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The association with Islam and terrorism is so complete that every article discussing yesterday\u2019s arrest<\/a> of seven men in Miami for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower<\/a> \u2013 the tallest building in America and designed by prominent Muslim American engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan<\/a> \u2013 is soaked in Islamic terminology, even though there were no actual al-Qaida operatives or Muslim Americans involved. The odd circumstances around the event include a cult-like group named the \u201cSeas of David\u201d, which has 40 to 50 members who call themselves<\/a> \u201csoldiers of God\u201d (but mostly resemble \u201cKramer\u201d jihadists<\/a>). They passed their time selling African-American hair care products and, in the words<\/a> of a group member, \u201ctrain through the Bible\u2026 not only physical but mentally\u201d. The cell attempted to contact al-Qaida in order to secure support for their plans, which attracted the attention of the FBI, who supplied a fake al-Qaida operative. Like the 2003 sting operation that foiled an attempt to peddle Stinger missiles<\/a> to terrorists (another example of a terrorist plot free of actual Muslim involvement), the FBI informant supplied military boots per request of the \u201cSeas of David\u201d and took notes on the unfolding plan, which was falling apart even as the seven men were arrested. Unlike the arrests in Toronto last month, this is a group more Christian in practice than Muslim, consisting of names that would never come up on a \u201c no-fly<\/a>\u201d list: Narseal Batiste, Burson Augustin, Patrick Abraham (\u201cBrother Pat\u201d), Stanley Grant Phanor (\u201cBrother Sunni\u201d) Naudimar Herrera (\u201cBrother Naudy\u201d), Lyglenson Lemorin (\u201cBrother Levi-El\u201d), and Rotschild Augustine (\u201cBrother Rot\u201d). \u201cNothing in the four corners of the indictment<\/a>,\u201d opines<\/a> legal commentator Andrew Cohen, \u201cconvinces me that these guys were legitimate terrorist wannabes as opposed to a bunch of angry bozos looking lazily for al-Qaeda to hook them up with all sorts of goodies.\u201d So when the dust settles, all there will be is an angry Bible study group that tried in vain to contact al-Qaida, with the goal of destroying one of the greatest gifts<\/a> Muslim Americans have given to the US \u2013 not exactly the \u201cterror cell\u201d story Americans have come to expect.<\/p>\n

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Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n

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