''We thought it was over,'' said Awatif Abadrabbo, referring to the announcement by Homeland Security officials that were appealing an immigration judge's ruling last month granting Imam Mohammad Qatanani permanent U.S. residency….During his time as imam, Qatanani, a soft-spoken, diminutive man, has won the respect of people from different religions and ethnic communities. In addition, the state's most powerful political and law enforcement officials often make a point of attending major events at his mosque. On Wednesday, at a 7 a.m. event which marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan, New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine was the main speaker at the mosque. – from this article
Jon Corzine may have presented himself, a little too easily, I'm afraid, as a "barefoot boy from Wall Street," as Wendell Willkie was said to have done in a campaign long past. But if Corzine thinks that at this point he can show up for some Ramadan-breaking event with people and mosques with very doubtful associations (isn't the imam you keep, if that imam has supported Hamas, just about as doubtful an association as is needed?), and that no one will mind or remember when election time comes round at last, he's got another Wall-Street think coming.
I hope he, and every other political figure who is tempted to show up at these mosques, realizes that their behavior helps, inadvertently, to legitimize the activities of those who participate in, directly or indirectly, the Jihad to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam.
Corzine and others like him should be put on the defensive. They should be made to think twice, and to start learning about Islam before blandly or blindly engaging in behavior whose consequences they clearly do not know, or do not care to think about too deeply. Such people have to be punished, and the only way to punish them is to vote them out, or to make their re-election far more difficult and painful than it otherwise would have been.
They have to learn -- that they have to learn. It is not asking too much, more than seven years after the attacks of 9/11/2001, to ask these people to begin to inquire into the texts, the tenets, the attitudes, the atmospherics of Islam. There are books, books on Muslim doctrine, books on the history of Muslim behavior -- that is, the 1350-year history of Muslim conquest of non-Muslim lands, and the subsequent subjugation of many different kinds of non-Muslims, from Spain to East Asia. Corzine has the time, and he has the responsibility to find out about this. All the ribbon-cutting and check-handing-over ceremonies, with the babbitt-like pictures of the assorted smilers, mean nothing compared to his duty to find out, and then to help instruct, and protect. He made a bloody killing on Wall Street, and then he wanted power, he wanted glory. Well, he got the power, and the glory, as that appetizing thing, a U.S. Senator.
Now he has a responsibility. Now he has to do some work, to engage in study. It may be painful. He may have fallen out of the habit, or perhaps never, save in the banal and not-terribly-impressive enterprise of making a lot of money, learned how to do it. But do it he must. The people he claims to represent deserve it.
Before visiting a mosque, he and others like him should become aware of the meaning of the phrase "taqiyya and tu-quoque." Visitors to mosques should be prepared to ask -- sweetly, in an Infidel-Wants-to-Know Mode -- about Muhammad's marriage to Aisha when she was nine, about the assassinations of Asma bint Marwan and others, about the massacre of the inoffensive Jewish farmers of the Khaybar oasis, about the decapitation of 600-900 helpless prisoners of the Banu Qurayza, and about so much more. Be sure to mention the Hadith.
Informed Infidels should go also. Do not let the presentation to those Infidels (hmmm, doesn't that spicy chicken and that pita, and then the honeyed dessert, all waiting for us afterwards, smell good, I can't keep my mind off it, how nice these people are, what good hearts they have to invite us in to share their food and their faith) be allowed to finish without making the most that you possibly can out of that "question time." And bear in mind that you will only be called on once, so you had better have your questions ready -- not really to be answered, but so that they can provoke thought and unease in your fellow Infidels like Corzine, who have come, unlike you, without any mental weapons whatsoever.
Needed - Pizza delivery drivers for Fort Dix area.
It would be difficult to find a man more clueless than Governor Corzine-----clueless about Islam, about the extraordinary selfishness of the teachers' unions, about the onerous taxation New Jerseyans pay, about deep corruption in the New Jersey political system and on and on. The man is at best grossly ignorant. At worst complicit. He could serve as a fine poster boy for what is wrong in American public life today. With politicians like him, Islam will always get a free pass, as will other organizations inimical to the body politic at large.
Simple questions,
How does one reconcile terrorists that act in the name of Islam with,
The ideological notion that Islam is a religion of peace?
Islam being one of the largest/accepted religions in the world?
Islam nations having essentially more money than god/allah yet for the majority of adherents are functionally 3rd world?
Lan astalem,
GoingThere
Corzine has another year on his term. Any and all visits to the mosque will be written off as multiculturalism in this thoroughly blue state. He's lucky right now because NJ is not considered a battleground, meaning none of the candidates will show up around here. The NY media is more focused on the election and probably PA is as well, covering Philadelphia more than Trenton.
How can anyone hold Corzine to task if a President Obama is here next year campaigning for him? Everything we find questionable the press will consider commendable.
When the current President of the United States, the man who saw 3,000 people killed in one day on his watch, sees nothing wrong with Islam and keeps pushing the propaganda of the religion of peace, how can anyone expect otherwise from state and local elected officials?
When the current President of the United States, the man who saw 3,000 people killed in one day on his watch, sees nothing wrong with Islam and keeps pushing the propaganda of the religion of peace, how can anyone expect otherwise from state and local elected officials?
Posted by: PMK
good post. makes me mad, how all our "elected" official don't even want to talk about it. or its something about stopping a nuclear weapon at some port. i'm all for that. but what are they're views about all these mosques built by saudi arabia, stuff like that.
What would one expect from this latter day Ali Baba and all the other thieves of Wall Street and Washington who have just cost the American taxpayers a trillion dollars. While he and his kind ship American jobs to sweatshops abroad or replace them by importing masses of quasi-slave third world immigrants, Corzine himself, like the Buchanans in the Great Gatsby, is able to retreat into his vast wealth oblivious of the havoc he has wreaked around him.
And speaking of mosque attendance:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/07/ddn100708mosquefolo.html
Police investigating the Dayton mosque "terror attack" are questioning a 10-year-old boy and his family, all members of the mosque.
Omigosh Marwan's Daughter,
It was freaking pepper spray that was sprayed in the mosque. It was sprayed from inside the mosque, and it was freaking pepper spray. So all that 'we felt nauseous' stuff was of course crap, no unlike the women who 'fainted' at the Swift plant. Pepper. Nothing more. Islamophobia is legitimate. Hate crimes against Muslims are non-existent. Like attacking themselves and pinning it on us somehow makes their tu quoque logical fallacies any less false. If that were our style we would blow up the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Plainfield, IN, 2 hours away. Or not, because who knows what a raid on that place could produce?