Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

A History of Muslim Terrorism against Jews in the United States

by Daniel Pipes

23 May, 2009

The arrest yesterday of four would-be Jihadis before they could attack two synagogues in New York City brings to mind a long list of terrorist assaults in the United States by Muslims on Jews. These began in 1977 and have continued regularly since, as suggested by the following list of major incidents (ignoring lesser ones that did damage only to property, such a series of attacks on Chicago-area synagogues):

  • March 1977: Hanafi Muslims seized three buildings in Washington, including the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, and held hostages for 39 hours, leading to one death and one severe injury.

  • November 1990: El Sayyid Nosair assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane in a New York hotel.

  • February 1993: Ramzi Yusuf, the mastermind of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, which claimed 7 lives and injured more than a thousand people,, declared the towers not a civilian target but a military one, by virtue of the fact that it might house a "Zionist official."

  • June 1993: "Boom! Broken windows. Jews in the street," is how one of the plotters described the carnage that would ensue from a planned "day of terror" with simultaneous bombings of the United Nations complex, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and other New York landmarks..

  • March 1994: Rashid Baz, a Palestinian immigrant, opened fire on a van carrying Orthodox Jewish boys across the Brooklyn Bridge, killing 16-year-old Ari Halberstam.

  • July 1997: 'Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian, shot seven tourists atop the Empire State building, killing one and severely wounding another; in his suicide note, he accused the United States of using Israel as "an instrument" against the Palestinians.

  • July 1997: Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar's near-explosion of a pipe bomb in the New York City subway system.

  • July 2002: Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet's attack on the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two

  • September 2005: Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh plot against two Los Angeles-area synagogues, disrupted due to a dropped mobile phone.

  • May 2009: Four arrested in attempt to blow up two New York City synagogues.

(This listing is drawn in part from a 1999 article of mine; I shall add to it as needed.)

Comments:

  1. Inexplicably, Muslim-on-Jewish violence peaked in the years 1990-97 and has declined since.

  2. Muslims of immigrant and of African-American origins have each engaged in a share of the attacks roughly proportionate to their demographics.

  3. As I concluded in a 2005 article on this subject, "Even though most Jews resist acknowledging it, the Muslim threat is changing Jewish life in the United States. The golden age of American Jewry is coming to an end." (May 21, 2009)

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Name: vbv
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Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 02:43:05 -0400

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Why don't we blow up the mosques in Mecca and Medina?

Name: balam
Subject: Attacks on Jewish people
Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 05:05:57 -0400

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It all goes back to teaching of Mohammad in quran, telling his followers that Jews will be their worst enemies, where as, on the contrary, the Muslims are the worst enemies of the Jewish people. Mohammad had a cocktail of mental illnesses which have been passed on to his followers. I have never come across one normal Muslim.The are all abnormal, when the question of Islam comes. They lose the rationality, even the highly educated ones. Islam is the worst mental disease one could contract.

Name: Archpagan
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Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 05:30:17 -0400

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The Jews have been suffering the sacrilege of Al Aqasa mosque on their holiest place for too long. They should blow it off here and now and call bluff the prophet hood of Muhammad. I am sure the Jews will not incur any extra enmity for that. Muslims can see reason only when they are thrashed.

Name: Reality-Check
Subject: Truth reveiled
Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 12:05:28 -0400

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Well check this out: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

Name: Reality-Check
Subject: Dissaproval
Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 14:16:14 -0400

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Not that i am approving any of the acts of some militants groups in USA attaching Jewish establishments. Any sort of violance outside of war established areas are unacceptable religiosly. However, we should not take these events out of the context and blame the religiion for it. Check these "facts" below: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ Should I blame Abraham (PBUH) or Moses (PBUH) for this. By no means. It is not a religion to be blamed but zionists who take the control of the country in their own hands. Likewise, Islam nor Mohammad (PBUH) should not be blamed for violance listed througout this website, but selected few taking the power in their own hands. Read.. Read.. Read.. Think.. Think.. Think... Think and remember that there is a Judgment day for all of us and you and I and everyone else will be accounted for every single tiny deed we do, even this particular posting of mine.

Name: to VBV
Subject: What a Suggestion
Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 15:45:54 -0400

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Hi VBV , Not only Mosques, Whole Muslim community should be wiped off. Humans Don't need Pigs . (Swine Flu came from Muslims)

Name: to - Reality-Check (MF)
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Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 15:57:01 -0400

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Reality-Check You think, think, think & think . You will not be a Muslim if you start thinking. You will realize Islam is a EVIL cult started by Pedophile, Mass murderer, Lunatic Mohammad to make the entire world to Bow down to Sodi Barbaria (Saudi Arabia) [renamed by Proud kafir in Faithfreedom.org so from now onwards every body call Saudi Arabia as Sodi barbaria]), Islam is a Political Movement and not a religion.

Name: Reality-Check
Subject: Mercy on you
Date: Saturday May 23, 2009
Time: 20:20:24 -0400

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I would hope you have a better claim to argue with. This is really short sited from you _ Saudi Arabia. Ohhh man. I guess you know nothing about history of europe or world for that matter. Islam supersids Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia for all practical purposes has nothing to do with Islam. Islam is older than any "today-existing" Muslim country in the world as we know it. Saudi Arabia on the other hand was created by England to over power Otman Empire - Khalifat (Turkish Empire at the time). Not just Saudi, but all Gold countries (Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Jordan), etc. So before we start talking, let do some reading on history of europe and world for that matter, and we'll catchup later. Advise....nothing is at it seems it is....read between the lines.

Name: Archpagan to Reality-Check
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Date: Sunday May 24, 2009
Time: 05:49:48 -0400

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Yes sir, everybody gets paid as per his/her karma on the Judgment Day. The criminal Muhammad has been burning in hell fire because of his karma. That is why you people seek peace for him.

Name: Malek
Subject: Muslims didn't kill 6,000,000 jews
Date: Monday May 25, 2009
Time: 06:55:27 -0400

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Did we ? We are nothing compared to the Westerns... in this regards !

Name: KAF INFIDEL
Subject: re.Malek,Reality-check
Date: Saturday May 30, 2009
Time: 01:43:51 -0400

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On another site I asked a simple question. Did horney Mo(pbuh) go to bed with a six year old because the all mighty allah said so?

 
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