Bloomberg Shakes Hands With Islamist Terrorist's Associate

The AP reports that "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he would not have shaken the hand of a character witness for a convicted terrorist if he had known about his history. Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj (sur-AWJ' wah'-HAHJ) was among clergy members invited to meet the mayor Wednesday. Wahhaj was a witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman (AHB'-del RAKH'-men), who was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up city landmarks." Wahhaj was never charged in the case." Omar Abdel-Rahman is often referred to as "the Blind Sheikh" who led terrorists including those that bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. To learn more about this I strongly recommend the book listed on the book list of this website "Willful Blindness," by Andrew McCarthy who led the prosecution of those terrorists.

After the massacre at Fort Hood from an Islamist Army Major, WPIX reports that the response of the Mayor of New York was to meet with ten Muslim leaders and the police chief "in an attempt to assuage growing unease following the recent massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas and avoid any potential backlash against Muslim New Yorkers. 'We have no tolerance whatsoever for hate crimes or for intolerance,' Bloomberg told WPIX after the meeting." The sad irony is that the hate crime was already committed at Fort Hood when thirteen soldiers were murdered. The idea that the focus of political leaders like Michael Bloomberg in the aftermath of the massacre should be a nonexistent "backlash" against the Islamic community makes little sense and is almost perverse. If Muslims had been targeted by a hate crime then a meeting like this would be appropriate, but when American soldiers are killed by a Muslim extremist this meeting displays nothing more than misplaced priorities and a lack of appreciation for who the actual victims were that deserve the nation's attention. Tweet