More News About Jordan

Moustafa Akkad and his daughter died in the Amman terrorist attacks. Don't recognize his name? Sounds like another terrorist to you? Akkad was born in Aleppo, but immigrated to Los Angeles and become a filmmaker. He was responsible, among other films, for all eight Halloween horror flicks. Just thought you should know that. The Lebanese Daily Star carried the story here.

So the Washington Post carried an article today about Washington area Muslims mourning relatives lost in the attacks. Apparently two attendees of the Falls Church Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center lost a combined 17 relatives. Sheikh Shaker Elsayed decried "...this senseless act -- people who did nothing but go about celebrating the wedding of their son and daughter." He also said that Islam does not condone the killing of innocents.

What a nice man, and right here in our own backyard, too.

I could have swore I'd heard that name before. Shaker Elsayed used to be the Secretary General of the Muslim American Society. I wasn't surprised when The Counterterrorism Blog told me in this article why the name Sheikh Shaker Elsayed sounded familiar. Let me quote his speeches when he isn't comforting relatives of those who died in terrorist attacks:

"...about the subject unfairly named suicide bomber, homicide bomber, murderers, or killers. Our answer to this issue is simple... The Islamic scholars said whenever there is an attack on an Islamic state or occupation, or the honor of the Muslims has been violated, the Jihad is a must for everyone, a child, a lady and a man. They have to make Jihad with every tool that they can get in their hand. Anything that they can get in their hand and if they don't have anything in their hand then they can fight with their hand without weapons..."

"We say to the Palestinian people, 'Go ahead. Continue your fight against occupation no matter what name they give you because we give you the name of courageous people who stand for the rights and we're standing with you.' ...My name is Shaker Elsayed ... I'm the Secretary General of the Muslim American Society."

Heck, one only has to look at his perverted view on the US and Iraq, including the bizarre belief that the US ordered Saddam Hussein to attack Kuwait so that we could drove him out in order to justify our "occupation" of Saudi Arabia. It's clear this man sees the world through blood-colored glasses.

So what's my point? We've got a rat in our own backyard, encouraging terrorism. Suddenly his good friends and followers come up and tell them they lost close relatives in a terrorist attack, and now he says Zarqawi was wrong. Wrong for hurting his friends, that is -- he should have concentrated on American troops and Israelis. You gotta love that hypocrisy.

Labels: iraq, jordan, terrorism

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