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Well, this explains a great deal. State Department diplomat extraordinaire Karen Hughes has been studying Islam via the notorious Saudi-funded dhimmi "scholar" and Islamic apologist John Esposito and Reza Aslan, the wunderkind who assures us that Muhammad was the ideal Rotarian and the jihad against the West is just a myth.
From "10 Questions For Karen Hughes" in Time magazine, with thanks to Diana West:
ARE THERE BOOKS BY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM THAT YOU FIND PARTICULARLY INSIGHTFUL? John Esposito at Georgetown has done a number of books. I've read excerpts of a lot of them. [Reza Aslan's] No God but God, I've read it. Here at the State Department, we've hosted several events, trying to educate our own employees. We've had three scholars and one cleric come and speak about Islamic culture and traditions, and we had a huge turnout.
I shudder to think who the cleric may have been.
Posted by Robert at February 21, 2006 12:58 PM
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Incredible!
The state department depends on the enemy to learn about the enemy. Enemy propaganda has replaced intelligence:
UNREAL!
If it wasn't so ridiculous I would say 'only in America', but it seems Europe is going down a similar road...
...and all this 4 years after 9/11..?
Posted by: sheik yer'mami![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 21, 2006 1:51 PM
Blessed are those who learn from Esposito, for they shall remain untutored.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at February 21, 2006 2:00 PM
Look on the bright side: she has only read excerpts of Esposito's pablum.
The State Department is full of Georgetown FSO borg droids who quickly rise to SES ranks. Until the American median voter begins to insist that these people immerse themselves in the Quran, hadiths (Bukhari and Muslim at minimum) and Sira before they deploy, we will continue to hear the regurgitation of the jihad propaganda even from the Under Sec'y of State for Propaganda, I mean, Public Diplomacy.
Posted by: Hulegu Khan at February 21, 2006 2:14 PM
Reza Aslan and John Esposito. No wonder Karen Karen Hughes is a clueless dhimmi. I couldn't think of worse resources. How about Karen Armstrong, Karen? If you are going to be a moron, might as well go for the whole taqiyya-chalada!
Posted by: John Sobieski at February 21, 2006 2:39 PM
Here is a remarkable book that Karen Hughes (and everyone else) should read: "Life Alert" (subtitle, "The Medical Case of Muhammad") by Dede Korkut, MD. This is a dynamite book and Islamists will explode when they read it!
Below is a 5-star review that was on Amazon.com. Although it seemed to be a very accurate review, Amazon.com recently removed it:
"As a physician board certified separately in Neurology, in Psychiatry, and in Electroencephalography (study of brain activity & brain waves), I can attest that the material in this book is medically sound and easily understood by laymen. Dr. Korkut’s conclusions, based on medical data, are authoritative and compelling. The book is illustrated with accurate medical drawings, photographs, and diagrams. If history is correct as cited by the author (documented with an extensive bibliography), then the prophet Muhammad clearly suffered from brain and mental disorders that directly and adversely effected his thinking and behavior. There is very strong historical and clinical evidence to support the author’s conclusions. His treatment of the man, however, is balanced, in that he dismisses (with proof) some negative criticism of the prophet, e.g. his documented polygamy, which in that time and culture was acceptable. But, he also well documents the prophet’s pedophilia, his thievery, his lying, and his history of violence and murder.
In addition to my above qualifications, I also have had two years of seminary study. Dr. Korkut’s theology in this book is quite sound. This book points out some serious logical, moral, and theological defects of the prophet himself, and some major problems in the Qur’an.
This book obviously will be highly controversial, but it is extremely interesting and is a "must-read". Well worth the price. Unfortunately, this book surely has placed the author's life in danger, and places him in the same position as Salam Rushdie, Dutch filmmaker vanGogh, and the Danish cartoonists."
Posted by: Truth Searcher at February 21, 2006 3:08 PM
O God! O Montreal!
Posted by: Hugh at February 21, 2006 3:19 PM
Doin' a heck of a job, Karen.
Posted by: Hugh at February 21, 2006 3:36 PM
Again, the hubris of the upper class at work. These people are so far out of touch with the realities that surround us about Islam that it defies any good sense.
I should be on the next White House staff. And I'm not even kidding.
Posted by: Foehammer at February 21, 2006 4:16 PM
A big part of the problem is that Americans don't take religion seriously. They either confine it to the level of subjective relativism or fairy tale stories. In academia there are only three classes acceptable for analyzing culture-race, class and gender. Religion just isn't on the list, which is why the media always reports religious conflicts as "ethnic fighting."
If Americans like Hughes thought of religion in terms of truth values rather than as beyond being true or false, debate and correct understanding would be possible.
I for one am convinced that most people aren't going to "get it" till an American city glows in the dark. Small towns are looking like better places to live.
Posted by: American_Palamite at February 21, 2006 5:36 PM
Karen needs to merly move her mouse to a search engine and click in "Koran suras strike destroy infidels kill conquer" or "Bukhari hadith Ayesha Mohammed 9 years old wife".
Or, if she can get out of her stupor and to a bookstore, she could buy:
"The P.I.G. to Islam (and the Crusades)" by a guy named R. Spencer, "Arab Historians of the Crusades" translated and edited by Franceso Gabrieli, and "Anthology of Islamic Literature- from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times" selected and edited by James Kritzeck.
The mix will give her a little perspective about the "noble" faith..
And tell her that the Zoroastrian convert to Islam Ibn Al-Muqaffa, who wrote very cunning post-Aesop type morality fables- among them the delightful teaching tale "The Monkey and the Tortoise" (which has a good lesson to ponder in relation to the current United Arab Emirates port controvery), was put to death on charges of heresy.
Something that modern day apologists of Islam always claim never happened at the hands of oh-so-wonderfully-tolerant Islam, but only under (those Dark Age-blinded, intolerant, evil, stupid and backward) European Christians.
"Heresy" means "to think for yourself".
Something intolerable for Islam.
More heresy!
More Cartoons!
Posted by: profitsbeard at February 21, 2006 6:53 PM
Isn't Franklin Graham some kind of spiritual adviser to Bush? You'd think he'd see fit to offer an opposing view.
Posted by: Shinoliite at February 21, 2006 8:54 PM
How do these people make it to such high office? What a f*%#ing idiot!
With people like her in the higher echelons of American politics we might as well put bombs under our own cars!
Posted by: Kemaste at February 22, 2006 12:14 AM
Perhaps we should start calling her Kareen.
Posted by: PRCS at February 22, 2006 1:13 AM
I'm a board certified neurologist and psychiatrist with a subspeciality in epilepsy. Sure, I would have liked to do an EEG on the prophet(PBOH), but I'd must rather do an EMG examination on him. This is a rather brutish test with electrical shocks to the digits in order to meaure conduction velocities of motor and sensory nerves--and to thereby guage their health. A Jihadist might not appreciate the second portion of the test; a long needle, inserted into the muscle. Ole Muhamed might not have appreciated this particular test, my patients never like it, but I freely would do pro bono work, if needed, by our military or, better, for our CIA boys in those 'secret' facilities in Eastern Europe, maybe with KSM or Ramsi Yussef--I might have used a lot of needles, shocks, maybe even bitch slap him in the face, and have a provocative woman(on her period no less) bump and grind her way into the 'talk' and perform her bump and grind little lap dance on the terrified Jihadist and take pictures of the two, forcing the Jihadist to smile with a Star of David in the background, then make him sleep with a gaggle of pigs. Wonder what amnesty international would think? But, from what I've read, none of this is needed, since waterboarding makes everybody talk from what I've heard. Sorry for the deluded torture scenario.
Posted by: biorabbi at February 22, 2006 1:24 AM
biorabbi:
Too bad you aren't a protocologist as well. You might then actually be able to locate the Prophet's brain in order to insert the probes.
It really is too bad that we don't have the means to prove beyond speculation that what we have in Mohammed is one of the most successful psych cases of all times. Not having Korkut's book before me, I'd hazard a guess that the diagnosis is bipolar disorder. Most of them -- the Jim Joneses and the David Koreshes and other similar cult leaders -- self-destruct when they run into trouble with government authorities that have to crack down on their activities, usually taking a number of their followers with them.
What is easier to deal with is a psychological profile of a typically devote Muslim who happily accepts all of the contradictions and negativity of Islam and ignores the ugly truth of the fascistic founder of the faith.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at February 22, 2006 8:52 AM
I wonder - did the cleric at main state speak about the traditions of beheading?
Like maybe the little school girls in the Phillipines?
And that pig Bush defends them.
No wonder that dizzy bitch is doing what she is doing.
Agreed - doing a heck of a job, Karen.
Posted by: George at February 22, 2006 11:25 AM
It's all clear to me now. Mz. Hughes took her reading list from the syllabus from Dhimmitude for Dummies 101 at Georgetown...
Posted by: jsla at February 22, 2006 11:56 AM
(I was so please with that! -- thinking I had coined the phrase -- but noooooooo -- "Dhimmitude for Dummies" is already on Google... dang...)
Posted by: jsla at February 22, 2006 12:00 PM
What the hell is their problem?
Why doesn't she go to the Heads of the Insurance Industry to be educated so that she can tell us why insurance companies do not rip people off?
Or how about the HMO's so that she can tell us how much they really care?
Or how about the Pharmaceutical industry so that she convince us that they hope that one day there'll be a cure for cancer?
Yeah right! Get real!
If they didn't have such a...ah...ah...ummm...ah oh yeah, dummy like George W. Bush, perhaps this wouldn't be happening. Happy Port to you! Boom!
PJ
Posted by: PJ at February 22, 2006 7:33 PM
I think she forgot to list "See Spot Run."
Posted by: pythagoras at February 27, 2006 1:28 PM
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