Islamic terrorist

"Islamic terrorist"  (“terrorist”,  enemy image)
Interest of	• 7-Seas Global Intelligence • Muslim Contact Unit • Lesley Simm
The canonical modern enemy image, called to mind by legislators as they write laws that clamp down on civil liberties and step up mass surveillance.

The Islamic terrorist is a powerful enemy image, one that was given new life in recent years by the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism.

History

Crusades etc.

Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

Full article: Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

In 1979, Benjamin Netanyahu convened a conference in Jerusalem "to focus public attention on the grave threat that international terrorism poses to all democratic societies." At least 3 speakers were from Le Cercle, suggesting that the conference may have been planned in that milieu.

September 11, 2001

Full article: 9-11

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a powerful boost to the idea of "Islamic terror", notwithstanding the fact that no evidence was presented implicating Muslim involvement in the acts. They also launched the meme of the suicide attacker.

Misrepresentation

An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were perpetrated by Muslims.

Some commercially-controlled media report on "terrorism" almost as if the word were synonymous with "Islamic terrorism". Laws and government documents are usually very careful not to avoid any faith specific wording, but specific instances such as terror drills are less cautious about avoiding Islamophobic stereotypes.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Corporate media/Islamophobia	“Terrorism cannot be defeated because it’s not an enemy, it’s a tactic. A war against Al Qaida is sensible and supportable, but a war against a tactic is ludicrous and hurtful... a propaganda ploy to swindle others into supporting one’s own terrorism ... and encourages prejudices against Muslims everywhere. What if we said “Catholic Christian IRA hitmen” ?”	William Odom	2006

 

Official examples

Name	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
"9-11/The 19 Hijackers"				9-11/Official narrative	A collection of 19 Muslim men blamed for the 9/11 attacks, 15 of whom were given visas to enter USA (in several cases, irregularly) at the orders of Richard Armitage.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab	22 December 1986			Engineer	The Underwear bomber
Salman Abedi	31 December 1994
Marwan Al-Shehhi	9 May 1978	11 September 2001	UAE
Khalid Almihdhar	16 May 1975	11 September 2001
Anis Amri	22 December 1992	23 December 2016	Tunisia		Supposed perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack, termed "Not independently notable" by Wikipedia.
Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari	30 November 1980		India Pakistan		Terrorist accused of being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Mohamed Atta	1 September 1968	11 September 2001	Egypt		One of the 19 hijackers blamed for 9-11.
Fayez Banihammad	19 March 1977	11 September 2001
Adam Dekkushev					According to Dekkushev, it wasn't the FSB that ordered the bombing, as Boris Berezovsky later claimed, but the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn	1 September 1978	19 January 2015	US	Al Qaeda operative
Hani Hanjour	13 August 1972	11 September 2001	Saudi Arabia		A poor pilot who supposedly piloted a 747 into the Pentagon.
Hasib Hussain	16 September 1986	7 July 2005		Patsy	Patsy used in the 2005 London bombings
Ziad Jarrah	11 May 1975	11 September 2001	Lebanon
Mohammad Sidique Khan	20 October 1974	7 July 2005
Chérif Kouachi	29 November 1982	9 January 2015
Saïd Kouachi	7 September 1980	9 January 2015
Germaine Lindsay	23 September 1985	7 July 2005
Abu Hamza al Masri	15 April 1958	30 November 2005	Egypt	Spook Clergy
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi	1 April 1952	20 May 2012	Libya	Spook
Muhaydin Mire					Convicted of attempted murder and admitted four counts of attempted wounding.
Zacarias Moussaoui	30 May 1968				Alleged to be "the 20th hijacker"
Russian apartment bombings				Bombing False flag Murder Structural deep event Casus belli? Third rail topic	A 'Russian 9/11' which boosted support for the second war that was launched in Chechnya
Shehzad Tanweer	15 December 1982	7 July 2005
Ramzi Yousef	20 May 1967
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	28 July 1961	26 October 2019	Iraq
Saeed al-Ghamdi	21 November 1979	11 September 2001	Saudi Arabia
Nawaf al-Hazmi
Salem al-Hazmi	2 February 1981	11 September 2001	US		One of the "19 hijackers" whose ID reportedly survived the impact of the plane better than its black box.
Ibn al-Khattab	14 April 1969	20 March 2002		Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	Poisoned and named by the FSB as the organiser of the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.
Abdulaziz al-Omari	28 May 1979	11 September 2001
Waleed al-Shehri	20 December 1978	11 September 2001	Saudi Arabia
Satam al-Suqami					One of the "19 hijackers" whose passport reportedly survived the impact of the plane better than its black box.

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