CNN Proves Anti-Muslim Radicalization

In late March, CNN religion editor Dan Gilgoff exposed the dangers of the King "radicalization hearings" and anti-sharia legislation by telling a tale of a mosque in Michigan that was nearly blown up by a native radicalized Islamaphobe. Roger Stockham, a Californian, drove to Dearborn after boasting to his friends that he was going to bomb a mosque.

One small problem with the story. Gilgoff hadn't even bothered to read an earlier report from the leftist fellow-traveling AP which surprisingly described the would-be bomber as "a Vietnam veteran-turned Muslim holy warrior." Gilgoff led off his wild sermon on Islamophobia with "In a key American Muslim enclave, alienation is growing." Muslims are apparently feeling more and more isolated as bigoted Americans plan violence against innocent followers of the religion of peace. He told how Stockham was stopped just in time and arrested outside the Dearborn Islamic Center of America (ICA) with explosives in his car.

And lest you think that Gilgoff had a viewpoint of his own, he brought on Kassem Allie, executive administrator of the ICA to explain the situation. Said Allie: "The suspect was apparently radicalized quite some time ago, and there are other instances of radicalization that are of great concern to us." Gilgoff then says simply that "Muslims are under attack." So CNN has now produced a news/editorial report that proves that Islamophobic Americans are being radicalized to the point of bombing all because of the angry rhetoric of those not of the Islamic persuasion.

This actually is the truth of a potential attack on a mosque being turned inside-out for the purpose of demonizing precisely the wrong people. This has nothing to do with "Islamophobia" and everything to do with the ongoing sectarian violence within Islam itself. A Detroit restaurant manager testified to Stockham having bragged to him about the plot and telling him that he (Stockham) had become a Muslim and joined the mujahedeen. Stockham's own attorney called Stockham an "Islamic convert." That was his second attorney. Stockham had dismissed his first attorney because "he is a Shiite, and I am not." The earlier AP story pointed out that Stockham spoke fluent Arabic and quoted from the Koran.

This internal fighting has been going on for fifteen hundred years, and is neither "recent" nor "native American radicalization." Every time some crazed religionist tries to blow up an airplane while shouting "Allahu akbar," the MSM and the Obama White House admonish us not to rush to judgment about the motivation of the terrorist. But when somebody attempts to blow up a mosque, the MSM chatter immediately knows that it's a bigoted and radicalized native American, preferably a fundamentalist Christian. So what is Gilgoff's excuse? He produced and narrated this story two months after the AP had already identified the bomber and his religious affiliation." A half-truth is still a lie.