Did you happen to catch this headline last week “Australia raids foil reported ISIS beheading plots”?
I mean, considering all the critically important stories on the NFL-players-behaving-badly front, it’s sometimes tough to find your way through to any actual news these days. But this was pretty scary stuff ~
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the plan involved kidnapping randomly selected members of the public off the streets in Sydney and Brisbane, beheading them on camera, and releasing the recordings through Islamic State’s propaganda arm in the Middle East.
These barbarians are sure getting creative aren’t they?
Australian counterterrorism forces detained 15 people Thursday in a series of suburban raids after receiving intelligence that the Islamic State militant group was planning public beheadings in two Australian cities to demonstrate its reach.
About 800 federal and state police officers raided more than a dozen properties across 12 Sydney suburbs as part of the operation — the largest in Australian history, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Andrew Colvin told the Associated Press. A sword was removed as part of evidence at one of the homes.
Now of course, no sooner had the terrorists been apprehended when the Aussie branch of the religion-of-perpetual-outrage when into full protest mode: Muslims protest against Australia terror raids: “There is anger in the community. We have been victimised for years and years.”
These “victims” seem to represent the Islamic version of Orwell’s “1984” ~ freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, terrorism is persecution.
Interestingly enough, even while Australia was moving against their merry band of head-choppers, here in the U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was trying to prevent the same sort of plot from materializing in this country ~
Sen. Ted Cruz tried to get the Senate to consider a measure Thursday providing that any American who joins the fight with terrorist groups such as the Islamic State would immediately renounce their U.S. citizenship, but a Democratic senator objected, saying more time is necessary to weigh the significant constitutional issues it raises.
Can we no longer call treason “treason” anymore? Apparently the Democrats can’t ~
“It is unfortunate that Democratic senators chose to object to this to prevent this common-sense change in law, and I would note when it comes to the constitutional concerns, I don’t know if anyone in this Senate has been more vigorous or more consistent in terms of defending the constitutional rights of Americans that I have endeavored to be during my short tenure here,” he said. “I will yield to no one in passion for defending constitutional liberties … it is current law right now that if you go and join a foreign nation and take up arms against America, that act has long been recognized as constituting a constructive renunciation of United States citizenship.”
The security of America is clearly secondary to politics with these poltroons, and Cruz wasn’t shy about letting them know it ~
“The question is very simple: would any reasonable person want an American who is right now in Iraq, who is right now training with ISIS, who is right now taking up arms, who is right now participating in crucifying Christians, who is right now beheading children, who [has] right now participated in beheading two American journalists, who is right now standing arm-in-arm with virulent terrorists who have pledged to take jihad to America — would anyone of good conscience in either party want that person to be able to come back and land in LaGuardia airport with a U.S. passport and walk unmolested onto our streets?” he said.
“The obvious answer is no, and it saddens me that we could not see Republicans and Democrats come together,” he continued. “It saddens me that in an election year the Democratic senators up for election chose to block this common-sense legislation, rather than to work together to protect the American citizens. I hope in time we see less election-year politics and more service to the men and women who all of us are obliged to protect.”
Incredibly, at the same time that the Senate was declining to protect we-the-law-abiding-citizens from crazed Islamist converts – this lunacy was going on: ISIS Calls For Radicalized Americans To Go To Homes Of U.S. Soldiers, ‘Slaughter Them’!
According to Fox News, one British jihadist “encouraged radicals still living in the West to use Facebook and Linkedln to find and target soldiers.” The jihadist tweeted: “You could literally search for soldiers, find their town, photos of them, look for addresses in Yellowbook or something. Then show up and slaughter them.”
And oh, by the way –
… according to Mail Online, intelligence agencies believe “these threats will only increase should the U.S. or its allies attack…ISIS in Syria or Iraq.”
When these ISIS animals bring their barbaric ways to American shores, don’t forget which party flatly refused to take the threat seriously!
Related:
Australian Jihad: The Aftermath
If you’re not reading David Wood’s Answering Muslims blog frequently these days you should be! Here’s a sampling of recent posts ~
• French Hostage Herve Pierre Gourdel to Be Executed unless France Ends Airstrikes against Islamic State (ISIS)
• Syrian War Creates 200,000 More Refugees in Past Four Days
• Liberal Muslim Scholar Muhammad Shakil Auj Accused of Blasphemy and Shot to Death in Pakistan
