Saturday’s New York Times had another of its predictable open-borders items on the front page, where it bashed Americans for being fearful of potentially dangerous foreigners being dumped in their communities by Washington.
Apparently, citizens don’t trust the government to protect them from enemies. Should anyone be surprised about that attitude, given the numerous jihadist murders and dozens of thwarted attacks in recent years?
But the paper did include a surprising fragment of truth in the second paragraph — a mention of hijrah by a local citizen in a South Carolina audience. Was it meant to suggest that Americans out in the sticks are paranoid hicks? The reporter did note the presence of the John Birch Society in the first paragraph in order to set the desired tone of liberal dismay to be felt by the reader.
Still, a curious reader who had never heard of hijrah before might Google it up and find a range of references, such as the wikipedia historical explanation of Mohammed’s flight to Mecca, the original hijrah. More helpfully, the reader might see Robert Spencer’s article, The Hijrah into Europe: “Refugees” Colonize a Continent or the Amazon listing of Ann Corcoran’s book Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America.
For a timely definition of hijrah, Spencer lays it down in his afore-mentioned article:
Our Open-Borders Overlords continually portray average common-sense Americans as being in the grips of fear, anger or hate, so that they never need to answer us with reason, logic or facts--only name-calling.Hijrah, or jihad by emigration, is, according to Islamic tradition, the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622 CE. It was after the hijrah that Muhammad for the first time became not just a preacher of religious ideas, but a political and military leader. That was what occasioned his new “revelations” exhorting his followers to commit violence against unbelievers. Significantly, the Islamic calendar counts the hijrah, not Muhammad’s birth or the occasion of his first “revelation,” as the beginning of Islam, implying that Islam is not fully itself without a political and military component.To emigrate in the cause of Allah – that is, to move to a new land in order to bring Islam there, is considered in Islam to be a highly meritorious act. ...
--tma
http://www.vdare.com/posts/new-york-times-backward-southerners-are-unduly-frightened-by-muslim-syrian-refugee-dump
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