His son died in service of the U.S. military; now his father is
using his memory to advance a different cause.
August 1, 2016
The mainstream
media is wild with enthusiasm these days over Khizr Khan, the father of a
Muslim soldier, Humayun Khan, who was killed fighting in Iraq in 2004. Khizr
Khan, brimming with self-righteous anger, spoke at the Democratic National
Convention, where he delivered what the Washington Post dubbed a “brutal
repudiation of Donald Trump.” Trump responded, elevating Khizr Khan to the
status of full-fledged flavor-of-the-moment media celebrity. There’s just one
catch: Khizr is using his son’s memory not to advance the cause of the United
States, as his son apparently died trying to do, but to advance a quite
different cause: that of the global umma.
The well-heeled and powerful backers of the global jihad
– those who have enabled the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, and other jihad
groups to grow as powerful as they have today -- are enraged at Donald Trump.
They are deeply worried by his call for a temporary moratorium on Muslim
immigration into the United States, as that will make it much more difficult
for jihadis to get into this country. They are anxious to stigmatize any and
all resistance to jihad terror – and so, happily enough for them, is the
Democratic Party, which has eagerly signed on to the longtime strategy employed
by Islamic supremacist advocacy groups in the U.S., to demonize all effective
measures against jihad terror as “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”
So it was that
Khizr Khan, in the full fury of his indignation at the DNC, trotted out a straw
man, falsely claiming that Trump wanted to “ban us from this country.” Trump
has said nothing about banning Muslim citizens of the U.S. from the country,
only about a temporary moratorium on immigration from terror states. Even
worse, all the effusive praise being showered on Khizr Khan in the last few
days overlooks one central point: he is one man. His family is one family.
There are no doubt many others like his, but this fact does not mean that there
is no jihad, or that all Muslims in the U.S. are loyal citizens.
Khizr Khan is enraged at Donald Trump, but is Trump
really the cause of his problem? Jihad terrorists, not Donald Trump or “Islamophobes,”
killed his son in Iraq. And if Donald Trump or anyone else looks upon Muslims
in the U.S. military with suspicion, it is with good reason: does any other
demographic have as high a rate of treason as Muslims in the U.S. military? In
2003, a convert to Islam, Sgt. Hasan Akbar, murdered two of his commanding officers in
Kuwait. In 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 Americans at Fort Hood.
Other than those
attacks, a Muslim in the U.S. Navy discussed sniper attacks on military
personnel. A Muslim U.S. naval engineer allegedly gave an Egyptian agent information on
how to sink a U.S. carrier. In 2015, a Muslim National Guard soldier in
Illinois planned an Islamic State jihad attack against
a U.S. military base. Last February, a U.S. Army enlistee who
vowed to “bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep” pleaded guilty to
attempting to detonate a car bomb at Fort Riley military base in Kansas. Just
days ago, a U.S. Air Force veteran was convicted of trying to join the Islamic State.
Then there is the U.S. Muslim who gave the Islamic State U.S.
military uniforms, combat boots, tactical gear, firearms accessories, and
thousands in cash. Where are those uniforms now?
It is good that
there are Muslims in the U.S. military who are loyal. But can we have a
discussion about those who aren’t, and why they aren’t, and what can be done
about it? Such a discussion is vitally necessary, but it wouldn’t serve the
classic objective of the global umma, to increase the dar al-Islam (house of
Islam) at the dar al-harb (house of war). Nor would an open discussion of
Khan’s Sunday morning assertion on Meet the
Press that terrorists “have nothing to do with Islam.”
We constantly are
told this, but the repetition doesn’t make it true. In the first place, jihadis
repeatedly make clear that they think what they’re doing has everything to do
with Islam:
“Jihad was a way
of life for the Pious Predecessors (Salaf-us-Salih), and the Prophet (SAWS) was
a master of the Mujahideen and a model for fortunate inexperienced people. The
total number of military excursions which he (SAWS) accompanied was 27. He
himself fought in nine of these; namely Badr; Uhud, Al-Muraysi, The Trench,
Qurayzah, Khaybar, The Conquest of Makkah, Hunayn and Taif . . . This means
that the Messenger of Allah (SAWS) used to go out on military expeditions or
send out an army at least every two months.” — Abdullah Azzam, co-founder of
al-Qaeda, Join the Caravan, p. 30
“If we follow the
rules of interpretation developed from the classical science of Koranic
interpretation, it is not possible to condemn terrorism in religious terms. It
remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of sanctity for
its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength
lies.” — Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
“Many thanks to
God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his
cause and to defend Islam and Muslims. Therefore, killing you and fighting you,
destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all
considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion.” — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 defendants
“Allah on 480
occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God’s
orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world.” — Taliban terrorist Baitullah Mehsud read
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