Green should not have dropped out. His doing so only validates the Left’s claim that his statements are beyond the pale. But are they really?
“Also in September, he said a stand needed to be taken against ‘the indoctrination of Islam’ in public schools.”
Hysterical, paranoid Islamophobia, right? Wrong. Some headlines from the last few years:
Sharia law promoted in Indiana public schools
Texas high school opens Muslim prayer room and follow-up: Texas public high school defends its Islamic prayer room after warning from state deputy attorney general
Tennessee openly promotes Islam: 7th graders made to recite Islamic statement of faith
Tennessee elementary school bans pork to avoid offending Muslims
North Carolina public high school proselytizing for Islam in vocabulary lessons
Today is Hijab Day at NP3 High School, a public charter school in Sacramento, California
California school district bans drawing Muhammad
Wisconsin: Public school students must “pretend you’re a Muslim”
Maryland: Marine dad banned from school after complaining about Islam assignment
Minnesota: Parents question public high school’s choice to sing “Allahu akbar” at holiday concert
Green compounded his “Islamophobia”: “he also referred to the ‘Muslim horde’ that invaded Constantinople centuries ago.”
Why, how racist and bigoted! The conquerors of Constantinople were tolerant, pluralistic multiculturalists with big hearts full of love! Historian Steven Runciman notes that the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. But soon the lust for slaughter was assuaged. The soldiers realized that captives and precious objects would bring them greater profit.” (The Fall of Constantinople 1453, Cambridge University Press, 1965, p. 145.)
Some jihadists “made for the small but splendid churches by the walls, Saint George by the Charisian Gate, Saint John in Petra, and the lovely church of the monastery of the Holy Saviour in Chora, to strip them of their stores of plate and their vestments and everything else that could be torn from them. In the Chora they left the mosaics and frescoes, but they destroyed the icon of the Mother of God, the Hodigitria, the holiest picture in all Byzantium, painted, so men said, by Saint Luke himself. It had been taken there from its own church beside the Palace at the beginning of the siege, that its beneficient presence might be at hand to inspire the defenders on the walls. It was taken from its setting and hacked into four pieces.” (P. 146.)
But don’t call them a “horde”!
“Trump’s pick for Army secretary drops out amid criticism of LGBT, Islam remarks,” Fox News, May 5, 2017:
President Trump’s nominee to be the next Army secretary withdrew his name from consideration Friday, Pentagon officials confirmed to Fox News, after he was accused of making anti-LGBT and Islamophobic remarks.
Mark Green, a Republican state senator from Tennessee, stepped aside after what he called “false and misleading” attacks against him which had caused his nomination to become a “distraction.”
“Tragically, my life of public service and my Christian beliefs have been mischaracterized and attacked by a few on the other side of the aisle for political gain,” he said in a statement first reported by The Tennessean.
“While these attacks have no bearing on the needs of the Army or my qualifications to serve, I believe it is critical to give the President the ability to move forward with his vision to restore our military to its rightful place in the world,” he said.
Several Democrats and some Republicans including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had taken aim at comments he made in September in which he said transgender people are suffering from a disease. McCain called the comments “disturbing.”
Also in September, he said a stand needed to be taken against “the indoctrination of Islam” in public schools. He also referred to the “Muslim horde” that invaded Constantinople centuries ago….
Frank verderber says
John McCain is a disgrace to the US Senate and to the Military. He has become a one man jihad for the Queen of England and her thugs at Chatham House, because finally someone gave him some honorary bling. The whole lot of them are humanists and Gnostic Theosophists. Senator Green should stand in the gap and bring his Chritian and historical opinions to the table, just like the others bring thier Satanic beliefs to the table. I hope the President and Senstor Green reconsider.
WCM says
A very fine man by all accounts and totally qualified for all the right reasons–thus vilified by the proglodytes.
When will the Republicans get it? THEY WON!
WESTPAC Spy says
No, they lost. Please see John McCain’s remarks for further reinforcement.
Jeanette says
Only in the sense that the Leftist-Islamist Axis has been allowed to flourish for so long now (Bush II, Clinton, and Obama – 24 years) that it has a chokehold on the decent people of America.
Stan Lee says
I have hoped that Colonel Allen West would be considered. He is a true patriot and has served our country with honor and dedication.
Wellington says
West would be an excellent choice and, as a bonus, he would drive the Left into even further hysterics.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Let’s take heart that there are still some in DC who can see reality and recognizing it as such. This is especially important because then we have leaders who decline fake history. From the Moghul to Turkey, the slaughter proceeds apace. Israel is next, to be mass murdered for a second time, this time by the Persians, not by Europeans colluding with Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini, the political talk radio star.
John A. Marre says
The forces of evil are winning. Optimism would really be nice, but I can see no basis for it.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
There is no reason for optimism. They have clearly won the war of opinion on the TV set, and from there they can let demographic jihad yields its natural result. Global Sharia, and least up to East Asia in the form of China/Japan/Korea, who may resist.
Berengaria says
President Trump should stand by Senator Mark Green for his Christian & American Patriotism, not Bow Down to the wishes of Dhimmi DEMS & GOPe.
Mark Green is Highly Qualified for the US ARMY POST, & his views on ISLAM & LGBTQ are the VIEWS OF MOST AMERICANS & SHOULD BE THE VIEWS OF THE US ARMY.
I STAND beside Senator Green, & am very upset that Our President will not fight to keep this GOOD MAN ON HIS TEAM.
Laura says
It is McStain who should step down. The man is an insult to our great state!
gungadin says
I’m a VETERAN and when McStain grumbled that ==to paraphrase here – that Americans would have to “be taught how to GUARD the wall”, I wanted to throw something at his image on the TV !! Cause when I served every GI knew how to man his post with a firearm at the ready.
Which BEGS the question, what has happened to our armed forces training?
quota raven says
to gungadin, who queries: ” what has happened to our armed forces training?”
Easy answer: Obama!
Be careful who you vote for.
Cheers!
quota raven
Jeanette says
But your great state keeps voting him in, unless he is getting in due to election fraud.
Kiel says
It’s up to the hill when someone is to be appointed. The case shows that the Republicans are pot and parcels with the globalist establishment.
Sons of Liberty says
It is a shame that he has dropped out . This man would be a top notch Army Secretary . Why because he told the truth about Islam , and the indoctrination of OBAMA’s Common Core curriculum. Why because he said the truth about transgender , that it is a sign of mental illness. We have to fight against this lunacy,…now.
mousey says
why did he drop out? Can’t any republican fight back? Why can’t he defend what he’s said if he believes it? What is wrong with these people? Do they not get how important it is? What are they afraid of? Do they think it’s ok to just cave, say ok, you win, you’re bullying can stop me, oh well?
Jeanette says
i agree!
Is there more than meets our eyes, here?
Rob says
I think that most can’t deal with the character assassination of themselves and their families. I’m just hoping that one of these well qualified guys will have the balls to stand up, look the lefties in the eyes and tell them to get out of the way and go back to their “safe place”. No nominee is going to be perfect, so Trump and his nominee should accept that and fight it out with McCain and the other opposition.
locomotivebreath1901 says
“Tragically, my life of public service and my Christian beliefs have been mischaracterized and attacked by a few on the other side of the aisle for political gain,” he said in a statement first reported by The Tennessean.”
THEN STAND UP FOR YOUR BELIEFS DAMMIT!
Where’s Edmund Burke??
Jeanette says
Agree, and add:
Good Lord, man, have you never heard of Joan d’Arc?
Can’t you be as manly as she was, knowing that she might face being burned at the stake?
Lydia says
In the end, Bible prophecy wins.