The Liverpool Bombing: Islam’s Mindboggling Deceptions Exposed
On November 14, 2021, a man detonated an improvised explosive device near the main entrance of Liverpool Women’s Hospital in England. Only he died, though the taxi driver who had just dropped him off was also injured. Although he botched it, investigators concluded that his was a terrorist attack that was planned months in advance.
Emad al-Swealmeen, 32, the would-be terrorist in question, was a born Muslim who arrived in the UK in 2014 and applied for asylum by claiming he was a Syrian refugee. It turned out he was from Iraq or Jordan, and his asylum application was rejected.
Soon thereafter, Emad formally converted to Christianity; in 2015 he was baptized, and in 2017 confirmed, at Liverpool Cathedral. Although it is common for Muslim migrants to pretend to be Christian in order to receive asylum—based on their projected but erroneous belief that Western nations will naturally be more welcoming of Christians—those Christians close to him argue that his conversion was genuine:
[Thus] a church worker in Liverpool who once housed Al Swealmeen said he believed he was a “genuine Christian”… Members of the congregation at Emmanuel Church in Fazakerley, Liverpool, which Al Swealmeen attended from 2017 to 2019, said he had been “a committed Christian” who baked for church cake sales. The Reverend Mike Hindley said Al Swealmeen … was “a really kind guy.”
Moreover, according to a spokesperson from the cathedral that baptized and confirmed al-Swealmeen:
Liverpool Cathedral has developed robust processes for discerning whether someone might be expressing a genuine commitment to faith. These include requirements for regular attendance alongside taking part in a recognised Christian basics course. We would expect someone to be closely connected with the community for at least two years before we would consider supporting an [asylum] application.
Liverpool Cathedral (Photo credit: calflier001 CC BY-SA 2.0 license)
Similarly, a spokesperson for the Church of England argued that their clergy would not baptize someone without first being “confident that those seeking baptism fully understand what it signifies…. We are not aware of any evidence to suggest a widespread correlation between conversion to Christianity, or any other faith, and abuse of the asylum system.”
From here, the problem becomes clear: if al-Swealmeen was a genuine Christian—and everyone seems agreed that he was—what motivated him to plot and try to execute a terrorist attack?
The arguments offered from those convinced that he was a true Christian range from claims that he was suffering from a mental illness to claims that Christianity no less than Islam promotes “martyrdom operations” (debunked here). Others argue that his conversion was indeed sincere, but he later regretted and sought to expiate it by becoming a jihadist “martyr.”
Few, however, are willing to consider that, from the very start, he may have been pretending to be a Christian. After all, who would spend years masquerading as something he’s not—going to church regularly, praying, reading the Bible, and overall expressing genuine faith—even baking cakes for church sales?
The problem with this position is that it fails to take into account the extent some Muslims are willing to go to in order to deceive their infidel enemies—especially when threatened with deportation from the boons of infidel living.
History offers an especially applicable example. In 1492, Granada, the final Muslim bastion of Spain, was reconquered. Its Muslims were initially granted lenient terms, including the right to travel abroad and practice Islam freely. However, whenever the opportunity arose, they launched many hard-to-quell uprisings—several “involving the stoning, dismembering, beheading, impaling, and burning alive of Christians”—and regularly colluded with foreign Muslim powers (e.g., Ottoman Turks) in an effort to subvert Spain back to Islam.
The Spanish crown eventually issued an edict that Muslims either had to convert to Christianity—and therefore slough off their jihadist animus—or quit the peninsula. In response, the entire population of Granada—hundreds of thousands of Muslims—openly embraced Christianity but remained crypto-Muslims. Publicly they went to church and baptized their children; at home they recited the Koran, preached undying hate for the infidel and their obligation to re-subjugate Spain to Islam. And all this deception was legitimized by the fatwas of leading Islamic clerics.
One historian explains the great lengths these “Moriscos”—that is, Muslim converts to Christianity who were still “Moorish,” or Islamic—went to deceive the Christians:
For a Morisco to pass as a good Christian took more than a simple statement to that effect. It required a sustained performance involving hundreds of individual statements and actions of different types, many of which might have little to do with expressions of belief or ritual per se. Dissimulation [taqiyya] was an institutionalized practice in Morisco communities that involved regular patterns of behaviour passed on from one generation to the next.
Despite this elaborate masquerade, Christians increasingly caught on: “With the permission and license that their accursed sect accorded them,” a frustrated Spaniard remarked in the seventeenth century, “they could feign any religion outwardly and without sinning, as long as they kept their hearts nevertheless devoted to their false impostor of a prophet. We saw so many of them who died while worshipping the Cross and speaking well of our Catholic Religion yet who were inwardly excellent Muslims.”
In short, generation after generation of Muslims pretended to be and lived as model Christians in Spain—even as they had nothing but hatred for Christianity and Christians—and all to remain and eventually reconquer Spain for Islam.
Nor do Muslims go to such great lengths of deception only to evade deportation. Some employ it for exclusively murderous ends. In 2013, for example, an assassination plot against a Christian pastor in Turkey was exposed; 14 Muslim suspects, including at least three women, were arrested. According to the pastor in question, Emre Karaali: “Two of them attended our church for over a year and they were like family.” One was even baptized. In reality, “These people had infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my family and the church and were preparing an attack against us.”
From here, the idea that Emad al-Swealmeen was baptized and attended church for a couple of years in order to gain asylum—and then showed his true colors by going full jihadist mode when denied—do not seem farfetched.
Historic quotes dealing with Islam in Spain were excerpted from and are documented in the author’s book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
The Biden Administration Just Forced Every American Town To Host Illegal ImmigrantsBy Jon Feere
The Federalist, November 18, 2021
Excerpt: Under a new policy, federal immigration law enforcement is now largely prohibited from arresting criminal aliens in your neighborhood if you live near a playground, a recreation center, a school, a place of worship or religious study, a location that offers vaccinations (such as a pharmacy), a community-based organization, any location that hosts weddings (such as a civic center, hotel, or park), any location with a school bus stop, any place “where children gather,” and many more places that are common to most towns.
A 'racist' jihad?
Recently, during the night, four young Muslim migrants from Morocco appeared out of the darkness and surrounded a 30-year-old woman in northern Spain. "Let's see how we destroy that beautiful face," they cried, before punching her several times in the face, wounding and ultimately hospitalizing her.
According to the report, the young woman was returning home alone and observed that she was being followed by several young people from whom she tried to distance herself. After blocking her way and beating her, the four assailants fled without stealing any of her personal belongings.
By both their words ("let's ... destroy that beautiful face") and deeds (including not robbing her), theirs was a hate crime, pure and simple.
Perhaps what's most interesting about this story is that hating and/or being envious of a person because she has a "beautiful face" — and attacking her for it — fits a well documented pattern. One can offer many examples, but to demonstrate consistency and continuity, let us focus on one that deals with the same peoples, Moroccans and Spaniards — from over 1,300 years ago.
While discussing relations between the Berbers of Morocco and the Christians of Spain before the former invaded and conquered that European peninsula, Muslim historian Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Maqqari (b. 1578) offered the following:
Whenever some of the scattered tribes of Berbers inhabiting along the northern coast of Africa happened to approach the sea shore, the fears and consternation of the Greeks [i.e., Spaniards] would increase, they would fly in all directions for fear of the threatened invasion, and their dread of the Berbers waxed so greatly. ... [In response] the Berbers ... hated and envied them the more.
This would seem to be an accurate description of how those four Moroccans felt when the "pretty white girl" tried to avoid them.
Al-Maqqari continues that, due to this, "even a long time afterwards a Berber could scarcely be found who did not most cordially hate [a Spaniard.]" This is an understatement: after the Berbers and their Arab leaders — in a word, Muslims — invaded Spain in 711 and conquered it, their "cordial hate" manifested itself in atrocity after atrocity (including turning Cordoba into the Muslim world's slave emporium with Spanish and other European women) over the course of centuries, until Spain finally expelled Islam in the sixteenth century.
Image: Delivering Christian captives in Algiers (1683). Public domain.
At any rate, al-Maqqari's main point — that Spanish/European aversion to the savage North Africans and their "threatened invasions" prompted the latter to "hate and envy them the more" — has, it would seem, been another one of those lesser known or spoken factors behind Muslim hostility for Europe, past and present.
Were I to play psychologist, I might opine that it hints at something of an inferiority complex, a gnawing envy that compels one to "avenge" himself on those whom he thinks have a (rightful?) aversion to him — as those four Moroccan men recently did to that "beautiful face[d]" Spanish woman, and as hordes of Moroccans did 1,300 years earlier.
The little known and lamentable fact is that not a few people from North Africa and the Middle East — indeed, not a few people from all around the non-Western world — harbor racist tendencies — that is, they see the world through a hierarchy of skin color and racial features.
Again, although one can offer several examples, let us stay consistent with our present theme and pattern. Less than two weeks after the attack in Spain, according to a November 8, 2021 report, another Moroccan migrant just across the border in neighboring France was arrested for screaming "racist insults" at and apparently trying to murder a group of black people with a knife.
Nor is this phenomenon limited to Islam; one need only look to India for the starkest example of non-white racism. Based on that nation's caste system, those who are fairer are instinctively and openly treated as "superior"; those who are darker are instinctively and openly treated as "inferior." It's just how things go, and everyone accepts it.
From here, one begins to understand the dilemma: if a brown-skinned person believes that it is right and proper to look down upon a black-skinned person, this same brown-skinned racist will naturally feel looked down upon when surrounded by people fairer than him — irrespective of how they actually see and treat him. This, it would seem, engenders anger and resentment, or, in al-Maqqari's apt words, "hate and envy."
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
The Biden Administration Just Forced Every American Town To Host Illegal Immigrants
By Jon Feere
The Federalist, November 18, 2021
Excerpt: Under a new policy, federal immigration law enforcement is now largely prohibited from arresting criminal aliens in your neighborhood if you live near a playground, a recreation center, a school, a place of worship or religious study, a location that offers vaccinations (such as a pharmacy), a community-based organization, any location that hosts weddings (such as a civic center, hotel, or park), any location with a school bus stop, any place “where children gather,” and many more places that are common to most towns.
Texas, Virginia, California Among Top Destinations for Afghans Brought to U.S. by Biden
Texas, Virginia, and California are among the top destinations for tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation out of Afghanistan.
Since mid-August, Biden has brought more than 73,000 Afghans to the U.S. and wants to bring several thousand more by the middle of next year. Afghans, arriving exclusively in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Dulles, Virginia, are being temporarily housed at U.S. military bases.
Among those bases is the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico where about 4,300 Afghans continue living before they are resettled. A report from the Washington Post reveals that Texas, Virginia, and California — states with predominant Afghan populations — are the highest in-demand destinations for Afghans arriving.
So many Afghans want to go to Texas, Virginia, and California that Biden’s officials are trying to persuade them to instead resettle in cities like Birmingham, Alabama, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Refugees board buses that will take them to a processing center after they arrive at Dulles International Airport after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan August 27, 2021, in Dulles, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Last week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the Biden administration is resettling about 4,000 Afghans every week across the U.S. The latest figures show that the Biden administration has resettled more than 25,000 Afghans thus far.
In addition, Mayorkas admitted that “not all” Afghans arriving in the U.S. have been interviewed in-person by federal officials — a standard protocol of refugee vetting that the 9/11 Commission intensely recommended following the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.
“We are not conducting in-person, refugee interviews of 100 percent individuals,” Mayorkas revealed.
The Biden administration is so rapidly resettling Afghans across the U.S. at an unprecedented volume that the temporary housing at Fort Lee in Virginia has closed. About 45,000 Afghans remain at bases in New Mexico, Wisconsin, Indiana, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Over the last 20 years, nearly one million refugees have been resettled in the country. This is a number more than double that of residents living in Miami, Florida, and would be the equivalent of annually adding the population of Pensacola, Florida, to the country.
An Afghan refugee looks for donated shoes at the donation center at Ft. McCoy U.S. Army base on September 30, 2021, in Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin. (Photo by Barbara Davidson/Getty Images)
Refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years, according to research, and each refugee costs taxpayers about $133,000 over the course of their lifetime. Within five years, an estimated 16 percent of all refugees admitted will need housing assistance paid for by taxpayers.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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