(Supposedly) Bin Laden Takes Credit For Detroit Terror Attacks
Oh, yawn. It's supposely because of our support for Israel, not because Islam (per the late George Mason) is actually totalitarianism masquerading as religion, with a directive by the Verse of The Sword to kill or convert the infidel and install The New Caliphate across the globe (in place of our free, western societies). Adrien Blomfeld writes for the Telegraph:

He praised Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with explosives concealed in his underpants, as "a hero".

Although he did not claim direct responsibility for the attack, bin Laden said that Abdulmutallab's mission was intended to "re-affirm" the message sent to the United States on September 11, 2001.

The one-minute recording, which bin Laden directed personally to President Barack Obama, sought once again to draw a direct link between al-Qaeda's terror campaign and US support for Israel.

"America will never dream of living in peace unless we live it in Palestine," bin Laden is heard to say in the recording, which was broadcast by al-Jazeera television in Qatar. "It is unfair that you enjoy a safe life while our brothers in Gaza suffer greatly."

Despite warnings of a potentially imminent terror attack on British soil, possibly to coincide with conferences in London this week to discuss Yemen and Afghanistan, bin Laden made no specific threats, confining himself to a pledge to continue his struggle against the US.

"With God's will, our attacks on you will continue as long as you continue to support Israel," he concluded.

Right. That's it. Israel is the best thing that ever happened to Muslims, because it gives them a diversion from killing each other to kill Jews (among other infidels), as the sick book the Quran commands them to do. And by the way, about all those people calling Islam "the religion of peace" (please!) the verses before the Verse of the Sword are abrogated by the Verse of the Sword.

From an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News, Bin Laden makes it clear that the Israel excuse is just a convenient excuse exploited by Muslims, and that he really doesn't give a crap about his fellow Muslims -- that is, if they have black skin:

The al-Qaeda leader is exploiting a widely held view among Arab Muslims that the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is an invention of Jews and Christians who want to take over Muslim land.

Anyone who believes something that outrageous should talk to Salih Mahmoud Osman. He is a Darfurian Muslim and human rights lawyer who was in Dallas recently, sponsored by local Jewish groups, to talk about what is happening to his people. "Since this situation erupted, never once have we seen a single person from the Arab world or the Muslim community come and show sympathy for the survivors," Mr. Osman told us.

The vast majority of the world's Muslims are not Arabs, but rather Asians and Africans. Why are they acquiescing without protest to this Arab-led genocide against fellow Muslims? Does the silence from the Islamic world on Darfur mean that the world's Muslims agree with Osama bin Laden that it is more important to maintain a morally bankrupt unity against the so-called "crusader-Zionist" enemy than to stand up for defenseless people?

Osama bin Laden declares that the defense of Islam requires black Muslims to suffer and die under the Janjaweed jackboot. This is racism. This is genocide. There is much more that the West can and must do for the sake of the suffering Darfurians. But the question remains: Which side are the world's Muslims on?

Osama bin Laden would like to know. So would the persecuted black Muslims of Darfur. So would a lot of us.

As I was coming in for a landing at LAX the other day, I was looking out at the planes and the city below, marveling at what western freedom has been behind. The Muslim countries have plenty of technology, too -- thanks to us, western freedoms, and our need for a bunch of black gook under the sands where they would otherwise still be a bunch of warring goatherds killing only each other.