Posted on 09/20/2016 11:26:01 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
In the wake of a radical Islamic terrorist attack on New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is telling citizens not to worry about the threat of jihadist violence and pushing for even more questionably vetted migrants to be resettled in the United States.
De Blasio and the mayors of London and Paris co-wrote an op-ed in which they said terrorism committed by refugees is “vanishingly rare.”
“Militant violence is vanishingly rare,” the trio wrote in The New York Times on the heels of three separate attacks in the United States.
The comments are not likely to go over well in a city on edge after the explosion. Police arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami after a shootout in New Jersey Monday. Authorities allege he is responsible for planting bombs in New York and near the site of a charity run in New Jersey.
Rahami is not a refugee — he is a naturalized citizen, having moved with his family to the United States from Afghanistan. Acquaintances say he returned from a trip to Pakistan a changed man, suddenly devout in his faith and wearing traditional Muslim robes, according to The New York Times.
The suspect identified by officials in the weekend's other terrorist incident, Dahir Adan, who launched a Jihad inspired mass stabbing at a mall in Minnesota, was a Somali refugee. Adan moved to the United States with his parents when he was 3 months old, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
But a new description has been applied to him: terrorist. As he stalked through the Crossroads Center mall, wearing a security guard uniform and wielding a knife, Adan, 22, mentioned Allah and asked at least one victim if he was Muslim, the police said.
Kyle Shideler, director of threat information at the Center for Security Policy, said the tone of the op-ed is consistent with progressive rhetoric that angry Americans will seek retribution on innocent Muslims.
"It sort of plays into this whole backlash narrative they’re constantly pushing, even though we haven’t really seen that," he said.
Shideler said most Americans — and legal immigrants, for that matter — "would prefer that they worry more about the terrorism."
So in the most hyper-technical sense, the mayor is correct. Terrorist attacks by refugees are rare. But terrorism involving Muslim immigrants or refugees and their children account for almost every high-profile jihadist attack carried out in the United States in recent years and a majority of the convictions on terror-related charges. A report released in June by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest indicates that 380 peopled convicted of terrorism-related charges from the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 to the end of 2014 were born abroad. That is 65 percent of the total number.
At least 100 citizens of convicted of terrorism-related charges became naturalized citizens after entering through one of America's immigration programs. At least 24 of the convicts were refugees and 17 were the U.S.-born children of immigrants. At least 33 came on visas and remained after they expired.
Even before Tuesday's op-ed, de Blasio came under fire for his reluctance to identify the bombing as terrorism and for his conduct as mayor. Former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly suggested in an interview with The Daily Beast that the mayor's administration is too politically correct and overly sensitive to media criticism to effectively fight terrorism.
Kelly was particularly critical of de Blasio's decision to disband the Demographics Unit, which the former commissioner had created in 2003 to study the social habits and locations of the city's ethnic groups.
"It was dumb, quite frankly," he told The Daily Beast.
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was characteristically blunt, according to the website Circa.
"He shows up and says it's an intentional act, but not a terrorist act," he said. "Before we even knew it was Islamic-inspired, a bombing that wounds 29 of his citizens is by definition a terrorist act … So you are kind of on Mars if you can't figure that out."
“Not enough Americans are being murdered. Let’s fix that.”
They actually took that phrase out of the original article without noting anything about it!
Do they have impeachment/removal?
Come on NYC ,fire this idiot and Deport him back to Venezuela
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WHAT THE EFFING-EFF IS WITH THESE PEOPLE????????????
Oh goody a communist a mussie and a cheese eating surrender weasel.....just who I want to hear from
*SIGH* I miss Rudy Giulianni. He can be left wing at times but at least he did things the right way.
Mayor: “Until it affects me personally and negatively, it’s not important”.
We can debate its “rarity” - but it is really the only kind of “terror” there is.
Big Bird belongs in jail
Terror aside, Muslim immigration is still a disaster for ANY nation.
http://heatst.com/world/nice-attack-french-prime-minister-says-learn-to-live-with-terrorism-after-84-die/
Because muzzards are the fastest-growing solid voting block. The democrats encourage them to breed and multiply, and to replace Christians and Jews, in return for votes and contributions.
The mayor is probably more afraid of the zika virus than ISIS.
Fool.
[[NYC Mayor Says Islamic Terror ‘Vanishingly’ Rare, calls for more Muslim migrants]]
Someone really needs to hand this circus clown a little red rubber nose .
You know who needs to vanish? Dont’cha Mr DeBlitzoid?
How about Nicaragua.. ? Maybe Venezuela?
No surprise. Secular Progressive killed Europe, just like they destroyed many of our major cities. Progressives live a delusional fantasy based existence. Reality has no bearing in their world. Nor can it ever intrude. Their illness has natural defenses against common sense and logic. Their sickness says that Diversity is a joy, and 3rd World Multiculturalism is a strength. No amount of imported 3rd World violence, diseases and social decay can change it.
These twisted mentally sick individuals invite the fox to live in the hen house, and then are shocked and bewildered when there are dead chickens. Their twisted mental collective response is that it wasn’t caused by putting the fox in the hen house, so...LET’S GIVE IT ANOTHER TRY!...again...and again.... and again....
“Progressives” is a misnomer. Turning America and Europe into a violent 3rd world cesspool is not progress. ‘Primeval Regressives’ would be a more accurate title.
You ignorant retard islam apologist, for the few of the cult of islam that are here, they sure do a lot of terrorizing.
Move your worthless posterior to an islam filth hole country.
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