"One has to understand where I am coming from. I consider myself ... a Muslim Soldier." This is the statement of Faisal Shahzad as he pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to blow up Times Square by exploding a car bomb.
How many other Faisal Shahzads dressed in suits - working in professional jobs, living in middle class neighborhoods, their kids playing with yours - are plotting at this very moment to commit terrorist acts against Americans? In the last twelve months alone, the U.S. has arrested over 55 homegrown Islamic terrorists who were plotting to kill Americans, all either born into Islam or converts.
Faisal Shazad said his plot was to retaliate against the U.S. and other forces for attacking Muslims in Afganistan and Pakistan. When the judge questioned him, saying: "But not the people who were walking in Times Square that night. Did you look around to see who they were?"
Shazad responded: "Well, the people select the government. We consider them all the same." He added, "I am part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people. And, on behalf of that, I'm avenging the attack."
This brings up an important point about just who Jihadists consider to be innocent. We hear Muslim talking heads such as those at CAIR and other Islamic organizations in America condemning the killing of innocent people. What Americans do not understand is that in the Islamic mind, citizens who participate in the democratic election of a government are not considered to be innocents. They are as much a part of a military force that participated in the war with their votes as the soldiers serving in the Middle East.
Shahzad's statement should be a rude awakening for Americans.
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