Thread: The ISIS Barbarians Are Already Inside our Gates

The ISIS Barbarians Are Already Inside our Gates
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by TOM TANCREDO
26 Mar 2016

The religion of peace has stuck again.

Last week it was Brussels, but it is too late to guard our gates, as brave Horatius lamented:

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.”

As the FBI well knows, ISIS is already inside the United States. Guarding our gates is still necessary, but it is not enough when thousands of Islamist jihadists are already here — and being aided by Muslims attending a friendly neighborhood mosque near you.

The unpleasant, politically incorrect truth is that ISIS is only the point of the spear, the jihadist with the suicide belt and the duffle bag bomb, but that messenger was sent by Islam itself.

In Brussels, police have said that some of the murderers who carried out the Paris attacks were hidden and aided for months by the Muslim communities in Brussels. ISIS “cells” cannot survive and build their bombs and conduct their attacks without help from a broader network of sympathizers.

After each terrorist attack carried out by Islamist militants, we are told that the religion of Islam is blameless and we are lectured and warned against the evils of “Islamophobia.” No one is permitted by the PC police to hold the “religion of peace” and its mosques and imams accountable for crimes committed for the greater glory of Allah.

To the American left and its willing collaborators in the media and the halls of power, “Islamophobia” seems a greater threat than ISIS. This moral confusion violates Sun Tzu’s first principle of warfare: know thy enemy. Effective war planning and countermeasures are impossible if you are more concerned with political correctness than defeating the enemy.

Common sense says don’t let the enemy inside the gate. Political correctness says put out the welcome mat.

The evidence of collective insanity is all around us. Is it any wonder citizens are rebelling against the establishment when willful blindness is praised as a humanitarian virtue?

• Our political establishment, including the business community, continues to tolerate and excuse open borders despite overwhelming public support for halting all illegal entry.
• Our leaders continue to import new Islamist refugees from Syria — adding to the half-million already here from Somalia and other Muslim nations — despite ISIS’s documented success in infiltrating its trained jihadists among those refugees.
• Our leaders and our media continue to criticize growing European efforts to curtail the movement of over two million Muslim “refugees” into Europe despite the cultural conflict accompanying that chaotic movement.
• Our limited military action against ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria is designed to silence domestic critics, not to destroy ISIS. Killing ISIS’s top commanders one by one is like killing cancer cells one by one.

It’s bad enough that this idiotic code of silence is enforced by the mainstream media, the universities, and the Obama administration, but it is nothing but sheer stupidity wrapped in cowardice when Republican leaders and conservative pundits fall into line and censor themselves.

• It is not “radical Islam” that has declared war on us, it is orthodox Islam as defined and taught in Islam’s holiest texts, the Quran and the Hadith.
• What Obama insists on calling “extremists” or “radicals” are Muslims who are devout in their adherence to Islam’s doctrines.
• “Moderate Muslims” are the less devout who do not follow Islam’s teachings

It is Islam’s basic worldview that inspires hatred of the West, not grievances against U.S. foreign policy or lack of economic opportunity in Muslim societies.

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928, not 1988, decades before any American soldier set foot in Kuwait.
Why then is it “Islamophobic” to speak the truth about Islam’s hostility to Western values? Self-censorship is the main obstacle to effective steps to halt ISIS in its tracks, and people who preach such nonsense — and the Quislings who tolerate it — are aiding ISIS and need to be called out for it.

• It is well known that the FBI has over 900 active investigations underway of ISIS sympathizers in every state, and it is only the lack of manpower that limits that number.
• Yet the leftist Mayor of New York City has dismantled a surveillance program aimed at radical mosques and Islamist organizations– all in the name of preserving civil liberties– and such moral idiocy is applauded.
• Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Somali-born migrants living in towns in Minnesota, Texas and California are demanding their own courts, their own schools, and are electing their own mayors — as well as sending young men to Syria to be trained as ISIS warriors.
• And what is the response of our government? the Obama State Department wants to bring MORE Somali and Syrian refugees, and the Republican Congress refuses to halt the insanity.

What is the source of this willful blindness? To say it is political correctness run amok only raises the question, why the popularity of policies that are so obviously suicidal?

Our future safety and security depends on waking up from a suicidal expansion of Islamic communities inside our country. Until we do that, doubling or tripling the number of air strikes against ISIS enclaves 6,000 miles away is whistling past the graveyard.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ide-our-gates/

EXCLUSIVE – Top Jihadist Claims Brussels, Paris Are Terror Rehearsals for ‘Big’ Attack Inside U.S.
http://www.alipac.us/f19/exclusive-%...-attac-330679/

Can safely say America too, if not now, soon......

Brussels Bombing Marks Strategic Shift by ISIS to Direct Attacks in Europe

"Dozens of Islamic State jihadists now in Europe", State Department Says
BY: Bill Gertz
March 24, 2016 5:00 am

The suicide bombings in Brussels represent a shift in tactics for the Islamic State terrorist group toward direct, mass casualty attacks in Europe, according to a State Department security report.

“The March 22 bombings in Brussels and the November 13 attacks in Paris highlight a strategic shift by ISIL to direct operations in Europe versus relying on inspired and self-radicalized individuals,” said the report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council, a State Department security office that works with American corporations overseas.

“European authorities continue to warn of the risk of additional mass casualty attacks in the region,” the internal report based on open sources said.

Additionally, dozens of active Islamic State terrorists are now operating in Belgium and Europe. The Tuesday suicide bombings were carried out by Belgian extremists trained in Syria and Iraq who returned to the continent, the report said.

Three suicide blasts—two at Belgium’s international airport and one at a subway station— were set off between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. local time, killing 31 people and wounding 270.

The report warned that the threat of further terrorist attacks in Europe “remains high in the near future.”
“So far, ISIL has not targeted the U.S. private sector in Europe,” the report said. “However, the group is likely to continue coordinating attacks against soft targets to heighten the potential for collateral damage and maximize causalities.”

As a result, Americans in Europe should be vigilant for further terrorist bombings or shootings.

The report said two of the terrorists were brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui.

A third bomber who blew himself up at the airport has not been identified. Police, however, are looking for Najim Laachraoui, an ISIS recruiter and bomb maker who authorities have linked to the Paris attacks. Laachraoui, who authorities say traveled to Syria in 2013, was linked by DNA to two explosives belts found after the Paris attacks.

A fourth suspect in the plot is being sought by authorities after he abandoned a bomb at the airport and fled the scene.

Conflicting reports from Europe identified Laachraoui alternatively as the third suicide bomber killed in a blast at the airport, and as the still-unidentified man who fled the airport.

“The two deceased terrorists had heavy criminal records unrelated to terrorism,” Belgian Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw told reporters in Brussels Wednesday.
ISIS claimed credit for the attack through its news agency
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In Turkey, the government announced Wednesday that one of the bombers, Ibrahim Bakraoui, was detained in June and deported to the Netherlands, Agence France Presse reported. (as reported in a prior post, Belguim would not accept him, he requested Netherlands AND THEY TOOK HIM!)

According to the report, the deadly blasts were carried out four days after the arrest of Saleh Abdelslam, one of the organizers of the Paris terror attacks who has been linked to ISIS and its recruitment network in Europe. The Nov. 15 attacks in Paris left 130 people dead.

“While no links between Abdeslam and the March 22 bombings were confirmed, it is evident that the bombings required resources and planning and likely were being prepared for some time,” the report said, adding that if Abdeslam was involved in the planning of the bombings, “the timing of the plot may have been pushed up by his arrest, possibly over fears of a disruption.”

The bombings in Brussels took place after several recent counterterrorism raids by security forces and shows “the pervasiveness of the network behind the terrorism threat in Belgium and elsewhere in Western Europe,” the report said.

A fourth suspect in the terror network was identified as Mohamed Abrini, who was photographed with Abdeslam at a gas station shortly before the Paris attacks.

“In addition to Abrini, Laachraoui, and the suspect in the airport bombing, dozens of other returned foreign fighters and homegrown extremists may currently make up a network of extremists in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, which is difficult for authorities to map out, let alone to eradicate,” the report said.

According to the report, out of the approximately 500 Belgian Islamists who recently traveled to Syria and Iraq, 128 have returned home.

“An estimated 215 Belgian foreign fighters originated from Brussels,” the report said.

Most of the Belgian ISIS terrorists come from areas outside Brussels, including about 100 from Antwerp and about 40 from the Flemish Brabant region, including Vilvoorde.

The large number of locations that produced ISIS members suggests that “communities vulnerable to radicalization exist throughout the country,” the report said.

Belgian military forces deployed an additional 225 troops after the attacks and boosted security at nuclear power facilities.

Shortly after Tuesday’s attacks, security forces raided a residence in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels that was linked to the airport bombers. Inside, explosives, chemicals, and a black IS flag were found.

The explosive material likely used in the attack was identified as a homemade substance called TATP, for triacetone triperoxide. Thirty-three pounds of the material was found in the Schaerbeek residence, according to news reports.

The report warned that additional police raids are likely and that there is still a risk of additional attacks or copycat strikes.

Despite the attacks, which disrupted air and subway travel, stores and businesses remained opened and the airport is expected to reopen on Saturday.

Cell phone service was temporarily disrupted shortly after the attacks by the high volume of calls, not by any damage to communications networks.

Social media was used as an alternative communications method, and Facebook activated its safety check feature that helped travelers notify others of their status and location.

The State Department report said U.S. private sector companies were not specifically targeted in the bombings, but that the attacks impacted several U.S. firms.

The Stuttgart, Germany-based headquarters of the U.S. European Command restricted travel to Brussels by troops and their families after the bombing.

Brussels is the headquarters of the NATO alliance.

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...cks-in-europe/