Kerfuffles

In the Rose Garden - With the President and the MSM
The mainstream media, since Katrina, has exhibited shock — SHOCK — to find that the inner cities of America are populated by poor black people! Who put them there and why is it that reporters are just discovering this fact? One wonders where these well-traveled journalists have been. They must have swallowed that government mantra that throwing five TRILLION dollars of the taxpayer’s earnings at poverty makes it disappear. They did not know that the result of President Johnson’s “Great Society” was that the inner cities would be cordoned off with rows of government housing for the “poor” and the “black“? This question yesterday by April, a member of the MSM, sums up very nicely all that is wrong with the mainstream media.

Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, the Bible speaks of goodwill towards the least of these. With that, how are you going to bridge the divide of poverty and race in this country beyond economics and home ownership, that after Hurricane Katrina and also the Bill Bennett statements? And also, how can the Republican Party gain the black vote — more of the black vote in 2008, after these public relations fiascos?

“The Bible speaks of goodwill“? What does that matter? What says the U.S. Constitution to which the U.S. President has sworn an oath to uphold? And why is it that your sacred “separation of Church and State” only applies when Conservatives attempt to inject religion into government?

What “divide of poverty and race in this country“? How soon the MSM forgets that forty years of Democrat rule in Washington eliminated “poverty“. We had an entire War on Poverty for gosh sakes! If poverty and race were still a problem after all that effort, why was it never brought to the attention of Bill Clinton in the eight years he was presiding over the federal government? He, the first Black President, would have certainly fixed it!

“The Black Vote“? Is it not racist to describe people this way? Is it not racist to portray an entire ethnic group as marching in lock step with the Democrat party? President George Bush addressed April’s question about “the Black vote“.

I was disappointed, frankly, in the vote I got in the African American community. I was. I’ve done my best to elevate people to positions of authority and responsibility — not just positions, but positions where they can actually make a difference in the lives of people. I put people in my Cabinet; I put people in my sub-Cabinet. I’ve elevated people from all walks of life, because I believe there’s a responsibility for the President to reach out. … And just got to keep working at it, April.

The truth of the matter is that George Bush believes that he has given opportunities for African Americans to serve in high office, but the Black community does not accept them. Because those he has chosen are for the most part conservatives, the leadership of the Black community will not accept Bush’s eminently qualified choices as Black Americans. Instead they are labeled as Uncle Toms, house slaves and Oreos. In these times, to qualify as “African American” one needs to possess the right DNA and to vote the right way - Democrat.

After all, African Americans cannot forget to remember all that the Democrats have done for them these past fifty years! They need to pass on the Democrat’s legacy to their children and their children’s children, lest things get even worse than they are now.

What Europe has long sown it is now reaping — Eurabia.

“Europe Will Be Islamic by the End of the Century” predicts Bernard Lewis in an article about disturbing developments in Europe: Europeans are slowly coming to grips with the Islamization of their continent and the realities of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, he told the German newspaper “Die Welt.” What will become of the great cathedrals built over so many centuries as a testament to Europe’s devotion and creativity?

By that time, 2100 A.D., the revered American constitution will have been replaced with “The Qur’an” and the new nation, “The Islamic States of America” will be ruled by Islamic law (the Shari‘a).

Americans are understandably skeptical about these forecasts, because for centuries past, immigrants have arrived from afar and within a generation or two have enthusiastically adopted the American culture as their own. Because of this “short” American experience and history, the idea of an Islamist takeover seems quite far-fetched to the media, universities, churches and — even the U.S. government. But it is a reality that Islamists pray for; they have been striving towards these goals for centuries. In “The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America” Daniel Pipes wrote:

The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam.

The Muslim Brotherhood began in Egypt in the 1920s. It resisted British domination, but because of its violence, the organization was brutally repressed by the Egyptian government. The members scattered throughout the Middle East and the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, spreading their influence. Some attending American universities started the Muslim Student Association and other Muslim social and financial groups.

Daniel Pipes in “The Islamic States of America?” references an article in “The Chicago Tribune” of 19 September 2004, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America” (requires subscription). After interviewing and studying the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, the authors (Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe, and Laurie Cohen) acknowledged the Islamists’ goal of turning the United States into an Islamic state.

Over the last 40 years, small groups of devout Muslim men have gathered in homes in U.S. cities to pray, memorize the Koran and discuss events of the day. But they also addressed their ultimate goal, one so controversial that it is a key reason they have operated in secrecy: to create Muslim states overseas and, they hope, someday in America as well. …

Brotherhood members emphasize that they follow the laws of the nations in which they operate. They stress that they do not believe in overthrowing the U.S. government, but rather that they want as many people as possible to convert to Islam so that one day—perhaps generations from now—a majority of Americans will support a society governed by Islamic law.

Daniel Pipes writes that “the greater Islamist threat to the West is not violence – flattening buildings, bombing railroad stations and nightclubs, seizing theaters and schools – but the peaceful, legal growth of power through education, the law, the media, and the political system“.

Mustafa Saied, a former member who was mentioned by “The Wall Street Journal” in a story about the Muslim Brotherhood, December 2003, said that “The U.S. Brotherhood had a plan for achieving Islamic rule in America: It would convert Americans to Islam and elect like-minded Muslims to political office. ‘They’re very smart. Everyone else is gullible,’ Saied says. ‘If the Brotherhood puts up somebody for an election, Muslims would vote for him not knowing he was with the Brotherhood.‘”