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Islamic Terrorist Ahmad Rahami Traveled to Foreign Hotbed of Islamic Terrorism

Posted on | September 20, 2016 | 2 Comments

The social-justice crowd loves to play identity politics when it comes to suggesting, for example, that all men are sexists who oppress women or that racism is to blame when a black suspect gets shot by cops. However, this progressive principle works the opposite way when a Muslim immigrant commits an act of terrorism. On such occasions, liberals tell us that the terrorist’s identity is irrelevant, and that we are not allowed to make any generalizations about Muslims based on the terrorist’s action.

 

When a gunman attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, liberals rushed to declare that this proved how homophobia is deeply entrenched in American culture — until it turned out the gunman was named Omar Mateen, the son of a pro-Taliban immigrant from Afghanistan, and then liberals declared that the Orlando shooting proved nothing at all about Islamic culture. (Imagine, by contrast, how liberals would have reacted if the Orlando massacre had been perpetrated by a Trump supporter.) And now the latest Religion of Peace™ update:

Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man arrested for this weekend’s series of bombings in New York and New Jersey, had traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan several times without detection by the U.S. government, officials told The Daily Beast.
Rahami’s travels and time spent in Pakistan are the subject of intense scrutiny by U.S. investigators who are now trying to determine whether the suspect became radicalized during his travel and what connections, if any, he may have had to foreign terrorist organizations or militants.
Rahami has made at least three and possibly four trips to Pakistan over the past 10 years, one official said. . . .
Rahami’s father also was in Pakistan as recently as July 2011, according to the family’s attorney, who informed a judge in a civil suit to which the elder Rahami was a plaintiff that he was not expected back in the country in time for a court proceeding the following month.
In September 2011, the lawyer informed the judge that while the father had returned, his “family is in Afghanistan” but was expected to return within days.
A senior U.S. official told The Daily Beast that Rahami’s oldest brother is in Pakistan now.
Two U.S. officials told The Daily Beast that Rahami was not on any U.S. government terrorist watch lists. Had he been, it’s possible that federal authorities would have been alerted if Rahami traveled outside the United States.
U.S. Rep. Albio Sires told the Bergen Record that Rahami contacted his office via email in 2014 seeking an immigrant visa for his wife in Pakistan who was 35 weeks pregnant and whose Pakistani passport had expired. . . .
Rahimi had a series of escalating run-ins with the law beginning in 2008, when he spent a day in jail for unpaid parking tickets, and another in 2012 after he allegedly violated a restraining order, The New York Times reports. In 2014, Rahami spent three days in jail on weapons and aggravated assault charges, after allegedly stabbing a person in the leg, The New York Times reports.

(Via Memeorandum.) Readers can draw their own conclusions, of course. In a free country, we are allowed to have our own opinions, no matter how many times liberals tell us that it is “hate” to disagree with them.




 

Category: Islam, Media Bias, Terrorism

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