Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proud Zionist

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was an opponent of the jihad against Israel. While there are some disputed quotations circulating in this connection, here are some key and authenticated MLK quotes. Take them to heart today:

"I cannot stand idly by, even though I happen to live in the United States and even though I happen to be an American Negro and not be concerned about what happens to the Jews in Soviet Russia. For what happens to them happens to me and you, and we must be concerned."

"Israel's right to exist as a state in security is uncontestable."

"Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality."

"I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews -- because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all."

"When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."

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I have a copy of the text written by King's attorney-Clarence B Jones
titled 'What would Martin Say?'
All the above quotes are within, and many more. Jones is the scholar in residence at the martin luther king educational institute at Stanford U.
It is a very worthwhile read as the years roll by and people try to change what King said, and meant.....

Martin Luther King, Jr., was an opponent of the jihad against Israel.

Shhhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone. It might get out.

While we're at it, lets bury a few more things about King. "One of the saddest commentaries on the sorry state of “civil rights” today — or at least how the straggling remnant of the civil rights movement and their liberal camp followers view civil rights today — is that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, most powerful and emblematic utterance — that he looks forward to the day when his children will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin [applies equally & persuaively to the 'G_d' which his children and others may choose to follow] — has now become uncomfortably controversial among those who claim to honor him."

http://www.discriminations.us/2013/01/dishonoring-martin-luther-king-jr/

Particularly in the context of examining Islamic jihad, I think Americans should be exceedingdly grateful for MLK Jr. Here you had the shameful treatment of blacks for centuries in America, and a laundry list of very legitimate grievances for black Americans in the 1960s, with the potential for widescale racial violence simmering just under the surface. And who became the leading black spokesman for the civil rights movement? A Christian minister, who preached and adopted non-violent tactics, and who dreamed of men of all colors and creeds living in permanent equality. Just take a moment and imagine what America would look like today if King had been a Muslim who looked to Muhammaded and Islamic history for his example on how to engage in conflict. Imagine big, wide-ranging organizations like AQ, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad being formed in America by American blacks. Imagine black suicide bombers detonating themselves in white churches and restaurants, shouting "Allahu Ackbar". Imagine the degree of mistrust, racial hatred and segregation into armed camps this would have engendered in America. Personally, I am extremely grateful that America had someone like MLK in the position he was in during this turbulent period.

Peaceful Non Violent Resistance was communicated to Leo Tolstoy, by America Quakers after he wrote his book 'My Religion', in 1884...
Tolstoy's book 'The Kingdom of God is Within You' 1894, acknowledged the Quakers... Gandhi read The Kingdom book twice and said other books given to him pale in comparison...Tolstoy influenced Gandhi, who took the idea of peaceful non violent Resistance, and called it called 'soul force'...MLK used the same tactics as Gahandi and called ir 'love force'...So what was an idea of American Quakers, traveled from Russia, to South Africa, to India, and back to America again...A big circle of love force...We lost that somewhere...

unlike the raquet call Al Sharpton.
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I am with you with what you say, BTP, about Martin Luther King. He understood the optimal way to proceed in America to create true justice for blacks, unlike some of his contemporaries, e.g., the Black Panthers, who pursued a far more radical (and unwise) approach and who often ridiculed King for not being strident enough.

One caveat though: Peaceful, non-violent resistance will only work in societies which are bascially decent to begin with but which have erred, sometimes grievously. In many societies, most in fact, the peaceful, non-violent approach will simply be terminated at its outset by great violence. Non-violent resistance would never have worked in Soviet Russia or Mao's China or Hitler's Germany or even in standard non-totalitarian states like Spain and France in the early years of the twentieth century. Won't work in many countries today either, including scores of Islamic nations. So in this sense, King was fortunate that he was born an American just as America was fortunate to have him.

Very true, Wellington. In fact, I think King hiself had concluded as much---I'm pretty sure that he wrote somewhere that non-violence worked in certain societies, but against say, the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's approach was perhaps more appropriate and necessary.

Sorry, that's "himself".

Here in Charleston, SC, the MLK Day parade just went by. The memory of Dr. King is painful in contrast to the embrace of so many Africans and African-Americans of Islamic radicalism, particularly in South Africa, especially when one considers the central role Jews played in advancing anti-apartheid and civil rights in America.
Whenever I get dark thoughts about such matters, I remember that there are still people like Colonel Allen West out there, African-Americans who haven't fallen prey to the false equivalence of jihad and the struggle for civil rights.
Black Africans are still paying in blood and freedom for the jihad spreading on that continent. that's where the real fault-line is today.

Martin Luther King used an Evangelical Christian tradition of discourse that he shared with most Southern whites. It is one which inherited a strong self-critical element (even if this is unacknowledged by its enemies) from the prophets of Israel. Shortly before King's career was launched, an Evangelical theologian named Carl F. Henry published a book entitled _The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism_, in which racism is one of the things that rightly made that Fundamentalist conscience uneasy.

One of the points at which the American civil rights movement went wrong was in adopting Malcolm X into its pantheon of heroes. Malcolm Little was a typical jailhouse convert to Islam (albeit initially the Nation of Islam variety) who took its message of hate hook, line, and sinker--although he probably had a bit more raw intelligence than others. However, when he moved to orthodox Sunnism, nobody in the leadership or the civil rights movement raised the question of why he was embracing a religion that, in the land of the Hajj itself, was only beginning a "window dressing" abolition of slavery, and which in parts of Africa still practiced chattel slavery.

If racial issues are the indelible ugly tattoo on the American body politic, the soft spot for Islam (intorduced via Malcolm X) will be the indelible ugly tattoo on the civil rights movement.

Well said, Kepha. And yes, Malcolm X is a vastly overrated individual. In fact, his legacy represents part of the problem, not part of the solution, to true racial justice in America. To the extent that he is still extolled, then to that extent a major problem remains.

Actually, any black American who converts to Islam (usually accompanied by bitterness towards America) is part of the problem since Islam's track record in black slavery is a lot longer and more extensive than that of the Judeo-Christian, Western world. Moreover, and as I have noted before here at JW, the Judeo-Christian world has apologized many times over for its role in black slavery, contra the Islamic world which has no capacity to apologize for anything, even though it has so much to apologize for.

With respect to King, while I honor his overall legacy, he did make mistakes which the hagiographic assessment of him still disallows. He refused to criticize black African dictators, misunderstood the higher stakes of our involvement in Vietnam and showed a sympathy at times for certain Marxist tenets that was, to put it mildly, quite naive. Still, great people tend to have great faults, and King was a great human being by virtually any standard and did America a great service by insisting that the best of American ideals means that we'll all in this together and that separatism and a payback mentality are not an option.

Boston Tea Party wrote:

Just take a moment and imagine what America would look like today if King had been a Muslim who looked to Muhammaded and Islamic history for his example on how to engage in conflict.
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We don't have to imagine very hard, BTP—that would be Malcom X and the Black Muslims. *Ugh*

As Duh Swami notes, Martin Luther King came from a long and distinguished tradition of non-violent protest.

And, as Wellington notes, this tactic only works in societies that are essentially decent, but are falling short of their ideals, and have to reminded of their "better angels".

Certainly, such a movement would be utterly doomed when facing Fascism—see the terrible fate of the "White Rose" in Nazi Germany—or dhimmis facing oppression in any part of Dar-al-Islam.

This is a day I'm going to give thanks for both Dr. King and our civilized Western tradition, which at its best allow for improvement and redress of injustice.

It is, in fact, this tradition which I am relying on for Americans—and all Westerners—to finally face the destructive violence of the Jihad threat.

A small percentage of southern whites were members of the klan, but through fear, they had great influence over a majority of the population.

Martin Luther King knew that fear only makes the klan stronger. He knew he had to use peaceful means.

We should learn from Martin Luther King. Islam is just like the klan in that the “religion” of Islam is all about fear. It was created by fear and it survives by fear.

Peaceful resistance...we want to shine a spotlight on Islam and we want to mock it. More people must overcome their fear and speak the truth about Islam.

Comedians who are willing to openly mock the absurdities of Islam can win this war, even while our great military has been turned into a useless politically correct “humanitarian” organization trying in vain to win hearts and minds. The military approach will never work, and if we try it again, it will fail again and we will again fall back to the futile effort to win hearts and minds.

Wellington wrote:

With respect to King, while I honor his overall legacy, he did make mistakes which the hagiographic assessment of him still disallows...
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Agreed, Wellington. Of course, the great thing about the (mostly) rational West is that we can develop our own estimate of any individual.

I share your caveats—and some of them are quite troubling—about some of King's stances, while still being impressed and even inspired by his achievements and his overall legacy.

I got a piece this morning from Martin Kramer's group mailing. Notwithstanding the (apparently) good things Dr. King said about Israel, according to Kramer, Dr. King got cold feet and then canceled a visit (group tour) he had planned to make to Israel. It was right after the 1967 Six Day war. I guess King worried how he might be perceived in the Arab world and by partisans of the Palestinian cause if he showed solidarity with Israel after the war; at a time Arab pride had been severely wounded.

"Just take a moment and imagine what America would look like today if King had been a Muslim who looked to Muhammaded and Islamic history for his example on how to engage in conflict. Imagine big, wide-ranging organizations like AQ, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad being formed in America by American blacks. "

Um... We have a twice-elected black President of the USA who for 20 years imbibed and soaked up the vicious hatred of America from his pastor Reverend Wright -- from whom he (Obama) only cynically and opportunistically distanced himself; not with adequate nor plausible sincerity. And we have his Attorney General who was a proud member of the violent Black Panthers, and who has never repudiated that past -- nor have his feet been held to the fire about that past, as would surely happen to any white Attorney General or other high office-holder with a KKK or white power past.

See more on not only AG Eric Holder, but others in Obama's Cabinet:

http://herald-zeitung.com/opinion/columns/article_da9dad98-11ab-11e2-8e3f-0019bb2963f4.html

Whatever good MLK Jr. paved the way for, American blacks have been taking "one step forward, two steps black".

LemonLime wrote, replying to Boston Tea Party:

Um... We have a twice-elected black President of the USA who for 20 years imbibed and soaked up the vicious hatred of America from his pastor Reverend Wright...
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Point taken, LemonLime. But I agree with BTP that we would likely be even further down that dark road with his scenario.

Daydreaming, wondering of those days when we were judged on the content of our character, not the skin color. Mouth breathers are now whipping up the masses trying to create division where it's been amazingly quiet and OVER since maybe busing in the early 70's.
MLK loved the Jews,k so I wonder what he'd have said of yesterdays inaguaral speech compared to the gettyburg address, or today where we support the sancity of life as MLK might have seen the hypocrisy of Obama surrounding himself around children just a week ago during the 2nd amendment deal completely ddismissing who Marge Sanger was or the numerous votes of Obama for late term abortions. Would MLK have shed a tear or knuckle punched jayz and Colin Powell while talking bout the uppity peckerheads with Christ Matthews and Rev'runt Al Sharpton.
Would he be able to walk and talk with the likes of the Muslim B-hood in the WH ball? Would he have been invited to the DNC where jerusalem and God were voted out of the democratic party?
Would he have gone to the million man march and did the hand jive with Farrakhan who may have murdered malcom X after seeing just what Islam was back when? Would he stand for the class warfare and racial animosity this president who happened to miss the Selma march( but was conceived because of it??) and worked in the slums of Punahou private school and rode with the "choom gang?
I don't know. My own personal daydream is were MLK still living he might share a rocking chair with Billy Graham out in Carolina, or maybe email Mr Sowell( who believes there's an underground race war going on), or maybe be chagrined about the spite from the WH on Jews and Jerusalem, saddened Allan West was "re districted( redistracted?)" or Herman Cain was called a house N**** and needed to return to the plantation( how dare he) while people called and threatened to murder his family?

MLK a Zionist? Next you'll be saying Hamas is a terror organization or Islam hates Christians, atheists, Jews, homosexuals and others islamists when the winds are right. Oh my, what disastrous times we live in where journalism is dead and right is wrong. May God help us,

Love all except the people of the earth who continue to divide, to hate and spew their lies but I pray for my enemies nonetheless, ckinfidel
PS yep I'm a monarchist, awaiting the Lion of the tribe of Judah to take His rightful seat.

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