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2006-06-04 Home Front: WoT

Counter Terrorism: Informants in American Service

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Posted by DanNY 2006-06-04 08:13|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good News. That's what we need in Europe.

Posted by Apostate 2006-06-04 13:16|| 2006-06-04 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's part of the answer to "where are the moderate Muslims?" Here are some, quietly doing us a lot of good. Good for them.

Posted by VAMark 2006-06-04 13:17|| 2006-06-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 NYT or WaPo will publish their names and addresses soon so we can thank them, I'm sure.

Posted by flyover 2006-06-04 14:11|| 2006-06-04 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 heh, I thought this was going to be about the CIA, State Dept, etc.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-04 14:52|| 2006-06-04 14:52|| Front Page Top

#5 This doesn't surprise me. Your average moderate Muslim isn't going to be out on the streets protesting terrorists, thereby painting a target on himself. Every time you hear of Muslim terrorists getting busted, the odds are that it was a Muslim informant of the same ethnic background as the perps who infiltrated into their circle and obtained incriminating recordings of their activities.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-06-04 17:38|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-06-04 17:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Your average moderate Muslim isn't going to be out on the streets protesting terrorists, thereby painting a target on himself.

They should be, regardless of the danger it puts them in. Silence is consent, particularly when their selected leaders are hip-deep in the jihadi ethos.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-04 18:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-04 18:13|| Front Page Top

#7 RC: They should be, regardless of the danger it puts them in. Silence is consent, particularly when their selected leaders are hip-deep in the jihadi ethos.

Were you out on the street protesting the Oklahoma City bombings? Was there any personal danger to you? You didn't march, did you? What if all your friends and relatives threatened to disown you if you marched? What if people you knew threatened to kill you? The fact is that as many Muslims hated the US before 9/11 as after 9/11. Ditto for Iraq. Most of these Muslims are toothless. It was bin Laden and his terrorist pals who attacked us. Not those other Muslims. And a significant number of Muslims have chosen to help us, at considerable risk to their personal safety, since it's obviously not Irish or German Americans who set up many of these stings. It would not do to lump them in with the rest.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-06-04 20:07|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-06-04 20:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Were you out on the street protesting the Oklahoma City bombings?

Why should I have? Nothing I've ever said or done could be construed as support for it. Unlike the Muslims who pump cash into "charities" that fund bombers, who appoint jihadi scholars to the boards of their mosques, who stand silent as their mosques distribute pamphlets calling the kaffir apes and pigs.

I don't doubt that a small number of Muslims are helping against the jihadis. It's the vastly larger number who quietly support jihad that bother me.

What if all your friends and relatives threatened to disown you if you marched?

And judging by this statement, you're perfectly aware that those against jihad are vastly outnumbered by those who support it, actively or tacitly.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-04 20:25|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-04 20:25|| Front Page Top

#9 RC: Why should I have? Nothing I've ever said or done could be construed as support for it.

And the moderate Muslims have done nothing to support it either. The radicals that the press trots out as "moderate" Muslims, don't represent actual moderates any more than the media's choice of the Westboro Baptist Church represents mainstream Christians. Iraqis are encountering terrorist attacks despite the presence of 130,000 US troops whereas we are not because there are tens of thousands of Muslims in Iraq who want to kill Americans, whereas there are almost none among the millions of Muslims in this country. If someone wants to kill a bunch of people at random, there is nothing in the world that can stop him - just look at Charles Whitman and Columbine. The fact is that Muslim Americans aren't a bunch of stone killers. Right after 9/11, this wasn't 100% clear. After almost five years, it is crystal clear.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-06-04 23:39|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-06-04 23:39|| Front Page Top

#10 ZF - the "moderate muslims" are the swamp the radicals swim in. To equate the two is ridiculous, Robert

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-04 23:54|| 2006-06-04 23:54|| Front Page Top

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