Sarah in 2012, Piper in 2036!!!
Posted on 09/10/2011 12:33:34 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack on our country approaches, every American should pause to reflect upon the cultural and economic transmogrification of our country. Economically, we are distinctly poorer. In 2001, the price of gasoline was $1.52. It remained above $2 for nearly the entire Bush Presidency and has crossed the $4 barrier, remaining stubbornly above $3 for nearly the entire Obama admistration. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which stood at 11,175 on June 5, 2001, after some wild gyrations, now stands...still...at a dismal 10,992, lower than it was when Bill Clinton left office. George Bush hardly deserves any great praise in this regard since the DOW stood at a miserable 8829 when he left office in January 2009 and, even before the September 2008 financial meltdown, posted a lackluster 11,543 on August 29, 2008.
Meanwhile, the Islamofascist regimes in the Middle East are awash in oil profits, representing a gigantic transfer of our wealth to them since 9/11.
Culturally, the transformation of our country has been even more apparent. The feverish outreach to Islam, post 9/11, which began under Bush and accelerated under Obama, is particularly odd in light of the fact that nineteen Islamic adherents perpetrated the attacks on Washington and New York. No one would advocate a Korematsu-style internment of American citizens, who adhere to Islam, or even discrimination against them. But the degree to which our society has been culturally bent to the will of Islam in the last decade is truly perplexing. It would be akin to an outreach to Shintoism and Japanese culture by FDR after Pearl Harbor. The correct approach for Muslim Americans would be the one taken by Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. Their horror and embarrassment over Pearl Harbor spurred them to deeds of unprecedented valor and patriotism embodied in the legendary "Go For Broke" 442nd Regiment of Japanese Americans, the most decorated regiment in the history of the United States, with 21 Medal of Honor recipients. Rather than expecting and demanding outreach from the country which they loved, they--through their heroism--reached out to America. They became EVEN more "American" than their fellow citizens. The Japanese Americans of World War II, in spite of the outrageous internment of many of their families, sought even more to become assimilated and to prove their patriotism. Americans who adhere to the Muslim faith would do well to emulate their example.
As the 2012 Presidential race comes into sharper focus, it is becoming increasingly apparent that four individuals have a chance to become President of the United States in 2012--the incumbent Barack Obama, and three Republicans: Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. The Real Clear Politics average of the polls in which Palin is included (and excluding the FOX outlier that was taken by Daron Shaw, Perry's pollster) has Perry at 26%, Romney at 17% and Palin (as yet unannounced) at 12%. Prior to his announcement on August 13, Perry had 15% support, and a similar (if not greater) surge in Governor Palin's poll numbers can be expected when she formally announces her candidacy.
Of the three, which would be the most effective in rolling back the gains, both economic and cultural, that Islam has made in this country during the last decade? Let's start with Romney. No one seriously expects Romney, whose name is synonymous with "nebbish" in the Oxford English Dictionary, to push back in any meaningful way against Islamic and Sharia-friendly encroachments into the culture or to press hard for energy independence against a resistant federal bureaucracy or Congress.
Rick Perry projects a toughness and a swagger that would at first blush give one hope that he would be a vigorous defender of American cultural and economic interests. On oil exploration, he would undoubtedly be better than Obama, but so would Romney. However, neither Romney nor Perry has had occasion to take any innovative steps to spur energy development, Romney because his was not an energy producing state and Perry because Texas was already a well developed energy producing state when he arrived. But, on the cultural front, Perry's friendliness with Muslim Imam Aga Kahn, and his connections to the Hamas front group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), raises serious questions concerning his commitment to Western culture as opposed to the Islamic interpretation of that culture. Far more disturbing than the Perry-Khan friendship, Khan has apparently had an impact on policy in Texas as well.
Perry and Khan have confected two cooperation agreements between the state of Texas and Ismaili institutions, the most significant of which is a program, now pervading every Texas public school, to proselytize and to desensitize, schoolchildren about Islam. Dubbed the "Muslim Histories and Culture Project", it really amounts to Islamic propaganda forced upon a captive audience...the impressionable youngsters attending Texas public schools.
Up until a few weeks ago, the Texas school curriculum could be viewed on the SAN ANTONIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT's own website:
www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/mhcp/mhcproject.html
This link has now mysteriously disappeared. I wonder if that has anything to do with the following posting on Pam Gellar's Blog, which exposes the entire enterprise, and which thankfully saved the curriculum abstracts:
Before the link to the San Antonio Independent School District Website was disabled and the website scrubbed, Gellar and company had lifted the curriculum abstracts from it, which show:
"a) High praise for Gov. Perry's collaboration with the Aga Khan, leaving no question about Perry's complicity and active support; and b) A thorough whitewashing of the nature and history of Islam that ignores Islam's bloody history while simultaneously portraying the Crusades as a bloody assault on Islamic soil by Christians."
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The curriculum abstracts characterize the interaction of Islam and Christianity as follows:
"While Islam "spreads" and "extends," presumably in the same way that dew forms on flower petals, Crusaders "wrest political control of the Holy Land from Muslim rulers, damaging the positive relations that had previously existed." Nowhere is it mentioned that the Crusades were prompted by two crises: (1) the ruthless treatment of Christian pilgrims attempting to see Jerusalem, which was under Muslim control, and (2) Byzantine Emperor Alexius's plea for European knights to help him take back territory that had just been overrun by an invasion of Muslim Turks. "
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Also lifted from the now scrubbed website was the following:
"A presentation of the Koran and Muhammad that can only be described as open proselytization for Islam in public schools."
That Rick Perry would endorse such revisionist history, which whitewashes Muslim excesses while indicting Christianity as the culprit, gives me not a bit of confidence that he would do anything to slow the rapid Islamicization of American culture, a process which has come to full bloom in Europe with disastrous consequences.
And Palin? On the economic front, she would undertake an energy development program similar to Reagan's arms buildup in the 1980s, in the following sense. Reagan understood that the Soviet economy was too sick and fragile to keep up with the United States and that, if he pressed it with such an arms race, the Soviet Union would collapse. Palin understands that the Islamic economies are even more fragile than the old Soviet Union, almost solely dependent, as they are, upon oil exports. Palin further understands that the United States has the largest fossil fuel deposits (including coal, oil and natural gas) in the world, equivalent to one trillion three hundred twenty four billion (1,324,000,000,000) barrels of oil (called Barrel of Oil Equivalents or BOE). Russia is second at one trillion two hundred forty six billion(1,246,000,000,000) BOE, with Saudi Arabia and China a distant third and fourth with roughly five hundred billion BOE each. The United States has more fossil fuel reserves than Saudi Arabia, China and Iraq combined. We have more than three times the BOE reserves of Iran.
See Table Six in the link below:
Palin alone seems to understand that, with an all out effort to develop our own vast resources and our superior ingenuity and technology, we can crater the economies of those Middle Eastern regimes which wish us ill and, at the same time, send the U.S economy soaring into the stratosphere. Her successes in spurring energy development in Alaska with ACES and AGIA are but a microcosm of her designs for the American economy at large.
The second "whammy" of a Palin Presidency would be cultural. Palin never fails to push the notion of American exceptionalism, and it is clear that her election would portend a genuine renewal of pride in our rich history and culture. But, given the distinctly second class role to which women are relegated in fundamentalist Islamic societies, in which for example men refuse to shake hands with women and require that they be veiled in public, Sarah Palin's election would have a significant symbolic effect as well. When she meets with Arab heads of state, you can bet she won't be veiled. And I doubt if any of them will have the courage to refuse to shake her hand. The optics of such meetings will tell the world in unambiguous terms: The United States is back. On its own terms. Deal with it.
“Most people probably don’t have a problem with the fact that Governor Perry is friends with a prominent muslim.”
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“aga khan is no moderate muslim, but how many Texans have delved into the man? How many know anything except what they have been told either by him or by perry? This is a bad guy. His followers fear him and speak about him in whispers.”
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I defer to you on Aga Khan, Mesta, as you are more familiar with his history than I. He seems more infamous than “prominent” and I amend my comment accordingly. Thanks for the information about him. Perry’s association with him is even worse than I had feared.
I hope all Moslems in America are forced to register for a security clearance, an evaluation of their goals and agendas and they will have to pay for a yearly license to live in America. I don’t give a rodents derrierre if it sounds like a revivalist idea from Hitlers Final Solution and the Jewish population, no comparison at all.
I don’t want followers of Islam dead, I want them out of my country before they overrun it like they do all over planet earth.
I have lots of quotes from Sarah Palin. I assume you do do, since you like her. Do you have a sourced quote from her that says differently from what the quote I posted says?
Here is the surrounding paragraphs from her spsech. Tell me how it changes the context of her statement...
Sarah Palin:
"This war -- and that is what it is, a war -- is not, as some have said, a clash of civilizations. We are not at war with Islam. This is a war within Islam, where a small minority of violent killers seeks to impose their view on the vast majority of Muslims who want the same things all of us want: economic opportunity, education, and the chance to build a better life for themselves and their families.""The reality is that al Qaeda and its affiliates have killed scores of innocent Muslim men, women and children. The reality is that Muslims from Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries are fighting al Qaeda and their allies today. But this will be a long war, and it will require far more than just military power to prevail. Just as we did in the Cold War, we will need to use all the tools at our disposal -- hard and soft power. Economic development, public diplomacy, educational exchanges, and foreign assistance will be just as important as the instruments of military power."
I assumed that Palin supporters would be familiar with her major speeches, and wouldn't need entire paragraphs.
You do good work, I wouldn’t ruin it by deferring to Mesta on this point, because his is quite the minority view on the man.
I'm glad Mesta asked for more, because this shows you more.
As you can see from her speech, far from thinking that Islam itself it the problem, or thinking that islamic countries are by nature out enemies, she seeks to develop good relationships.
Sarah Palin: "But this will be a long war, and it will require far more than just military power to prevail. Just as we did in the Cold War, we will need to use all the tools at our disposal -- hard and soft power. Economic development, public diplomacy, educational exchanges, and foreign assistance will be just as important as the instruments of military power."
Sarah in 2012, Piper in 2036!!!
And thanks to MestaMachine for the well documented contribution to the discussion. I am posting this whole thread on my FaceBook wall.
Well done, people...GO SARAH !!
Charles, you used that paragraph to imply that somehow, Sarah Palin was on the same plane as perry where it comes to islam. They’re NOT. What Palin said in a speech in China in no way compares to what perry has said and done with reference to islam.
Saying we are not at war with islam does not hardly compare to signing agreements to build mosques all over Texas and teach islam to schoolchildren.
Their approaches to islam could not be more opposite.
perry had not a clue how to handle the Ground Zero mosque controversy, so he asked a palestinian who had run against him for govenor. Never mind this guy had ties to terrorists, and finally after hemming and hawwing for weeks, he said well, maybe they could build it somewhre else. Compare that to what Sarah Palin DID to try and stop it from being built.
You tried to make them sound equal when nothing could be further from the truth.
FWIW, here is a little more of that speech. Yes, context matters.
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Sarah Palin gave an extraordinarily well-crafted speech in Hong Kong, a real Reagan speech.
“I am a Commonsense Conservative ...
“Two weeks ago, America commemorated the 8th anniversary of the savagery of September 11, 2001. The vicious terrorist attacks of that day made clear that what happened in lands far distant from American shores directly affect our security. We came to learn, if we did not know before, that there were violent fanatics who sought not just to kill innocents, but to end our way of life.”
“Their attacks have not been limited to the United States. They attacked targets in Europe, North Africa and throughout the Middle East. Here in Asia, they killed more than 200 in a single attack in Bali. They bombed the Marriott Hotel and the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. Last year in Mumbai, more than 170 were killed in coordinated attacks in the heart of India’s financial capital. In this struggle with radical Islamic extremists, no part of the world is safe from those who bomb, maim and kill in the service of their twisted vision.”
“This war — and that is what it is, a war — is not, as some have said, a clash of civilizations. We are not at war with Islam. This is a war within Islam, where a small minority of violent killers seeks to impose their view on the vast majority of Muslims who want the same things all of us want: economic opportunity, education, and the chance to build a better life for themselves and their families.”
“The reality is that al Qaeda and its affiliates have killed scores of innocent Muslim men, women and children. The reality is that Muslims from Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries are fighting al Qaeda and their allies today. But this will be a long war, and it will require far more than just military power to prevail. Just as we did in the Cold War, we will need to use all the tools at our disposal — hard and soft power. Economic development, public diplomacy, educational exchanges, and foreign assistance will be just as important as the instruments of military power.”
“During the election campaign in the U.S. last year, you might have noticed we had some differences over Iraq. John McCain and I believed in the strength of the surge strategy — because of its success, Iraq is no longer the central front in the war on terrorism. Afghanistan is. Afghanistan is where the 9/11 attacks were planned and if we are not successful in Afghanistan, al Qaeda will once again find safe haven there.”
“As a candidate and in office, President Obama called Afghanistan the “necessary war” and pledged to provide the resources needed to prevail. However, prominent voices in the Democratic Party are opposing the additional U.S. ground forces that are clearly needed. Speaker of the House Pelosi, Defense Subcommittee Chairman Murtha, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chair, and many others, recently expressed doubts about sending additional forces! President Obama will face a decision soon when the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan requests additional forces to implement his new counterinsurgency strategy.”
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So this speech was made IN China before the *surge* in Afghanistan.
Troll much?
It's merely the state of affairs of the Mooselimb contries; think of the jizya.
Cheers!
Great schoolyard riposte. Really cutting edge, post-rationalist. You don’t waste a moment in that antiquated process of reasoned discussion.
Get over it, cultie. There’s no mothership behind the incoming asteroid.
*thwop*
You sure read a lot into a quote by Sarah Palin.
We know Sarah Palin is opposed to implementing Sharia Law. But Perry has never said he was, so you don’t know that’s not the same.
Sarah Palin never had to deal with a mosque in Alaska — they started building the first major mosque after she ended her term as Governor. But she never spoke out against building Mosques. Perry has been attacked for going to a ground-breaking ceremony for a Mosque while he was Governor, but you have no evidence Palin wouldn’t do the same.
We know Palin doesn’t oppose Mosques — when she opposed the Ground Zero mosque because it would be insenstive, she specifically said she’d support it being built somewhere else.
She also in THAT press release mentioned “peace-loving Muslims”. I mention that not because I think there’s a problem with that, but because there are some here at FR that think anybody who calls a muslim “peace-loving” is a dhimmi or a muslim sympathiser. IT’s why Perry is being attacked, because he was FRIENDS with a muslim.
Perry also spoke out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying it would be insensitive.
Palin has also, so far as I can find, never said anything against teaching about the muslim religion in schools, nor did she ever come out against the particular plan that Perry was supporting. His relationship with the muslim was well-known when Palin heartily endorsed him for Governor, and she has never mentioned it being a problem in all the years they have been friends and collegues.
They BOTH came out against the federal program that a lot of people confuse with the Perry one.
So, if you are so certain that Palin is entirely different from Perry, it’s up to you to actually provide a quote from Sarah Palin that indicates she disagrees with Perry on something regarding Islam.
Until then, you are just speculating. I provided an actual FACT, a quote from Palin that is in opposition to the beliefs of more than a few of the people who are attacking Perry on this issue.
Maybe you missed those many posts at FR saying that even saying a muslim is like us is a stupid RINO thing to say. But that has been said regularly.
BTW, Perry never “signed an agreement” to build mosques anywhere. In case you hadn’t noticed, we have freedom of Religion in this country, which means a religious organization has the right, subject ot LOCAL zoning laws, to build houses of worship. The last time I mentioned this, a few freepers attacked me for thinking Islam was a religion — but I point back to the Sarah Palin quotes to show that SHE agrees with me that it is a religion.
A LOCAL government found a mosque to be within zoning regulations, and so it was being built, and Perry did attend the ground-breaking ceremony. That is a far cry from “signing agreements to build mosques”.
And you may be confusing the Perry/Ali curriculum with the federal government curriculum. The Perry/Ali curriculum teaches the history of muslim culture; it does NOT teach the religion of Islam. It also does not whitewash the wars and the terrorism.
There is nothing wrong with teaching our young adults about the culture of Islam, just as they should learn about other cultures. But since this discussion is about differences between Palin and Perry, show me one instance where Palin has ever spoken out against school children hearing about the muslim history and culture (as opposed to the federal government program that all of us has spoken out against).
> Sarah Palin: "Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn’t that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?"Again, this is a call by Palin to tolerate muslims in this country, without "unncessarily provoking strife". That indicates to me that she would not be attacking Perry for allowing a mosque to be built in Texas -- far from it, as she calls for us to tolerate one another.
On a last note about your comment -- what difference does it make when she made her statements? Why does it matter to you that it was "before the surge"? Do you think the surge somehow would make her change her opinion on muslims? Why?
Do you think if she DID change her opinion, she wouldn't have said something?
This is an ongoing list of historical, popular, and Biblical people, as well as fictional characters and animals that Sarah Palin™ has been compared to on FR:
I think you should add Terminator to your list, I mean, who could read your list and not think “Terminator”......
The Terminator was on the list at one time but I removed it by request.
However, Trademark did terminate her term as governor, didn’t she?
“She, like most of us, embraces the vast majority of Mulsim-Americans, who like Japanese-Americans during WWII, “want the same things all of us want.”
I hope “most of you” get over that arrant nonsense very quickly.
While everything said about the heroism of the Japanese-American soldiers in combat is true, and probably understated, it is equally true that there was a not-insignificant number of Japanese-Americans whose loyalty remained with Japan, and who intended to act as spies and saboteurs.
Unlike most of the Japanese-Americans, NONE of the mooselimbs (there is no such thing as a “Muslim-American”) want the same things we want. The Japanese-Americans wanted to integrate, become fully American, and live in peace with their neighbors. I once phrased my interest in Japanese culture clumsily when speaking to an American of Japanese descent, and was told, with icy fury, “What am I? I’m an American.”
The mooselimbs have NEVER integrated, nor have they ever shown any desire to do that since Satan chose a murderous, lunatic child-molester as the front for his new strategy for messing with Christians and Jews.
Never in history have mooselimbs chosen to live in peace with anyone. This is because so-called “islam” is a Satanic death cult. The central tenet of “islam” is the eradication of other religions. The only way they can even fool the stupid into thinking they “want the same things all of us want” is to lie, lie, lie, and then lie some more.
“…embracing them as a Americans is…”
…dumber than a sack of hammers.
“…far different that kowtowing to them—that is, forcing children in public schools not only to learn about Islam (why this is not an establishment clause issue, I’m not quite sure) but also to be ill-disposed toward Christianity.”
What they are doing is forcing children in public schools to learn LIES about Islam AND Christianity with the intent of making our own children ill-disposed toward Christianity, and if that’s not kowtowing, then God didn’t make little green apples. Matter of fact, it is both suicidal and Evil. Capital “E” Evil of the sort that figures in discussions of just war.
“The distinction is self-evident.”
The distinction between Al Quada terrorists with AK-47s in their hands and the mild-mannered muslim accountant who lives next door to you is utterly imaginary. Some of them are engaged in conquest through blood-letting, others in conquest through infiltration, propaganda, and out-breeding us. In the end, the two will merge.
About ten years ago I told a limey that they would rue the day that they failed to expel all mooselimbs. He became furious with me. I wonder how he feels about it now.
A few months ago I mentioned to a woman who was the mother of elementary school children and a substitute teacher that I wanted to tour Europe, but that it was too dangerous because there are too many mooselimbs. She became furious with me. She started to say something like, “I can’t understand how an educated, intelligent man can be such a bigot,” but I cut her off in the middle and said, “And I can’t understand how so many people can be so slow to get it.”
Islam is at war with civilization, and has been since the first time Satan sodomized Mohammed (pig crap be upon him) and sent him out to do murder. Every mooselimb, whether you know it or not, whether they know it or not, is a soldier in Satan’s army. We will rue the day we failed to expel them all. Some of you may not rue it until you are reaching for your last magazine as a horde of fanatics charges your position again, but you *will* rue it.
Interesting, have you been saving that list for a long time?
The Terminator was taken off the list because you used it fraudulently and I called you on it; fabricated, exaggerated, or dishonestly cherry picked like most of your list.
You and your list, both frauds to the max.
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