Over at AtlasShrugs I discuss the new effort to portray jihad as schoolgirls skipping rope, and to package the purveyors of and apologists for the most hateful and murderous ideology active in the world today as lovable lugs who root for the Lakers and giggly girls who can’t help indulging their sweet tooth:
Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign
from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an
“insult to our intelligence,” and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads,
a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, “My Jihad is to stay fit
despite my busy schedule.”The whole endeavor is reminiscent
of Alexander DubÄek’s “Socialism with a human
face.” In Communist Czechoslavakia in 1968, DubÄek limited the
power of the secret police and relaxed restrictions on speech; but when the
Czechs got too much of a taste for freedom, the Soviet tanks rolled in to
remind them of just how human the face of socialism really was.And
now Hamas-linked CAIR is trying to paint a human face on the Islamic doctrine
that has caused untold suffering for human beings worldwide for fourteen
centuries, and continues to do so today. The leading Islamic supremacist
advocacy group in the U.S., treated as a reputable authority by the mainstream
media, as well as politicians and law enforcement officials around the country,
is trying to manipulate Americans into thinking that because some Muslims think
of jihad in benign, peaceful ways, therefore the ones who think of it in its traditional Islamic sense, as a divine command to wage war against and
subjugate unbelievers, somehow don’t matter and are unworthy of attention.But
just as sure as the tanks rolled into Prague, no matter how many Muslims think
that jihad involves patting puppies on the head and giving dollar bills to
noble, grateful homeless people, sooner or later the bombs go off and the heads
roll anyway. It’s like trying to convince people that because Lyndon Johnson
declared a war on poverty and legions of earnest high school counselors have
waged war on drugs, that therefore it’s “bigoted” to point out that the word war usually involves shooting and
killing people.It
is indeed an insult to our intelligence — and it is part of a larger
initiative. Pro-Hamas Islamic supremacists such as Zahra Billoo of CAIR and
Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association of New York tweet about their
love of chocolate and children and their pious good wishes for the people of
Newtown, Connecticut, while simultaneously expressing their support for the
genocidal Palestinian jihad against Israel, even to the point of retailing fabrications of the Palestinian propaganda machine. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi
apologist for the Islamic jihadis who are massacring his own people in Pakistan
and Indonesia, likewise made a great show of his grief over the Newtown
massacre, but couldn’t resist using it to retail Palestinian jihad propaganda,
tweeting: “As u pray for the #Newtown children, pray for Palestinian children dying of poverty.”Zahra
Billoo and Linda Sarsour crave chocolate! How bad could they be? Plenty bad:
Billoo has advised
Muslims to shun law enforcement and called U.S. troops “terrorists.”
Sarsour has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA
agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam. They are part
of the Islamic supremacist establishment that is attempting to lull Americans
into complacency about the nature and source of the jihad threat, and their
just-us-girls tweets about chocolate and cute kids are all part of that, after
the manner of the See How Hitler Loves
His Dogs photo spreads that Nazi authorities published long ago to humanize
der Führer. It’s a sweet jihad, a chummy jihad, a chocolatey jihad — but a
jihad just the same.One clue to this phenomenon comes from jazz musician Tarek
Shah, who pled
guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons
training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought
was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent, “I could be
joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second.”Of course, Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour will never slit
our throats. They will just kill us with kindness, insistently and self-consciously
trying to show the world that they”re cute and cuddly just like the girl next
door while fronting for an inhuman, oppressive ideology that, not
coincidentally, has one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines ever seen
on the planet.Today”s jihad terrorists are adherents of a totalitarian,
genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain
circumstances are a good thing. Those murders are committed for the sake of a
societal vision that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good, even
while committing unimaginable atrocities to secure and retain power. But it is
not good, and anyone who still retains even rudimentary clarity of vision in
this increasingly befogged age can see that.That’s where Hamas-linked CAIR”s #MyJihad campaign and the sweet-tooth
tweets of Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour come in: to lull those few who may
still be awake into thinking that it won’t be so bad to accept the special accommodations for Muslims upon which CAIR insists, and the continued enabling
of Islamic supremacism in U.S. foreign policy. After all, there will still be
time to stay fit on a busy schedule, and the need to do so after indulging one’s
chocolate craving. Coming from two hijabbed Muslim women, enslaved to the will
of men and subject to their every whim, this is abundantly reassuring — isn’t
it? There’s chocolate! How bad could slavery be?