Faisal Shahzad’s Truth Exposes Obama’s Treachery

Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad is one of  the few jihadis who has been truthful about his motivations.  His terrorist colleagues generally concoct outlandish fabrications to explain their behavior, endearing them to Obama and Holder’s justice department which has deemed Islamic terrorism non-existent.

Daniel Pipes cites a few examples of the traditional terrorist lack of candor:

 Naveed Haq, who assaulted the Jewish federation building in Seattle, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

• Lee Malvo, one of the Beltway Snipers, explained that ‘one reason for the shootings was that white people had tried to harm Louis Farrakhan.’ His partner John Allen Muhammad claimed his innocence to the death chamber.

• Hasan Akbar killed two fellow American soldiers as they slept in a military compound, then told the court: ‘I want to apologize for the attack that occurred. I felt that my life was in jeopardy, and I had no other options. I also want to ask you for forgiveness.’

• Mohammed Taheri-azar, who tried to kill students on the University of North Carolina by running over them in a car, and issued a series of jihadi rants against the US, later experienced a change of heart, announced he was ‘very sorry’ for the crimes and asked for release so he could ‘reestablish myself as a good, caring and productive member of society’ in California.

THESE EFFORTS fit a broader pattern of Islamist mendacity; rarely does a jihadi stand on principle.

Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11’s would-be 20th hijacker, came close: His court proceedings began with his refusing to enter a plea (which the presiding judge translated into ‘not guilty’) and then pleading guilty to all charges.

Shahzad went rogue when he announced his plan to plead guilty to all 10 counts against him:

I want to plead guilty and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times forward because – until the hour the US pulls it forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan and stops the occupation of Muslim lands and stops killing Muslims and stops reporting the Muslims to its government – we will be attacking [the] US, and I plead guilty to that.

And just in case Holder missed it the first time, this was not about the housing crisis:

Nor was that all; he flatly asserted that his goal had been to damage buildings and ‘injure people or kill people’ because one has to understand where I’m coming from, because… I consider myself a mujahid, a Muslim soldier.’