Posted on 02/03/2016 7:31:49 AM PST by Mr Apple
A Quinnipiac poll in April showed Chris Christie as the most popular potential Republican vice-presidential candidate, thanks to his budget cuts and standing up to government employees' unions. But the governor of New Jersey has a problem, specifically an Islam problem, that can and should get in the way of his possible ascent to higher office. Time and again he has sided with Islamist forces against those who worry about safeguarding American security and civilization.
Some examples:
2008: When serving as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Christie embraced and kissed Mohammed Qatanani, imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, and praised him as "a man of great goodwill." He did this after Qatanani had publicly ranted against Jews and in support of funding Hamas, a U.S. government-designated terror organization, and on the eve of his deportation hearing for not hiding an Israeli conviction for membership in Hamas.
In addition, Christie designated a top aide, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles McKenna, to testify as a character witness for Qatanani.
2010: After Derek Fenton burned three pages of a Koran at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, his employer, New Jersey Transit, got Christie's approval to fire him. Protecting Islam at the expense of the constitutional right to free speech, Christie endorsed Fenton's termination: "That kind of intolerance is something I think is unacceptable. So I don't have any problem with him being fired." The American Civil Liberties Union successfully represented Fenton to get his job back.
2011: Christie appointed an Islamist, Sohail Mohammed, to the New Jersey state superior court. Mohammed's record includes serving as general counsel to the American Muslim Union (which has stated that a "Zionist Commando Orchestrated The 9-11 Terrorist Attacks"), acting as spokesman for Muslim prisoners who went on a hunger strike after being jailed during Ramadan, defending Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian (his indictment, Mohammed said, was "nothing but a witch-hunt"), and helping Qatanani's legal defense.
Mohammed established himself not just as the Islamists' lawyer but as one of them. When members of New Jersey's Senate Judiciary Committee asked Mohammed appropriately tough questions about his enthusiasm for Islam's archaic law code, the Shari'a, Christie ridiculed the lawmakers: "Shari'a law has nothing to do with this [appointment of Mohammed] at all. It's crazy. It's crazy.
. . . So, this Shari'a law business is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies. I mean, you know, it's just unnecessary to be accusing this guy of things just because of his religious background." For this outburst, unsurprisingly, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thanked and applauded Christie.
2012: The revelation that the New York Police Department had conducted surveillance of Islamists in the New Jersey towns of Newark and New Brunswick prompted not gratitude but outrage from Christie, who termed the action arrogant and paranoid while mocking NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly as "all knowing, all seeing."
In short, Christie has hugged a terrorist-organization member, abridged free-speech rights, scorned concern over Islamization, and opposed law-enforcement counter terrorism efforts.
I’ve never intended to vote for Christi, and I sure won’t now.
et tu, Brutus ?
NR going after Christie as he went after Rubio.
Not surprising.
Let Rubio and the establishment fight it out between each other I say.
This is a 2012 article but reposted for these primaries.
If not Cruz or Trump I just as well let the dims have it so they can be at the helm when we sink.
I think there’s a good chance of that happening thanks to the stupid party. Are Canadian winters really that bad?
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Chris Christi does have an Islam problem!
Keep me on your ping list!
Yes, it’s odd. I will say that Christie got off some good zingers at the Clintons at the debate last week, but that’s about all he has to offer.
Who is Chris Christi?
Chris Christi said anyone who objected to the Ground Zero mosque was crazy.
Chris Christi appointed a rabidly pro muslim muslim judge to the Neww Jersey Supreme Court.
And then said anyone who didn’t like it was crazy.
CC is an opportunist. Opportunists have no base principles. They do whatever benefits them.
Now tell us about the islam problems of
Barack Obama,
Valerie Jarrett,
Susan Rice,
Hillary Clinton,
Bill Clinton,
Jimmy Carter,
John Brennan,
Samantha Power,
NPR,
the NY TIMES,
Washington Post,
Associated Press,
FOX news,
Grover Norquist,
Hollywood,
the Black Caucus,
Louis Farrakhan,
Jesse Jackson,
the ACLU,
US Academia,
Turban Durbin,
John McCain
Baghdad Jim McDermott,
Nancy Pelosi,
the Democratic Party
We can throw in Huma Abedin too.
If this is true, the human bratwurst is finished!
When did he get started?
Although Gov. Christie wasn't a prominent figure outside of NJ at that time, I remember this appointment and was distressed by it at the time.
I am glad to see it being brought up again. - Tom
About 75 pounds ago.
Chris Christie thinks Islam is something on the breakfast menu at Denny’s.
I agree, because back in 2012, I must not have committed that appointment to memory very well. But this past Monday, when I was looking in my files for a different fr article from mid-2012 I came across this Chrisiti article. I too am glad I found it and reposted it for anyone who didn't see it. I'm going to look in my files again for the year 2001- 2012 and scour all those fr articles I have to see what other information about Christi and Islam I can find.
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