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The American Muslim (TAM).

( Methinks she protests too much… – JW )

by Sheila Musaji

As I pointed out in a previous article Washington Navy Yard Tragedy Shamelessly Exploited by Islamophobes, the Islamophobia echo chamber jumped to wrong conclusions about the perpetrator before the facts were in, and before most of the victims had even been identified.

Now we have a lot more information.  Hundreds of interviews have been conducted with friends and family, and thousands of articles have been written about the man.  All confirming that he was a Buddhist and regularly attended a Buddhist Temple, had served in the military, had mental health issues, previous run ins with the law, etc.  But one article and one passage in that article is what has focused the Islamophobia echo chamber on the “real” issue.

An NBC News article on Aaron Alexis included this brief passage:

“Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Alexis created a webpage with the name “Mohammed Salem,” but they said he never did anything with it. They said they had found nothing else that might indicate any interest in violent jihad or even in Islam.”

That’s it, one brief passage in a long list of what we know about the perpetrator of the Navy Yard shooting.  He once created some sort of webpage which he never used, and used a Muslim name to do so.  No one knows why he chose that name, or what he planned to post on that page.  For all anyone knows, he planned to use it like Werner Reimann who has a much used webpage under the name Sheikh Yer’Mami where he posts anti-Muslim propaganda.  That is at least in the realm of possibility since many news reports have noted that Aaron Alexis told his friends that he had been in New York when the 9/11 tragedy happened and was distressed by that event.  We have no facts, and any thoughts on the why of this webpage are only speculation.

Not having facts never stands in the way of the Islamophobia echo chamber.

Robert Spencer wrote Navy Yard murderer Aaron Alexis created webpage with name “Mohammed Salem” saying: “There has been no other published indication that Aaron Alexis was a Muslim or had any interest in Islam. It may be, however, that in his delusional madness, he began to identify with the jihadists who have committed mass murder in the name of their bloodthirsty god.”

Libertarian Republican wrote Confirmed! Aaron “Mohammed Salem” Alexis saying:  ”…  We now learn, 5 days after the attacks, that Aaron Alexis at one time, at the least, actively flirted with Islam.  …  Building a web page is no small task.  Most times it takes hours, sometimes it can take days, and even weeks.”

Pamela Geller wrote Navy Yard murderer Aaron Alexis created webpage with name “Mohammed Salem” in which she says:

Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Alexis created a webpage with the name “Mohammed Salem,. This is the first I am hearing of this and have seen no media mention of it (although the fact that he had been a Buddhist has been headlined and recounted numerous times, despite the fact is that there is no compulsion to violence, oppression and ethnic cleansing in the teachings of Buddhism.)

It is striking that he would create a page “Mohammed Saelm [sic].” Perhaps as he became more violent he identified with the homicidal doctrine of jihad. I do not expect the jihad-aligned media to look into this aspect of the case.

Clearly, Muslim Brotherhood groups were concerned it was jihad. Hamas-CAIR canceled a press conference on Tuesday that was going to expose the funding of the “islamophobia” industry. What funding? I mean, really.  And devout Muslims cheered and suggested responsibility for Navy Yard shooting that killed 13. And many jihadists “expressed their joy” that the Nazy shooting was a response to Muslim leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ‘s strikes in America.

Actually, CAIR rescheduled a press conference planned for Tuesday the 17th because they, like other Americans were mourning the Navy Yard shooting that happened the day before. The day after such a national tragedy would not have been an appropriate time for a press conference.  What funding of the Islamophobia industry was CAIR going to release?  CAIR has now released the report exposing that funding of at least $119 Million between 2008 to 2011.  It is titled “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States” and can be read here in PDF format.

Using a name doesn’t prove that Aaron Alexis “actively flirted with Islam” unless the same can be said for Sheikh Yer’Mami and many others.  You would have to be even less tech savvy than me to think creating a basic webpage is a major accomplishment.  Almost anyone who can follow simple directions can put up a basic WordPress or other webpage in a very short time.

The people who were reported as cheering the Navy Yard shooting tragedy were NOT “devout Muslims”, but al-Qaeda criminals.  Some of them also falsely claimed responsibility for this action.  That’s pretty much what is to be expected from criminals.  Such a criminal action could never be a jihad, no matter what criminals claim.

It is important to remember that these are the same Islamophobes who thought the fact that Seung-Hui Cho the Virginia Tech shooter’s father had worked in Saudi Arabia before he was born, and that Cho had written the words “Ismail Axe”  were meaningful facts.  These are the same people who thought the fact that Joel Henry Hinrichs, the University of Oklahoma bomber walked through the parking lot of a mosque was a meaningful fact. These are the same people who tried to connect Tyler Brehm, the Hollywood shooter to Islam.  In fact, they consistently try to find any tenuous connection to Islam in any criminal act.  If they can’t find anything, they simply make something up, and if their lies are exposed they attempt to conceal the evidence.

The resources below are a useful place to begin understanding why these individuals can’t be trusted.

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