Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Discover Muslim Vehicular Jihad Plot

by Sheila Musaji

This week, Pamela Geller published a post titled Vehicular Jihad in Arizona  which is Geller’s take on a simple story about a terrible car accident in Arizona in which the driver of a vehicle crashed into 3 parked vehicles in a parking lot and was killed.  The man was a physician named Ajaz Rahaman, and this just happened.  The man’s name was released on the same day as Geller’s article, and so far that is all anyone knows.  There have been no autopsy findings released, police investigations are still not completed - no one knows what happened.  The name of this man sounds as if he might be a Muslim.  However the name Walid Shoebat might also be identified as a Muslim name.  That’s all the proof Geller needed to call this “vehicular jihad”.

However, no matter what the facts turn out to be - that is irrelevant to those like Geller who are so blinded by hate that they are constantly looking for any possible story that might in any conceivable way be used to prove that Muslims are simply dangerous.  They throw such stories out there, and if they turn out to be wrong, don’t apologize or remove them (or sometimes when they are so far wrong as to look ridiculous, they “disappear” the articles).  If you throw enough garbage at a wall, some of it is bound to stick, and then you can say “I told you so”.

One of the principles of our great country is the presumption of innocence until an individual is proven guilty.  However, for some, being Muslim is all that is required for a presumption of guilt.

This man may have had a heart attack, he may have been criminally liable, all sorts of things might have happened.  He probably has a family that is mourning his death, and such wild speculation based on nothing but the man’s name is cruel beyond belief to those who are mourning the loss of a loved one.

Geller opens her speculation with The number of these incidents is surging. We have seen an unusually high number of suspicious incidents involving Muslim drivers over the last few years. Hassan Daly, a 52-year-old described as a “devout Muslim,” plowed his cab into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego, injuring over 24 people.

Geller links to another paranoid post titled “Devoutly Muslim” cab driver plows into crowd outside nightclub, injuring 23  by Robert Spencer on Jihad Watch at the time of the accident involving Daly.  This article was also written before any facts were in, or any investigation completed, simply stating the speculation that this must have been vehicular jihad.

You’d have to search out the actual story (which most of her readers probably will not) - and it turns out that Sam Hassan Daly was involved in a crash in San Diego in which 35 people were injured.  no charges were filed, after analyzing the evidence, law enforcement thought that the evidence showed that the man fell asleep moments before the accident

The San Diego Injury Lawyers Blog noted that Investigators found that he was not speeding in his cab that night, he was traveling within safe limits at 12 to 14 miles per hour. The entire auto accident scene was reconstructed and thoroughly examined by investigators, which led them to determine there was just not enough evidence to criminally prosecute Daly.    In the case of Mr. Daly, the nature of working the night shift combined with his physical ailments at the time could be a fatal concoction.

Geller and Spencer both see an awful lot that doesn’t exist anywhere except in their fevered minds.  The problem is that they pass these bigoted assumptions on to their readers as “facts”.  They are responsible for most of the false - what everyone “knows” ideas about Islam and Muslims that are causing so many to look at every Muslim with suspicion.  This has been a busy week for Geller and Spencer as they also “discovered” that all rapists in Norway are Muslims and uncovered a nefarious plot by New York City cabdrivers to impose Sharia on America.  And, in the last month they discovered other devious Muslim plots - spit jihad, and employment jihad, and even marriage to important men jihad. 

It’s as if they are out to find out how far it is possible to carry such extremist rantings before people just tune them out.  I wish that were true, but what is more likely to happen is that the FBI, local police departments, and other government agencies are likely to continue to look to such folks as their “go to” experts on all things Muslim.

UPDATE 7/29/2011

I just received an email from a family member of Dr. Ajaz Rahaman and they inform me that he had a heart attack, and that is what caused the accident.  May God rest his soul and comfort his family.

I also received an email which noted that Pamela Geller has pulled the original article from her site but that the article still exists on google cache here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X_t5lDIpCzsJ:atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/07/vehicular-jihad-in-arizona.html+http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/07/vehicular-jihad-in-arizona.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

LIES THAT EVERYONE “KNOWS” ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS

There is a long list of bigoted propaganda stating some “fact” that everyone “knows” which are all, quite simply, not facts at all.  These are claims that have no basis in fact, but are repeated over and over until most people just accept them as true.  They become memes and are transmitted like a virus from person to person.  You can find responses to hundreds of such claims here.  You can also click on any of the links included in this list of commonly repeated claims, and you will find an article that explains why that claim is false.

The most commonly repeated claims about Muslims and Islam are that:

Everyone “knows” that most or all terrorists are Muslims, and there are no Christian and no Jewish terrorists (or terrorists of any other religious stripe), and that Muslims are all militant,  inherently violent, and more likely than other Americans to be radicalized. 

Everyone “knows” that Muslims are not interested in dialogue.  That Muslims don’t help Christians in need.  That Muslims can’t have Christians as friends, and are anti-Semites, and Holocaust deniers. 

Everyone “knows” that Muslims don’t unequivocally denounce terrorism, that American Muslim leaders have not responded to radicalization in their community,  that mosques are the source of radicalization, that 85% of mosques are run by radicals, that Muslims don’t cooperate with law enforcement.

Everyone “knows” that Muslims are not equivalent to real Americans, that they are the enemy within, and a fifth column,  that good Muslims can’t be good Americans, that they are not a part of our American heritage,

Everyone “knows” that Islam itself is the problem and makes Muslims “backward”, that Muslims have made no contribution to the West, that Islam is “of the devil”, a Crescent menace, a “green peril”, that was spread by the sword,  an “evil encroaching on the United States”, and not a religion. 

Everyone “knows” that this is a Christian nation, which the Muslims are trying to take over, starting with getting an Eid stamp which is the first step towards shariah law which is a threat to America, and a threat to our judicial system, by purposefully having more children than others to increase their numbers, and they will be the majority in this country in 20 years.  Muslims are a threat to America

Everyone “knows” that Muslims have no respect for the Constitution, they don’t obey the laws of the United States,  that they are opposed to freedom of speech, don’t allow freedom of religion. 

Everyone “knows” that Muslims are given a pass by the elite media.  It’s “us versus them”. 

Everyone “knows” that the Muslims’ goal is world domination under a Caliphate, and the proposed Cordoba House in NYC is a a demonstration of supremacism and triumphalism. 

Everyone “knows” that Muslims don’t speak out against extremism or terrorism, and even those Muslims who do speak up or seem moderate are simply lying or practicing taqiyyah. 

Everyone “knows” that the Qur’an is uniquely violent, that the Islamic concept of God doesn’t include God’s love, and does not include the concept of a Golden Rule,  that Allah is a moon god. 

Everyone “knows” that Islam is a monolith and all Muslims are the same, like the “Borg”.  This means that every act committed by an individual who is a Muslim is directly attributable to Islam, and never because the individual is crazy, criminal, or perverted. 

Everyone “knows” that Muslims don’t have a sense of humor

Everyone “knows” that Muslims are like the Fascists and Nazis and that in fact they supported those movements.

The problem is that what “everyone knows” is wrong.  These self-righteous and incorrect statements are usually followed by a demand that the Muslim community do something about whatever is the false flag of the day or face the inevitable consequences.

In addition to these “everyone knows” statements of demonization and misrepresentation, there is also a whole industry of simply connecting with Islam or Muslims with any negative idea, event, or societal trend (even when there is no sane connection to make).  These I think of as “Through the Looking Glass” claims. 

For example, lots of “news” items never happened, or are simply not true.

— Arabs didn’t celebrate 9/11 at a Dunkin Donuts in New Jersey. 
— Budweiser did not pull all its product from the shelves of a convenience store where there was celebration of the terrorist attacks - this never happened. 
— The Muslim statement of faith (Shahada) is not an expression of hate. 
— An American Missionary in Africa didn’t face possible murder charges and hanging because of a traffic accident. 
— There is no verse of the Qur’an on “The Wrath of the Eagle”. 
— The supposed bomb threat made by an Arizona student that led to an evacuation of the school was a hoax by non-Muslim students. 
— The story that Iran was considering forcing Jews to wear a yellow star appeared in several publications and it was totally false.
— The story that Iran was going to attack the U.S. and/or Israel with nuclear weapons on August 22, 2006 was a lie.
— The slaying of the New Jersey Coptic family was falsely charged to Muslims. 
— The story about the British banks banning piggy banks so as not to offend Muslims never happened. 
— Muslims are not more likely to support terrorism and violence than Christians or Jews. 
— Muslims did not destroy the Library of Alexandria. 
— Nurses in Britain were not “ordered to drop everything and turn Muslims’ beds toward Mecca five times daily”. 
— There is no  Muslim sword through the 41-cents mark on the U.S. Eid stamp. 
— Sirhan Sirhan is a Christian, not a Muslim. 
— The Virginia Tech massacre had no connection with Islam.
— The University of Oklahoma bombing had no connection with Islam.
— A bus driver in Britain didn’t tell passengers to get off the bus so he could pray. 
— Rachel Ray’s Paisley scarf is not a symbol of “murderous Palestinian Jihad” (and neither is a Keffiyah). 
— A Muslim student in Florida did not refuse to stand for the pledge of allegiance. 
— There were no Muslims acting suspiciously on Air Tran flight 297.
— Wearing a tee-shirt with Arabic writing on it does not make a person dangerous. 
— A Madrassah is simply a school. 
— The zebibah (prayer bruise) on some Muslims foreheads is not a sign of a “commitment to jihad”. 
— Jihad is not terrorism.
— Ashura is not a “Muslim blood festival”. 
— Muslims are not forbidden to have non-Muslims as friends. 
— The Shahada (declaration of faith) is not  an “expression of hate” that is “closely identified” with terrorism. 
— The Nuclear Security Summit logo is an atom on a circular path, not an Islamic symbol.
— The U.S. Missile Defense Logo is not evidence of ‘Submission To Shariah’, and neither is the Flight 93 memorial. 
— The Google Veteran’s Day logo doesn’t display a secret Muslim agenda.
— Muslims also died on 9/11. 
— Barack Obama is not a Muslim, but so what if he was? 
— Mattel is not promoting Sharia with a subversive doll.
— The Hamas “child bride” incident was nothing of the sort.
— The “Muslim plot” to kill the Pope never happened
— Five American Muslim soldiers never plotted to poison their fellow soldiers. 
— There is no devious Muslim plot to groom attractive Muslim women to marry important men or politicians - an Islamic/socialist/left wing plot to advance a pro-Muslim Agenda and take over America. 
— Straight prayer lines, beards, hijabs, gender segregation during prayers, wearing a watch on your right hand, wearing “non-western” clothing, etc. are not “Sharia adherent behaviors” that might correlate with the promotion of violence. 
— Muslim environmentalists are not part of a sinister plot to colonize the west.
— All of the rapes Oslo, Norway over the past three years were not “committed by Muslim immigrants using rape as a weapon of cultural terrorism”.
— There was no Muslim plot hatched in an on-line forum to attack British Jews over Israel’s actions in Gaza, and there was no “Islamist” named Abu Islam making these fake postings. 
—Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazd did not justify and provide Islamic guidelines for the raping of prisoners.  The story was a lie. 
—There is no Muslim scholar named Sheikh Haron, and everything he does or says as a supposed member of the Muslim community is a lie.
—Muslims do not block New York streets to pray every Friday.
—There is no plot to have terrorist babies born in the U.S.
—Stephen Coughlin, a Pentagon anti-terrorism specialist was not ousted because his superiors thought he was too critical of Islam
—The Holocaust museum shooting had nothing to do with Islam.
— The word Slav does not come from the word for slave and has nothing to do with Islam.  Slavery is not only a Muslim problem.

Check out the actual article which hasn’t been updated for a few months, as it will be updated with many more such Islamophobic claims.

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