This troubling report indicates “that Muslims seeking to become mass killers live near the seat of American government.”

Among the nine Muslims from Virginia who were arrested was a police officer and “army soldiers.” All but one are privileged youth who “appeared to have opportunities via public education to become successful Americans but instead were charged with what amounted to a devotion to violent jihad.”

No Muslim is immune to jihad preaching, which can be found in mosques as well as on the Internet — a fact that is too often denied. To call it out is not to declare that every Muslim is a jihadist. Those Muslims who promote the “Islamophobia” victimhood narrative are sheltering and protecting the very mosques many of them attend, that preach jihadist or Islamic supremacist messages. Despite the existence of such mosques, there are still those who are trying to separate radicalism from Islam, and those who present jihadists as victims: note in the article below that “the wave of social media rhetoric against law enforcement has made their counterterrorism role more difficult.”

All peaceful Muslims should be standing with non-Muslims against all jihadist teaching and promotion of Islamic supremacism. They should readily expose hateful and violent messages when they are preached in mosques. They should acknowledge that violent jihadists are invoking Islamic texts to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, and that the normative Islam that is practiced throughout Islamic states has no place in Western free society, and that to maintain their prized freedoms, Western countries need to be guarding their borders.

Only a few Muslims speak these truths, and they are generally unwelcome in mosques. Until Westerners become smart and realize that they are being played for fools, stealth jihadists will continue to work covertly, operating in “the shadows of open society.”

“Islamic State arrests reveal jihadi threat near seat of U.S. government”, by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times , December 26, 2016: