CALL IT WHAT IT WAS: ISLAMIC TERRORISM

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino shooters, committed an act of Islamic terrorism

Accuse me of jumping to conclusions before all the facts are in, but in the case of the San Bernardino shootings, I will say unequivocally that Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik committed an act of Islamic terrorism.

The authorities in San Bernardino seem to be having a hard time admitting that 14 of their fellow citizens were killed by Islamic terrorists. Even after revealing that Farook had been in touch with Jihadists in this country and abroad by phone and over the internet, as of Thursday evening the FBI still refused to label the shootings for what they were: Islamic terrorism.

Their excuse is that they must determine whether the shootings meet the FBI’s definition of terrorism:

Terrorism involves acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law and appear intended (1) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (2) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (3) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping.

Cone on fellas, give us a break. What a crock of supreme shit! A rose by any other name. It’s Islamic terrorism, stupid!

The U.S. Attorney General babbled that the shootings may have been work-related or something worse. And you will never hear the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ used by the President. Shit, Obama won’t even acknowledge that ISIL (or ISIS if you prefer) is an Islamic organization and he won’t use the terms Islamic and terrorism in the same breath.

Why am I so sure that Farook and his wife were Islamic terrorists? In addition to the FBI’s revelation that Farook had been in contact with Jihadists here and abroad, he made two trips to Saudi Arabia, during the most recent of which he picked up Tashfeen, his Pakistani bride to be. At their residence in Redlands, the FBI found 6,000 .9mm rounds, a dozen pipe bombs and bomb making material.

The San Bernardino attack was not a spur-of-the-moment workplace dispute, but a well carried out attack that had to take weeks of planning. And, just as with Maj. Nidal Hasan’s 2009 attack at Fort Hood, they still won’t call the San Bernardino shooting Islamic terrorism.

A word of caution is in order. For those who are suspicious of all Muslims, the San Bernardino attack serves to fuel their fear and distrust of all American members of that faith.

Hoe many American Muslims are there? Estimates range that between five to 12 million Muslims live in the United States. About one-third of them are African-Americans. Another third are originally from the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Many of the African-American Muslims belong to race-baiting and Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, a homegrown version of the Muslim faith.

As I’ve said many times before, the overwhelming majority of American Muslims are hardworking loyal citizens of this country. Some of them are secular Muslims. Most of them are not fundamentalists who take the words of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammed literally and consider Western culture to be evil. The Jihadists are fundamentalists who follow Muhammed’s orders to take up the sword and kill the infidels.

The Saudis have long founded and funded Wahhabi mosques and madrassahs (religious schools) in this country. The Wahhabis are fundamentalists and it is in their mosques and madrassahs that Imams have bred Islamic terrorists.

In this age of political correctness, it is verboten to use the term ‘fundamentalist Muslims.’ Instead we must use the term ‘radicalized Muslims.’ Fundamentalists are radical only to the extent that they believe in every word of the Quran and that Prophet Muhammed must be obeyed.

Most of the poverty stricken Muslims in Africa and the Asian subcontinent are fundamentalists. Most of the groups fighting against the Syrian secular regime of Bashar al-Assad are fundamentalist Muslims. The Mullahs that govern Iran are fundamentalists. The Saudi royal family is Wahhabi, although you couldn't tell it by the way its princes behave when they are in Europe and in America.

It is the young American Wahhabis that are potentially dangerous Islamic terrorists. Imams fill their minds with Jihadism and hatred of Western culture. But the Wahhabis constitute only a tiny fraction of American Muslims.

Forget that politically correct term ‘radicalized Muslims.’ ‘Fundamentalist Muslims’ is the correct term. And it is among the fundamentalist Muslims that you will find Islamic terrorists, two words – Islamic and terrorism or terrorists - President Obama absolutely refuses to say in the same breath.

UPDATE: It took until 11 a.m. today (Friday, Pacific time) for the FBI to announce that “We are currently investigating this as an act of terrorism.”

Apparently the tipping point came when the FBI learned that Tashfeen Malik, using an alias, had pledged allegiance to ISIS and praised Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its leader, Wednesday on Facebook just before she and her husband stormed the San Bernardino social service center.