Springtime in Islamberg

Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state

By Paul L. Williams Ph.D., (author of THE DAY OF ISLAM)

With the able assistance of Douglas Hagmann, Bill Krayer and Michael Travis

Friday, May 11, 2007

Dr. Paul Williams at the entrance of Islamberg

Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden.

The 70 acre complex is surrounded with "No trespassing" signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats.

Muslim Lane

The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on a bright sunny day in May. The road, dubbed Muslim Lane, is unpaved and marred by deep crevices that have been created by torrential downpours. On a wintry day, few, save those with all terrain vehicles, could venture forth from the remote encampment.

A sentry post has been established at the base of the hill.

The sentry, at the time of this visit, is an African American dressed in Islamic garb - - a skull cap, a prayer shawl, and a loose fitting shalwat kameez. He instructs us to turn around and leave. "Our community is not open to visitors," he says.

Behind the sentry and across a small stream stand dozens of inhabitants of the compound - - the men wearing skull caps and loose fitting tunics, the women in full burqa. They appear ready to deal with any unauthorized intruders.

The hillside is blighted by rusty trailers that appear to be without power or running water and a number of outhouses. The scent of raw sewage is in the air.

The place is even off limits to the local undertaker who says that he has delivered bodies to the complex but has never been granted entrance. "They come and take the bodies from my hearse. They won't allow me to get past the sentry post. They say that they want to prepare the bodies for burial. But I never get the bodies back. I don't know what's going on there but I don't think it's legal."

On the other side of the hill where few dare to go is a tiny village replete with a make-shift learning center (dubbed the "International Quranic Open University"); a trailer converted into a Laundromat; a small, green community center; a small and rather squalid grocery store; a newly constructed majid; over forty clapboard homes; and scores of additional trailers.

It is home to hundreds - - all in Islamic attire, and all African-Americans. Most drive late model SUVs with license plates from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The locals say that some work as tollbooth operators for the New York State Thruway, while others are employed at a credit card processing center that maintains confidential financial records.

While buzzing with activity during the week, the place becomes a virtual hive on weekends. The guest includes arrivals from the inner cities of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and, occasionally, white-robed dignitaries in Ray-Bans from the Middle East.

Venturing into the complex last summer, Douglas Hagmann, an intrepid investigator and director of the Northeast Intelligence Service, came upon a military training area at the eastern perimeter of the property. The area was equipped with ropes hanging from tall trees, wooden fences for scaling, a make-shift obstacle course, and a firing range. Hagmann said that the range appeared to have been in regular use.

Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of "retaliation." "We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by," one resident said. "They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?"

Islamberg's Grocery Store

Islamberg's Grocery Store

The complex serves to scare the bejeesus out of the local residents. "If you go there, you better wear body armor," a customer at the Circle E Diner in Hancock said. "They have armed guards and if they shoot you, nobody will find your body."

At Cousins, a watering hole in nearby Deposit, a barfly, who didn't wish to be identified, said: "The place is dangerous. You can hear gunfire up there. I can't understand why the FBI won't shut it down."

Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or "community of the impoverished," an organization that seeks to "purify" Islam through violence.

Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.

Before becoming a citizen of Islamberg or any of the other Fuqra compounds, the recruits - - primarily inner city black men who became converts in prison - - are compelled to sign an oath that reads: "I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah's sake."

In the past, thousands of members of the U.S. branches of Jamaat ul-Fuqra traveled to Pakistan for paramilitary training, but encampments, such as Islamberg, are now capable of providing book-camp training so raw recruits are no longer required to travel abroad amidst the increased scrutiny of post 9/11.

Over the years, numerous members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers' compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings between 1979 and 1990.

The criminal charges against the group and the criminal convictions are not things of the past. In 2001, a resident of a California compound was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy; another was charged with gun-smuggling' and twenty-four members of the Red House community were convicted of firearms violations.

By 2004 federal investigators uncovered evidence that linked both the DC "sniper killer" John Allen Muhammed and "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid to the group and reports surfaced that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded in the process of attempting to obtain an interview with Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan.

Even though Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been involved in terror attacks and sundry criminal activities, recruited thousands of members from federal and state penal systems, and appears to be operating paramilitary facilities for militant Muslims, it remains to be placed on the official US Terror Watch List. On the contrary, it continues to operate, flourish, and expand as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity.

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Paul Williams is the author of THE AL QAEDA CONNECTION and forthcoming THE DAY OF ISLAM. Lee Boyland is the author of THE RINGS OF ALLAH). Dr. Williams can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com

Other articles by Paul Williams

Dr Paul Williams on Michael Savage Tonight!

Paul Williams (Day of Islam, Dunces of Doomsday, etc) will be the featured guest on the Michael Savage Show this evening - Friday, May 11th, 2007!



Paul will be discussing the recent arrests of six Jihadniks who had been preparing an attack against US troops stationed at Ft.Dix.

Plan to listen in.......hear the truth about the Jihad in the USA, and Al Qaeda's plan to destroy America!

HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK:

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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Islamic Jihadists have replaced the Soviets in the American nightmare of nuclear annihilation, and journalist/author Williams is back to report that such a scenario is closer at hand than one (or one's government) might think. Picking up where his last few titles left off (2006's Dunces of Doomsday, '05's The Al Qaeda Connection, '04's Osama's Revenge), Williams reveals the underlying narrative of news updates on terrorist activity, tying isolated acts to bin Laden's overall strategy to carry out an "American Hiroshima." Among profiles of purported Al Qaeda supporters (including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Brazil's Lula de Silva), Williams examines interesting items like bin Laden's alleged location(a small village in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier); Al Qaeda's purchase of a nuclear "suitcase bomb," a Soviet leftover; and the role of Pakistan's Interservice Intelligence in the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (allegedly investigating nuclear trafficking between Al Qaeda and a Pakistani scientist). Though absorbing, Williams' approach reduces the proponents of Islamic jihad to violent, irrational stereotypes rather than exploring their worldview. A noteworthy guide to the workings of Islamic terrorism, this volume's colorful style obscures its serious intent.
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In two previous books, Osama's Revenge and The Al Qaeda Connection, seasoned investigative reporter Paul Williams revealed the alarming potential for nuclear terrorism on U.S. soil and the sinister connections among organized crime, illegal immigrants, and al Qaeda. Now, Williams broadens his focus beyond al Qaeda to provide readers with newly uncovered information on terrorist activities in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, other Muslim countries--and our neighbor Canada! What emerges is a harrowing picture of international terrorist activities, all aimed at the destruction of the United States and the collapse of the Western world. This cataclysm will usher in "the Day of Islam," the dream of radical Muslims to see all of humankind fall in submission before the throne of Allah. Based on the "forgotten testimony" of the FBI's "Confidential Source One," as well as other sources, Williams first presents evidence of Osama Bin Laden's purchase of highly enriched uranium in Sudan and nuclear devices from the Chechens and the Russian Mafia. He then offers further information on the workings of Pakistani scientists and technicians from the A. Q. Khan Research Facility to maintain and upgrade al Qaeda's "bespoke nukes" (with explosive yields in excess of ten kilotons) for the "American Hiroshima." This information comes with empirical proof that should dispel any doubts that these weapons not only have been developed but have also been forward-deployed from the seaport at Karachi to strategic locations within the Western world. Keeping the focus on Pakistan, he predicts a nightmarish scenario if President Pervez Musharref should be overthrown and his arsenal of sixty-eight nuclear weapons falls into the hands of radical mullahs. Williams also examines the role of the Iranians both in sponsoring terrorism and in planning the American Hiroshima. In addition, he uncovers many unreported and startling accounts of the terrorist activities of Hezbollah in America and presents evidence that the marriage between Hezbollah and al Qaeda has been consummated. Finally, he presents intelligence showing that grave threats to America come, not from just our southern border, but from Canada and its amazingly open policies regarding radical Islam. The greatest threat of all, he concludes, comes from within --not only from the radical mosques within every major American city but also the Islamic paramilitary compounds in rural areas throughout the country, including Islamberg in New York State, where new recruits are trained for the great jihad against the United States under the very nose of FBI and Homeland Security officials. Sure to be controversial, this shocking exposé sends a wake-up to Americans lulled into a false sense of security in the post-9/11 era.

The Day of Islam - The Annihilation of America and the Western World

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The Annihilation of America and the Western World

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In two previous books, Osama's Revenge and The Al Qaeda Connection, seasoned investigative reporter Paul Williams revealed the alarming potential for nuclear terrorism on U.S. soil and the sinister connections among organized crime, illegal immigrants, and al Qaeda.

Now, Williams broadens his focus beyond al Qaeda to provide readers with newly uncovered information on terrorist activities in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, other Muslim countries—and our neighbor Canada! What emerges is a harrowing picture of international terrorist activities, all aimed at the destruction of the United States and the collapse of the Western world.

This cataclysm will usher in The Day of Islam, the dream of radical Muslims to see all of humankind fall in submission before the throne of Allah. Based on the "forgotten testimony" of the FBI's "Confidential Source One," as well as other sources, Williams first presents evidence of Osama Bin Laden's purchase of highly enriched uranium in Sudan and nuclear devices from the Chechens and the Russian Mafia. He then offers further information on the workings of Pakistani scientists and technicians from the A. Q. Khan Research Facility to maintain and upgrade al Qaeda's "bespoke nukes" (with explosive yields in excess of ten kilotons) for the "American Hiroshima."

This information comes with empirical proof that should dispel any doubts that these weapons not only have been developed but have also been forward-deployed from the seaport at Karachi to strategic locations within the Western world. Keeping the focus on Pakistan, he predicts a nightmarish scenario if President Pervez Musharref should be overthrown and his arsenal of sixty-eight nuclear weapons falls into the hands of radical mullahs.

Williams also examines the role of the Iranians both in sponsoring terrorism and in planning the American Hiroshima. In addition, he uncovers many unreported and startling accounts of the terrorist activities of Hezbollah in America and presents evidence that the marriage between Hezbollah and al Qaeda has been consummated.

Finally, he presents intelligence showing that grave threats to America come, not from just our southern border, but from Canada and its amazingly open policies regarding radical Islam. The greatest threat of all, he concludes, comes from within—not only from the radical mosques within every major American city but also the Islamic paramilitary compounds in rural areas throughout the country, including Islamberg in New York State, where new recruits are trained for the great jihad against the United States under the very nose of FBI and Homeland Security officials.

Sure to be controversial, this shocking exposé sends a wake-up to Americans lulled into a false sense of security in the post-9/11 era. Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is a journalist and the author of Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11 and The Al Qaeda Connection, among other books. The winner of three first-place Keystone Press Awards for journalism, he has also served as a consultant for the FBI, editor and publisher of the Metro, and an adjunct professor of Humanities at the University of Scranton.

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Paintball Jihadies on American soil - thank God the dorks of Allah were stupid enough to take their Jihad video to commercial DVD video house

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Witness testifies against Al-Timimi

By Debra Erdley
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, April 10, 2005

FAIRFAX, Va. -- He never made it to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban, but Yong Ki Kwon -- a Northern Virginia engineer who fled the United States nine days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- said it wasn't for lack of effort.

Kwon, 29, is a South Korea-born graduate of Virginia Tech who is serving an 11-year prison sentence as a result of his guilty plea last year on federal conspiracy and weapons charges. He has emerged as the prosecution's star witness in the case against Ali Al-Timimi, an American Islamic scholar charged with recruiting soldiers for the Taliban just five days after Sept. 11.

Al-Timimi, 41, who maintains his innocence, sat quietly with his attorneys as the case against him unfolded last week during Kwon's testimony in an Alexandria, Va. courtroom. Al-Timimi was indicted last year on 10 counts, including charges of soliciting others to levy war and inducing others to join the Taliban. If convicted on all counts, he could face life in prison.

Kwon, one of nine men convicted last year in the so-called "paintball jihad" network, told a chilling tale of the birth of an American jihad.

The holy war was conceived in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the dawn of the 21st century and was born at a meeting in his Fairfax, Va. apartment Sept. 16, 2001, when Kwon said he and several companions decided to heed the call of spiritual adviser Al-Timimi and to be trained to join the Taliban.

Four days later, Kwon was on a flight to Karachi, Pakistan.

The call to holy war took Kwon, who became a U.S. citizen in August 2001, to the mountain training camps of Lashkar-e-Taiba -- known as the LET -- a group that the U.S. placed on its terrorist list in December 2001.

Under the guidance of militants who trained holy warriors for battle in Afghanistan, Kwon honed his skills with semi-automatic weapons and learned to fire a grenade launcher.

Kwon, though, said he never was able to join the Taliban. He was simply too late. The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan closed as U.S. forces took control of Afghanistan shortly before Kwon completed his training at the LET camp.

He said his mentors offered him another option: Go back to the United States and gather information for the mujahadeen, or holy warriors.

Kwon has become a key part of the government's case against the "paintball jihad" following his arrest in 2003.

He testified last year against several members of the group; has cooperated with terrorism investigators in Great Britain and Australia; and now is testifying against Al-Timimi -- all in hopes of earning a reduced sentence.

Dressed in a dark-green prison jumpsuit, the tall, bearded Kwon told jurors how he first heard Al-Timimi speak in 1997 at an Islamic Assembly of North America conference in Chicago.

Born to Christian parents, Kwon converted to Islam in 1997 and quickly found scholar Al-Timimi lecturing regularly near his Northern Virginia home.

Al-Timimi was known in strict Muslim communities across the word for his taped and Internet lectures. Supporters point to well-known lectures calling for peace in the wake of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993.

Al-Timimi also was listed as an advisory board member of Assirat Al-Mustaqueem -- an international Arabic language magazine published in Pittsburgh from 1991 to 2000.

The magazine called for holy war against Christians and Jews. It also lauded the international army that Osama bin Laden assembled for the Taliban in Afghanistan. The magazine once featured an article lauding Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel who took credit for last fall's bloody Beslen school massacre in which more than 300 people -- many of them school children -- were slain.

Kwon said he grew to know and respect Al-Timimi as he regularly attended lectures at Dar Al Arqam mosque in Falls Church, Va.

Al-Timimi's lectures on such topics as the purification of the soul and the new world order were only one side of Kwon's pursuit of Islam.

The other side played out among Kwon and a small group of Muslim friends on the paintball fields and target ranges ringing Washington. That side focused on jihad -- violent holy war. And that focus turned to an obsession among Kwon and his friends long before Sept. 11, 2001, Kwon testified.

The group, which included two U.S. military veterans and several engineers, gathered regularly, starting in early 2000, to talk about or prepare for jihad.

"Russian Hell" -- a jihad video that featured bloody clips of a Chechen Muslim rebel leader executing a Russian prisoner of war -- was a favorite among the videos that the group exchanged and discussed.

"They (the videos) motivated us. It was like they gave us inspiration," Kwon testified.

Martyrdom, too, was a topic.

"As a Muslim, it's something you aspire to," Kwon said, answering questions from assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg. "We talked about it. I don't know how realistic we were, but we talked about it because it was very noble," Kwon told the jury of nine men and five women before U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema.

Members of the group wanted to be ready to take up arms -- should the need to defend Islam arise, Kwon said -- and they began traveling to shooting ranges for target practice and to paintball fields to execute military maneuvers.

Al-Timimi never was a part of their games, Kwon said, but he and other witnesses said the man they characterized as a respected mentor was aware of them. Indeed, they consulted Al-Timimi when the FBI visited one of the members of their group with questions. Al-Timimi's advice: Be more circumspect about their activities, Kwon and others testified.

Kwon recalled driving Al-Timimi home from the mosque Sept. 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks. He said Al-Timimi and another scholar argued, with Al-Timimi characterizing the attacks as a punishment of America from God, while his fellow scholar decried the attacks.

That night, as they drove from the mosque, Kwon said Al-Timimi had a request.

"He told me to gather some brothers, to have a contingency plan in case there were mass hostilities toward Muslims in America," Kwon said.

Five days later, Al-Timimi met with Kwon again, this time at the young engineer's apartment where he gathered a small group of friends.

"He told me to unplug the message machine and turn off the phones."

Then, Kwon said, Al-Timimi advised the group that the effort to spread Islam in the United States was over and that the only other options open to them were to repent, leave the U.S. and join the mujahadeen -- the holy warriors preparing to defend Afghanistan against the coming U.S. invasion.

Four days later, Kwon was on the plane to Pakistan, embarking on a jihad that would land him in prison.

"I made the decision to go, but (Al-Timimi) was a big part of my decision to go," Kwon said.

Debra Erdley can be reached at derdley@tribweb.com or 412-320-7996.

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In two previous books, Osama's Revenge and The Al Qaeda Connection, seasoned investigative reporter Paul Williams revealed the alarming potential for nuclear terrorism on U.S. soil and the sinister connections among organized crime, illegal immigrants, and al Qaeda.

Now, Williams broadens his focus beyond al Qaeda to provide readers with newly uncovered information on terrorist activities in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, other Muslim countries—and our neighbor Canada! What emerges is a harrowing picture of international terrorist activities, all aimed at the destruction of the United States and the collapse of the Western world.

This cataclysm will usher in The Day of Islam, the dream of radical Muslims to see all of humankind fall in submission before the throne of Allah. Based on the "forgotten testimony" of the FBI's "Confidential Source One," as well as other sources, Williams first presents evidence of Osama Bin Laden's purchase of highly enriched uranium in Sudan and nuclear devices from the Chechens and the Russian Mafia. He then offers further information on the workings of Pakistani scientists and technicians from the A. Q. Khan Research Facility to maintain and upgrade al Qaeda's "bespoke nukes" (with explosive yields in excess of ten kilotons) for the "American Hiroshima."

This information comes with empirical proof that should dispel any doubts that these weapons not only have been developed but have also been forward-deployed from the seaport at Karachi to strategic locations within the Western world. Keeping the focus on Pakistan, he predicts a nightmarish scenario if President Pervez Musharref should be overthrown and his arsenal of sixty-eight nuclear weapons falls into the hands of radical mullahs.

Williams also examines the role of the Iranians both in sponsoring terrorism and in planning the American Hiroshima. In addition, he uncovers many unreported and startling accounts of the terrorist activities of Hezbollah in America and presents evidence that the marriage between Hezbollah and al Qaeda has been consummated.

Finally, he presents intelligence showing that grave threats to America come, not from just our southern border, but from Canada and its amazingly open policies regarding radical Islam. The greatest threat of all, he concludes, comes from within—not only from the radical mosques within every major American city but also the Islamic paramilitary compounds in rural areas throughout the country, including Islamberg in New York State, where new recruits are trained for the great jihad against the United States under the very nose of FBI and Homeland Security officials.

Sure to be controversial, this shocking exposé sends a wake-up to Americans lulled into a false sense of security in the post-9/11 era. Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is a journalist and the author of Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11 and The Al Qaeda Connection, among other books. The winner of three first-place Keystone Press Awards for journalism, he has also served as a consultant for the FBI, editor and

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Virginia Tech Murderer was the same as the murderers we face in the fight against Islamic Jihad

Cho Was a Terrorist!
Media Joan Swirsky April 23, 2007	URL: http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/swirsky/04232007.htm

What's the difference between Cho Seung-Hui and the many hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian and Islamic terrorists worldwide? It's a three-word answer: choice of weapon.

Everything else is the same.

All of them planned their mass murders meticulously by preparing carefully loaded weapons (either cars or, in Cho's case, guns) intended to produce maximum casualties.

All of them were duly deliberate, plotting their grisly massacres to result in a contagion of helplessness, fear and panic.

All of them had malice aforethought, anticipating that their acts would have the widest possible ripple effect, which they did – for the victims and their families, society-in-general, and their governments.

All of them left behind their own self-aggrandizing manifestos, photographs, videos, and tape-recorded statements, the better to provide an acid-in-the-wounds punctuation mark to their bloodthirsty deeds.

And all of them had identical rationalizations, blaming their acts on the "Big Satan" America or her ally, the "Little Satan" Israel.
What Is Not Similar?
The only difference between Cho's terrorist act and those committed by fanatics in other countries is the way the media react to terrorism.

When Palestinians or Islamic fanatics massacre innocent people in pizza parlors, at weddings, and in the marketplace – in Israel, Spain, England, Russia, the list goes on and on – their hagiographies appear in the Arab media, their mothers applaud them as "heroes," and terrorist countries like Syria and Iran renew both arms and money to like-minded murderers.

But in America, the predictable liberal media stick relentlessly to their tired themes, which they lard with code words, dissimulation and a numbingly repetitive politically correct agenda.

They never use the word terrorist, although by any objective measure, that is exactly what Cho was. Instead, they use the generic words "shooter" and "gunman," usually prefaced with the word "alleged," just in case the ironclad proof of his crimes is not enough to satisfy their faux sense of "fairness" – or the fairness the American Civil Liberties Union claims to uphold, except when it comes to American soldiers.

They report the Muslim name Cho chose for himself, Ismail Ax, and engraved in red on his arm, but they steadfastly refuse even to speculate about his identification with those who murder in the name of Islam, preferring to cite his identification with – of course – American-born killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenagers who murdered 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.

According to writer Jerry Bowyer, "Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society." In a stunning article describing the history of the name Ismail (here) he says that Cho was one of the "malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors."

A writer identified as GatewayPundit goes further, saying that if Cho wrote "Ismail Ax on his arm, signed his suicide note Ismail Ax , sent an overnight package [to NBC] from A Ishmail, made sure he had no other ID on his person after he martyred himself, you can be damn sure he wanted to be remembered as Ismail Ax. Shaving his head and [presenting] a martyr video…must have added to law enforcement's suspicions, which is why it is so curious that they would say so early on that horrible day that "it was not tied to terrorism."

Of course, no one in our politically correct media ever raised this issue!
More Media Drivel
The liberal media also trot out the usual psychology "experts" who drone on about Cho, the "misguided youth" (do they ever call 23-year-old mass murderers malevolent, or for that matter, men?), his putatively "abusive" childhood, the "grieving" the real victims' families must go through, and, of course, that old standby, "closure," as if somehow understanding the nature of evil incarnate will ever assuage the mourners' grief or heal their broken hearts.

Yet they fail to blame psychology itself for Cho's delusional sense of entitlement, and the positively repulsive, indeed Clintonesque, habits of projection and finger pointing – you decided to spill my blood…you forced me into a corner…now you have blood on your hands…."

The media report that Cho was involuntarily hospitalized in 2005 for mental evaluation, after two female students complained he was stalking them, and that on a 2005 detention order state officials thought there was "probable cause to believe" that Cho was "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization," and that he presented "an imminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness" and is "substantially unable to care for himself."



But they fail to tell you that it was a direct result of liberal lawmaking that Cho could not be kicked off campus, that his parents could not be informed of his devolving state, that police could not "do anything" unless he actually committed a crime, and that any other measure to purge the Virginia Tech campus of his toxic persona – save the polite suggestion of "counseling" – could not be acted on.



In fact, thanks to liberal lawmakers, between 1960 and 1980 over 400,000 chronically mentally ill patients were released to the streets, completely ill equipped to take care of themselves, earn a living, or even function adequately. According to "Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health System" by Pete Earley, after their release, the prison system was bursting at its seams, and by 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that over half of prisoners suffered from mental illness.



Have you heard these facts from the media? Thought not.



Finally, the media raise the old liberal chestnut, more gun control, and feature, among other anti-gun proponents, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who knows better than most people that any crook, thug, robber, rapist or potential murderer can get a gun in five minutes, no matter how many new laws are on the books.



Still, they fail to tell you that legally obtained guns, as well as licenses to carry concealed weapons – both of which were banned at VT – might have saved many lives during Cho's rampage.


Straining at a Flea–Swallowing an Elephant
After decades of fawning over Hip Hop "artists" who routinely spew racial epithets, and cozying up and laughing out loud at Don Imus's racial slurs, all of a sudden media liberals became "outraged" and "shocked" when the shock jock made a – don't let the children read this – racial slur.

If Cho had made such a slur, you can bet that the full force of the powers-that-be at VT would have come down on him, and that his expulsion would have been upheld even in a higher (liberal) court! Meanwhile, his menacing and threatening behavior were just too much for the college to handle. How tragic!

In their never-ending quest to exalt multiculturalism, the liberal media never made the kind of connection between Cho and Islam that writer Paul Hollrah did when he reported that the day after the slaughter at Virginia Tech – which was also a day after 187 innocent men, women and children and 12 Iraqi policemen were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Baghdad – a memorial service was held on campus and attended by, among others, President Bush, who spoke movingly, and Dr. Sedki Riad, director of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg.

"Death strikes every day and we hear and read about it in the media," Riad intoned. Then, after quoting from the Koran, he said, "The Islamic faith reminds us...that to Allah we belong and to him is our return."

According to Hollrah, "From the radical Muslim point of view, Cho Seung-Hui was only doing Allah's work…Apparently it had not occurred to the university administrators, or to the convocation planners, that if Dr. Riad offered a prayer to Allah on behalf of those killed in the slaughter at Virginia Tech, millions of Muslims around the world, including many in Virginia, would be rejoicing at their deaths."

Did you read or hear about Dr. Riad's provocative statements in the media? Thought not.

This is because, for liberals – and their echo-chamber media – there is no crime too heinous, no anti-Americanism too virulent, no Islamic preacher too inflammatory, no liberal law too dangerous, no use of the word terrorist too accurate, no use of defensive weapons too logical, no psychological theory too preposterous – as long as it furthers their agenda.

And what is that agenda? That "feelings" trump facts, that no one should make "judgments," and that every person and every culture is "equal." The following brief laundry list attests to the liberal philosophy that is largely responsible for Cho's killings:

▪ Capitalism isn't better than the hunting and gathering that takes place in rain forests, or the communism or socialism that keeps people impoverished and enslaved.

▪ Laws that infringe on "civil liberties" are de facto bad, even if they incarcerate potential mass murderers like Cho in the absence of an airtight case.

▪ Parents should have no right to question a 13-year-old's choice of abortion, no access (without written "permission") to a college-student's grades, and no expectation to be informed when their child is in trouble.

▪ War is always bad, even if it's to vanquish terrorists who attacked us and continue to vow to annihilate us.

▪ A soaring stock market is the sign of corporate greed, while poverty is the sign of "victimization."

▪ American soldiers are like Nazis (thank you, Senator Durbin), but suicide bombers are "freedom fighters."

▪ Hard science propounded by "establishment" doctors, ala the link between hormone-replacement therapy and breast cancer, takes decades of peer-reviewed studies to be credible, but Junk science propounded by liberal Chicken Littles, ala global warming, is embraced unquestioningly.

▪ Islam is only and always to be mentioned as "the religion of peace"; CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is always to kowtowed to, even when defending the flying imams, who posed palpable security threats to their fellow travelers; and rioting young Muslims in Europe are only to be described as "youth."

And Cho Seung-Hui, who attended a pricey college that his parents paid for but was jealous of classmates who drank cognac (which cost significantly less than the guns and ammo he purchased to murder them), is a victim of our "materialistic society," while his actual victims might have benefited from some "sensitivity" training.

To liberals, black is white, up is down, right is wrong, and the moon is made of green cheese! To the rest of us, Cho was a terrorist!
Joan Swirsky is a New York-based author and journalist who has been a longtime health-and-science and feature writer for The New York Times Long Island section. She is the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards...

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