Nobody's Laughing

This just in from the poor misunderstood Muslim desk:

On December 22nd in Camden NJ a jury convicted 5 Muslim men of conspiring to kill military personnel at New Jersey’s Fort Dix. Naturally their friends and family are in an uproar about how these poor Muslim boys were railroaded by the FBI and their paid informants. Oh, what a tragedy. Oh, what shame. Oh, what a crock of crap.

Once again the good people at the Council on American Islamic Relations are getting involved. The executive director of the New Jersey chapter Mr. Jim Sues (how appropriate is that last name) said: "Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment. From what I saw, there was a significant role played by the government informant."

Under normal circumstances I would suggest to Captain Obvious that the role of a government informant is usually significant. But in this case what Mr. Sues and the Muslim community are saying is that these poor boys were the victim of an overzealous government looking to entrap them. Never mind the fact that these government informants were installed into this terrorist cell after the original plot to kill servicemen was in place.

According to the court testimony these fine young Muslim men went to a Circuit City looking to get a video transferred to DVD. Not much suspicious there. Except that the video they were looking to transfer was of them shooting weapons and shouting about jihad. It was then that an alert clerk contacted the FBI and an investigation was begun and informants installed in the group. The information garnered by the informants was that these Muslims were looking to “kill as many American soldiers as possible”.

But no, pay no attention to the video that started the whole thing. "I don't think they actually mean to do anything," said Mohamed Younes, president of the American Muslim Union. "I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke."

Hey guess what Mohamed; we don’t have the luxury to just think they are only playing around. If somebody were to call the American Muslim Union with a bomb threat should the authorities respond by saying they “think” the call is just a prank? I have no problem accepting the fact that these young Muslim men were acting stupid. But if it was a joke I fail to see the humor.

This operation was no different than when police set up a sting using undercover officers as hookers or drug dealers. Are the fine folks from the American Muslim Union and the Council for American Muslim Relations suggesting that the young white kids that go to the black neighborhoods would not actually buy any drugs if the undercover cop wasn’t there?

While Mr. Younes said he believed this was joke the reality is that these young Muslim terrorists bought assault rifles and went to the Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains to practice shooting. I repeat, Mr. Younes, I’m not laughing. If the Council for American Muslim Relations and the American Muslim Union want to be taken seriously outside of the Muslim community they had better start condemning these acts of terrorism instead of justifying them.

These 5 guys were indeed stupid. The next group of young Muslim terrorists may not be.

And that’s no joke.