Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a Saudi National, was arrested today in Texas.   He is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in a terrorist act.   Aldawsari is a student here in the United States.    According to some reports, his preferred target for attack was former President George W. Bush.

Aldawsari came here in 2008 on a student visa (didn’t we learn anything from 9/11?).  According to diaries that he kept and were seized by federal law enforcement, his purpose in coming here was to achieve violent jihad and martyrdom. 

Missing from all of the media accounts so far is the fact that Aldawsari is a Muslim.   Fox News, using the Associated Press describes him as a “Saudi Arabian citizen.”  A longer media report on KDAF-TV’s website describes his desire for Jihad against the “infidel Americans.”  Why would he want to do that?  Perhaps it is because he is a Muslim, but the politically correct reporting dare not mention that.    The closed reference to the “M” word is the statement he made in one of the diaries about “operations in the land of the infidels against occupying forces in the land of the Muslims.”  Of course, his religion is never mentioned. 

USA Today and even the conservative Daily Caller did not make mention of his religion. 

Let’s start asking the basic questions.  First, why was this guy even in the country?  Didn’t we go through this about ten years ago? Does the name Mohammad Atta not ring any bells?  Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from; you guessed it, Saudi Arabia, just like Aldawsari.   Many of them were here on student visas, just like, you guessed it, Aldawsari.  And do you know what else ties them all together?  They were Muslims. 

Not all Muslims are jihadists.   Every once in a while, a few Muslims even speak out against the terrorists.  But those who speak out against the Muslims are a small minority. 

First, we need to cut off Visas for anyone from Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia.  Is it unfair to Abdul, Ahmed and Mohammad?  Sure.  Unless of course, Mohammad happens to be Mohammad Atta who wants to commit mass murder against Americans.  The problem we have is we do not know if Mohammad who comes over here from Saudi Arabia is simply some guy who wants to learn at an American University or if he is Mohammad who wants to go out in a blaze of jihadist glory, taking a few thousand Americans with him.

In the terrorist war, all Muslims may not be our enemy but all of our terrorist enemies are Muslim.  There is no way to distinguish between those who are and those who aren’t, and American lives are too valuable to gamble with.

Unfortunately for us, we have a regime that will not even associate Islam with terror, even though that has been a fifteen hundred year pattern with Islam.   Since 9/11, we have been lucky.  Either the terrorists have misfired, like the Christmas day underwear bomber, or we have caught them, as with Aldawsari.   We cannot keep counting on getting lucky.  They only have to get lucky once and we have another 9/11.

We need to be vigilant.  We need to be able to identify those who are against us, instead of hiding behind political correctness and we need leadership in this country that believes in protecting America, not apologizing for it.