Threats and Denial

The Islamic Society of North America wound up their convention this last weekend in Chicago. This would have been a significant opportunity for this influential group to signal their respect for the civic freedoms Americans hold dear and to condemn violence in the name of religion. There may have been some words to that effect in a few individual panels at the conference, but the keynote speaker and leader of the organization blamed us and evaded their own responsibility. Steve Huntley, Sun Times:

American Muslims are worried, as they and we should be, about opinion polls indicating more than a third of Americans are distrustful of them. But denial by American Muslims of the militant Islamic dimension of the terrorist threat, albeit a twisted and perverted dimension, serves no useful purpose, and does no good for the credibility of the Islamic Society or CAIR. Neither did inviting former president Mohammad Khatami of Iran -- a state sponsor of terrorism -- to the Islamic Society's convention in Rosemont last weekend. In one of his many denunciations of Israel over the years, Khatami said that "if we abide by the Quran, all of us should mobilize to kill." Once again, the evocation of Islam.

And in another reminder that the terrorists are relentless in their hate and determination to kill us, we have the release of another Al Qaeda tape days before the anniversary of Sept. 11th. Via Drudge, here.

There is denial of the Islamofascist threat not just by American Muslim leaders and their flock, but by the liberal elite in America, whether it be at universities or in the halls of Congress. And we have the unnerving spectacle of Democrat elected officials, a former president, his NSA chairman and secretary of state trying to muzzle the press and change the telling of history.

The Path to 9/11 special is scheduled to air Sunday and Monday night on ABC. How much of it will survive the PC editing is open to question.

UPDATE: NY Post on Clinton threats: "Bubba Goes Ballistic", via RCP and here's more from NRO.

UPDATE II: John Hinderaker, Powerline lays out the series of events that were essentially ignored during the Clinton administration.