…but not for the reason you give:
Tapper: Shimon’s got some breaking news on this horrific incident.
Shimon: “That’s right Jake. So what we’re told, I’m told by three sources now that the NYPD and the FBI are investigating this as a terrorism incident. Our understanding is that, according to witnesses … they’re telling police that they heard the driver saying, yelling, ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,’ during this incident.”
Tapper: The Arabic chant, Allahu Akbar, God is great, sometimes is said under the most beautiful of circumstance and too often, we hear it being said in moments like this.
The phrase [‘Allah Is Greater!’] is, indeed, ‘beautiful’ because it tells you everything you need to know about the person saying it and his attitude towards Life and his fellow Human Beings.
-It tells you that the shouter believes that the Muslim god, Allah, is (1) obviously, superior to any other god [most especially to God] and (2) that Mohammedins consider Allah a different god than the God of Christians and Jews — despite the insistence of Muslims [taqiyya anyone?] that all three merrily believe in the same deity.
St. Michael The Archangel slaying Mohammed.
-Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ tells you that the person using it believes that all non-believers in Allah, all Infidels, need to either convert to Islam or be killed [read the bloody Koran]. In other words, the screamer [pun intended] despises a keystone concept of The West: the Right To Worship Or Not To Worship A Deity Of One’s Choice — and, also, it follows the Right To Freely Speak One’s Mind.
-It tells you that the shrieker does not believe in the Inherent Dignity Of Human Life because he automatically deems those who do not worship his god and conform to his Ideology worthy of Death. There’s very little Mercy in Islam — and what little there is is given only to those who meekly Submit to it Unconditionally, who sacrifice their Free Will.
Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ tells you many things about the shouter, most especially that he does not belong in a Free Society because he is committed, by being a Mohammedin, to utterly and completely destroying said Society.
[Inspired by a remark by Mark Steyn in the Comments section of this post.]
