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Respond to HOW MANY FORT HOOD-STYLE JIHAD ATTACKS MUST THERE BE? ROBERT SPENCER On Monday it came to light that the FBI and the U.S. military were on the hunt for a Muslim Army recruit who was, according to an alert, plotting a “Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers.” On Tuesday the FBI insisted that there was no manhunt and that this man was not a threat--even as the man's purported Facebook page revealed posts indicating his intention to "wage jihad." That was not the only way that this incident pointed up yet again the inadequacy and wrongheadedness of government and law enforcement officials’ response to jihad terror. Fox News , states that “a man identified as Booker had told friends of his ‘intention to commit jihad,’” and that Booker “is also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan.” He was John Thomas Booker, 19, who was “recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan.” It apparently wasn’t difficult for authorities to find out about this plan, since he “publicly stated his intention to commit jihad, bidding farewell to his friends and making comments indicating his jihad was imminent.”Army officials stated that he never said anything anti-American while he was being recruited, and that was apparently enough for them. For years now, the U.S. military has been avid to recruit Muslim soldiers, so as to give substance to the repeated claims by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama that the United States is not at war with Islam, and to show that Muslims are welcome to participate in all strata of American society.Indeed, so avid have they been that there are absolutely no procedures in place for questioning potential Muslim recruits in order to try to discover their views on jihad and learn more about their loyalties. Such procedures would be roundly condemned as “Islamophobic” and subject military brass to a media firestorm orchestrated by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization whose ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are abundantly documented but seldom get mentioned in mainstream media reports that uniformly refer to them as a “civil rights” group. CONTINUES...
