The time to prevent the U.S. from becoming a Marxist/Islamist third world country is running very short. --- correction: it is time prevent the US from becoming another jewish induced socialist state.
Whether it’s Newt Gingrich peddling false stories of “creeping sharia” (strict Islamic law) to an audience of very serious people at the American Enterprise Institute, or the Washington Times running endless editorials and op-eds from conspiracy theorists like Frank Gaffney warning that President Obama “may actually still be a Muslim,” or Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney shamelessly and falsely asserting that Park 51 leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has “terror-related connections,” it’s clear that quite a few conservative elites see political profit in stoking Americans’ fear of Islam. Such hostility toward Muslims is unfortunately not marginal in the pro- Israel community — unless one is prepared to define the huge annual policy conference of one of Washington’s foremost lobbies as “marginal.” At an AIPAC conference in March 2009, to take just one example, terrorism expert Steve Emerson spent 40 minutes stoking the worst fears of the mostly elderly attendees with a talk called “Tentacles of Terror: The Global Reach of Islamic Radicalism.” It could just as easily have been called “Scaring the Living Crap Out of Bubbe and Zayde.” As long as Jews are encouraged to believe that scary Muslims are hiding under every American bed, the idea is perpetuated that support for the Jewish state is a zero-sum contest between favoring Israel and favoring Arabs and Muslims. For too many American Jews, smearing Islam is seen as a legitimate expression of Zionism. Groups like The Israel Project, the Middle East Media Research Institute and Middle East Forum seem to exist for no other reason than to spotlight the very worst aspects of Muslim societies. Magazines like Commentary and the Weekly Standard regularly traffic in the crudest stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims, and promote the harshest measures for dealing with them. Musing over the appropriateness of targeting Palestinian civilians during the Gaza conflict, Standard contributing editor Michael Goldfarb wrote approvingly, “To wipe out a man’s entire family, it’s hard to imagine that doesn’t give his colleagues at least a moment’s pause.” Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, president-designate of Shalem College and frequent AIPAC panelist, took things even further, suggesting that Israel’s siege on Gaza, could, by depressing population growth, “crack the culture of martyrdom, which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men.” In 2007, in what could be seen as a precursor to the current uproar over the Park 51 Islamic cultural center, Middle East Forum Director Daniel Pipes played a key role in flaming controversy over the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a planned New York City public school emphasizing the study of Arabic language and culture. Pipes asserted that such a school represented a potential threat simply by virtue of teaching Arabic. It would be wrong, however, to pretend that these sorts of smears have been the work solely of conservatives. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a liberal who promotes himself as Israel’s leading public defender, regularly rehearses the most clownish calumnies against Israel’s adversaries, real and perceived. Citing the Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini’s collaboration with the Nazis, Dershowitz wrote, “the Palestinian leadership, supported by the Palestinian masses, played a significant role in Hitler’s Holocaust.” The obviously ahistorical stupidity of that claim aside, it hardly needs pointing out that a similar attempt to lay collective blame upon Jews would be immediately — and rightly — condemned, by Dershowitz and others. Hatred of Arabs has also had a home in one of America’s oldest and best-respected liberal magazines, The New Republic, for over three decades, courtesy of owner and editor-in-chief Marty Peretz, who never seems to tire of identifying ways in which Arab society is “hidebound and backward,” as he wrote in 2007. Observing the devastation in Iraq, Peretz wrote: “I actually believe that Arabs are feigning outrage when they protest what they call American (or Israeli) ‘atrocities.’ They are not shocked at all by what in truth must seem to them not atrocious at all. It is routine in their cultures.” Peretz reiterated that view in September of this year. “Frankly, Muslim life is cheap, especially for Muslims,” he wrote. “This is a statement of fact, not value.” Related Anniversary of WTC Attack To Prompt Rallies Amid Holy Days Jewish Leaders Enter Fray Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero Mosque’s Plan To Expand Near Ground Zero Sparks Debate While it’s tempting to dismiss Peretz as a racist old kook, he does serve as editor-in-chief of a major magazine, and he has been able to help define the boundaries of acceptable liberal discourse for 30 years. And he has chosen through those years to place the most retrograde anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bigotry — including constant denials of Palestinian nationhood — within those boundaries. It wasn’t so long ago that Jews in America were targets of similar slander and knee-jerk opposition. Liberal American Jews have been at the forefront of all of America’s struggles against bigotry, but they need to do a better job of calling out the hate in their own communities. Moderate Muslims are often called upon to condemn the extreme rhetoric of their co-religionists. It is not too much, at long last, to call upon moderate Zionists to do the same. Matthew Duss is National Security Editor at the Center for American Progress. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/131502/some-zionist-groups-stoke-fear-of-islam-for-politi/#ixzz2NcEbBBc3 On Mar 14, 8:07 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > ** ** > > [image: Inline image 1] > > http://www.shelbystar.com/opinion/letters/letter-modern-political-par... > **** > LETTER: Modern political parties are unrecognizable **** > Published: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10:30 AM.**** > > The Democrat and Republican parties of today have metamorphosed into what > would not have been recognized several decades ago by citizens as their > party of choice. **** > > The Democrats call themselves “Progressives,” which is another more > acceptable name for “Socialists”. **** > > The Republican party is weakened by its division into a group of moderates > who “go along to get along” and a group who adhere more to the core > principles of the party platform. **** > > Considering the history of Germany, Russia, China, and other socialist > nations, you would think no American would choose to follow that course, > but a large number of both parties are members of the Communist party. **** > > Also, both parties have placed in powerful positions of decision and policy > making Muslims who are members of the Muslim Brotherhood or other Muslim > organizations. **** > > The Brotherhood, the grandfather of Middle East terrorist groups, has its > agents inside the Obama Administration. **** > > Some of the principal mainstream Muslim organizations in the U.S. today are > the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Students > Association (MSA), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), > which is the most prominent group. **** > > Nine universities now have Muslim-only prayer rooms, including Stanford, > Emory, and the University of Virginia. **** > > A street in New York City is closed down to traffic one afternoon a week > for Muslims to get on their knees to pray. **** > > All this, while Christianity and Semitism are muzzled, their prayers are > not allowed and the Ten Commandments and crosses have been removed. **** > > Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s closest personal assistant and advisor > is Huma Abedin, a Muslim whose father is a professed advocate of Sharia > law, and her brother and mother are active in Brotherhood groups. **** > > Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, has for years been > enabling Brotherhood access to the highest levels of power in Washington. > He was one of the high-profile Republicans to register support for the > Ground Zero mosque.**** > > Radical Islam is a political system masquerading as a religious entity that > rules with an iron fist, and their Quran declares it a right and duty to > make war on unbelievers (Christians, Jews, and atheists) wherever they > should be found. The U.S., in their view, is the “Great Satan” and Israel > the “Little Satan”, and their goal is the establishment of a global Islamic > state with Sharia law. **** > > Right now a Trojan Horse for Islam sits in Washington, D.C., and the plan > to bring the U.S. down from within is working exceedingly well.**** > > The founding fathers envisioned statesmen to serve in Congress as a > sacrificial, patriotic duty for a short term and return to their occupation > and families at home afterwards. But today there are many perks and > benefits offered and temptations for greed that being reelected, by > whatever means, becomes the goal of many rather than representing the > people, and they may become career senators and representatives. Term > limits and less perks should make them more responsive to the people. **** > > The time to prevent the U.S. from becoming a Marxist/Islamist third world > country is running very short. We must support the few good > statesmen/leaders who have the backbone to protect and defend the > Constitution and demand that it be followed and to bring about withdrawal > from the United Nations which seeks to establish a One World Government and > destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. And we must pray for God’s forgiveness > for the moral decay of our culture, faith, and family that we have allowed.* > *** > > Jean Warrick**** > > Cherryville**** > > image001.jpg > 29KViewDownload -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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