Posted on 07/23/2008 6:06:39 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
| McCain vs. Muslim Radicals |
Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain, said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.” The reaction was swift. Saif Ishoof, president of the Center for Voter Advocacy, said that Day’s remarks were “perpetuating a form of Islamophobia.” Khaled Saffuri, the Executive Director of the Islamic Institute (which he co-founded with Grover Norquist), was also deeply offended. “‘This is as close to racist as it gets,” he declared. “These are cheap street tactics. Even if this is called a mistake or a slip of the tongue, it shows a bigger problem with racism. McCain and the Republican party should denounce this.” (Keith Olbermann also termed Day’s words “racism and religious hatred,” although neither he nor Saffuri explained what race Islam is.) Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), also called on McCain to distance himself from Day, stating that “CAIR would like to see Senator McCain come out and make a clear statement repudiating these remarks. We don’t believe they’re helpful at all in either putting out the campaign’s message or winning the hearts and minds in the Muslim world that America needs to be winning.” However, a repudiation from McCain was not immediately forthcoming. McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb said only: “The threat we face is from radical Islamic extremism.” However, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party, according to the Miami Herald, “said later that Day acknowledged he misspoke and ‘made an unfortunate mistake’ because he meant to say ‘terrorists’ and not ‘Muslims.’ The Herald itself took for granted that Day had said something wrong, calling his remarks a “gaffe on Muslims.” Unnoticed, however, in the controversy over Day’s remarks was the fact that what he said was essentially accurate. While it is certainly true that not all Muslims are trying to “make us kneel,” there can be no legitimate question whatsoever that there are indeed Muslims who are engaged in such an effort. The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is, according to a Brotherhood operative, engaged in a “grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” What’s more, there is considerable reason to suspect that some of the Muslim leaders who have been most indignant over Day’s words are involved in this “grand jihad.” Investigative journalist Kenneth Timmerman wrote in 2004 of Khaled Saffuri’s considerable influence in Washington, and then noted that “some of the very people Saffuri introduced to Bush and Rove are in federal prison on terrorism-related charges. Others have been expelled from the country. Still other former colleagues and donors have become subjects of a massive federal probe into U.S. funding of terrorist organizations that is code-named Operation Greenquest….Saffuri’s ties to radical Islamists and apologists for terror are neither superficial nor coincidental.” And CAIR, of course, was in 2007 named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case, and has had several of its officials arrested and convicted on terrorism-related charges. Why was none of this been mentioned in mainstream media coverage of this story? It isn’t really surprising that it wasn’t, given the tendencies and perspectives of the mainstream media – indeed, it would have been more surprising if they had mentioned it. But Bud Day’s remarks should have been judged for their accuracy: are there, or are there not, Muslims trying to make us kneel? No one would have objected in 1944 if a military spokesman had said that “the Germans are trying to make us kneel,” and someone who took offense to such a statement on the grounds that not all Germans were pro-Nazi would only have been ridiculed. However, CAIR has shown in the past that the accuracy of statements to which it takes umbrage does nothing to mitigate their hurt feelings. And now the primacy of hurt feelings has been enshrined into law in Canada: as we have seen in the Mark Steyn trials in Canada, truth and accuracy is no defense against charges of “hate speech.” In a sane world, instead of taking offense, Islamic spokesmen in the U.S. would have been assuring reporters that they were working energetically within Muslim communities against those who wished to make non-Muslims kneel. But sanity is at a premium in the public debate on Islamic jihad today.
Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His next book, Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, is coming this November from Regnery Publishing.
Muslim is only considered a "race" by muslims who see "kufir" (non-muslims) as the sub-human offspring of pigs and monkeys.
Islam is a theocractic system of political rule established by a long dead conquering warlord.
It isn't the practice of prayer that we object to, it is the legal political system of Islamic supremacy that we oppose.
Go on worshipping your meteor and saying 3 prayers after every fart. But it is intolerant to have a death sentence imposed on anyone non-muslim who'd like to see that rock. It is intolerant to have a death sentence imposed on any muslim who decides that Islam isn't for him, he should be able to become a Jew, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu, an atheism, a Scientologist...
Islam subway ads cause stir in New York (Tue July 22, 2008)
The ads, simple black-and-white panels, will feature key words or phrases about Islam on one side of the panel such as "Head Scarf?" or "Prophet Muhammad?" and the words "You deserve to know" along with the Web site address WhyIslam.org on the other side."The idea is to evoke certain thoughts in the mindset of the person who is looking at the ads and get them to a point where they can reflect upon certain words that one could define as hot words or keywords that get thrown around a lot but are not necessarily defined in the most proper context," said New York University's Imam Khalid Latif, a cleric who is promoting the project in a YouTube video created by the Islamic Circle.
In fairness to the rest of society, this quote from one of Wahhaj's sermons (the man behind the posters) should ALSO be required as a disclaimer on the posters: “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam...”
Fight on! It is a fight to the finish. The TRUTH will win.
If anyone here is unclear about just what the left has become in America, I suggest you follow the link to CNN embedded in the posted article and read the comments that follow it. It is disturbing that there are so many uninformed and disinformed people out there who, unfortunately, have the right to vote. The hatred - born of the Clinton-era - is frightening.
Bud day spoke the truth about islamic jihadis.
Islam is a criminal enterprise tenuously held together by the preponderance of ignorance and the threat of violence.
Better?
Islamophobia? Recent history has taught me a lot about islam. Actually, it's one fact that keeps getting repeated over and over again.
Islamowackjobs slicing the heads off of non-believers like me, blowing up themselves up in crowds to kill as many people like me as they can, hijacking and/or blowing up airplanes full of people like me, flying airplanes into buildings to kill as many people like me as they can...basically doing whatever they can do to kill as many people like me as possible.
Why? Because their book tells them allah likes it when they do that. Islamophobia? Nope, just my reaction to islam being islam as it has been doing for centuries.
I am way beyond the point of anger. I see it coming and and I see no way to avoid it. We are going to fiddle-fart around during the time comparatively simple steps would make some inroads into their steady march to deprive us of our liberties and pretty soon we're going to find ourselves with nothing left to do but the really difficult and painful actions.
....An exert from the Koran...the book of the Religion of Peace.
Bud Day, US Air Force service, a Medal of Honor recipient, and former POW. At the *barest minimum*, he’s earned the unrestricted right to express an opinion. Contrast him to the offended Khaled Saffuri, a “stateless Kuwaiti” (translation,,,palestinian) who moved here in ‘82, went to college, and since graduating, has done nothing but move in money circles as a advocate for every possible muslim cause. Not speaking constitutionally of course, but MORALLY he has NO right to have an opinion on *anything* Mr. Day says.
What makes you think that those hitting online polls and blogging talkback comments on youtube, yahoo, CNN, IMDB, Amazon.com are all in America?
Global socialists spew their venom everywhere. And don’t count on them to fess up that they aren’t locals.
And yes I know that we have a large number of unruly Anti-Americans here (that hyphenation dare not speak its name but there are plenty who should be putting that down on the next Census).
It is painfully evident. Global conquest through jihad has been attempted before (of course it was then just "the known world").
Goebbels missed out on getting to challenge Aryanophobia...
It isn’t the ethnicity, it is the tyrannical supremacist ideology that kills “those who won’t submit” that we are against.
It isn’t criminal. Islam establishes the Law.
McCain is not perfect, but he has the right ideas about defending us from the maniacs. Obama doesn’t.
So what is Radical Islam and what should it be properly named? Radical Islam is actually the Islamic Military. The so-called radicals are not a fringe element; they are fully supported by the worldwide Islamic community (Ummah). If they were a fringe element, they would have been defeated long ago. The fight rages on because of strong support from the moderates both covertly and overtly. This means the Islamic Military (wrongly labeled radicals) is intimately connected with moderate Muslims who we have mistakenly labeled as innocent bystanders.
Moderate Muslims are not innocent bystanders. Moderate Muslims provide the base of operations which makes it possible for the Islamic Military to continue their terrorist operations. Hate America, demands to replace constitution with the Koran, and outbursts for Sharia law are preached openly from nearly every Mosque in America under the guise of freedom of speech and religion. Freedom of speech and religion has morphed into a weaponized tool of Islamic psychological warfare which is defeating America’s will to protect her national security. Any American who says Islam is less than perfect may become the victim of an unfair lawsuit by a “moderate” Muslim organization.
Why can one be so certain about this fact? The answer is the Koran. The Koran fuses together both moderates and their military. No Muslim dares to contradict the Koran because the penalty is — death and loss of personal salvation. The moderate Muslims of every nation, including those in America fully support their Islamic military because worldwide conquest is the primary religious duty of all Muslims. Fellow Americans if you believe that your local Muslims are not secretly harboring in their hearts an agenda for the conquest of America by Islam then you are dead wrong!!
“the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”Ok, that does it, Bud Day is my kind of guy!
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