‘Globalize the Intifada’ Comes to New Orleans Editors The Free Press
https://www.thefp.com/p/globalize-the-intifada-comes-to-new?r=4crwli
The enemies of this country are clear about their aims. Have we lost the ability to defend ours?
What would it look like if the masked mobs in our cities vowing to “globalize the intifada” got their wish? It might look like New Orleans on New Year’s Day, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed a pickup truck into the bodies of peaceful citizens, murdering young and old, then getting out and firing a gun at police officers who thankfully succeeded in killing him first, though two were hospitalized.
Eyewitnesses to the attack noticed that the murderer had an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant flag in his truck. The FBI later confirmed that Jabbar, the Texas-born Army vet turned terrorist, “was 100% inspired by ISIS,” which rapes and enslaves girls, beheads captives, and makes war on the West as well as what it considers “apostates” in the greater Middle East—including all Muslims who reject its vision of an Islamic caliphate. ISIS grew out of al-Qaeda a decade ago and has roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. Jabbar traveled to Egypt—the seat of the Muslim Brotherhood—in the summer of 2023, and the FBI is now investigating what, exactly, he did there.
Even before the New Orleans attack, terrorist vehicle-ramming had already been globalized, with murderous effect. Locations of previous Islamist attacks, which this one eerily resembled, include Nice, France; Berlin, Germany; New York; and, of course, Israel.
But you wouldn’t know any of that listening to Tom Wilson, the CEO of the insurance giant Allstate, who bizarrely felt the need to address the public since the terrorist attack forced postponement of the Sugar Bowl that Allstate sponsors: “We need to. . . overcom[e] an addiction to divisiveness and negativity.” He further urged those tuning in to the football game delayed by the ISIS-inspired mass murder to “accept people’s imperfections and differences.”
This, we promise you, is not a parody:
If there’s an addiction on display here, it’s to Orwellian euphemism, which is especially dangerous when the enemies of this country and the civilization it embodies are so clear about their own motives. “A prominent pro-ISIS Telegram channel,” MEMRI reports, praised the terrorist for his “blessed attack” on “the dogs of the Cross.”
The same euphemism and moral inversion has been on display since the attacks of October 7, 2023. The slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, young and old, wasn’t the work of ISIS, of course, but the Islamic Republic of Iran’s terrorist proxies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which, like ISIS, also have their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. It was they, and the ordinary Gazans who marched into southern Israel in the wake of Hamas battalions, who committed the mass rapes, torture, and plunder—including the kidnapping of American citizens still imprisoned in Gaza’s terror tunnels.
Yet those barbaric acts were celebrated by those in the West who call for a globalized intifada, by professors and PhDs who call their terrorism “resistance.”
The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, praised the invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, as an act of “self-defense” that made him “happy.” He’s still running that organization. Columbia professor Joseph Massad called the pogrom “incredible” and “awesome.” He remains tenured and is teaching a course on Zionism this semester.
Amid grief and prayers for the families of the dead and injured in New Orleans, there is renewed necessity to call out not only the murderous ideology when we see it but also the euphemisms that enable it. Anyone who has read The Looming Tower knows that the tower is not only the World Trade Center destroyed by Islamist terrorists but our own capacity for self-deception.
Politicians have always hidden behind euphemisms and verbal obfuscation—even “fear itself” can be a useful diversion if you don’t want to talk about Hitler and Mussolini. But the will to remain ignorant and use verbal self-deception seems alarmingly pronounced today.
Such ignorance does not keep you safe from evil, only from noticing the evil until it is too late.
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