As sure as day follows night, the failure to tackle Islamic terror and other Islamic problems by the authorities, causes a reaction on the part of some members of the public. Sometimes this reaction is merely a shrug of the shoulders and an increase in the seething anger that many now feel about the ideology of Islam and how the State is not controlling it properly. At other times public anger at police inaction or poorly executed actions against Islamic problems, such as mosques that produce terrorists for example, bursts out violently.
In an ideal, or at least a much more just and effective world than this one, mosques that produce terrorists should be forcibily shut down by the authorities. No civilised nation should tolerate entities that pretend to be peaceful places of worship but instead provide assistance for terrorism or promotes terrorism. At the very least there should be a ‘two strikes and you’re out’ policy towards mosques. If a mosque produces a jihadi then they should get a warning and told to make more effort to control their members. As a bare minimum, mosques should be expected to expel those who are agitating for Jihad or following Islamic paths that are incompatible with life in a free country. If a mosque produces a second jihadi and they haven’t taken any steps to prevent this, or to inform the authorities, then the mosque should be forcibly closed by the State. This is what should happen, but in Florida, as in so many other places, it did not. The FBI checked the individuals they were concerned about but didn’t appear to place the mosque itself under any suspicion. Maybe, in hindsight, it is something that the FBI and other authorities should have done?
The Fort Pierce Islamic Centre has produced not one but two murderous jihadis. First of all this mosque produced Moner Mohammad Abu Salha who became a suicide bomber in Syria. They then produced Omar Mateen, who went on a shooting rampage in a gay nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, killing 49 people who were peacefully having a night out.
There is obviously something not quite right about this mosque and its management. Either the mosque management approves of the idea of violent jihad or at best they are ambivalent about it and are not seeing it as a problem. A mosque that produces one jihadi savage is bad enough, but to produce two of them, including the Islamic savage who committed one of the worst Islamic terror atrocities on US soil since 9/11, should have warranted closure by the US authorities. To produce one jihadi looks like negligence, but to produce two looks like malevolence.
Unfortunately following the Orlando nightclub shooting the authorities allowed the mosque to remain open and this must have annoyed some local people. It would certainly be a matter of concern for a number of people that a mosque that produces terrorists should be allowed to continue to operate.
As I’ve said so often on here, there is great danger when the authorities take a lenient view of Islam or fail to deal effectively with both Islam-related crime and terror and that is the danger of vigilantism. When you get a situation where the authorities are failing to deal with Islamic problems or where the police are more concerned with things like ‘Islamophobia’ rather than Islamic Rape Gangs for example, you get a reduction in the public trust for the policing authorities. This distrust is compounded when the rights of non-Muslims to legally and peacefully object to all or any part of Islam and its manifestations, starts to be removed or rendered ineffective.
It appears that there are people in Florida, USA who are extremely wound up by the fact that the Fort Pierce terror mosque was still allowed to operate with impunity and some hotheads are alleged to have taken vigilante action against the Fort Pierce Islamic Centre.
According to the UK Daily Express the Fort Pierce mosque that produced the two bestial jihadis was subjected to an arson attack. The attack, which occurred at 12:31am September 11th 2016, was brought under control by the local fire brigade but it seems from aerial photographs of the mosque that there was extensive damage to one end of the building.
The Daily Express said:
A MOSQUE attended by Orlando nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, has been set on fire in a suspected arson attack.
Investigators who attended the scene at the Fort Pierce venue after emergency services were called to the Islamic Centre at 12.31am local time.
The Floridian mosque was attended by Mateen who killed 49 people – in America’s worst mass shooting – at Pulse nightclub in June.
The terrorist, who swore allegiance to ISIS, was killed in a shootout with police at the club.
Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, who became a suicide bomber in Syria, also went to the mosque, according to American news channel WPEC.
According to the station the FBI had twice investigated Mateen for terrorist ties, including links to Abu Salha.
They, however, said it determined the connection between the pair to be “minimal” and not a “substantive relationship or threat at that time”.
St Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said St Lucie County Fire District crews responded and successfully extinguished the fire.”
As I have often said before, I do not applaud or approve of attacks such as the one that has occurred at the Fort Pierce terror mosque. But I can understand how people whose area has been traumatised by an Islamic attack like that on the Orlando nightclub, can get angry when the mosque that produced the terrorist is allowed to stay open as if nothing had happened. No sensible person wants the world’s Islam problems to be dealt with by mobs of angry people waving burning brands. Angry violent mobs are not the best way to sort out our current problems but there is the danger that this is what we will get unless the legitimate authorities start to deal much more effectively and more harshly with problematic Muslims and questionable Islamic groups. There are a dangerously large number of people out there who may be tempted to justify taking the law into their own hands should the general public percieve that justice is not only not being done, but that those institutions that have produced terrorists are being indulged.
Yet again I find myself sadly having to say ‘I told you this would happen’.
Link
Original story from the Daily Express about the arson attack on the Florida terror mosque
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/709784/orlando-shooter-mosque-arson-fire
