13 additional books and academic dissertations. He was also a featured character in the 2013 HBO documentary "The Education of Mohammad Hussein." Walid has lectured at over 50 institutions of higher learning about Islam, interfaith dialogue and social justice including at Harvard University, DePaul University and the University of the Virgin Islands - St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses as well as spoken at the 2008 and 2011 Congressional Black Caucus Conventions alongside prominent speakers such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Congressman Keith Ellison. In 2008, Walid delivered the closing benediction at the historic 52nd Michigan Electoral College in the Michigan State Senate chambers and gave the Baccalaureate speech for graduates of the prestigious Cranbrook-Kingswood Academy located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Walid was also a featured speaker at the 2009 and 2010 Malian Peace and Tolerance Conferences at the University of Bamako in Mali, West Africa. He has also given testimony at hearings and briefings in front of Michigan state legislators and U.S. congressional representatives, including speaking before members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington, D.C. Walid has studied under qualified scholars the disciplines of Arabic grammar and morphology, foundations of Islamic jurisprudence, sciences of the exegesis of the Qur’an, and Islamic history during the era of Prophet Muhammad through the governments of the first 5 caliphs. He previously served as an imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and the Bosnian American Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, and continues to deliver sermons and lectures at Islamic centers across the United States and Canada. Walid was a 2011 - 2012 fellow of the University of Southern California (USC) American Muslim Civil Leadership Institute (AMCLI) and a 2014 - 2015 fellow of the Wayne State Law School Detroit Action Equity Lab (DEAL). Walid served in the United States Navy under honorable conditions earning two United States Navy & Marine Corp Achievement medals while deployed abroad. He has also received awards of recognition from the city councils of Detroit and Hamtramck and from the Mayor of Lansing as well as a number of other religious and community organizations.

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