They say
politics makes strange bedfellows, and boy are they ever right. Nothing could be stranger – on the surface - than the Left’s sudden
and nearly fanatical embrace of those who hail from the Muslim faith. After spending the better part of the past
century belittling organized religion and bombarding our courts with challenges
to anything that smacks of religion in a governmental setting, the Left has
suddenly discovered a newfound loathing for religious intolerance. These are the same people who condescendingly sneer about “flying spaghetti
monsters” and “bible thumpers,” but Islam and the Koran? That’s all good with the Left for some
reason. And if you think it’s odd that
the purported champions of women’s issues and gay rights are now ferociously
defending a religious group that mistreats women and gays, well you would be
right. It is indeed odd.
They say if
something doesn’t make sense then it isn’t true. Well it doesn’t make sense that the Left has
made itself the best friend of the Muslim community on the basis of their love
for religious freedom. If they stood for
religious freedom as a principle they’d be taking up the mantel of Christians
as well, and yet the opposite is true.
Christians are routinely under attack by the Left. So now the question is, why would the Left go
out of its way to pamper and appease Muslims?
To thoroughly
explain the Left requires a bit of time and a good psychiatric dictionary but to
keep it pithy I’ll sum it up this way:
Liberalism is a mental disorder that manifests itself as an absence of
maturity. A liberal is an adult child
with a child’s constant need to gratify his ego, so much of what liberals do is
for the purpose of showing the rest of us how superior they are. Liberals also crave power and control. Every odd thing they do can be explained by
understanding these simple truths.
After 9-11 most
Americans naturally began to look at Islam and Muslims with a bit more
circumspection because that was the reasonable thing to do given the horror
that transpired. Liberals allowed us to
grieve for about five minutes before they could no longer resist the prime
opportunity they saw to feed their massive egos and to divide us in ways that
could be politically useful to them. After
all, Muslims vote, don’t they? They set out
on a devious mission to portray our natural, self-protective instincts as “hate”
and “religious bigotry” so that they could smugly show us how much more
open-minded and resistant to stereotyping they
are (not that the Left never stereotypes, but when they do they have good reasons, you see).
The truth is that there was commendably little backlash against peaceful
Muslims following the bloody carnage of 9-11, but rather than applaud our
maturity and restraint liberals began incessantly campaigning for “tolerance” as
if Muslims were the ones under attack. Muslims
- the latest conquests to be pulled into the Democrat Party’s harem - are now
the honorary guests of Democrats at highly visible events such as the State of
the Union address, where they are paraded out like orphans at a charity
telethon. The intent is to create a
false narrative of pervasive bigotry on the Right and foment a sense of victimhood
among Muslims. Does that game sound
familiar? It should. Victimhood, after all, is the Left’s
specialty, because when you don’t have principles to unify your party, you need
victims. And it’s working, of course.
Guess which way
the Muslim vote is trending? In the year
2000 80% of the Muslim vote went for George Bush. By 2008 85% of Muslims reportedly voted for
Obama. Now, Democrats, Wikipedia and
liberal journalists will tell you that the mass movement of Muslims to the
Democrat Party was a consequence of the rhetoric and military policy of George Bush
and the “neo-cons.” But those of us
paying careful attention would question whether it was the campaign against
Islamic terrorism that turned the tide or whether it was the Left’s orchestrated
scheme to cultivate victim status among Muslims that turned the tide. And though the hard stats are difficult to
pin down, one can find article after article talking about the high levels of
welfare and other public assistance within the Muslim community, particularly
the thousands of refugees brought in by Barack Obama. Someone remind me which is the party of
welfare, and which is the party that threatens (emptily, alas) to turn off the
spigot?
Hmmmm.
Like every
other special interest group wooed by the Left, Muslims know a useful idiot
when they see one. Once satisfied to
assimilate and reasonably blend with American culture, Muslims now boldly
establish Islamic enclaves here, secure in the knowledge that any resistance we
show will be attacked by the useful idiots with loud shouts of “Islamophobia” or
“religious bigotry.” They know, as conservatives
do, that the Left will foolishly sacrifice anything – even its own culture –
for fleeting moments of power and the heady feeling that they’re better than
everyone else.
That’s it in
a nutshell, folks. Muslims and the Left
make natural allies. There are now two
Muslims in the U.S. House of Representatives:
Keith Ellison, Democrat from Minnesota, and André Carson, Democrat from
Indiana. Both are radical leftists. Surpise, surprise. In February of 2012 USA
Today reported that the number of U.S. mosques was up 74% since 2000. In November of 2014, C-SPAN carried video
of the Islamic Opening Prayer to Allah in the House of Representatives. In the meantime we’ve watched as our friends
in countries all over Europe grapple
with the consequences of letting their Left prove how open-minded they are over
there.
It’s got
nothing to do with religious liberty or religious persecution. It’s got everything to do with expanding the
Democrat Party tent. The question
is: At what cost to the rest of us?
~CW
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