Lwt Us Not Rush To Judgment

11 December 2009

Law enforcement officials in Pakistan have arrested five Americans of Middle Eastern descent in a house in the city of Sargodha, Pakistan. The five Muslim men were caught in the residence linked to a well known al Qaeda supporting organization.

Supposedly, it was family members of the five men who alerted members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in D.C. and Virginia when their relatives basically disappeared in November.
According to the reports, the five have admitted to the Pakistani authorities that they were indeed in the country to be trained for jihad, as they attempted to receive training from the same al Qaeda splinter group Jaish-e-Mohammed, the same group suspected in the abduction of journalist Daniel Pearl, who members of the religion of peace killed and decapitated.

Of course, one must not fall victim to a rush of judgment. Just because they were caught in a renown terrorist house, just because they confessed to wanting to conduct acts of terrorism, just because they tried to get terrorism training from al Qaeda, and just because they are Muslims, does not definitively mean that they are terrorists.

According to family members of one of the men, he was not a Muslim activist, nor was he of violent tendencies. And the White House expressed the deepest appreciation and praise for the American Muslim community for alerting the authorities via CAIR.

So let us not rush to judgment in calling them Islamic terrorists, as we don’t really know details of why they became radicalized and bent on acts of jihad. Surely it would not be their fault, but AG Eric Holder will find some US Military member or intelligence officer to blame it on, and than there are always the sure points of blame in George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

A good way to proceed may be to bring the five men back to the US, pay for their Medical school and give them a rank of Major in the US Army. What could go wrong!

It is my sincere hope that the prosecution of these individuals will take place in Pakistan, where the ACLU and any of the bleeding heart, anti-American Liberal riff raff can turn them into a terrorist propaganda tool. We already have enough of that happening with Obama’s decision to bring the masterminds of the 9-11 attacks to New York for trial in a US court.
Besides, AG Holder would drop the charges anyway and the New Black Panthers would give them full membership and possibly emploument with the Obama campaign.

So, people, please do not rush to judgment, as thanks to political correctness and thanks to the new line of thought that even when a confession is in hand, there is always going to be someone who is going to apologize for the bad behavior of others.
It is amazing how American people, thankfully a minority, are adamantly offended by display of Christmas cheers and messages, by display of a cross or the Ten Commandments on public/government land and buildings, but do not appear to be unruffled at all by the idea of people who have long benefited from the grandiosity of America who take the step to attack Her.

Surely some CNN or MSNBC stooge will at some point take the mea culpa stand and blame the entire history of our country for the radicalization of these five members of the religion of peace, not that anybody is watching.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”