Ralph Peters
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is furious. For the first time since the birth of Mohammed, it isn’t getting its way in Washington. In the past, whenever our government raised the possibility of doing the least little thing of which CAIR might not wholeheartedly approve, the soft-core jihadis shrieked, “Bigotry!” And presidents, cabinet secretaries, senators, representatives and bureaucrats—even intelligence analysts and military officers--ran for cover (while, no doubt, suggesting that their spouses don head-scarves for a probationary period).
In the face of Islamist terrorism, we’ve been foolish. In the face of Islamist bullying of our government, we’ve been cowards. Now, just this once, CAIR isn’t being allowed to dictate its sharia-flavored will to our nation’s capital. Representative Peter King (R-NY), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is marching ahead with hearings on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.”
Sounds like a no-brainer. With our country under relentless attack by an increasing number of home-grown, “self-radicalized” terrorists, the chairman wants to look into the community environments that inspire, nurture or tolerate these mass-murderers. And guess what? Presbyterian suicide bombers and Mormon assault teams aren’t yet imminent dangers.
The chairman’s just doing his job.
But the howls from CAIR and other blow-dried Islamists exploiting our tolerance have been so vociferous, exaggerated and downright ludicrous that you’d think we were rounding up Muslims and putting them in camps.
Oh. Wait. Bob Herbert of the New York Times actually did compare Rep. King’s hearings to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
Jeepers! And lots of creepers! I’m afraid I lack the brain-power to make the connection between open committee hearings on a legitimate national-security issue and internment camps. But, then, Mr. Herbert probably has secret information about our fascist, jack-booted, black-helicopter, Tea-Party, gun-toting, Bible-thumping, Torah-wrangling plan to open concentration camps for Muslim children in Wisconsin (where public-employee-union members will teach them about citizenship…).
My favorite celebrities-really-are-idiots report, though, claimed that Kim Kardashian (the sister who most resembles an over-stuffed sausage) tweeted her solidarity with our oppressed Muslim minority (so oppressed, in fact, that they keep bringing more relatives to the U.S. to witness the unbearable infidel cruelty they endure). Her Armenian brethren had to flee the genocidal jihad in the Ottoman Empire that murdered at least a million Christians (the luckier ones were just robbed, beaten and raped). Nor would the over-inflated and under-clad Ms. Kardashian herself last very long in Tehran or Riyadh.
Doesn’t matter. Activism is part of a starlet’s wardrobe. And since polar bears aren’t dying off with sufficient rapidity, the plight of Islamist extremists will have to do.
Besides, CAIR explains that anyone who dares to imply that there is a problem of any sort within even a single American-Muslim community is a bigot. Furthermore, Rep. King’s hearings, which aim to shed light on the code of silence within some Muslim communities in this country, are nothing but an attack on all Muslims and on Islam, according to CAIR’s spokes-thugs.
That’s like claiming that hearings on the Mafia are an attack on all Catholics.
Hey, Mo! If Muslim-American communities are doing such a terrific job of policing themselves and tipping the Feds to terrorists in our midst, shouldn’t CAIR welcome hearings that highlight the wonderful state of affairs? Shouldn’t CAIR be proud of all those cooperative imams getting a turn in the spotlight?
If there’s nothing to hide, why try to stop the hearings? It’s not as if Rep. King runs a sharia court. He can’t chop off anybody’s hand. Can’t even sentence Barbara Streisand—or Snooki--to be stoned to death. (Maybe there’s something to be said for sharia law, after all…).
CAIR is just plain spoiled. In both the bumbling Bush and odious Obama administrations, Washington pampered Islamist radicals (a Pentagon lunch date for Anwar al-Awlaqi? Got to build those bridges to the religion of peace…). The meanest, loudest, nastiest, most-spoiled--male--child got every toy it wanted. Now, confronted with the prospect of eating some broccoli, little Omar’s throwing one bitch of a tantrum.
I say, “God bless Congressman King.” I certainly haven’t agreed with him on every issue over the past quarter-century. And yes, I think he’s a bit of a hustler—Peter King has a touch of Don King. But maybe that’s what it takes to take on the insidious dissemblers at CAIR.
And by the way: CAIR isn’t protecting America’s Muslim citizens and legal residents—most of whom are, indeed, upstanding members of their communities. CAIR is, at bottom, a front for Salafism and Wahhabism, Saudi-style. And the goal of the Saudis in every one of the countries in which I’ve seen these fanatics operate is the same (including here in the USA): Prevent Muslims from integrating into their host societies. You can see the same patterns in madrassas from Mombasa, Kenya, through Multan, Pakistan, to Dearborn, Michigan.
The Saudis don’t care about Muslims. They only care about Islam. They will sacrifice tens of millions of Muslims to ignorance, poverty and failure in order to keep the faith pure. The greatest modern-day tragedy of the Arabs is that the backward bigots got the oil wealth.
Which brings me to my real hope: That Rep. King will go on to look deeply and publicly into the financing of organizations such as CAIR and, especially, of Islamist-separatist madrassas in this country. Such an investigation needs to reach beyond the first level of donors and sponsors to examine who’s behind them—and to whom those sources are related—to the fourth and fifth levels. Follow the money. All the way back to the original source. Then publicize it.
I suspect we would find that just about every path of anti-American hatred leads not to Rep. King, but to the King of Saudi Arabia and his gangsters-for-Allah tribe of potbellied perverts.
Gee, did I just kill my shot at an NPR gig?
We’ve been such patsies. Not one synagogue, church or chapel is permitted on “sacred” Saudi soil…but we permit Saudi and Gulf-Arab bigots to fund no end of hate-mosques and hate-schools here. All in the name of tolerance.
My proposal for Congress? Draft and pass a law that prohibits funding for religious or educational institutions on American soil that comes, directly or indirectly, from states--or the institutions and citizens thereof--that practice intolerance themselves. Sounds reasonable and just to me. Why make it easy for anti-American haters to preach anti-American hate on American soil? Anyway, churches and synagogues have far deeper roots in the Middle East than mosques do in Europe or even President Obama’s Chicago neighborhood. Let’s get on this: No more Saudi funding for hate schools here until we get a few televangelists broadcasting live from Mecca. Fair’s fair.
Sharia justice, Saudi-style.
Won’t happen, of course. The Saudis own more of Washington than any other foreign power. The whores their petrodollars buy aren’t all call girls.
As for me, I’m so prejudiced and intolerant that I’m against “honor” killings, the sequestration and abuse of women, the murder of Christian Arabs, the persecution of Jews, the execution of Muslims who convert to other faiths…I even think Israel’s a better place than Sudan. Just a nasty, semi-literate, drooling, rifle-hugging, Bible-verse-spewing, right-wing dunce, that’s me.
Seriously, folks: It’s unfathomable to me that leftists who would have no place in an Islamist society eagerly align themselves with hate-mongers and terror-apologists in the name of tolerance. Do they ever stop to analyze who they’re supporting—and what their pet causes really are about?
The CAIR-takers are smooth, I’ll give them that. They know exactly which lies to tell, which elite buttons to press. CAIR thrives on creating the illusion of anti-Muslim intolerance, on encouraging outrage and a sense of victimhood. Yet, none of CAIR’s spokes-thugs can name a single Middle-Eastern country in which the average Muslim has the same opportunities, protections and freedoms as he or she does in the USA. Muslims don’t emigrate to the Land of the Big PX because we’re so awful. Home sucked.
Extremist Muslims really are a very small slice of Islam in America (Islam was not a historical part of our national fabric—pace Obama—but we can make room for good people of any faith). Lackadaisical and activist consular officers have permitted extremists to enter our country, though (in the name of tolerance again). Now the CAIR crowd insists that it’s our job to conform to their values.
Sorry. It’s the job of the immigrant to conform to our values. Don’t like ‘em? Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan are looking for a few good extremists.
What does conforming to our values mean? Here are seven commandments, for a start:
* Don’t murder your daughter because she kissed a boy at a party.
* Don’t force your women to cover their faces in a free society.
* Don’t threaten the lives of converts who leave your faith.
* Do tell the police everything you know or suspect about terrorists in our midst.
* Don’t preach separatism or religious hatred.
* Don’t contribute money to Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda or any other terrorist organizations.
* Do decide whether you’re an American or a (fill in the national identity).
Shawarma, yes. Sharia, no.
Meanwhile, Congressman King is 100% in the right to hold his hearings. Now he needs to exercise diligence, objectivity, sobriety and a fierce commitment to the truth in his quest to expose those extremists among us who threaten our Muslim fellow citizens as gravely as they do the rest of us.
Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer, a former enlisted man, a journalist and a bestselling author. He has experience in seventy countries on six continents. His latest books are “The Officers’ Club,” a novel of the post-Vietnam military, and “Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization.”
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