Andrew C. McCarthy on War, Politics and Media

AIM ^ | June 15, 2010 | Roger Aronoff

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Last week AIM’s Roger Aronoff, host of the weekly BlogTalkRadio show, Take AIM, conducted an in-depth interview with Andy McCARTHY, the man who led the terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing.  He wrote about that case in Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, and is now out with a powerful new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, which debuted last week on the New York Times bestseller list.

The primary focus of the interview is the new book, and it’s detailed analysis of what might seem like a strange alliance—that between the political Left, and the Islamists who seek to impose sharia law on many of today’s free and democratic nations. Andy explains the who, the why, the history and the evidence, as this skilled former prosecutor lays out his case.

In addition, the discussion touches on recent topics in the news—the end of Helen Thomas’s career, the Gaza flotilla, the stunning comments of President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, and Andy McCARTHY’s take on the mysteries of Obama’s background. McCARTHY states that if Obama weren’t President, based on the political alliances and connections he had, “it would have been difficult for him to get a security clearance,” and weighs in on the “natural born citizen” issue.

You can listen to the entire interview here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/accuracy-in-media/2010/06/09/andrew-c-McCARTHY-the-grand-jihad

Or read the transcript below:

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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and Andrew McCarthy