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"One has to understand where I'm coming from. I consider myself … a Muslim soldier." With these words, would-be Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad made it abundantly clear that when he parked his explosives-laden SUV in Times Square on May 1, he was waging Islamic jihad in accord with Islamic law that makes defensive jihad obligatory upon every Muslim: "I am part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people," he declared Monday. "And, on behalf of that, I'm avenging the attack."
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer's hope, expressed on the air, that the Times Square bomber "was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country" has been definitively disappointed. Will she now host an in-depth investigation of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism, explaining the concept of jihad warfare and Shahzad's real motivations to MSNBC viewers? Don't hold your breath – but Shahzad's explanation of his motives once again exposes the dangers of the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to discuss honestly the jihad against the United States.
Only Islamic theology makes sense of Shahzad's words and actions. In court Monday, Shahzad said he was retaliating against those who "attacked the Muslim lands." U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum responded by pointing out that those attackers were "not the people who were walking in Times Square that night. Did you look around to see who they were?"