Although they’ve spent the last four years pretending that “white supremacists” constituted the nation’s biggest terror threat, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center took some time Wednesday to try to strengthen their increasingly tenuous acquaintance with reality. They issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning that Islamic jihadis might “engage in violence” on Monday, Oct. 7, the first anniversary of Hamas’ jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis.
The agencies did not, of course, call them “Islamic jihadis.” As far as the federal government is concerned, there is no such thing as Islamic jihad, and Islam is no more likely to incite its adherents to violence than any other faith, including that of the Amish. Instead, as CBS News reported Wednesday, the feds warned that the Oct. 7 anniversary “as well as any further significant escalations” in Israel’s defensive war “may be a motivating factor for violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators to engage in violence or threaten public safety.”
“Violent extremists.” Right. You know, like all those “white supremacist” terrorists. The term “violent extremists” is convenient for these agencies, as it has absolutely no content and can be applied to any group that falls out of favor with the regime. That’s what makes it so ominous. In this case, however, it was clear that the feds were talking about jihadis who might take the opportunity of the anniversary of their strike against the Little Satan to lash out at the Great Satan.
The intelligence bulletin asserted that “the expansion of the conflict further into the region could serve as motivation for violence against Jewish, Israeli, or American targets in retaliation for civilian deaths, and we cannot preclude the possibility that threat actors in the United States will react with violence to the death” of Hizballah top dog Hassan Nasrallah. […]
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