By the end of this post you'll see that yet another one of my predictions has come true. 

Back in November I did a bunch of pieces on Jamal Miftah from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who got kicked out of his mosque for writing an editorial in the local paper. Here is a link to all the stories in reverse chronological order, including my interview of him.

Now, Hot Air TV, belonging to conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, went to Tulsa and did another story on Miftah. It's a video.

The video paints Miftah as the victim (ok, fine) and the Islamic Center as the "radical Islamists" (which is unfair).

However, something Miftah has said really disturbed me. If you go to the middle of the video there is a clip of him from Fox News where he says about the Islamic Center:

It was not an express threat. But it is an implied message to the others that he is anti-Islamic: you kill him you go to heaven.

Ok. I think he's gone overboard with that. It is very unlikely that any one at that mosque was encouraging killing Miftah and there is probably a lawsuit for libel available against him.  Whatever remnants of support I have for Miftah are gone.

However, it occurred to me in reviewing this entire file that this mess could have been averted. It should have been averted.

At one point -- I believe upon writing the last post on the subject -- I emailed the head of MPAC and asked my cousin to email the head of ISNA. To MPAC I said in pertinent parts the following:

Dear Mr. Al-Maryati,

I emailed you yesterday to encourage you to get involved in the Jamal Miftah fiasco in Oklahoma.

I am emailing you again because I think there is a far bigger fiasco likely to occur unless some Muslim group gets involved.

I don't think ISNA is going to. They are going to let the mosque deal with at the local level. CAIR is not an honest broker in this situation because they have board members on the mosque.

What are you waiting for? For an FBI investigation which you will then have to spin in some positive way?

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Now that no one is listening to him it is possible he might go public.

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It's only a matter of time before the Islamophobes get on top of this. My site gets thousands of readers a weak. They are not all Muslim. Do the math.

You need to go to the IST.

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You need to do this because if you don't, people who hate Muslims will. If I don't hear back from you in 3 days I am going public with this. That's not a threat. It's a call to action.

ISNA said they weren't going to get involved. MPAC didn't do anything. I even emailed their communications director.

Ultimately I did not go public with it. However, now I can because the Muslim organizations didn't do jack and Miftah went public -- of course he went public, by the way, because I'm sure Fox had a nice paycheck for him. Now he's saying stuff like "you kill him you go to heaven." And the Islamophobes are all over it. And the Muslim organizations, rather than stemming the bleeding at the very beginning, let it allllllll fall down.

Yet another prediction by me, made, ignored by Muslims, and now Muslims pay the price.

This is absurd.

There is a very simple lesson here: this world is not a place where Muslim groups with organizational skill and money can let "local issues" rest "with the local community, brother." [That was essentially how ISNA blew off the person I delegated to get in touch with them].

How many times do I have to say it? When it comes to a Muslim in the news, there is no more local. Everything is global. Everytime Miftah says "you kill him you go to heaven" the impact is global.

With a Muslim involved there is no such thing as local.

With a Muslim involved there is no such thing as local.

With a Muslim involved there is no such thing as local.

Please, someone, anyone, get this through your heads.