Cult of Islamic victimhood in US

NY Post Editorial:

The arrest last week of a 26-year-old Flushing man accused of trying to aid Afghan terrorists is a wake-up call: America's enemies are lurking right in this country's own back yards.

Never mind building walls and pad-locking the border; terror sympathizers can, and clearly do, emerge from within America's own communities - even from good homes.

Like Syed Hashmi, who was nabbed in London while trying to board a flight to Pakistan. Folks who knew him in Queens described him as "a good boy."

He went to Brooklyn Tech HS and earned a degree from Brooklyn College.

"He had a really good heart," an official from an Islamic center in Jamaica said. "He cared about people."

Well, apparently not his fellow Americans. Hashmi was indicted for conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan to use against U.S. troops. (Some "good heart.")

And he wasn't even the first former Queens kid to be charged with helping al Qaeda. Muhammad Junaid Babar, an associate of Hashmi, has pleaded guilty to terror-linked charges.

Babar had attended Jamaica HS and St. John's. In video footage from Pakistan aired on Canadian TV, he said his mother had worked at the World Trade Center and that she barely escaped on 9/11.

But Babar stated openly that he considered himself Muslim first, American second. And that, in fact, he sided with the Taliban against the United States.

"I'm willing to kill Americans," he said.

Meanwhile, news reports of busted ter ror plots always seem to include someone excusing the plotters, doubting the story or questioning the tactics of law-enforcement agents.

When Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant, was convicted last month of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station, The New York Times ran long reports on the NYPD's intensive surveillance of the Muslim community.

All of which only helps feed a sense of isolation, victimization and resentment among American Muslim youth.

Add to that the lure of waging a valiant jihad against Western "oppressors." And the Islamic-supremacist brainwashing by Saudi-funded madrasas, mosques and cultural centers. Pretty soon, it's easy to imagine numerous cells, like the Al Muhajiroun group that Hashmi and Babar belonged to, festering throughout the nation.

What does it take, after all, for a handful of disenchanted, young, second-generation Muslim-American men, shooting the breeze one day, to start plotting some evil deed against America?

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There is more. Victemhood seems to be the common thread of Islamic violence. This false belief in victemhood is used tojustify acts of terrorism anywhere in the world. This alos probably explains why an Iraqi would make up a story about the US beating up a dying Zarqawi. It is intended to inflame the feelings of the victimhood culture. When you examine the "arguments" of the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel it is all about victimhood. That is why they stage events to play on the feelings of victimhood.