President Trump issued a virtual plethora of executive orders in his first week in the Oval Office, covering a wide range of topics, yet there remain many unexplored areas, one of which is the relationship between radical Islamic mosques and terrorism here in America. This is not idle speculation. In recent years there have been a spate of murders committed by radicalized Muslims, besides the obvious 9/11, such as:

• The massacre of 13 US soldiers and a female civilian at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009 by Major Nadal Hasan, a military psychiatrist no less, which the Obama administration tried to pass off as “workplace violence”;
• The fatal shooting of two Army recruiters in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2009 by the American Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad,born Carlos Leon Bledsoe, who converted to Islam in an American mosque and became increasingly devout over the years;
• The Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokar, radicalized Muslim immigrants from Chechnya, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three and wounding 500.
• On December 2, 2015, two shooters in San Bernardino, California, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 and wounded 22. Numerous American Muslim organizations condemned the attack;
• A shooter who allegedly committed to the Islamic State killed 50 at a gay Orlando, Florida nightclub in 2016;
• On New Year’s Day, 2025, at around 3:15 a.m., a man identified as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a radicalized American-born convert to Islam from Houston, Texas who served in the US Army for ten years, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police. Fifteen people were killed, including the perpetrator, and at least fifty-seven others were injured, including two police officers who were shot.

There were, of course, many mass shootings committed by non-Muslims, but these tended to have fewer victims. The shootings by Muslims are of special interest because a pattern emerges: a recently converted or radicalized Muslim attacks a mass of Americans, practically at random for no apparent reason. Considering the number of incidents all around the nation, it’s natural to wonder whether there was some degree of coordination, and the obvious subject to investigate is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is estimated to control about 90% of American mosques. We recall that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for fundraising for Hamas. The ADL issued a report about CAIR which focused on that organization’s inflammatory antisemitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric, but we need to remember that Israel and America are linked in the minds of Islamists. As Iran has said, Israel is the little Satan and the US is the Big Satan. Moreover, as the Hudson Institute and other sources report, the slogan “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” appears frequently as graffiti in Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East, and Islamist violence against Christians is spreading across the globe. Let no one think that antisemitism is strictly a Jewish problem. What starts with us doesn’t end with us, as World War II demonstrated.

Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese-American Christian activist who opposes radical Islam, is quoted on quotesayings.net regarding CAIR,

“Masquerading as a civil rights organization, CAIR has had a hidden agenda to Islamize America from the start. Its cofounder and chairman, Omar Ahmad, a Palestinian American, told a Muslim audience in Fremont, California, in 1998:

‘…The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth’…. Three of CAIR’s officials have already been convicted of terror-related crimes.”

Having established the overall goal of radical Islam, we turn to its tactical implementation. Fortunately, MEMRI (The Middle East Media Research Institute), has recorded the anti-American and antisemitic utterances of imams from around the country and the world on its website. The following examples are taken from memri.org:

• “In his December 27, 2024 Friday sermon at the Muslim American Society(MAS) youth

center in Brooklyn, activist Raja Abdulhaq stated “…that Muslims should remain loyal to a ‘healthy society,’ not to an empire that has invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, and is orchestrating genocide in Gaza.”

• “In a January 12, 2025 column titled ‘Is This A Divine Warning?’ in the Qatari daily Al-Arab, journalist Najat Ali referred to the LA fires as ‘a divine warning to Washington due to the unlimited military aid it extends to Israel,’ a ‘divine response’ to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat that ‘there will be Hell to pay’ if the Israeli hostages held by Hamas are not released soon, and ‘divine punishment’ for the U.S. position on Israel.”

Other journalists in Qatar expressed similar sentiments on social media. “In his December 20, 2024, Friday sermon at Masjid As-Sunnah in Orlando, Florida, Imam Abu Usamah At-Thahabi warned his congregants against celebrating Christmas, calling modern Christianity a ‘pagan religion…’”

• “In a December 1, 2024 lecture at Masjid William Salaam in Norfolk,Virginia, Imam Ismael Saleem argued that to truly support Palestine, Jews and Christians must reject the Bible and accept Islam as the ultimate truth. He claimed that belief in the Bible prevents them from fully supporting Palestinians, adding that America is the ‘last stronghold of Christianity,’ while the British are increasingly abandoning Christianity and adopting Islam.”
• “Charlotte, NC Imam Haroon Sait saidin his December 6, 2024 sermon at the Muslim Community Center in Charlotte that America is a ‘gold mine’ for da’wah, which is the act of calling people to Islam…. He said that in 50 years, Islam will surpass Christianity in the United States, and he gave practical advice on how to preach Islam to Christians.”

We’re left with the question of how to combat this litany of hatred, consistent with the Bill of Rights guarantees of freedom of speech and religion, which the Islamists invoke in response to any criticism, repeating their coined accusation of “Islamophobia.” It’s tempting to try to push for criminal charges for incitement as was used to prosecute the January 6 defendants, but there’s a difference. In their case, the disruption, labeled a riot, occurred immediately after President Trump urged his followers to walk “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol, making it plausible to cite his remarks as causation, whereas inflammatory rhetoric from imams may trigger a delayed reaction, making the case more difficult to prove. In fact, I consulted a friend who is a criminal defense attorney, who said that it is possible to charge someone as an accomplice or accessory for incitement, but the example he gave, of a speaker calling on people to go burn down a building, is proximate causation.

As an alternative to seeking criminal prosecution, civil ligation, a.k.a. “lawfare,” has the advantage of a somewhat lower burden or standard of proof, “preponderance of evidence,” as opposed to the “beyond reasonable doubt” applied to criminal cases. Nevertheless, any resort to the court system is time-consuming and costly, and in any event a public trial is likely to draw coverage by the media, which can generally be expected to side with imams and bias their stories accordingly.

Finding a way to motivate government to investigate the situation and to be called as a witness in the proceedings can also be useful. Even if no new legislation is introduced, public exposure is a form of “shaming,” and when we consider that Islamic culture is based on honor and shame, rather than good and evil, shaming can be a powerful weapon, provided that the accuser takes appropriate protective measures. Exposure and diligent research could also lead to uncovering non-legal residents who would be subject to deportation.

No matter how we choose to deal with Islamic vilification of America, prudence dictates shutting down illegal immigration, properly vetting legal immigrants, and monitoring the airwaves for signs of incitement. As the abolitionist Wendell Phillips said, speaking to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1852, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Acknowledgment: May I thank Dr. Charles Jacobs, cofounder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance and the Jewish Leadership Project, for suggesting the topic and possible reference sources.

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