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Jimmy Carter to Hamas-linked ISNA: Use “principles of Allah” to bring peace

Aug 31, 2014 5:41 pm By Robert Spencer

CarterIt’s scandalous enough that this aged clown addressed a Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood group, but even worse is that the mainstream media has no problem with it all — it’s indicative of how mainstream Islamic supremacism has become. Meanwhile, Carter showed his ignorance with fulsome references to the Qur’an and Islamic doctrine that show that he has no idea what they really say.

“Ex-President Jimmy Carter says he still prays for peace in Middle East,” by Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, The Detroit News, August 31, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Detroit— During a speech at the annual convention for the Islamic Society of North America on Saturday, former President Jimmy Carter said peace between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is a dream he still prays can be achieved.

“You can’t bring peace to the Middle East without justice and human rights for the Palestinians,” Carter told a packed hall at Cobo Center. “When my prayers are answered and we have peace in that Holy Land then the Israelis and all their neighbors will be blessed to live in peace and prosperity.”

Carter spoke mainly about preventing violence against women and girls, encouraging all present to fight for equal rights for both sexes.

“One thing that all men can do is to be sure that you treat your wife as you would like to be treated yourself,” Carter said, amid cheers. “My hope is all Christians, all Muslims, all people of other faiths, even those who don’t have one, will join in this crusade to end the plight of our wives, our sisters, our daughters.”

He spoke at length about prostitution, rape on college campuses, female genital mutilation and parents in some countries strangling their daughters because they want to have sons. The audience of men, women and children were rapt and responded with applause when he quoted verses from the Quran and the Bible illustrating the equality of the sexes.

“Men and women are created equally from one soul,” Carter said. “If you were taught by your parents or you believe you’re superior to your wife just because you’re a man, Allah says your [sic] wrong.”

Carter was referring to this Qur’anic passage: “O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women” (4:1). But he neglected this one: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other…” (4:34)

At an earlier luncheon on Saturday Carter detailed the work his foundation does and told Muslim Americans to bring peace and justice to all those around them.

“We are all Americans in a system that allows basic human rights: peace, justice and the ability to treat each other as equals,” Carter told a crowd of about 1,000 who had paid $200 a plate to attend the fundraiser luncheon. “I hope all of you will use the principals [sic] of Allah to bring peace and justice to all.”

Which ones, Jimmy? The one where the People of the Book are warred against until they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29)?

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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 5:58 pm

    “You can’t bring peace to the Middle East without justice and human rights for the Palestinians,” Carter told a packed hall at Cobo Center.

    That’s going to be an issue for the arab nations, who prefer to have their disliked kindred – the so-called “palestinians” – in ghettos refugee camps, nurturing hatred for Israel, rather than allowing them to become fully-fledged citizens.

    “One thing that all men can do is to be sure that you treat your wife as you would like to be treated yourself,” Carter said, amid cheers.

    Is that what the quran says? Because I don’t remember the quran teaching the golden rule. I do remember it stating that man and women have different rights and privileges – men are superior to women, men can marry up to four women, etc. Good human being = bad muslim, and vice-versa.

    • Kepha says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 10:08 pm

      I think Dhimmi Carter confused the Qur’an with the New Testament. In Ephesians, Paul tells Christian men to love their wives as Christ loved the church (and any devout ant knowledgeable Christian knows how far that is), while Peter tells us to honor our wives as the joint heirs of the grace of life.

      • robaby says

        Aug 31, 2014 at 11:59 pm

        Actually there are a lot verses in the new testament let alone the old testament that imply men are greater than women.

        As in all the churches of the holy ones, women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. But if they want to learn anything, they should ask their husbands at home. For it is improper for a woman to speak in the church. (1 Corinthians 14:33-35

        You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. (Ephesians 5:22-24 NLT)

        Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. (1 Peter 3:1-2
        Give no woman power over you to trample upon your dignity. (Sirach 9:2

        Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord. (Colossians 3:18

        • SallyA says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 4:43 am

          @ robaby – Thankfully many US Christian denominations that practice so-called complementarianism sexual inequality (like S. Baptists) are losing members. So are the Chrislam and islamophobic/homophobic focused PC MC denominations like UCC, Presbyterian (USA) and Episcopalians that aren’t complementarian. US RCs seem largely lukewarm, high numbers still but not much spiritual fire (Chrislam pope, pedophile priests, it must be hard to be them).

          There’s a shift happening among Holy Spirit-filled American Christians who are reading the Bible as a whole and not privileging Paulinist church-building letters with passages like the ones you quote — that he didn’t think were scripture when he wrote them — over the red letters of what Jesus said, as reported in gospels.

          You also omitted the parallel Paulinist passages about husbands honoring wives, treating them as their own bodies, and so on. But no big deal. Many of us today have gone to the Greek of Paul’s letters where they don’t really say what the English translators say they say, anyway.

          The Bible’s whole message includes the woman who anointed Jesus on the head in the priestly function as did Moses by his anointing of God’s priests under Torah. That is from the gospels of Matthew and Mark, and Jesus specified that wherever the gospel is preached, what she did is to be told in memory of her.

          Similarly the first missionary who ever spoke the message of Jesus so that others would believe was the woman at the well. It makes sense for a follower of Jesus (versus Paul) to be Bible-based and morally opposed to Islam without throwing Christian women into a sexually subordinate category at church in leadership, marriage or any other capacity.

          However even the rigidly “complementarian” men of the S. Baptists, for example, don’t approve wife-beating, polygamy, child brides or the horrors of Sharia law. So in 21st century Christianity there is consistently less misogyny than in Islam. No modern version of Christianity is an equivalent with Islam in discriminatory and violent conduct by males against females of all ages.

          Koran and Bible as written are just not moral equivalents, the Koran’s plain directions for violence and its abrogation theory making it far more dangerous.

        • Peter Clark says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 8:12 am

          @ robaby,

          If you are going to quote Corinthians then please also quote all the more numerous gentle, kind and loving ways in which men are admonished to treat their wives.

          Feminists have long been using mis-quoted bible passages to justify themselves.

          The NLT is a corrupt mistranslation. Ephesians 5:24 says “Therefore as the church is subject to Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.”

          AND THEN verse 25 says “Husbands love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it” This is talking about sacrificial love, and the willingness to give up things for her. Like giving up watching the footy and helping her with the dishes etc.

        • Kepha says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 8:13 am

          RObaby, your quotation of Ephesians 5 reveals your ability to decode rather than to read. It is the very passage in which the words you quote are followed by the admonition for husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church–that meant Christ went to the cross for his church. Hence, the bigger burden is on us men. The Colossians passage is also followed by an admonition for husbands to love their wives and be not bitter against them. And if Peter, a few verses down from the place you quote calls women the “weaker vessel” (did he know about upper body strength?), in the same verse he speaks to the men to honour their wives as joint heirs of the grace of life.

          As for Sirach, I’m a Protestant, and the deuterocanonical books are for me only the edifying literature of the intertestamental period. However, I note his admonition to allow no woman to trample on a man’s dignity–if trampling on a man’s dignity is really what the wymyn want, no wonder some of the wymyn (or however it’s now spelled) who’ve devoted their lives to “empowerment” are among the most lonely, embittered, and unhappy people I’ve ever known.

    • BC says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 5:25 am

      It is very rarely uttered but all this is all the fault of the Arab nations who when the
      State of Israel was declared, told the so called ‘palestinians’ that they would quickly destroy it and drive the Jews into the sea. They told them to leave their homes and they would be back in a few weeks. most took their house keys with them, expecting to return.
      Of course that did not work out. If they had stayed put they would probably be living within Israel as many Arabs are.

      • Bettina says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 6:19 am

        Kudos to you, BC, for knowing your history! Not only did those dastardly neighbors of the new Israel tell them to leave, but they instilled panic in them, as reported at the time and transmitted now to two generations of Israelis.

        That panic caused these arabs to evacuate en masse, despite Israel’s broadcasting and word-of-mouth efforts asking them to stay put.
        Consequently, these willfully disenfranchised “refugees” became suffused with hatred toward all Jews, purposely kept in their misery by these “host” countries, which proved to be anything but. They denied them a basic right to assimilate, as all generations of immigrants have been able to do in America and the West.

        How utterly heartless is the myth of so-called arab or muslim brotherhood! I have no problem with muzzies persecuting other muzzies, the less the better inch’ allah, but the consequences of that betrayal are humongous and horrific.

      • Kepha says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 8:15 am

        Good point, BC. And let’s not forget the plight of the Mizrahi Jews.

        Perhaps leaving the United Nations in charge of the Falastin Arab refugees in 1948 wad one of the biggest mistakes the world ever made. It allowed the Arab states to wash their hands of the problem.

        • David says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 11:23 am

          Jimmy the Dhimini has long proved himself to be an idiot. When one talks about the “war on women”, let’s discuss Rotherham. What about the gang rapes that are so prevalent in Rotherham and the rest of Europe? Isn’t that a war on women? Or is that just a war on girls. What about the slave markets established by ISIS to sell sex slaves? What about the Yazedi and Christian women who are forced to marry these Jihadi scum?

  2. manuel-rafael says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    This would be a perfect time to exile the clown emeritus to Gaza, take away all sharp instruments from his reach and send him to reason with ISIS, another Moslem Brotherhood “Franchise” as IS Hamas and Fatah, the Qatari/Turkish/Pakistani Terror High Command and the Administrative Emirate of Obama and Holder’s justified Jihadi Genocide.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    “Ex-President Jimmy Carter says he still prays for peace in Middle East,”

    Five times a day
    guided by his smartphone Mecca finder app.

    • Bettina says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 6:22 am

      That WAS funny, JB 🙂

  4. Richie says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    Carter is clearly senile

    • gerard says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 7:17 pm

      Sadly, his foolishness has little to do with age. He was stupid like this thirty years ago.

    • Larry S says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 7:22 pm

      Senile he may be. But I think the sentiments he expressed were entirely consistent with those of his younger years.

      Yet another anti-Semitic president who garnered most of the Jewish vote.

      • Bettina says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 6:24 am

        That hurts, Larry — that really hurts. If that’s true, G-d help us Jews!

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 5:41 am

      I don’t think he’s senile. I can’t remember a day when he wasn’t like that.

  5. desidude2 says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    Carter, this senile old fool has never changed his tune, he still thinks that Islam can be a peaceful religion if it is followed properly. Much of the current mess in the middle east could be laid at his doorsteps. He turned his back on the one true secular Muslim leader who brought his country to the modern ages, The Shah of Iran.
    Imagine if the Shah and his family were still in control of Iran. Under the Shah Iran was the powerful state in the region, A powerful secular Iran would be major player in the middle east. all the middle eastern countries would look up to Iran and want to be a s modern as them. the jihadist crowd would be silenced or eliminated.
    Instead today we have Iran bankrolling muslim jihad groups. we have western leaders backing all sorts of unsavory jihdists over secular muslim leaders, with many of them killed or thrown out. This Carter, this ass clown is still pushing his Pollyanna view of Islam to muslims as if they are stupid children.

    • Kepha says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 10:37 pm

      Desidude, this American never voted for Carter, and was glad to see him trounced by RWR. But, keep in mind that as a “progressive” Christian and a Democrat, Carter cannot think ill of any religion on the planet (I speak as a reactionary Christian), including Islam and Marxism-Leninism.

      As for the Shah, I’ll let Iranians be the final judge of what might have been had the Pahlavis remained in power. As it was, Mohammed Reza Shah Palavi not only irked the mullahs, but also the Soviet Union. Mohammed Mossadegh, who was overthrown to return the Shah to power, was a tough and forceful lion against British oil concessions in Iran, but as a sop to his friends in the Tudeh Party (Iranian Communists), he thought it a matter of “international solidarity” to play the crippled mouse when it came to the Soviet control of oil concessions in his country and the shameless looting in which they engaged while occupying southern Azerbaijan. The Shah, however, made the mistake of being an anti-Communist when his country was the last domino in the Soviet drive to stand on the Persian Gulf.

      Hence, “progressive” opinion in the USA and Europe (probably India, too, for all I know) demanded the Shah’s ouster. Hence all those stoonts the Shah’s money sent to the West spent their time chasing anything blonde with a broad bottom and demonstrating against the Shah’s regime; and they had the sympathy of many who would go on to prominence in American media, academia, and the Democratic Party.

      Further, the American Left was riding high, wide and handsome in those days, since it had precipitated the withdrawal of our forces from Viet Nam, refused to see Hun Sen’s part in the massacre of 33% of Cambodia (he was, after all, a stooge of the Viets, who were stooges of the Soviets). It was not going to stand for the US sticking by the Shah, whom it also cordially detested.

      Had I been in Carter’s shoes when the hostage crisis broke, I’d have rounded up every Iranian diplomat (including members of the mission to the UN), every Ithna’ashariyya Shi’ite Muslim cleric, and every Iranian stoont who ever called for the Shah’s ouster in the USA, plopped them in some kind of comfortable detention (one with heating, perhaps in Nebraska or SW Minesota), and told the world that they would so remain there until every American diplomat was released–and then would deport our detainees on the basis of a one-on-one exchange. Since we would have many more than the few hundred they nabbed, I would hold the rest for ransom–perhaps two supertankers full of oil per head–and they would have to take back the Tudeh and Qalqis first. I would have told the rest of the world that their beloved revolutionary Iranians had set the precedent, not I, the minute the universities of Yurruppe erupted in protest. But, there is absolutely no way Uncle Kepha will ever be President of the USA.

      Further, the Iranian mullahocracy got a bad press in the USA because it did an unexpected end-run around the odds-on revolutionary favorites in the Tudeh.

      Now, I don’t know how old you are, but can you tell me anything how India saw Carter’s Iranian situation back in 1978-80?

      • deidude2 says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 am

        “As for the Shah, I’ll let Iranians be the final judge of what might have been had the Pahlavis remained in power. ”

        That’s a lot of water under the bridge for most Iranians, who may not even remember when Iran was a western style land of the relatively free. Remember that the Shah was an anti Islamist and he tried to revive the Persian identity that existed before the Arabs with their Islam, ever invaded Iran. This of course really irked the mullahs. These mullahs wanted Islam and they wanted all western influence out. These mullahs were able to tap onto the anti shah feelings. they were very successful in conning the Iranians and the west into supporting them as if they were going to bring freedom and democracy to Iran. Once they were in control of Iran , thanks to the Carter, France, and their progressive Iranian stooges, they let the mask slip from their faces to show the real ugliness of Islam.

        “Now, I don’t know how old you are, but can you tell me anything how India saw Carter’s Iranian situation back in 1978-80?”
        India always had good relations with the Shah and Iran in general, after all India did share borders as well as cultural ties going back centuries.
        The Shah did visit India and the Indian PM visited Iran. The shah had a lot of respect in India and most Indians wanted him to stay in power.

    • Judi says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 5:44 pm

      Desidude – You are perfectly correct. Thanks to this old fool, the world is in such a mess today. He was the 70’s equivalent of BHO.

  6. jp says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    I literally wish he was dead.

    • Bettina says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 6:50 am

      Yep, Carter’s time has come and gone for so long…
      Hey Jimmy — no use vying for the position of Supreme Ignoramus any longer. You’re over 90, take a break, rest forever more… and feel eternally the embarrassment you’ve earned so well.

      • Bettina says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 6:51 am

        Supreme Ignoramus, and ardent anti-Semite combined.

  7. Jaladhi says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    This moron doesn’t know that ISIS is using “principles of allah” to kill all infidels. What are any principles of allah that will bring peace inthis world??

    I am amazed at the stupidity of the West. They have truly buried their heads in the gobbledygook of Muslim lies!!

  8. tom says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    Carter is just being an old man and probably went to too many charity parties and hasn’t got the faintest idea what is going on in the real world. Pity him

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 7:20 pm

      Not entirely, Tom. Jimmy Carter has been enabling Jihad for decades now—he may be clueless, but his cluelessness isn’t that innocent…

    • Bettina says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 7:03 am

      I beg to differ with your view that “Carter is JUST being an old man,” Tom. As you’ve read here, this useful idiot is only pursuing the theme of arab victimization at the hands of all those Joooz, who are damned in his anti-Semitic songbook, regardless of the ethics practiced by Eretz Israel in all matters pertaining to the conflict between its national security and millions of high-breeding “Palestinian” civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:16 pm

    Jimmy Carter to Hamas-linked ISNA: Use “principles of Allah” to bring peace
    ………………………………..

    This useful idiot may not know—or perhaps he *does* know—that the only “peace” this would bring is of the destruction of Israel, the slaughter of most of her citizens, and the oppression under dhimmitude of any remaining Jews and Christians unable to flee.

    America’s worst president—unless, perhaps, he has now been outstripped in that regard by the current occupant of the White House…

    In any case, he was the first US president to face the ‘modern’ incarnation of the Jihad threat, in the form of the “Islamic Revolution” in Iran and the taking of our embassy staff hostage. He was the first to drop the ball, and did so disastrously.

    He has learned *absolutely nothing* in the thirty-five years since…

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 5:45 am

      Did he learn anything in the 35 years before either? It doesn’t look like it.

  10. gerard says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    “We are all Americans in a system that allows basic human rights: ”
    Yes fool but those basic human rights are not allowed in Islamic states.

  11. Myxlplik says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    Clear the room STAT, King Lear looks like he has soiled his pants again! I hope ISNA keeps depends undergarments on hand.

    “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear

  12. nacazo says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    Cherry picker.

  13. Sam says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    If a past president of USA is so out of touch with reality. We have no chance against ISLAM.

  14. rev g says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 8:26 pm

    All that women’s rights talk and he forgot the one most relevant to islam…honor killings. Odd, ya think?

  15. Myxlplik says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 9:00 pm

    Nothing epitomizes the insanity of the left in general, or specifically Jimmy Carter regarding Islam than this quote, “Carter said, amid cheers. “My hope is all Christians, all Muslims, all people of other faiths, even those who don’t have one, will join in this crusade to end the plight of our wives, our sisters, our daughters.”

    He was speaking to Muslims lol, he wants Muslims to join a Crusade against the doctrinal sexual apartheid of Islam. It blows my mind, a Crusade lol.

    • Bettina says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 7:10 am

      Not “sexual apartheid,” Myx — these animals are too attached to women’s bodies to relegate them to the outer reaches. I think you mean “gender apartheid.”

  16. WVinMN says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    Jimmy Carter has done more harm to the US (and the West in general) than former POTUS. He never passes up a chance to apologize for evil, be it muslim, communism or some other perversion. He is truly a despicable human being.

  17. unbeliever1 says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    Ol’ Dhimmi Carter is still at it. Another deluded idealist.

    • Bettina says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 7:12 am

      Spot-on, friend!

  18. vlparker says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    Dhimmi Jimmy is a dummy.

  19. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 12:27 am

    There are huge numbers of people in the world who think Islam is just another version of Christianity because Muslims claim Jesus (under the guise of Issa) as a prophet. These misguided people have not read the Quran closely enough to distinguish the difference between Jesus and Issa or to understand what the principles of Allah really are. Jimmy Carter is obviously one of those poor, ignorant souls. Mr. Carter, you are retired now. You have more time than ever to study such things more closely…..that is, if your mind is still functioning properly. Please take the time to understand Islam and to compare it with your own Christian beliefs. You will be amazed at what you will discover ……. and then be ashamed of your foolishness. Remember, there’s no fool like an old fool. There’s still time for you to stop being one.

  20. mUKI says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 1:15 am

    Doesn’t the name say it all???
    DHIMMY CARTER?

  21. No Fear says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 1:31 am

    He will still be praying for peace as the jihadi’s knife approaches his throat.

  22. PeterB says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 4:49 am

    First, Carter is clearly missing a couple key ingredients. It is Hamas who took their justice and human rights (and countless lives) away, just like every Islamic terrorist group does. But the only ones who can reinstate justice and human rights back to the Palestinians would be the Palestinians themselves.

    To do that they must publicly denounce Hamas as a terrorist group. Communicate intel to Israel or Egypt to identify, locate and neutralize every Hamas member. Meanwhile, Palestinians need to determine their voting districts, elect representatives and senators to begin the process of secular and civil governance. Human rights will come the minute Palestinians commit to and allow for freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of (and from) religion and total separation of church (or corporation) and state. Then guide the elected representatives on prioritizing their focus on sanitation, electric power, policing, communications, fire, hospitals, education and commerce.

    A secular, checked and balanced government of Palestinians, by Palestinians and for Palestinians, is the only way justice, and human rights can be realized.

    But the first thing this new independent government needs to vote to change is the name of their country. Stop wasting time, change the name of Gaza and West Bank into Palestine, or the United Palestinian States or whatever has the identity of Palestine in it, and get going with living and let live.

    Then as loudly and repetitively as possible tell the Muslim world to stop using Palestine as an excuse for Islamic hatred Jews, go back home and love your family, excise all religious law out of government, and follow the example of Palestine and prove that “the religion of peace” is really as you say it is.

  23. John Collignon says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 5:28 am

    Jimmy really is a utopian putz. His ideas are fixed back in the presidential years of the 70’s. Progress has not occured in his reasoning ability one iota for 40 years. Amazingly, he is attempting to be remembered for failed policies. He is now more irrelevant than when he was president…if that’s possible. I’m guessing 🙂 it is !!

    • Kepha says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 8:42 am

      I give credit to Carter for brokering the Egypt-Israel deal–even though I believe that on balance, he was one of the worst POTUS we’ve ever seen (although the present one may knock him off that perch).

      But I don’t think Carter’s problem is senility. Carter represents a kind of well-reasoned faith in America that went haywire–a common condition among Democrats. There’s an idea that the wealth and power of the USA is unbounded, and capable of accomplishing anything that “progressive” opinion sees as good, and doing it on a worldwide scale. Unfortunately, it’s also coupled with an idea that all these masses of non-Americans, at least outside Europe, somehow are people who have no history of their own until the anointed “we” get involved. It’s why, Rob Porter, he misses the subtle differences between the Apartheid of the older South Africa and the traditions of segregation by creed that were long part of the Middle Eastern social landscape (stir into that pot the painful memories of racial segregation and guilt feelings that inform Carter’s thinking as a liberal white Southerner).

      As for Carter and the Jews, I wouldn’t call him an anti-Semite. Rather, since there are so many Jews in the USA, and since so many of them are affiliated with his party, he sincerely sees them as a “we”, and thus expects them to behave with the utmost highmindedness , noblesse oblige, and turn-the-other-cheek restraint that he himself would–regardless of the Israelis living with their backs to the wall.

      Finally, Carter may actually be emotionally quite healthy despite the liberal white guilt–even if that doesn’t translate into good policy or intellectual acuity about the rest of the world. He reacts quickly, according to a set of moral principles which are actually pretty good when dealing with people who are not trying to exterminate you. He figures if the Jews (who, to him, are all Ashkenazi, save for a handful of old Sephardi families in NY, Rhode Island, and Charleston, SC) went through the Shoah, they should be doubly sensitive when they themselves are supposedly the “oppressor”. And for him, “oppressor” is defined by the person who whines loudest, getting to the listener first with the most.

      It is this fundamental emotional health–excellent when dealing with about 93% of his fellow countrymen in the era in which he grew up–that made Carter a prey to the politics of guilt and pity. Russia was a poor, picked-on thing that new the US through the 1917 intervention against the revolution and read the US through the lenses of the Polish, Swedish, French, and German invasions (while forgetting the more recent and relevant Lend-Lease); Mao’s China was what “progressive” media people told him it was, another poor, picked-on thing that had recovered its dignity under a philosopher-king rather than a Hitler who didn’t have any Jews; the Arabs and the rest of the Third World Hyena pack were also poor, picked-on things rather than a bunch of cleptocracies and petty tyrannies that wished to do unto others as the colonialists (and pre-colonial rulers as well) had done unto them. Hence, Carter threw the Shah and Taiwan under the bus, allowed a lot of sub-Saharan Africa to become a Soviet and Cuban sphere of influence, and allowed the Soviets further Western Hemisphere footholds in Nicaragua. It is also why he was so taken by surprise when a “religious leader” took our embassy staff in Tehran hostage and when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. For him, hitherto, the only non-Christian clerics he might have known were a handful of American rabbis; and the Soviet Union was the power with which he was bulding a new, more understanding relationship. He felt grievously betrayed by such events (rightly so), but by then, it was too little and too late.

      Maybe Uncle Kepha is just getting old. But while Carter the President and policy wonk was and is a walking disaster, Carter the man is oddly sympathetic.

      • commonsense says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 2:21 pm

        Kepha:
        I have always had a great deal of respect for you, as your comments here have always been intelligent, thoughtful, and well-informed, but I must disagree with you about giving credit to Carter for brokering a peace deal between Egypt and Israel. I hope this link to one of several articles posted at Jihad Watch by the sorely missed (by me, at least) Hugh Fitzgerald will be helpful: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/07/fitzgerald-saint-sadat-was-not-so-saintly

        • commonsense says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 2:28 pm

          Kepha, and everyone else:

          I meant, in my reference to Hugh Fitzgerald, that he wrote several articles concerning the Carter-brokered Egypt-Israel peace deal. They, along with many more articles by Hugh on other topics, are still available here; all of them can, and should, be read. They do not date.

  24. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 8:07 am

    “I hope all of you will use the principals [sic] of Allah to bring peace and justice to all.”

    So, old J wants the whole world to be under islamic law? No thanks, I’ll pass.

  25. sidney penny says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 8:16 am

    “I hope all of you will use the principals [sic] of Allah to bring peace and justice to all.”

    Which ones?

    I also wanted to ask Dhimmi Jimmy the same question.

  26. Robert Wagner says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    Does anyone really care what Jimmy Carter says any more?

  27. BaconPerfume says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    Ridiculous old fool should be in a dementia ward.

  28. Truth Seeker says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Carter comments, as if it is today’s problem and pertains to one locality. Butchery of human beings is of Centuries old. This will proportionately increase as the Muslim population increases. No One can stop it
    Probably Carter also might have learned to practiceTaqiyyah

  29. eduardo odraude says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 12:59 am

    a good short video on carter

    http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/09/jimmy-carter-promotes-sharia-for.html

  30. Champ says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 1:55 am

    “It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.”

    ~Harold MacMillan

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