The
ABCs of dhimmitude
Misconception?
What do most Americans know about Muslim culture? Save for the misconceptions—nothing, say the experts. So someone has to educate the American public about Islamic culture and if it isn’t ABC NEWS who is it going to be? FOX? CNN? It’s a thankless job, but ABC is up to it. They’ve been in the news and education business a long time. Thanks to ABC, Americans are better informed about cultural diversity, immigration, economics, the Texas Gunslinger and the war in Iraq, education, taxes and a hundred other things—except for Islam. Well, that is changing.
On February 29, 2008, ABC made the stark admission that Muslim culture wasn’t well understood in America and that they intended to do something about it. They would—by, golly—help Americans understand the Muslim next door. It wouldn’t be easy enlightening Larry, Moe and Curley and they would need the best possible advice they could get. So they went to the Council on American-Islamic Relations—the font of all Islamic knowledge in the United States, valiant battlers for human rights, justice and the American way.
Wow! Just look at CAIR’s organizational chart! It’s like the 1927 New York Yankees! It boggles the mind!
For starters, there’s CAIR’s long-time spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. This fine fellow put everyone’s mind to ease a few years ago when he said CAIR didn’t publicly support terrorism. Wow! What a relief! Opie hasn’t missed a night’s sleep since. It sure took a load off Sheriff’s Andy’s mind. “There is a difference with hate speech at your local mosque,” said Ibrahim, “and radio talk that reaches millions.” Now that is perspicacious! John Walker Lindh and Richard Reid listened to hate speech at their local mosques and went bad—Larry, Moe and Curley listen to Rush Limbaugh and Melanie Morgan and so do million of others, but so far none of the ditto-heads has strapped on a suicide bomber’s belt and made his way to Democratic Party head-quarters. Hatred seems to flourish in the mosque. Could Ibrahim be wrong? But he’s from CAIR and CAIR was hand picked by ABC. They weren’t self-selected, were they? One hopes not.
Here’s Nihad Awad. He’s another fine fellow. He was a founder of CAIR. He’s their executive officer. “I am in support of the Hamas movement,” he said. (Now, that could be troubling) According to Nihad, the trial and conviction of the four terrorists involved in the First World Trade Center bombing was, “a travesty of justice.” “There is ample evidence,” he said, “indicating that both Mossad (the Israeli secret service) and the Egyptian Intelligence played a role in the explosion.” Well…he’s not the only doubter. There’s Rosie O’Donnell and Woody Harrelson.
Here’s Randall Todd Royer, a gun and explosive enthusiast and a member of CAIR. Wait a minute…better scratch Randy. He’s serving 20 years in jail for aiding and abetting terrorist activities. (Every organization has at least one or two black sheep)
But here’s Omar Ahmad, another of CAIR’s co-founders. “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths,” he has said, “but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Well, that’s no worse than Jeff Davis wanting to extend slavery into the territories, is it? What is ABC’s position on this dar-al-Islam thing? If Pat Robertson said he wanted everyone to become Christians would ABC be as tolerant as they are of CAIR? Better move on before this begins to sound like a complaint.
Here is Siraj Wahhaj. Siraj is a member of CAIR’s advisory board. He was a character witness for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind behind the First World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj promised that America “will fall unless it accepts the Islamic agenda.”
When Federal prosecutors were preparing to try the Holy Land Foundation for money laundering and raising funds for terrorist activities, CAIR was included in the list of un-indicted co-conspirators.
Gosh! Where did ABC find CAIR…in the Yellow Pages? They must not have looked very hard. Who recommended CAIR? Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar? This would be like WGN Radio calling in the Capone Gang to clear up misconceptions about Mob Violence in Chicago or the Grant administration relying on Nathan Bedford Forrest to explain how the Ku Klux Klan supported good government and social order in the Deep South after the Civil War.
ABC posted a list of common misconceptions—things
Larry, Moe and Curley had wrong about Muslim culture. Like Islam promotes
violence and terrorism Wrong, said ABC,
“According to the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, etc, etc, etc,” this was not true.
Say, aren’t those
the same guys that support Hamas, praise Jihad, claim America will fall if it
doesn’t accept the Islamic agenda, believe Israel brought down the World Trade
Center and are sitting in various jails around the US for raising funds for
terrorism and engaging in terrorist activities? Yes, they are. But how could
that be? Shouldn’t ABC have asked around, got a second opinion?
Well, maybe… but never
mind that, there are more misconceptions to be ironed out, more than ABC knows what to do with. There’s Jihad. Yes, Jihad! “Jihad is a term that
is often misunderstood and associated with violent and radical militants,” said
ABC. The “word…means to strive, struggle and exert effort.” Well, that has
certainly been the case. “Jihad…is an inner struggle within oneself…a struggle
for equality and against tyranny and oppression.”
That may be true,
but what does the book say? Ah, here it is:
Noble Qur’an 2:190 Footnote: “Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position, their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty dies a hypocrite.”
Obligatory?
Fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry? It must be a
levee en masse.
It was easy to prove Americans are poorly informed about Muslim culture—they are. It was more difficult for ABC to indict America as a land of bigotry and the home of Islamophobia—but they tried. They sent a camera crew to Waco, Texas, hired a couple of actors, set up a sting operation in a bakery and made like Allen Funt. It was not a major production. There were only two roles—a customer and a clerk, plus assorted innocent bystanders. It went like this: customer comes into the store; she is wearing a headscarf; the clerk refuses to wait on her; cuts loose with some racial slurs. If Archie Bunker had been there he would have been shocked. We know that because ABC was Shocked! Shocked! and they are not easily shocked. See Americandaily for the story.
Now back to The Planet of the Apes for another
shocking ABC cultural misconception: Muslim women were oppressed and
forced to wear the hijab!
Not so, said ABC, Muslim “women often see it (the hijab) as empowering because they are not viewed as sexual objects but judged by their character.” (Now if they can somehow manage to get out of the kitchen!) Has someone been slipping coffee into the Viagra at ABC? Muslim women are being murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim countries for NOT wearing the hijab—for NOT, N-O-T, wearing the hijab! Don’t they get the news at ABC? Might not being killed dead have something to do with the enthusiasm some Muslim women have attached to the headscarf? If ABC had wanted to learn about the hijab and oppression it could have consulted Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Wafa Sultan! Have they heard of either of them? Have they heard of Theo van Gogh?
They could have done a series on honor killings, but that would have required more honor than a sting operation in a Waco bakery.
The three major news networks are in serious decline. No one expects them to be fair and balanced—they are beyond that. First, they embraced cultural diversity—a particularly pernicious form of self-censorship—and now they have surrendered to Islam. They don’t quite know how they got into this mess and have no idea of how they are going to get out.
These are not misconceptions—these are the ABCs of dhimmitude.