The cradle of liberty – or Massachusettstan?

Posted: October 26, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009

On Sept. 11, 2001, more than 170 families in the Massachusetts lost loved ones as Osama bin Laden attacked America in the latest phase of his Global War on Infidels.

The nation's heart was ripped nearly in two, and sons and daughters were shipped off to foreign battlefields to confront the brutal killer: Islamism. To this date, nearly 800 American heroes have made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefields of Afghanistan in the name of liberty.

But while those heroes toil and die as their president fiddles, our enemies here at home in states like Massachusetts plot to kill. The latest incarnation is Tarik Mehanna, an Islamist who planned to attack "soft target" shopping malls with machine guns.

Tarik is no stranger to law enforcement. He had been monitored by the FBI since 2001 as he and an associate James Maldonado traveled abroad to receive jihadi training. Maldonado is widely suspected to have been involved in Yemen and Somalia, with Tarik being focused on the Middle East.

To hear Tarik tell it, he is just like any other American, except that his computer contained videos of American soldiers being cut down by IEDs and their body desecrated and defiled after death by the jihadi "warriors."

Tarik Mehanna had been brought in for questioning by the FBI about Maldonado. In November 2008 he was charged with lying to the FBI. He still faces that charge.

Muslim Matters, a defender of the oppressed members of the religion of peace, immediately sprang into action, defending this righteous Muslim being attacked by the Kafir. Muslim Matters no doubt learned these tactics from the Council of American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, who, according to the book "Muslim Mafia" has made an art form of lying to protect terrorists.

On Wednesday last week, Mehanna was picked up again by the FBI, this time for plotting those attacks on shopping malls with machine guns. Tarik is an American citizen, just like Najibullah Zazi in Queens, N.Y.

It should be noted that Massachusetts has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the country. Where was he going to get machine guns, you ask? Street gangs. Where do they get them? I am sure by the time this plays out, Bush and/or gun shows in Right-leaning states will feel the blame.

When Mehanna was arrested, one neighbor told the Boston Globe, "He was everyday normal. When he was out walking, he was friendly, neighborly.''

That's the point. These jihadists don't ply their trades on their front lawns. You don't have suicide vest fittings or beheadings on the front lawn; that's the point of the fifth column.

When it comes to those who ply their trade in the open, you need to travel 1,571 miles south to Guanatamo Bay, Cuba. There you will meet jihadis committed to deaths of Americans – at least when they were on the battlefield. Now, of course, they are all innocent men. And that is why Amherst, Mass., so desperately wants them to move there.

This bucolic college town 100 miles west of Boston is known for its political lunacy. In Amherst there is an effort underway, led by Ruth Hook, leader of an outfit called "No More Gitmos," to get two Gitmo detainees settled there. To hear Ruth tell it, these are not trained killers. These are solid men, good me, assets to the community.

She took the issue to the town council and the measure passed 2-1, in favor or relocating two of bin Laden's killers to Amherst. Now it's just a matter of lobbying the federal government to permit this. There is a move afoot as we speak in Washington to have Ruth's dream come true to bring the killers home to Amherst.

When he was told of the wildly successful attacks of Sept. 11, bin Laden was shown on video laughing and joking. One can't help but feel that bin Laden must be smiling, thinking of the Quranic verse that reads, "slay the idolaters wherever you find them ... take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush ..." Osama bin Laden must be thinking precisely of the Ruth Hooks of the world – the enablers who hold the door while the killers move among us.

While bin Laden lost Tarik Mehanna on Wednesday, he may have gained a witting or an unwitting ally in Amherst on the Tuesday before. By bin Laden's count, he may be up one jihadi in the commonwealth, all while many in that state still mourn the 170-plus souls lost on that sad September day, and the nation moves ever closer to defeat in the battle of civilizations, one town meeting at a time.

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