TAQIYYA
AND THE UNIVERSAL ISLAMIC LIARS CLUB—A FEW MINUTES WITH JAMES YEE
Innocent!
Innocent! Innocent! Guilty?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Waleed bin Attash and Mohammed al-Qahtani have been charged with conspiring to murder 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They will face a military tribunal at Gitmo and if convicted will be sentenced to death.
In another day and perhaps an angrier time it was Goering, Kaltenbrunner, Jodl, Keitel, Ribbentrop and Streicher. The Holocaust…Dachau…Buchenwald…the Twisted Cross…
Before that it was Herold, Powell, Atzerodt, Surratt, Mudd and Spangler. A martyred President…a nation in mourning…rivers of tears…a hangman’s noose…
Did some comic in lederhosen speak up for Goering and Kaltenbrunner, how then had been mentally and physically abused at Spandau Prison, fed ten-day old wiener schnitzel, denied Schnapps on demand? Did some buffoon shout, “Heil Hitler,” as they went to their reward? Streicher did but he was one of the guilty.
Who was there to say a good word for Powell and Atzerodt? Certainly, some whiskey-soaked unregenerate Confederate told the press stories of how Powell and Atzerodt had been abused by the guards at Old Capitol Prison, how they had been made to kiss pictures of Old Abe, sing the Star-Spangled Banner, paraded naked before the Sisters of Mercy at two o’clock in the morning. No?
If Goering and Kaltenbrunner had had someone like James Yee to tell lies for them, to make up stories, to gloss over their crimes with droll tales, perhaps things would have went better for them. If Powell and Atzerodt had had someone like James Yee to convert their short stay at Old Capitol into an episode from Rabelais, to stand truth on its head, their stay might have been more comfortable. Remember—Judson Kilpatrick and the US Cavalry tried to kill Jefferson Davis.
But James Yee is not a comic in lederhosen or a whiskey-soaked unregenerate Confederate—no, that would be conferring a degree of respect on Yee that is not his due. Yee is a former US Army chaplain. He served at Gitmo. He did a lot of favors for the Muslim prisoners—none for the US government. He got his hands on some documents—maps—that didn’t belong to him and walked off with them. He was charged with sedition, spying, espionage, aiding the enemy and failure to obey a general order. The charges were dropped in March of 2004. Prosecutors felt some of the evidence needed to convict Yee, if made public, would compromise national security.
Yee graduated from West Point in 1990 and converted to Islam in 1991. As Artie Johnson would have said, “Ver-ry interesting.”
Stephen Dodson Ramseur graduated from West Point in 1860, joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. He went from soldiering for the United States to Rebeldom in less than a year; about the same length of time it took Yee to transfer his allegiance from West Point to Islam. But unlike Yee, Ramseur remained an American. He was outspoken, held strong opinions about everything and never told lies. There is little doubt that if he had been alive when Lincoln was assassinated, he would have condemned John Wilkes Booth. After all, Bobby Lee and Stonewall Jackson were honorable men—a trait that seems to have been lost or obscured in the one time chaplain’s journey into Islam.
Yee was interviewed a few days ago by BBC radio. Naturally, he was asked about Camp Gitmo. “It’s safe to say,” he said, “there weren’t any prisoners who could be definitely connected to hardcore terrorism.”
Uh-huh. And Ernst Kaltenbrunner never drove splinters under Hymie Goldberg’s fingernails! Like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Kaltenbrunner got a bum rap.
Perhaps one shouldn’t fault Yee if he temporarily fell under the spell of Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad—they have cachet, they are still powerful men; even Heinrich Himmler had his admirers and the crescent is every bit as much a unifying symbol as the Twisted Cross. Maybe if Yee had said every one at Gitmo was innocent and had let it go at that… But it wouldn’t have made for much of an interview. And he had certain things he wanted to get off his chest. “Guards,” he said, “searched the cells (at Gitmo) and recklessly handled the Quran.”
Recklessly? How? Like the Islamist thugs who invaded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and used the Bible for toilet paper? No one asked. It might have been embarrassing—and if there is one thing BBC doesn’t do is embarrass Muslims. Maybe Yee was inspired by his interlocutor, maybe he remembered something from the Qur’an; maybe Geppetto reached out from the netherworld and stuck a needle in his butt.
He had more stories—some bordering on the risqué, some on the ludicrous. He didn’t say, “Cross my heart and hope to die.” He should have—it would have set the tone. He said that during interrogations at Gitmo, female American intelligence officers stripped off their clothes and stood naked in front of Muslim male prisoners. The females rubbed themselves inappropriately on the trembling detainees and grabbed their genitals. That’s what the Fonz told Potsy and Ralph Malph would happen to them if they were taken prisoners of war by Hot Babes From Outer Space. Or was it LaVerne and Shirley? The Fonz could be quite the scamp.
Yee also said interrogators forced Muslim prisoner into a circle with a pentagram drawn in the middle. (Did he mean Pentagon?) The prisoners were made to bow down and shout, “Satan is your god now, not Allah.” Preposterous? Silly? Is Yee ready for The View or the psycho ward? Why would he tell such whoppers? If there were any truth in his Munchausen tales the Soros crowd would be beating down the doors at Gitmo with the UN’s Human Rights Commission and the Marquis de Sade right on their heels.
Was Yee lying? Yes, though he would not call it lying; he was furthering the cause of Islam. He was practicing taqiyya, a higher order of truth sanctioned by the Qur’an.
Bukhari: V7B67N427 “The Prophet said, ‘If I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.”
Qur’an 5:41 “Whomever Allah wants to deceive you cannot help. Allah does not want them to know the truth because he intends to disgrace them and then torture them.”
Qur’an 66:2 “Allah has already sanctioned for you the
dissolution of your vows.”
Yee graduated from West Point in 1990 and converted to Islam in 1991. He found something better. Ver-ry interesting!
Yee is a liar. He is a con-sarned, lowdown liar. He lied, knew he was lying and persisted in his lies. He did not personally witness any of the incidents he described—he was just passing them on, it was his duty as a public-spirited person. There was a time long ago when liars and traducers were given their comeuppance…a canning in the street…an affaire d’honneur on an island in the middle of a river…and the account was settled.
Yee is not worth the effort. He is only one man, a symptom of a much larger problem. Ten thousand Muslims just like Yee have worked their way into the fabric of America. They cling to the body politic like fleas to Mohammed’s beard. The carpet needs a good shaking. Yee should be recognized as a liar of the first magnitude. He should be condemned by all Muslims—by the Council on American Islamic Relations, by the Muslim Student Association, by the Islamic Council of North America, by moderate Muslims, by secular Muslims, by gay Muslims. He should be condemned by one and all. Fat chance. There will be silence, an enduring silence. Yee did no wrong—he was following the Qur’an. He was practicing taqiyya; he is a member of the Universal Islamic Liar’s Club. There is no truth, there is not honesty; there is only the Qur’an. One might as well talk to Rosie O’Donnell.