Islam's Useful Idiots

American Thinker ^ | August 7, 2006 | Amil Imani

[El Oviedo]

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism—another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

Useful Idiots are naïve, foolish, ignorant of facts, unrealistically idealistic, dreamers, willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy, the anarchists, the aspiring revolutionaries, the neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population.

Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the “Politically Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception.

The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor he feels he belongs to.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

[El Oviedo]

Can you name one?

Should we have a yearly contest on Who is the Useful Idiot for 2006?

[mosquewatch.com]

I vote Cindy Sheehan.

And great post as well.

[upchuck]

Why did you post this in the Activism / Chapters section of the side bar?

[Diogenesis]

[agrace]

George Galloway, hands down.

[boughtwithaprice]

Can you name one? *looks at list of liberal politicians. Hmmm...

[redheadtoo]

Should we have a yearly contest on Who is the Useful Idiot for 2006?

An excellent idea. I suggest we also have a Useful Idiot category for the Darwin awards. We can nominate people who have gotten themselves killed following the ideal that all people are good if we are just willing to talk to them.

[El Oviedo]

I don't know. It was the first to catch my eye. What would you have used?

[Jumpmaster]

"Should we have a yearly contest on Who is the Useful Idiot for 2006?"

With such a vast field to pick from, it should probably be a weekly.

[Publius6961]

Can you name one?

If this list were of more extensive use, I would start a list today. Of Freepers, most of them here only a month or two --- at best.

Ignorance enables useful idiots.
Knowledge, even elementary stuff, can see right through the "religion of peace"...

[Beckwith]

A man for all seasons



The traitor, Pinch Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times.

In 1968, he famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot. His own father, "Punch," who was then the Times' publisher, considered his son's words treasonous.

[hosepipe]

[ Who is the Useful Idiot for 2006? ]

Jim Lehrer... and minions(Shields and Brooks)

[Starboard]

Great article. Thanks for posting.

[Right Wing Assault]

Pinch looks like a doofus. A useful doofus for the Muzzles.

[ANGGAPO]

I think he is talking about the Democrats.

[sauropod]

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[litehaus]

I vote the St.Pete Times here in Flori-DUH? for a 'Decade Award'....a decade at least of being on the Idiot category.

[litehaus]

PJO............MOST amusing reading for a long, long time.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[steamroller]

ward churchill-jimmy carter-ramsey clark-jostein gaarder-the aclu-noam chomsky-pat buchanan-the spnish prime minister zapatero-george galloway(do i have this name right?)-kofi annan