The Muslim hysteria is upon us. I don’t mean hysteria about Muslims, for none is discernible; rather, it is the hysteria of Muslims, or many of them, their expressions of supposed terror – in the newspapers, the airwaves, and the Internet — over what a President Trump will do. These reports of “terrified” Muslims are appearing all over the place, short on facts but long on fear. For what exactly has Trump said or done to strike such putative terror? He’s suggested that the vetting of Muslim migrants leaves a lot to be desired. Given how many Muslims have been admitted to the United States in how short a time, and given that our government has been a positive hindrance to those of its agents who would like to find out more about the ideology of Islam, and given, too, how hard it has been to read the minds of Muslim migrants, at least some of whom we have good reason to believe (see New York, Washington, Fort Hood, Boston, Chattanooga, Orlando, San Bernardino, or outside this country, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Moscow) may be intent on sowing murder and mayhem among the Infidels, doesn’t Trump; have a point? On December 7, 2015 (for Muslims, a date which will apparently live in Trump-infamy), Donald Trump called “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” This was apparently beyond the pale, as “ far-right” or as “white nationalist” (the newly-fashionable term of opprobrium for anyone who voted for Trump) as all get-out.
Was it really? What exactly had Trump called for? It had not escaped Trump’s notice that since 9/11/2001 there have been nearly 30,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims around the world, and that quite a few of those terrorists have the habit of quoting from the Qur’an and Hadith to justify those attacks, while others remain quiet about their plans; officially, we in the Western world (see Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, Angela Merkel) are all encouraged to believe that these attacks “have nothing to do with Islam.” But res ipsa loquitur, as the lawyers like to say, the thing speaks for itself. Confusion is piled upon confusion when it comes to Islam. And since many people seem still to be unfamiliar with what is in the Qur’an and Hadith, and many in the American government, as elsewhere in the West, are fearful of offending Muslims by suggesting there might be something in those texts to worry about (which is why Robert Spencer found himself a pedagogue non grata as far as those now running the Homeland Security industry were concerned, when he insisted on reading the texts rightly), so it was perfectly sensible for Trump to say that in these matters the government has a duty to “figure out what the hell is going on” before even more Muslims are admitted, given the life-and-death stakes. There is nothing outrageous about that. Just because so many others have been derelict in their duty is no reason for Trump to score easy points by following suit.
One example, among so many, of hysterical fear-mongering is provided by Arsalan Iftikhar, a Muslim “international human rights lawyer,” who the day after the election was quick off the mark with a piece in the Washington Post that appeared under the scare headline “Being a Muslim in Trump’s America is frightening.”
Now I haven’t – have you? — noticed any round-up of Muslims en masse, heard about any raids on mosques and madrasas, or gestapo-knocks in the night at the homes of Muslim families. That’s right – more than a full week has gone by since the election, and yet nowhere in this country has a single Muslim been subject to a single raid. In France on July 16, two hundred mosques were raided. A few days ago, there were nearly 200 raids on mosques, offices, and homes of Muslims, in Germany. But in the United States since the terrifying Trump was elected? Nothing at all, and not the slightest suggestion of similar raids to come once Trump is actually sworn in. The only “terrifying” thing since Trump’s election has been this unending series of articles telling us that we have a positive duty to rally around Muslims, give them moral and other kinds of support, lest they feel any anxiety about their position in American society, for that would never do. And if non-Muslims for some reason feel anxiety? Well, they have it coming to them.
The “terrified” Arsalan Iftikhar, having been hounded into appearing in The Washington Post (try getting into The Washington Post if you are the least detectable bit unsympathetic to Islam and its adherents) offers a piece that is instructive, though not in the way that he imagines.
Here’s his first sentence:
In the seismic aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there is only silver lining [sic] for millions of women, African Americans, Hispanics, people with disabilities and 7 million American Muslims like me. Now, every minority demographic group in the United States must now feel a sense of collective urgency to mobilize together for the future of our multicultural society based on what we witnessed during this presidential election.
The first thing to notice is that he starts his piece with a Big Lie casually tossed off. He inflates – more than doubles – the number of Muslims in the United States, from the 3.3 million in the latest Pew Report to “7 million American Muslims like me.” Iftikhar doesn’t justify this number, doesn’t explain why it should be accepted instead of the numbers in the Pew Report. Where did he get this figure of 7 million Muslims? He plucked it from the air, he made it up. He wants you to believe that there are more than twice as many Muslims in this country than any reputable compiler of statistics has suggested; by next year, you may see Iftikhar suggest, with the same casual authority, a figure of 7.5 or even 8 million Muslims. Muslim numbers must be inflated; the more numerous they are, the more politically powerful they will be. Of course, at the same time, Muslims are being depicted as a persecuted and powerless minority. Iftikhar, like so many Defenders of the Faith, wants it both ways.
In the same first paragraph, Iftikhar attempts to convince us that there is a commonality of interest between Muslims and every other group whom he thinks Trump has insulted. So he wants “millions of women, African Americans, Hispanics, people with disabilities” to make common cause with “Muslims like me.”
But a moment’s thought would make any fair-minded person realize that it is bizarre to think that men who adhere to the relentlessly misogynistic faith of Islam and “millions of women” can “make common cause.” Why do I call it “relentlessly misogynistic”? According to the Sharia, Muslim women can inherit half as much as men (Qur’an 4:11); their testimony is worth half that of a man (2:282); polygamy is licit (Muhammad, the Perfect Man, allowed himself twelve or fourteen wives, depending on whether or not one sex slave is counted as a wife) and so are female slaves, “those whom your right hand possesses”; a Muslim man is allowed to beat his disobedient wife, though “lightly”; a Muslim man need only pronounce the triple-talaq to divorce his wife; and women are described in the Qur’an as inferior to men, for “the men are a degree above them” (2:228); and in the Sahih Bukhari (6:301) “[Muhammad] said, ‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man? They replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This [is because of] the deficiency in her intelligence.”
And why should those lumped together as “Latinos” – almost all of them Christians – decide to make “common cause” with Muslims, who regard themselves as the “best of peoples” and Christians and Jews as the “vilest of creatures”? Hasn’t the unending spectacle of Christians being attacked and murdered in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Egypt and Nigeria, in Iraq and Syria, in Libya and Algeria, in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, in Bangladesh and Kosovo, and Ethiopia and the Sudan, done enough to dissuade Latinos from being manipulated into supporting Muslims on the basis of a factitious commonality of interests? Any “Latino” — a word one uses with many reservations — need spend only a few minutes scrolling through the record of Muslim attacks on Christians in recent years, in several dozen countries all over the world, to see what’s so sinister about Iftikhar’s proposed alliance. And what contempt he must have for those whom he thinks will forever remain unaware of that record.
As for African-Americans, what common cause should they make with Muslims when black African Christians are being kidnapped and killed by Boko Haram in Nigeria, as they had previously been killed before the days of Boko Haram, since the late 1960s, with more than a million massacred in the “jihad” (the word used by Colonel Ojukwu in the Ahiara Declaration to describe the Muslim war on Christians), that is, the Biafra War of 1967-69? What common cause should African-Americans make with those Muslim Arabs who raped, looted, and murdered their way through the villages of black African Christians in the southern Sudan, for more than 20 years, until international pressure finally led to the creation of a separate Republic of Southern Sudan? Will African-Americans forget that Nasser sent Egyptian Migs to bomb Nigerian Christian villages? And will they overlook Darfur, where Muslim Arab raiders, the Janjaweed, seized property from black Africans, and killed them by the tens of thousands, even if they were fellow Muslims, because they were black Africans and not Arabs? Arsalan Iftikhar chooses not to recognize that not only are Muslims “the best of peoples” and Unbelievers the “vilest of creatures” but that within Islam, Arabs are seen as superior to non-Arabs; this “universalist” faith actually is a vehicle for Arab supremacism. Hence the attacks of Muslim Arabs on Muslim blacks in Darfur. The attempt of Muslims, including Arsalan Iftikhar, to presume that others should be their natural allies overlooks the ideology of Islam, where Muslims are the “best of peoples” and Arab Muslims the best kind of Muslim.
Iftikhar again:
In addition to his blatant misogyny and anti-immigrant xenophobia during his presidential campaign, we have also seen Donald Trump’s political campaign successfully normalize Islamophobia as part of the current national Republican Party platform as it exists today.
As to “blatant misogyny,” please see above the discussion of how women are regarded and treated in Islam, and compare that institutionalized misogyny, which is fixed forever in the Qur’an and Hadith, with an unseemly handful of sentences expressing individual bad taste and locker-room bragging.
Has Trump exhibited “anti-immigrant xenophobia”? Has he expressed hatred of foreigners? He has not. Or opposition to legal immigrants? He has not. Again and again he has distinguished illegal immigrants from legal ones, has merely maintained that he thinks the laws concerning immigration deserve to be obeyed, that every country has a right to decide whom it wants to allow in (immigration is not, pace Pope Francis, a right but a privilege) and to bar or expel those who refuse to observe the laws put in place to regulate immigration.
As for Arsalan Iftikhar’s predictable charge of “Islamophobia,” the correct response to this remains always the same: the word “Islamophobia” properly describes the irrational fear (and hatred) of Islam. There is plenty of evidence – in the Qur’an and Hadith, in the history of Muslim conquest over the past 1400 years of many non-Muslim lands and the subsequent subjugation of many non-Muslim peoples, and in the observable behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims all over the world today — that fear (and hatred) of Islam is not irrational for well-informed Unbelievers to feel. All this evidence is being downplayed or ignored in the Western world by the political and media elites who keep insisting that there is nothing about Islam to worry about, and in the countries of the West, political and media elites have convinced themselves that whatever problem may arise is merely a justified Muslim response to, and resentment of, how they are treated in the West, and the more understanding and welcoming we Unbelievers are, the more all manner of things shall be well. It’s up to us, not to Muslims, to solve whatever problems arise. And no one asks the simple question: Why? Why should the Western world have to accommodate Muslim demands, change its laws and customs in order, it is forlornly hoped, to better “integrate” Muslims?
The possibility that there are problems with a large-scale Muslim presence not just in “Trump’s America” but in Hollande’s France, and Merkel’s Germany, and May’s United Kingdom, and that those problems are not susceptible of solution, given that they have their origin in the Qur’an, which is regarded by Muslims as immutable, and which clearly teaches permanent hostility toward all non-Muslims, is too disturbing for many non-Muslims to allow themselves to acknowledge. So they don’t, and instead allow the arsalan-iftikhars to peddle their taqiyya wares of victimization without fear of refutation.
Here’s what Iftikhar reports as an example of what he considers a nasty little response by Trump:
In a rare display of journalistic pushback, after Trump once confirmed to reporters that he would set up a database for Muslim Americans, an NBC News reporter asked him point-blank in response:
“Is there a difference between requiring Muslims to register and Jews in Nazi Germany?”
“You tell me,” Trump replied while walking away.
Iftikhar thinks the meaning of this exchange is obvious: Trump, embarrassed by the reporter’s piercing question, which pointed up a supposed similarity between Trump’s plan for having a database for Muslims, and the registration of Jews in Nazi Germany, did not know how to reply, and could do no better than “you tell me” and – presumably mortified at having of the similarity of his plan and that of the Nazis pointed out – then walked away.
I read this exchange quite differently. I read it as Trump being so disgusted by the comparison that he did not think it deserved anything more than being turned back against its asker. His “you tell me” meant “you tell me what similarity could there possibly be between the ‘database’ that might be set up to identify those Muslims most likely to engage in terrorist attacks and the registration the Nazis required of Jews in order to better round them up to be killed.” What kind of idiocy must someone possess to suggest that proposals for keeping track of Muslims in the West by means of “databases” (already being used by the anti-terrorist police in Europe), which presumably would contain such obviously relevant information such as whether the subject logs onto Islamic websites, or has travelled to IS-held parts of Syria, Iraq, or Yemen, or spent a lot of time at a mosque that is known for the dangerous views of its imam, given that there have been nearly 30,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims around the world since 9/11/2001, have anything in common with the Nazis forcing entirely inoffensive Jews, who were no threat to anybody, to register with German authorities so that they could be more easily seized and, as ultimately happened, murdered? A database designed to prevent mass murder is very different from a database intended to facilitate mass murder. Far from being, as Arsalan Iftikhar thinks, horrific, Trump’s answer was one of his finest moments, because, he knew, only one decent reply was possible: “You tell me.” What Arsalan Iftikhar describes as admirable “journalistic pushback” was, in fact, an example of moral myopia. I’m not sure there’s a prescription strong enough to correct that level of impairment.
Meanwhile, we can all wait for the Reign of Trump Terror to begin, with the knocks at midnight, and the sound of mechanized tumbrils rolling, and for America to become – why, it’s halfway there already, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, mein damen und herren – the new Nazi Germany, and Muslims will be, why, according to them they already are, the new Jews, and what will we tell our children we did in this time of testing? Did we stand with the brave truth-teller Arsalan Iftikhar or with the likes of Donald Trump?
Jay Boo says
PROJECTION
These hateful people are shameless filth.
cs says
The pic of this guy in the article speaks tons. lol.
gravenimage says
It’s pretty hilarious.
Leslie Fish says
If Muslims in the US are so terrified of Trump’s presidency, why don’t they take advantage of the time until the Inauguration to RUN AWAY? That would be the sensible thing to do, and nobody would stop them.
A Harris USA says
Leslie, That is the perfect answer!! Get OUT!! I keep hearing about the celebs who whine and cry they are moving here, or there, when Trump is our President.. Well, take a hint Islamic slime, hit the road. Maybe then, we can go to malls, and not look around for a Muslim with a bomb or gun. We can send our kids to school without worrying if Islam is being taught as part of the schools classes. Gee, just like America used to be.. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND MUSLIM FREE!!
Oh, and we can use our money for injured Vets, and our sick and old. WOW, what a concept!!
Idania says
Muslims, all of them should go back as soon as there is Peacein in their countries. As a group they are dangerous. They threatened every country where they have a sizable amount of them. They REALLY want to impose Islam in the Christian Western World. Recently a leader of CAIR said that “Qur’an is Supreme over the USA constitution”
Are they conflictive or what? I would like to see them out of the country.
heidi says
Trump is horrifying! retreat to the middle east all muslims and muslim sympathizers! Faster!
Creole Gumbo says
Make no mistake. They really are out to get us. September 11th was the calling card for their arrival and the onset of open stealth jihad.
Dexter L. Wilson says
Guess who’s side the Muslims were on during the Third Reich? A registry of Muslims versus a registry of Jews who were eventually eradicated in Germany. I can see a slight difference, can’t you? READ THE KORAN, DON’T WAIT FOR A MOVIE! Muslims if they believe in the Koran are going to emulate the behavior required for Allah, lying to an unbeliever, torturing unbelievers until they accept Islam, beheading a Muslim for leaving Islam, enslaving unbelievers, taxing unbelievers and if they do not finally convert killing them———–READ THE KORAN.
David says
The Putrid Stench of islam simply CAN NOT be sweetened up with honey or masked by a dose of perfume!
No matter what you try to roll it in, that Putred, vile STENCH will never go away.
The Stench of Death, rape, pedophilia, slavery, religious oppression. It blooms where ever the Satanic Cult of islam places it’s foot.
History has proven this for 1400 years! And, unless your head is jammed pretty far UP YOUR ASS, you see it happening all over todays world!
No, islam can not be allowed to run free. Like Hitler and his NAZI’S way back when, the world will be able to ignore that vile STENCH for only so long. Then, the problem will be handled with Military Might.
There will be no other way.
awake says
Very nice piece, Hugh.
john spielman says
agreed!
gravenimage says
Yes–hear, hear, Hugh!
Michael says
The tone is perfect. We are absolutely fed up with this sort of nonsense. Mr. Niftycar can go whine and cry for al jazeera any time he likes. But we are not listening to this crap any longer.
don vito says
Where in the world can a kufr go to learn the moslem art of being a victim? An irrational fear of Trump is Trumpophobia. Why do moslems continually try to steal Jewish identity? These identity thieves have no right to the Jewish Identity.
don vito says
Hey don, maybe they think they are Jewish, you know, if you think you are that day then you are moslems are transjewish.
gravenimage says
They’ve been stealing Jewish identity for 1400 years now. It began with claiming that all the Jewish prophets were actually Muslim.
le mouron rouge says
gravenimage says:
“They’ve been stealing Jewish identity for 1400 years now. It began with claiming that all the Jewish prophets were actually Muslim.”
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True. Well said.
gravenimage says
🙂
don vito says
Are you sure? No dispute of what you wrote, however, in talking about identity theft I had a more recent date in mind. Such as 1964-67, when the arabs became palestinians. Up until that time the Jews had been known as the Palestinians. As since that time, the attacks on Jews and Israel included being accused of being the new Nazis arabs then became the “new Jews”. Check JW archives of 5/8/15 A.J. Caschetta for understanding of how I meant the phrase “identity theft”.
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CommoHull says
Thank you, Hugh, for another cogent article! Duly forwarded.
miriamrove says
I despise this a….h… and rest of them. My own family has a rift with me as I openly tell them I voted for Trump. You are a Muslim and voted for Trump? No I am ex muslim and I am an atheist. It is getting to a point that I ready to tell them all to f….off. m
gravenimage says
Hear, here, miriam!
Shmooviyet says
THANK YOU, Mr. Fitzgerald, for addressing this insanity in your inimitable way.
Iftikhar’s first sentence is so–pardon me–FOS, it is painful to read. That so many buy into this which-victim-are-you? thinking, and need to retreat to coloring books and Play Doh, is beyond embarrassing.
These SJ warriors know NOTHING of real courage, prefer to remain ignorant and would be the first to turn in their neighbors. See how they coddle the absolute tyranny of islam and ignore its victims!
le mouron rouge says
Thank you Mr. Fitzgerald for and intelligent and thoughtful article.
Off topic.
“Trump on par with past presidents in timeline for Cabinet picks.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/17/trump-on-par-with-past-presidents-in-timeline-for-cabinet-picks.html
Lusael Merlin says
Take back your country. In groups of ten or more wear Trump hats and shirts carry Signs that say Love Does Trump all. Offer these liberals coloring books hugs. Great time to give away kittens.
If any of you are attacked sue George Soros CNN and other MSM outlets for inciting insurrection against our government. Sue the Hollywood Propagandists inciting violence. Sue, sue sue till you take back all the money the left and false right stole from the American people
davej says
Terrified – really? On the basis of what has ACTUALLY been said and done this qualifies as a phobia.
The usual projection and anticipatory victimhood of the Muslims.
Kay says
Right. & it keeps people afraid to learn or speak the truth.
Voytek Gagalka says
Bad conscience’s haunting them. That, and only that, causes them to live in state of fear. Good and innocent ones have nothing to fear but beware of all those evil ones! Their last days, perhaps, is upon them and that’s very good! They DESERVED it!
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Arsalan Iftikhar and Trump’s Reign of Terror
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This is, of course, just ludicrous. For one thing, this is not “Trump’s America”–he has not been sworn in yet, and won’t be until next year. This is still Obama’s America.
And then, Iftikhar pretending to make common cause with the very people who would be oppressed and murdered under Islam is perhaps even more grotesque.
Here’s this creep, whitewashing Jihad terrorism in the wake of the Paris attacks, saying we should not associate it with “brown Muslim men”:
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/arsalan-iftikhar–double-standard-in-confronting-terrorism-382920259736
carpediadem says
Good points!
gravenimage says
Thanks, carpediadem. Good to see you posting again.
Osinam says
Well, to be fair, I _would_ like to send them back to some Islamic country, peaceably. It’s better than spending 800 years trying to expel them from Spain.
Osinam says
Meanwhile, from the UK Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3944874/They-want-Islamised-despise-country-values-Translator-German-refugee-camp-says-Muslim-migrants-display-pure-hatred-Christians.html
Who-da thunk it.
Osinam says
Robert, this is for you…
gravenimage says
Osinam, thanks for the link. Jihad Watch has already picked up that important story here:
“Germany: Arabic translator says Muslim migrants ‘want Germany to be Islamised. They despise our country and our values.’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/germany-arabic-translator-says-muslim-migrants-want-germany-to-be-islamised-they-despise-our-country-and-our-values
Angemon says
The cries of “racism” and “misogyny” is all that morons such this guy and his non-muslim enablers have. No facts or logic, just the shrieking shouting of words with very negative connotations until their opposition shuts up. It only works with good, decent people who don’t want to be called racist or sexist. Can you imagine what the reaction of the Grand Dragon of the KKK would be if I were to put my best surprise face and say “My God, you are a racist!”? “Well, DUH!”. But it won’t work forever. And it’s starting to lose its effect.
gravenimage says
I hope you are right, Angemon. Certainly, screaming “racist!” has been used endlessly by the Left to silence any criticism of Islam–which, as we wearily note, is not a race.
SAKOVKT says
“,,,,Fascism is,,,,the sinister shadow projected cross the land by democracy itself, when its internal decomposition turns into anarchy. The more the rot spreads, the more Fascism expands. And therefore the deluded concern that the triumphant Popular Front shows about a defeated Fascism is nothing more than the fear of its own shadow.”
“Gaziel” ( a respected conservative editor of the time) La Vanguardia (Spain) 12 June, 1936
Champ says
Trump’s Reign of Terror
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all lies, just like islam …
gravenimage says
Yes, Champ–this is just absurd.
gravenimage says
For any in the mood to hear more ridiculous hysteria, this time from the Left, here are two letters to the East Bay Express this week:
“I do not believe this outcry has anything to do with being a sore loser. My grandson broke into tears when he realized Trump won the election. He wasn’t being a sore loser. People are worried, scared, and confused. They don’t know where to go for help or how to respond to this event. I know I sure do not know what to think. I know most of the people that voted for Trump are good people, but he seems so un-American, so full of hate. In all my many years, I would never have believed that such a person would be our president. I am so depressed.”
“What this protest did for me was help to heal my broken heart and allow me to feel less frightened. I have not been able to sleep and have cried a lot since the election. It was indeed healing to join hands in healing solidarity. It gave me so much hope.”
By the way, the second letter writer must have left before that “healing” demonstration turned into smashing windows and looting–either that, or else she considers rioting “healing”.
I don’t usually like the term “snowflake”, but how else would you describe such silly people?
I knew there was a good chance of Hillary Clinton winning–given the polls, I thought it most likely. This did not make me happy, but I figured that if we survived eight years of Obama that we could weather a Hillary presidency, as well. I was not about to dissolve into tears or start looking into moving to Iceland (no offense to Iceland, mind you). I was just going to roll up my sleeves and do what I could to mitigate the situation. Hysteria was not part of my plan; I’m sure it would be the same for most Americans here.
Not so the silly Left–and cynical, supremacist Muslims like Arsalan Iftikhar are all too happy to plug into this idiocy.
le mouron rouge says
gravenimage,
Excellent commentary.
If you are so inclined you can go to Worldview Weekend http://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio
Iohn Loeffler interviewed William Nardi (www.therabblerouser.org), current sophomore at Roger Williams University, joins us to show that students are angry, crying, and at times committing vandalism. Part of the problem lies with politically correct narratives that are taught at an early age and carry over into college. (Note: This is only the 1st part of the interview.)
In terms of leaving the country, where would to go?
Someone once said, “If you aren’t happy where you are, you won’t be happy where you’re going!”
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, le mouron rouge. Yes–this indoctrination starts early.
I’m not sure where we would go–one frequent JW poster here is in eastern Peru, some have talked about Hungary.
Personally, I intend to stay here and fight–and would have whatever the outcome of the election.
In most cases, I believe it is best to stand up and defend our civilized societies–things would have to get pretty hopeless for me to pull up stakes and flee.
le mouron rouge says
gravenimage,
I not too optimistic, it appears the road to change will be long and extremely difficult.
This article in the Conservative Review puts the situation in perspective,
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/11/trumps-win-vs-reagans-blowout-why-2016-is-not-1980.
Further, based on the Conservative Review Scorecard, I calculated that on 29 of 100 Senators had a conservation percentage of 50% and above, while the House had 32% or a total of 140 out of 435.
The Dems and the MSM are already laying the groundwork for the 2020 Presidential Election. They are going to do all in their power to denigrate Trump and those in his Administration.
Buckle your seat belt, it’s going to be a wild ride!
gravenimage says
Yes–it will be a long and hard road, le mouron rouge.
But to take your metaphor further, remember that we are not just along for the ride–we are also, at least in part, *driving*. We do have some say in where we take things.
le mouron rouge says
gravenimage,
OMG! Typo’s and spelling errors, how embarrassing.
Honestly, I can spell, it’s my eyesight that is failing me!
We will see.
I sense something big is about to happen based on Obama and the left complaining about “fake news.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/europe/obama-angela-merkel-donald-trump.html
Really, he of all people to complain about deceiving people.
gravenimage says
Don’t worry about the typos–not a big deal.
Yes–Obama complaining–and Merkel–complaining about fake news could not be more ironic. In Germany, police have actually stopped taking reports of citizens brutalized by Muslims, so there will be no record of them. Grotesque.
As for the big picture, time will tell–we are starting to see some pushback, I think.
warren raymond says
Muslim hysterics, a dime a dozen:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/16/as-a-muslim-how-do-i-tell-my-child-president-doesnt-like-us
As a Muslim, how do I tell my child the new president doesn’t like us?
Mehdi Hasan
dumbledoresarmy says
Quote from Mehdi Hasan (who is, of course, taught to HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE the filthy, dirty, inferior, ‘worst of beasts’ kuffar), whining and squealing – “As a Muslim, how do I tell my child the new president doesn’t like us?”
Muslim sense of entitlement and malignant narcissism is so overblown it revolts. It is like a serial killer whining that his intended targets are refusing to pet and fawn and flatter him and tell him how wonderful he is… even while he’s sharpening the knife and preparing the instruments of torture right in front of them.
He wants to be praised and flattered and worshipped and adored and *liked* by the very people he hates and intends to kill, rape or enslave. It’s insane.
How I would love to see a well-prepared non-dhimmi journalist, when interviewing one of these whining creatures, confront the Mohammedthug, on air, in public, with the doctrine of al-wala wa -al baraa, and a selection of choice texts from the Quran, Sira and Hadiths, plus modern tafsir and maybe some transcripts from bog-standard imams’ sermons, absolutely full of heel-kicking maw-open shrieking hysterical hatred of and declared malevolent intention toward the Infidels qua Infidels. And ask him, “You want us to like you? You really want us to like you, when *you* are taught to HATE us and to wish us ill? When *you* are planning to do unto us all manner of evil? And you complain, forsooth, that we do not ‘like’ you? How dare you, you vile grub.”
gravenimage says
The meretricious Mehdi Hasan sneers at the whole idea of Islamic terrorism. A nasty piece of work.
gravenimage says
By that, I mean that he is denying that it has anything to do with Islam.
Champ says
Many of us are terrorized by REAL threats from muslims, but they feel terrorized by IMAGINED threats from Trump? Things that make you go hmmm …
dumbledoresarmy says
Muslims: past masters of projection, turnspeak and reversal of reality, also known as Big Lies.
gravenimage says
So true, Champ and DDA.
Wellington says
Muslim self-absorption + Muslim mendacity + Leftist foolishness + Leftist mendacity (e.g., Jon Stewart in an interview with Charlie Rose {one liberal interviewing another liberal which itself should inaugurate suspicion} saying just today that all who voted for Trump are racists} = a fairly powerful combination against the truth prevailing.
I wish to say something else here and it is this: Any old-time American liberal who posts here at JW, as many do, needs to realize that your liberalism has been hijacked by moronic Leftism. The Democratic Party of FDR, Truman and JFK is, for all intents and purposes, no more. So, cease being Democrats. Become independents, join the Republican Party (which has not yet lost its collective mind as the Democratic Party has but which is on the verge of losing its collective guts and thus, thank God, Trump was elected because he is very likely the Republican Party’s last chance against permanent political dementia), or form a new party. But as for the Democratic Party, it is as dead as the Whig Party, though for sundry reasons it may continue to survive as a political corpse unlike the Whig Party because at least the Whig Party was composed of principled people.
Just sayin’.
gravenimage says
That’s been pretty much my situation, Wellington. I’ve been voting Republican for national races since 2004. The only reason I have not formally switched parties is because so many races here in blue-state California are Democrat-only.
If the Democratic Party goes for the appalling stealth Muslim Keith Ellison as DNC head I will know that they are completely beyond hope.
Sam says
The cult of Islam should be banned everywhere, NOW!!!!!!
Wellington says
Islam doesn’t need to be banned anymore than does Marxism or Nazism. What is imperative is that it is accurately described for the gigantic negative which it is, as with Marxism and Nazism (and yes I know that Marxism still survives in Western leftist circles so no one need point out this OBVIOUS truth to me)..
It is not necessary to destroy liberty in order to save it. What is necessary for the survival of liberty is accurate knowledge of all those ideologies and organizations which are mortal enemies of liberty——such as Islam.
Reconsider. In fact, it is not too much of a stretch to aver that the survival of true freedom depends on such reconsideration. SO, RECONSIDER.
Kay says
Well said. “Accurate knowledge”. Let’s strive for that.
gravenimage says
True, Wellington. I just want to see Islam marginalized.
Mobuyus says
There is no give with islam. Eventualy there may be need of a “round up”. My father when speaking of nazis used to say God-damn-it in my day we rounded them up. He spent 1939-1945 in Europe they went house to house door to door and rounded them up.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… And since many people seem still to be unfamiliar with what is in the Qur’an and Hadith, and many in the American government, as elsewhere in the West, are fearful of offending Muslims by suggesting there might be something in those texts to worry about…”
Afraid to look and read; afraid to think; afraid to speak. It is impossible to face up to the responsibilities of war time governance when our political leadership is shackled by fear and a delusional approach to ‘business as usual’. Trump and others within the U.S. political ranks have broken the mould, after a decade and a half of wasteful prevarication, post 9/11. New York is a truly International City and most foreigners expected the bull to be taken by the horns much earlier than this.
American Pragmatism says
Go Trump!
Ian H says
With regard to how black Americans regard Islam, the historic involvement of Islam in the slave trade is surely worth commenting on. Most slaves were originally captured and then on-sold on by Muslim slavers in Africa. And slavery, particularly of women, is still a feature in many rural Muslim parts of Africa today. So given that history why should black Americans, particularly Christian black Americans, support Islam.
gravenimage says
Because they are ignorant of this history, Ian.
Danny says
The term ‘AHIARA DECLATION of 1969’ come to my mind after going through this article. Ahiara is a small town of about 20km away from my ancestral home which had been systematically impoverished by the islamist-led Nigerian hausa-fulani government and 100% backed by Britain in terms of military hardware.
Biafrans, one of the smartest black race, is never acceptable to the British because of their conflict of interest, in the ‘Nigerian project’ hence the British alliance with Northern Nigeria Muslims to destroy the Christian south eastern Biafrans (or the Igbo’s).
This unholy alliance had strethened the Islamic resolve to conquer the entire southern Nigeria either by blackmail, propaganda, threat or systematic genocide which western media like CNN, BBC or the foxnews will NEVER report. No wonder over 90% of Igbos supported the presidency of Donald Trump while the northern Nigeria, and the current nigerian, govt supported Hillary Clinton (to show gratitude to Obama/kerry/hillarry’s installation of of the current jihadist president).
Thank you Hugh Fitzgerald for mentioning the ‘Ahiara declaration’.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
From 2005: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/12/fitzgerald-remember-biafra
And there are others, if you google “Biafra” and “Hugh Fitzgerald” that might possibly be of interest. The war against the Nigerian Christians deserves much more attention. The Western powers idiotically refused to help the Ibos — a lost opportunity. If it comes again — and why shouldn’t it? — I hope they take the right side.
gravenimage says
And this is not just history. Now Boko Haram is trying to finish the Jihad against Christian and animist Nigerians.
Eric Jones says
The muslim perpatrator does not want the Christian intended victim to wake up.
Yes the American politcal Left has changed. Its no longer the left that opposed the Vietnam War but now supports wars against secular ME govenments. No more teach in’s just Stalinist doctrinaire thinking.
The Democtratic party of JFK and LBJ are gone. A loyal oppostion to Goldwater and Nixon. Today’s democrats are insurrectionist and subversives who support islam and globalist ; just like in the past the democrats supported the insurrectionist Confederacy.
Eric
No Fear says
Muslims are terrified of Trump? Muslims don’t mind that Mohammed made people terrified:
Allah said, ‘No Prophet before Muhammad took booty from his enemy nor prisoners for ransom.’ Muhammad said, ‘I was made victorious with terror. The earth was made a place for me to clean. I was given the most powerful words. Booty was made lawful for me. I was given the power to intercede. These five privileges were awarded to no prophet before me.’
Ishaq:326
If you come upon them, deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah’s enemies
Ishaq:326
After the Messenger had finished with the Khaybar Jews, Allah cast terror into the hearts of the Jews in Fadak when they received news of what Allah had brought upon Khaybar. Fadak became the exclusive property of Allah’s Messenger.
Al-Tabari, Vol. 8, p. 129
We have been dealt a situation from which there is no escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go outside for fear of being terrorized.
Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 42
etc etc etc
Debi Brand says
Standing with Trump, Sir.
Thank you, and God bless you for yet another top-notch second-to-none post.
fedupAmerican says
The picture on the top is of a Trumpophobe. The way to respond to the left is to counterattack. If they call us Islamophobes call them Trumpophobes.
don vito says
yes, yes; they truly are irrationally fearful of Trump.
TH says
Any country worth its salt has a right and a duty to expel aliens who refuse to obey its laws and attempt to create ghettos within its territory. Properly organized legal immigration can be good for a country, as is the case of Australia. They had boatloads of foreigners coming and they put a stop to it. The idiotic Merkel invited them in. I live in Spain. This morning I was talking to a Spaniard who immigrated to Switzerland for some time. It was all legal with visa and work permit, plus contract. Many Spaniards and Portuguese did that in the 60s. Some stayed and others returned, but it was all legal immigration. It was reasonably and helped both sides.
Richard Courtemanche says
Quit he BS and swear allegiance to the US and its Constitution, renounce the Sharia or get the hell out.
Muhammad's Ghost says
Poignant article. I would, however, like to offer the feedback that if you’re trying to make an appeal to Latinos to realize that Islam threatens us too, you may want to refrain from putting the word in quotations. Latino or Hispanic are the terms that millions of Americans use to self-identify their ethnic and cultural heritage.
If you want to galvanize people to defend their culture (which by the way is an Occidental culture that is wonderfully compatible with western democracy), you might want to refrain from suggesting that said culture may not exist (bearing in mind that “Palestinian” is normally written in quotes on this sight, you can see how a reasonable person could conclude you’re saying “Latinos” are in a fictional category in the author’s mind).
gravenimage says
I don’t think these were sneer quotes, MG. In the San Francisco Bay Area, many use the terms Latino, Hispanic, or Chicano–but many also eschew one or more of these terms, as well, sometimes angrily. I think that was the only reason for the use of quote marks.
Muhammad's Ghost says
Yes, the complexities of PC speech and cultural identity. I’m certainly no mind reader and tried to hedge my comments from doing such solely based on my impression of what was written.
Being charitable to the author it’s best to assume good intentions. Just pointing out the possibility of how it may be seen.
On another note, I’ve always told people Europe wouldn’t be in the mess they’re in today if they had imported people from Latin America rather than Muslim-majority regions. After all, they already had the empty cathedrals just laying in wait, and a group of “economic migrants” that don’t detonate on arrival.
G says
All fanned on by the left/liberal/multicultural biased press. In the UK, its the BBC who display no reservations in respect of support for Ilsam and that Cult of Submission.
Michael Copeland says
Thank you for yet another excellent perceptive article.
Two small refinements can be offered, if they be permitted, to the statement: “a Muslim man is allowed to beat his disobedient wife, though “lightly” ”
Firstly, there is no “lightly” in the Arabic original. This is inserted by the “editing” translator. In English versions it ought, by convention, to be expressed in square brackets to show that it is interpolated, but this is not always observed.
Secondly, the wife does not have to be disobedient. That is not the test. She can be entirely obedient. Koran 4:34 sets out the rule, and is part of Islamic law. The test is whether the man “FEAR” that she MIGHT be – “As for those from whom ye fear rebellion”. It is thus a subjective judgment by the man alone, not subject to anyone else’s opinion or assessment, let alone that of “the man on the Clapham omnibus”. It is watertight. The woman is a prisoner.
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=4&verse=34
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Thank you for that excellent correction. I will in the future remember those brackets, and that subjective “might be.”
Dennis says
Yesterday in the street, at Dharamsala, India, i met three of my kashmiri Muslím acquaintances. They “heard” of the horrible Muslim persecutions n the USA. When I told them nothing was going on, indeed, the Democrats want to put a Muslim as head of their party, my friends were shocked. I told them not to believe the propaganda media which was biased and which promoted fear and division.
Burnerjack says
Maybe they’ll be so terrified, they will leave the country. Hey, I’m an optimist!