The True Unsung Hero

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times reminds us of the true unsung hero of the Christmas Day attempted terror attack:  the terrorist's father, who warned US intelligence in detail that his son had been snared by the jihadists, and represented a threat to the civilized worlds.

Think on that one for a moment!  Think about how we love our kids, advocate for them, wish to see them always prosper and never come to harm.

What if it were my son, for instance, that decided that the KKK and Aryan Nation held the 'secret to life', and that he felt obligated to target blacks, Jews and Catholics for violent elimination from society?  Even after a comfortable, even privileged background and education?  Would I have the cojones to call the FBI and let them know?  I hope so.

I would also hope that the FBI would have the common sense to listen and make certain the word got out before someone was harmed, beginning with my son.  That's where things broke down, on our end, our people, our intelligence service, our law enforcement, our White House living in denial that there really are dangerous followers of The Prophet out there, too busy feeding the banksters to notice.

But, another general breakdown has taken place in the parts of the world where Islam prevails:

Finding people with the courage to confront that breakdown — the one identified by the father, the one that lures young Muslims away from the mainstream into a willingness to commit suicide against innocent civilians as part of some jihadist power fantasy — is what matters most right now.
Yes, we need to fix our intelligence. Yes, we absolutely must live up to our own ideals, as President Obama is trying to do in banning torture and closing Guantánamo Bay. We can’t let this “war on terrorism” consume us. We can’t let our country become just The United States of Fighting Terrorism and nothing more. We are the people of July 4th — not Sept. 11th.

But even if we do all that, no laws or walls we put up will ever be sufficient to protect us unless the Arab and Muslim societies from whence these suicide bombers emerge erect political, religious and moral restraints as well — starting by shaming suicide bombers and naming their actions “murder,” not “martyrdom.”

Finally, finally, someone from MSM/ObamaLand is saying what the rest of us have been saying for a long, long time:  There is a big problem out there in IslamWorld, and until they put their house in order, this thing will not end peacefully.

Finally.