Posted on 12/17/2011 9:33:10 AM PST by ventanax5
Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the Sharia. The counterfactual basis for Mr. Gerson’s diatribe is his own thoroughly deficient understanding of Islam’s religio-political code for personal, societal, and Muslim state behavior. He glibly—and wrongly—imputes unique Western notions of individual rights, equality before the law, or even rational legal procedures of evidence to the Sharia’s so-called “set of transcendent principles of justice.”
Gerson condemns Gingrich’s apt summary conclusion (made during a July 2010 speech at the American Enterprise Institute) that “Shariah in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world,” while deriding the former speaker’s “qualifications” to make such an assessment. The crux of Gerson’s vitriolic, uninformed “argument”—that Gingrich has deliberately misrepresented as normative Sharia “the most radical form of Islamic law”, and dared to identify this sacralized code as “totalitarian”—is factually-challenged—and dangerous—drivel.
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Micheal Gerson would have stood at the very doors of the gas chambers at Auschwitz telling the doomed “You’re only going to be taking a shower’’ and then he would have been the last one shoved in. The man is an idiot.
I was considering making a reply, but you have pretty much summed it up!
i’ve often wondered if gerson is a democrat
plant. he certainly was no help to dole
and kemp campaigns. one of the reasons
i grew to dislike bush so much was his
reliance on gerson for policy advice.
That a Micheal Gerson could rise to the level of presidential aide should help narrow the question of what exactly it is that puts them there.
Political favor, of course, weighs in but are not the interviewers supposed to be prejuidiced in favor of the American people?
It sounds as if Gerson was sent over from Grover Norquist’s office.
Well thank you FRiend. Merry Christmas.
It’s amazing that now Newt is caught in a perfect balance of being TOP DOG snd UNDERDOG . If the continual beatings coming his way from all sides continues, he will garner the TEA PARTY vote hands down.
Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the Sharia.Thanks ventanax5.
Memo to Gerson: it’s time to pay the jizyah again, get your checkbook out.
Go wash your feet, dhimmi.
Thanks for the post.
Brilliant observation. This is not triangulation. It is grabbing the bull by both horns and hanging on for dear life. This may well be the only way to tame the beast that has become the Republican party.
Gerson is a consummate progressive, convinced that he will not be required to humble himself before those who seek to destroy Judeo Christian culture in the name of Islam. He sides, as did the Third Reich and as do the Communists, with all tyrants but especially with Muslims. They are the enemy of his enemy.
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