Posted on 06/08/2010 12:03:07 PM PDT by freespirited
If what Andrew C. McCarthy calls "the freedom culture" somehow prevails in the West, it will be in great part due to such books as his excellent, ground-breaking new work, "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America."
Islam and the left? Since this notion will raise some eyebrows, I asked McCarthy himself to elaborate on this and some other related questions.
Q: Why are Islam and the left, as you demonstrate in "The Grand Jihad," not such strange bedfellows?
A: "For all their disagreements on matters like women's rights, gay rights, and abortion, Islam and the left are in harmony on big-picture matters: They are authoritarian, totalitarian in the sense of wanting to control all aspects of human existence, virulently anti-capitalist, and regard the individual as existing merely to serve the collective.
"Consequently, they have the same obstacle in common: our freedom culture -- i.e., Western liberalism, U.S. constitutional republicanism, and their foundation, individual liberty.
"Historically, Islam and the left ally when there is a common enemy. But I'd stress that what I am talking about here is an alliance, not a merger. I am not claiming, as someone ridiculously suggested to me the day the book came out, that Barack Obama wants to impose sharia."
That appropriately noted, the book does highlight the closely interweaving principles of Islam and the left, the umma (Islamic community) and ACORN, both of which "bore from within," in Saul Alinsky's phrase, to hollow out what we might think of as "the Unum" -- as in E Pluribus Unum.
Linking these points, having documented President Obama's career as a community organizer, his embrace of ACORN andhis radical associations, McCarthy writes:
"The common denominator [throughout Obama's career] is a purpose to break down the Unum at its foundations, what he [Obama] called the 'grass roots.' For America, he plans an atom bomb. Or to be more precise, an atoms bomb: countless communities in cities and towns across the land, organized along Saul Alinsky's brand of Marxism, into socialist enclaves.
"It fits hand and glove with Yusuf Qaradawi's voluntary [Islamic] apartheid, the enclave strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood. Each atom smothers the individual freedom and enterprise that have defined the American character, replacing it with welfare states that prize dysfunction and reward the rabble-rousers."
But we ignore this assault through "willful blindness," to borrow the title of Andy McCarthy's first book about his role as a federal prosecutor in convicting the "blind sheik" and his accomplices for bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.
Instead, he observes in the book, our policymakers obsess over "one tactic, terrorism," while ignoring terrorism's goal: Islamization through the implementation of sharia, or Islamic law. I asked him to explain.
He replied: "From the beginning of my involvement in counterterrorism in the early nineties, I've been struck by the government's portrayal of terrorists as beasts who kill for no better reason than to kill -- as if the fact that they are brutal means that they are insane.
"Government does this as part of its narrative that terrorists couldn't possibly be accurately representing a well-grounded interpretation of Islam, and therefore must be 'perverting' or 'hijacking' Islam, or must be traitors against the 'true Islam'. ...
"There is a logic to terrorism. It is jihad, the purpose of which is to implement, spread, defend or vindicate sharia, the Muslim legal code. Sharia is deemed in Islamist ideology to be the necessary precondition to Islamicizing a society.
"Once you realize that, you quickly realize that the same sharia-driven campaign can be waged, and is being waged, by nonviolent means, and that the violent and nonviolent methods are inextricably linked.
Read "The Grand Jihad" and so realize. And quickly!
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Collectivists of a feather stick together.
Gee, lets see, Islam was founded by a caravan raiding murderer. The Dem party by Thomas Jefferson. Sadly, not a lot to go on.
I pray leftists will never realize what short work islam would make of them is it ever came to power.
I have been saying this since 2001:
Islamofascism and Leftism are allies because both first require the Destruction of Western Civilization before they can implement their respective dystopias.
They certainly don’t agree on homosexuality.
Al Qaeda rapes boys to make sure they are so ashamed they will blow themselves up as suicide bomber, because they can’t return to polite society.
Ha! Fat chance the slimes will touch it.
I’ve heard McCarthy on a few talk radio shows the past few weeks, and he’s been excellent. Notwithstanding his book, I admire someone who really is a fine trial lawyer and who has a conscience and a moral compass- they are few and far between.
Islam has no “polite society”.
Ya got me there.
I don’t think they care what happens after Christians are exterminated. THAT’s the common goal.
At the same time it's a common belief in the Middle East that men who rape men are not engaging in homosexual behavior ~ rather, it's homosexual only to be in the subservient position.
That professional Leftists work in concert with Islamofascists should never be a surprise.
Most Muslim men rape because they themselves were raped as children. Ever heard of dancing boys? I compare it to a bazaar form of initiation into the fraternity of Muslim society.
Islam demeans women as less than human and gives the men supreme power over them. Boys are therefore the preferred sex partners and women are just for rape and child bearing. Yet, when raped by a man not her husband the woman is killed instead of the rapist to protect the husband's weird idea of honor.
There is no such thing as polite society in Islam. The closet thing to polite is to be subservient.
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“the closely interweaving principles of Islam and the left, the umma (Islamic community) and ACORN, both of which “bore from within,” in Saul Alinsky’s phrase, to hollow out what we might think of as “the Unum” — as in E Pluribus Unum.”
These actions used to be called treason and terminated with capital punishment. If we can’t protect our country’s culture and borders we won’t have a country.
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