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Restoring Honor: The MSNBC Way

 

   

It was a thought-provoking question. It was debated for hours and hours at Joe’s Bar and Grille and Gun Club and they came to no satisfactory conclusion. What would you have said if you were Daisy Khan?

 

Cowsnofsky felt sorry for her. Her husband, the notorious Ground Zero Imam, Feisal Abdul Rouf, was somewhere in Southeast Asia greeting heads of states and spreading Good Will as Barack Obama’s special emissary to America’s new friends and allies in the President’s war on Israel, ignorance and the Tea Party. Daisy had been left behind to paper over all the stupid things the Imam had said over the last dozen years. And there she was—by her own estimation—a plain old ordinary American hausfrau like Marion Cunningham or the Beaver’s mummy—what was her name, Mrs. Cleaver. Or maybe like Ma Kettle…yeah, like Ma Kettle. That would explain all the talk about circling the wagons.

 

They were pioneers under attack—that’s what they were. The firestorm that had grown up around their plans for the Ground Zero Mosque had only strengthened their supporters said Daisy. “None of them have caved. They are circling the wagons around us,” she said. “They know they could be next.”

 

Next? Was that an Apache with a scalping knife lurking in the brush? It could be! What would Davy Crockett have done? He would have circled the wagons. Sure. If you want to be a good old plain American, you have to speak good old plain American. The Republicans were after them and so were the Tea Partiers and maybe the Iroquois and the Big Feet. It was time to circle the wagons. It sounds good.

 

The Imam had wanted to do a little healing, start a dialogue, build a few bridges; open a Grand Mosque on Ground Zero—that’s all. It was as American as apple pie. Maybe he should have waited till the apples were ripe.

 

Daisy Khan was dismayed by what happened. “This whole thing turned into the opposite of what we have envisioned,” she said.

 

“And just what was it they envisioned?” asked Ranch House.

 

“I reckon they expected us to roll over and play dead,” said Big Galoot.

 

“Well, I guess they reckoned without Pamela Geller,” said the Professor.

 

“And without the victims of 9/11,” chipped in Ranch House.

 

The Professor cast a shrewd eye round the bar. “We were all victims of 9/11,” he said.

 There were a lot of grim faces. These were men who had fought in a half-dozen wars. Some of them had sons and daughters who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were Americans not the sheltered wienies who hacked up anti-American vitriol on MSNBC or in The New York Times. 

“Amen,” said a dozen voices.

 

“It wasn’t Osama bin Laden who brought down the World Trade Center,” said the Professor. “And it wasn’t Mohammad Atta or Marwan al-Shehhi. And it wasn’t al-Qaeda or Hezbollah or the Taliban. And it wasn’t that little man in Teheran—it was Islam.”

 

“Amen,” said Cowsnofsky.

 

The Professor adjusted his spectacles, opened his Qur’an.

 “Qur’an 47:4,’ he said, “So, when you clash with the unbelieving infidels in battle (fight Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making  (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom them (based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”  

“So the war continues,” said Ranch House.

 

“Until we are brought low,” added the Professor.

 

“But what about the Muslims that were killed on 9/11?” said Patagonia Bob. “ Don’t they count?”

 

“Muslims have been killing Muslims since Muhammad crept out of the desert and it doesn’t seem to have caused any great loss of conscience,” said the Professor.

 

“They’re like the Kilkenny cats,” said Cowsnofsky.

 

The Professor tuned on his laptop, did a quick search. It didn’t take long. “Al-Qaeda killed 49 Muslims—mostly Sunni—and wounded more than 160 others in a series of bombings in Baghdad back in April,” he said.

 

“I thought al-Qaeda was Sunni?” said Ranch House.

 

“The hand of Allah works in mysterious ways His violence to provoke,’ mused the Professor.

 

“Chris Matthews of MSNBC says there is no such thing as al-Qaeda,” said Patagonia Bob. “That it’s a myth used to fire up the right wing.”

 

The Professor looked up from his laptop. “Here’s something,” he said. “Dateline: Somalia. A suicide bomber accompanied by a gang of al-Shabab gunmen attacked a hotel in downtown Mogadishu. They killed 32 people including six members of Parliament, five security guards, an 11-year-old shoeshine boy and a woman selling tea in front of the hotel.”

 

“You kill one person, it’s like killing everybody in the world,” said Ranch House.

 

“Do you think Barack Obama believes that?” asked Cowsnofsky.

 

“Has anybody asked Ms, Khan to explain these killings?” asked Guenther.

 

“No,” said the Professor. “She says this is a healing moment. ‘We have,’ she said—“ He paused to make sure he had the quote right. “’We have to educate them on being able to distinguish between us and on the issue of Islamophobia.’”

 

Well, there it was—Islamophobia! And they were all guilty. They had harbored ill thoughts about Islam. They might as well have been Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Pakistan, Sikhs in Kashmir, Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, or Christian and animists in Sudan.

 

“Well, there was that drunk guy that went into the al-Iman Mosque and peed on their prayer rugs,” Heathcliffe said apologetically.

 

“Yeah, and he swore at them and called them terrorists,” Birdsong said uncomfortably.

 

“Now their prayer rugs are ruined and they can’t pray,” lamented Otis O. Otis.

 

“It was a genuine hate crime,” Heathcliffe said sadly. “The New York Times said so.”

 

“I’ve never heard of a worse case of Islamophobia,” Prester John admitted mournfully.

 

“That man should be strung up,” Rooster said uncomfortably.

 

“Oh, Good Heavens!” cried the Professor. “Get a grip on yourselves!” He opened the discoverthenetworks page on his laptop. “Any of you ever hear of Siraj Wahhaj?”

 

“Siraj who?” said Heathcliffe.

 

“Siraj Wahhaj,” said the Professor. “He’s been teaching at the al-Iman School. “He was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and later testified as a character witness for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahmen when the blind Sheikh was tried and convicted for masterminding the terrorist attack in ‘99. This fine fellow was also involved in the notorious Minnesota airport Muslim prayer-in.”

 

There was a minute of silence. Siraj Wahhaj! Peeing on a prayer rug was nothing compared to blowing up the World Trade Center!

 

Cowsnofsky let his breath out slowly. “We ought to invite Ms. Daisy Khan to Ladies Night at the bar,” he suggested. “I think we could show her that a healthy skepticism of Islam was not Islamophobia but was in keeping with out cherished freedom of religion.”

 

“Sure, and we could educate her so she could tell the difference between a fellow with a urinary condition and a guy with a bomb!” Heathcliffe said excitedly.

 

“Gosh!” smiled the Professor. “The Lady and the Islamophobe—do you think she will come?”

 

There was a long silence.

 

“Hey! How about that A-Rod?” Guenther asked.

 

 

The Myth of the Moderate Muslim

  

Diogenes spent 1,400 years looking for a Moderate Muslim and never found one. Now Diogenes was a smart fellow, but maybe he didn’t look in the right places. Her should have tried California. What could be more moderate than a Muslima wearing a headscarf at a Disneyland Theme Park? (How about Heinrich Himmler wearing a Swastika at Dachau?)

 

Imane Boudal, 26, a devout Muslim and an employee at Disneyland Grand Californian Hotel showed up a work wearing a headscarf. It was one of her inalienable rights. Sure. She is a greeter. She greets people or has converse with them. “Hi, I’m Igor. I will be your guide to Castle Frankenstein; I will make you feel good about yourself and introduce you to the joys of Islam.” Something like that…

 

It was Ramadan. So she donned her headscarf and set off for work The boss took one look and ordered her into the back room to where the real work is done and where they keep everyone that does not present the image Disney wishes to present. Sounds reasonable?

 

When Bob Newhart told George Utley he couldn’t eat in the Resort Dining Room unless he removed his hunter’s cat, George grumbled but accepted. Now George was awfully attached to that old red-and-black checked cap—it went wherever he went. If Imane sets as much store by her headscarf as George did by his cat wouldn’t she have insisted on wearing it long before now? She has worked for Disney for two year! Two years—certainly enough time to get up the gumption to spit in her employers’ face.

 

As usual, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) took great umbrage. “There is no justification for Disney’s refusal to allow Ms. Boudal to wear the headscarf at work,” said CAIR. “It is not only insulting to her, but is deeply offensive to the thousands of Muslims who open their pocket-books at Disney parks and resorts every year.” As far as is known there is no ban on the types of headgear people with open pocketbooks can wear while touring any of the Disney estates.

 

Moderate hunters throughout Vermont leapt to Newhart’s defense. Utley removed hiscap. Have Moderate Muslims sprung to the defense of Disney? Not so as one would notice. Disney’s strict costume requirements have been described by Moderate Muslims as ‘excessive,’ ‘discriminatory,’ and an ‘Affront to Islam.’

 

Disneyland says the headscarf  “doesn’t go with the Disney look.” And what is the Disney look? Well, it doesn’t matter what the Disney look is. This is just another pea-brained attempt to insert Islam into American culture and the chances are it will work because the politically correct and the culturally diverse lost the will to fight for America and what it stands sometime during the Vietnam War.

 

Would Disney allow a Jewish employee to wear a yarmulke or a veteran to wear a DAV cap on the job?  The chances are they would not, though it has never been tried because the members of those groups would have considered it insensitive and not in keeping with Disney’s rules though either of those groups have contributed far more to the health, well being, greatness and prosperity of America than a hundred thousand Imane Boudals and tens of thousands of CAIRs.

 

So where are the Moderate Muslims? Are they still on their way back from the Muslim March on Terror?

 

Meanwhile half the way around the world in Kashmir, Sikhs are being forced to convert to Islam under pain of death. Not much moderation there. Is Imane aware of this?

 

In Saudi Arabia a person caught in public wearing a crucifix on a chain can expect to end up in extensive care. Where are Saudi Arabia’s Moderate Muslims?

 

In Indonesia, Christian churches are being stoned and torched because a Muslim girl has been taking catechism lessons in preparation to being baptized as a Catholic. A mob beat 20 members of a Batak Christian Protestant Church because “they did not have the proper permits to worship.” Where were the Moderate Muslims? Are the Moderates the ones that grant the permits? That would explain a lot of things.

 

In Malaysia, a high school principal in the province of Johor made ‘inappropriate remarks’ at a school assembly. “Chinese students are not needed here,” she said, “and can return to China.” As for the Indian student…”the prayer string around their neck and wrist makes them look like dogs because dogs are tied like that.” Insensitive? Stupid? The principal is a Muslim. An investigation has been launched and the principal has been sent on leave.

 

Is this an example of Moderate Islam in action? Well—not exactly. Malaysia in only 60 percent Muslim, the other 40 percent is something else and they still have a say in things. When the Muslim population reaches 75 to 80 percent—and the Islamic share of the populations has been growing due to larger families and forced conversions in Muslim controlled areas—this will change. Off will come the kid gloves. No? You don’t think so? What does the Qur’an say?

 Ah, here it is: Qur’an 9:29 “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, or acknowledge the Religion of Truth (Islam), (even if they are) People of the Book (Christians and Jews), until they pay the jizyah tribute tax in submission, feeling themselves subdued and brought low. (Another translation says: ‘pay the tax in acknowledgement of our superiority and their state of subjection.’) 

But isn’t the minority population of Malaysia composed primarily of Buddhists and Hindus? Yes, and this makes for a bleak outlook when the Muslim population reaches the 75 percent mark. The Christians and the Jews—the few there are—can be brought low. They can be made to pay the jizyah and to acknowledge their inferiority but here is no room in the Qur’an or in Sharia Law for Buddhists and Hindus. How many Moderate Muslims have marched in support of Buddhist or Hindu causes in Malaya or in other Southeast Asian country?

 

Moderate Muslims are so rare Bill O’Reilly had to go to Canada to find a Muslim willing to say the idea of building a mosque on the site of Ground Zero was a bad idea. It would be insensitive. What is needed is a period of healing—the mosque can come later, but come it will.

 

On the other hand MSNBC was able to find dozens of Moderate Muslims willing to denounce O’Reilly as an Islamophobe. The US Constitution gives them the right to build a mosque wherever they want. If you want to build a church in a Muslim state you will have to see Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Mutaween.

 

Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews of MSNBC rubber-stamped Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s “I have a dream” speech where all God’s chill’uns will get together in dialogue in the Grand Central Mosque on the site of Ground Zero in an Abrahamic splendor that will amaze the world. Just the thought of it brought tears to Olbermann’s eyes. Neither Matthews nor Olbermann compared the Ground Zero Imam to Martin Luther King—that would have transcended their usual hypocrisies by a couple of surahs and a dozen hadiths. One could almost hear them whispering, “Amen,” as Rauf attacked the US for being complicit in the World Trade Center disaster.

 

“I wouldn’t say the United States deserved what happened (on 9/11),” said Rauf, “but the United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.” (If she hadn’t been wearing a tight skirt she wouldn’t have been raped.)

 

Rauf went on to explain. “Because we’ve been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world,” he said.

 

A few facts: Muslims have killed far more Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan than American soldiers have. And it’s not only Iraq and Afghanistan. Muslims are killing each other in Pakistan and other Muslim countries in great numbers without the help of a single American soldier. Saddam Hussein killed more Muslims every year during his long reign than G.I. Joe did in his entire tenure in Iraq. It might also be noted G.I. Joe was killing the bad guys. There was collateral damage to be sure, but it was kept to a minimum. Collateral damage is a concept that does not exist in Islam. All deaths—old men, women, children and grocery clerks—are intentional. Everyone dies in vain.

 

Daisy Khan, the wife of Imam Rauf, had a conversation recently with Sally Quinn of the Washington Post. Daisy asked, “When will Muslims be accepted as plain old Americans?”

 

It is an interesting question—one Peewee Herman has been asking for years. Yet later in the same conversation Daisy said, “We are in a history making moment. Our ideals must prevail. We have to fight for a bigger society.”

 

Our ideals? Who’s? Thomas Jefferson’s? Ben Franklin’s? Muhammad’s? She would not have used the word ‘our’ if she had meant Jefferson and Franklin. She meant those of Islam. Sally Quinn was mesmerized. Clearly she was in the presence of Islam’s Jean D’Arc

 

There is little Moderation in Daisy Khan, none in Abdul Rauf. If Muslims want to be accepted as plain old Americans they will have to become plain old Americans—there is little evidence they do.

 

Rooster Cogburn was a plain old American. Even Chris Matthews would agree with that. Would Imam Rauf sit down for a drink of sarsaparilla with Rooster in Joe’s Bar and Grille and Gun Club? They could discuss horseflesh and Lynch Law, which is as close to Sharia Law as one can get this side of a Nazi concentration camp.

 

Jerry Falwell was a plain old American. He liked to discuss religion. If Jerry were still around would the Imam sit down with him and discuss religion like it should be discussed? Of course not: Islam cannot be discussed—Muslims are slaves and Christians are the slaves of slaves. End of conversation!

 

Plain old Americans like to thrash things out in the open; car bombs are for cavemen who haven’t entered the 21^st Century. Rooster Cogburn would talk to a Yankee and slap him on the back just as if they had never tried to kill each other at Shiloh or Glorietta Pass. Cogburn was forgiving; Islam isn’t. Falwell would debate an atheist or a Third Day Adventist without raising a sweat or losing his place in the Bible. Jerry hated the sin; he loved the sinner. Islam hates both.

 

Daisy Khan is being disingenuous. Ms. Bourdal’s insistence on wearing a headscarf is part of Islam’s master plan. It they could conquer America by force of arms they would do so. They cannot so it is death by a thousand cuts. This is the strategy they have used in Europe and especially in England and it has been very successful.

 

A Muslim will insist on a minor change in the way things are being done. They will object to the name of a street or a business; a religious symbol, usually a cross, will be banned because it is considered offensive. Islam will be added to a school curriculum, Christianity will be dropped.

 

Sometimes the changes are bigger than big like turning the beds in a hospital so they face in the direction of Mecca. Feeling themselves subdued and brought low the hospital officials acquiesce. In some hospitals nurses are busy during prayer time turning beds in the proper direction. A Bible on display on a bedside table is Verboten.

 

And where are the Moderate Muslims? They are nowhere to be heard. They don’t exist.

 

But when everything is said and done and the authorities have given into the Islamists the Moderate Muslims step forward and say, “Oh, you didn’t have to do that. It was not necessary. Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. We don’t ask much—just the right to practice our religion.” Europe is dying of a thousand cuts and America, thanks to politicians like Barack Obama, is bleeding.

 

George S. Patton, one of America’s greatest heroes, had a word for this tactic. He called it the Rock Soup Method. He liked to tell the story of the hobo looking for a handout during the height of the Great Depression. Bo would knock on the door of a likely looking house with a couple of rocks in his hands and ask the Missus if he could borrow at pot so he could make some rock soup. Before he was through Bo would talk the Missus into some water for his pot then for some salt and pepper to season his soup, then for some vegetables to give it body and finally for a piece of meat.

 

Patton used his own version of the Rock Soup Method during WWII to start unauthorized battles. He would send out a patrol to pick a fight with the nearest Nazis. Then he would reinforce the patrol with a platoon, the platoon with a company, the company with a battalion and before long he would have a major battle on his hands. This is the method used by Islam.

 

There are no Moderate Muslims. Ms. Boudal and the Imam are as moderate as it gets. O’Reilly had to go to Canada; Olbermann and Matthews had to go to Hell to get theirs.

Part 1

Repbulican Supports Ground Zero Mosque

 

Well, if Muhammad Ali Hasan is in support of the Ground Zero Mosque it must be a good thing. Hasan is a Republican, a practicing Muslim and founded Muslims For Bush. There were no Coptic Christians for Bush, no Bahai'i's for Bush: no Assyrians for Bush.

 

When Hasan talks he pulls no punches. That's the kind of guy he is. He has taken some of his fellow conservative Republicans to task for their opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque. If you say you "are against the project, yet claim not to be bigoted," he tells them, "I have news for you: you are a bigot."

 

He has accused Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich of pandering-not of being bigoted but of pandering.

 

Okay, so what are the objects of their pandering? That's an easy one though Hasan doesn't come right out and say it-it's the broad masses of the American people who are either too stupid or too depraved to realize that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance and is worthy of a Ground Zero Mosque.

 

Broad masses? Sure. There are many broad masses around the world.

 

On January 1, 2010, a broad mass in Algeria looted and burned a Protestant Church. They torched piles of Bibles and other religious books and desecrated Christian crosses. Maybe the Florida minister learned from them.

 

Six Christians were killed in a church shooting in Egypt inspired by a broad mass meeting during the recent Christmas holiday season.

 

Hasan has not commented on these atrocities or on any of the frequent broad mass eruptions in Muslim run countries.

 

Islam is as American as apple pie intimates Hasan. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson carried a Quran in his library and is thought to have sought guidance from it? Hasan is not the only Muslim to provide America's broad masses with this version of the Founding Father.

 

Yes, for the record, Jefferson did consult the Quran-he had the Barbary Pirates to contend with. Like Churchill who studied Mein Kampf, Jefferson studied the Quran.

 

Jefferson once cut the parts from a Bible that he didn't agree with or that he had his doubts about. It was said the book was greatly reduced. If Old Jeff had done that to his copy of the Quran he would have been left with the covers and the spine.

 

By the time Jefferson was sworn in as President Muslim pirates had been preying on United States merchant shipping in the Mediterranean for 25 years. It was an old story-Muslim corsairs had been seizing American ships throughout the Colonial period.

 

The brig Polly was taken in 1793. The captive seamen were stripped of their possessions and put to work in their underwear on a pirate ship. The corsair captain, Rais Mahomet Salamia, told them they could expect harsh treatment "for your history and superstition in believing in a man who was crucified by the Jews and (for) disregarding the true doctrine of God's last and greatest prophet Mahomet." Did the Captain mean the doctrine of peace and tolerance?

 

The sailors were reduced to ball-and-chain slavery. They were turned into beasts of burden, dragging large rocks to fill in the harbor at Algiers. It was to be forever unless they should be ransomed or convert to Islam!

 

The four ships boys were assigned to the palace as servants. No, it was not to shine shoes and wait on tables.

 

Qur'an 76:19 "And round them shall serve immortal boys of perpetual freshness, never altering in age. If you saw them, you would think they were scattered pearls."

 

Life for the ruling class in Algiers, circa 1793, was a preview of Allah's paradise. In Peoria they call it child molestation.

 

How good an American is Muhammad Ali Hasan? Is he a Rooster Cogburn, an Audie Murphy, a George Costanza? He was born in Colorado, has run for office and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor. He is a member of Muslims for America. In spite of these impressive credentials he is no Arthur Fonzarelli.

 

This is what Hasan posted on Twitter: "I give America credit...she can be evil...but she strives to overcome it and lives up to her ideals. She needs help sometimes though."

 

Help? There are others in need of help. Perhaps Hasan should look inward.

 

In Vladikavkaz, Russia, a Shahid (a Witness) drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a market, killing 18 people and wounding 122 others.

 

A suicide bomber killed 19 people, 9 of them schoolchildren, in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan. He was a Holy Warrior, a member of the Harakat Ul-Majahidin.

 

There are thousands of these crazies scattered around the Muslim world. They do not oppose the building of mosques but they do oppose the building of churches and synagogues and Buddhist shrines. Has Hasan ever expressed his indignation over the barbarities committed against any other religion by his fellow Muslims? Or is it none of his business?

 

Three Christian aid-workers were kidnapped and murdered by Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan.

 

Pakistan-a very strange land where Muslim officials have denied aid to Christian flood victims and where Christian children are frequently kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam a not uncommon practice throughout the Muslim world.

 

The list of atrocities goes on and on. It didn't start when the United States recognized Israel in 1948 when, by the way, there was no such thing as a Palestinian. The horror goes back 1.400 years.

 

Can Islam be evil or does evil lie in the eye of the beholder? To a moderate Muslim America can be evil and Hasan is a moderate Muslim. So he says. But evil acts have been committed in the name of Islam and moderate Muslims find it extremely difficult to talk about them let alone condemn them. And what has Islam done to thwart these evil acts?

 

Hasan says America lives up to its ideals. Does Islam?

 

Yes, it does and that explains Vladikavkaz and Lakki Marwat and a thousand other acts of violence against non-Muslims.

 

Qur'an 5:35 " As for the disbelievers (Christians), if they had everything on earth, two times over, to give as ransom for the penalty of the Day of Doom, it would never be accepted of them. Theirs will be a painful torment. They will desire to get out of the fire, but they shall not be released from it. They shall have an everlasting torture."

 

Or Qur'an 9:29 "...until they pay the jizyah tribute tax in submission, feeling themselves subdued and brought low."

 

Or Qur'an 5:73 "...the disbelievers will suffer a painful doom."

 

The crime? Not being Muslims!

 

It isn't America that needs help-it is Islam. And the blind allegiance of Muslims like Hasan to the doctrines of the Prophet makes reformation of Islam an impossible task. They are part of the everlasting torture. They are not Rooster Cogburn Americans.