This is a case of the Democrats believing their own rhetoric. Leftists and Islamic supremacists have been calling opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims and others “anti-Muslim” for so long that many actually think that opposition is some attempt to deny Muslims rights. In reality, opposition to jihad terror is not in the least “anti-Muslim,” unless that Muslim is a jihad terrorist, and denies rights to no law-abiding citizen. This “anti-Muslim” rhetoric has been effective in marginalizing and demonizing foes of jihad terror, but it was a dud in the Democrats’ attempt to demonize Pompeo.
“Munro: Democrats Throw Softballs at Pompeo’s Criticism of Islam,” by Neil Munro, Breitbart, April 12, 2018:
State Department nominee Mike Pompeo easily deflected Democrats’ softball questions about his prior criticism of Islamic ideology.
Pompeo was able to dodge the issue of Islam’s belligerent ideology at his confirmation hearing on Thursday because Democrats also dodged the issue by asking for his views about the uncontroversial personal rights of Americans who are Muslims.
That unspoken cooperation allowed the pro-migration Democrats and the pending Secretary of State to hide the difficult issue of how the federal government should deal with mainstream Islam’s belligerent ideology, cited by many orthodox adherents as the motivation for their “Allah is Supreme” (Allahu Akbar) terror attacks.
Pompeo’s tactful responses denied Democrats an easy excuse to vote against his confirmation. The tact is needed because the GOP holds only 51 seats in the closely divided chamber. Also, the GOP has just a one-vote advantage in the foreign relations committee which likely will cast the first votes on Pompeo’s nomination….
Read the rest here.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Regarding Syrian chemical attack (yes, it is germane):
‘One of the interviews published by the ministry showed a man who said his name was Halil Ajij, and who said he was a medical student working at Douma’s only operational hospital. This is how he described the origin of the footage:
“On April 8, a bomb hit a building. The upper floors were damaged and a fire broke at the lower floors. Victims of that bombing were brought to us. People from the upper floors had smoke poisoning. We treated them, based on their suffocation.”
Ajij said that a man unknown to him came and said there was a chemical attack and panic ensued. “Relatives of the victims started dousing each other with water. Other people, who didn’t seem to have medical training, started administering anti-asthma medicine to children. We didn’t see any patient with symptoms of a chemical weapons poisoning,” he said.’
Two versions of the same story, you take your pick:
https://www.rt.com/news/424047-russian-mod-syria-statement/
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/04/13/russophobic-campaign-moscow-claims-britain-staged-syrian-chemical-attack/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Is Mattis next?
https://www.rt.com/usa/424072-mattis-syria-strike-trump/
mortimer says
Why the DEMS BELIEVE that Muslims have SUPERIOR RIGHTS in the USA and that Muslims are ALMOST-but-NOT-QUITE the NEW ESTABLISHED RELIGION… the OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENT of religion… yes, that “ESTABLISHMENT” that the US constitution SPECIFICALLY FORBIDS.
Dems are acting AS IF Islam were ALREADY the OFFICIAL, ESTABLISHED RELIGION of the United States of America.
The Dems BELIEVE that SINCE ISLAM IS THE ESTABLISHED RELIGION that MUSLIMS HAVE SUPERIOR rights to other Americans, chiefly the RIGHT of NEVER hearing a criticism directed against Islam or against a Muslim… Sharia law FORBIDS a kafir from taking a MUSLIM to court or charging a Muslim with a crime.
shea says
Mortimer, your comments are right on, and is why, although I am still a registered democrat, I see in the future myself because of the democrats idolization of islam and the lack of respect for freedom and the constitution of the united states, withdrawing all support from all democrats who hold these views and anyone else who does and I hope that anyone who holds these anti american, anti freedom views political power and careers wane and come to nothing like a wisp of smoke in the air that blows away into nothing with a disappearance when some wind comes along and a soft breeze blows. In the name of Jesus may their power and the power of Islam in the United States be paralyzed and come to nothing as all convert to Christ and offer his freedom.
Terry Gain says
Shea
I fail to understand how you could still be a Democrat at this point.
mortimer says
Muslim countries have sponsored terrorism, but now that the US has a strong president, they are acting to curb the terrorist groups they financed… but will it all begin again when the next Dem pres arrives?
That is what I fear.
mortimer says
Pompeo did a fine job of defusing the attacks on his character.
Aussie Infidel says
Mortimer, Despite Breitbart’ praise of Pompeo, I was disappointed in his replies. He did not come down hard enough on Islam and expose it as a belligerent pernicious ideology which has no place in a civilized society. Was he simply being extremely guarded and role playing his job as top diplomat? I hope he is a lot more forceful in office, or he will get nowhere.
The pushy Democratic Senator Booker is either a Muslim supremacist or an apologist for Islam , who keeps twisting his rhetoric to force Pompeo into saying that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’, and like other religions is “deserving of respect.” I notice he speaks about “Muslims on my staff.” Has Booker ever read the Quran? Does he agree that a religion which commands its followers to “Fight them until there is no fitnah (opposition) and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah” (Quran 8:39), and “Fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness” (Quran 9:123), is deserving of respect? Islam simply sanctions murder, and unless you are a deeply indoctrinated sociopath or a dhimmi fool, that should disqualify it from any respect whatsoever.
Having “Muslim Americans serving in the military and State Department” is like having white-ants in your building, eating it out from the inside – which is precisely the Muslim Brotherhood plan for ‘civilization jihad’. Does Booker know this? Or is he simply an ignorant slick talking complicit Leftist like so many others of his ilk?
Booker claims that according to the Anti-Defamation League and the SPLC, Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel run “hate groups.” But he fails to mention that those organisations are hard left Marxists and apologists for Islam.
Ren says
Worshippers of a pedophile, a thief, a murderer and a terrorist shoud have no rights at all.
Terry Gain says
A rational policy is to bar them entry. They can believe in all the insanity they want, from afar.
Ren says
@Terry Gain
You have my vote.
Mark says
Terry
Agreed
Rumpled Nixon says
So Corey Booker is in favor of slavery, human trafficking, pedophilia, rape, and forced prostitution because he is a muslim sympathizer. Too bad they shut down backpage.com, or you could have been pimping for the local mosque and making fat cash. Put us out of our misery and just resign already…
mummymovie says
Seconded.
Carol (the 1st) says
Instinct persuades that Booker wants to be noticed and set himself up as the sweetheart Democratic PRESIDENTIAL contender (anyone can see Ellison is *quite* hopeless and not a shiny penny at all.)
Yes, presidential ambitions *must* be why Booker would shamelessy wave his muzzle-em flag “WORDS MATTER” over and over again while at the same time clearly suggesting that Pompeo has dared to think and say “harmful* WORDS and make discriminatory “demands” of muslims.
Fortunately Pompeo cleared up this inaccurate portrayal by saying that any such statement ever made by him was not meant to be the bad *DEMAND* word but the good “OPPORTUNITY” word. Maybe Pompeo once said something like: “Hey, If you’re a willing member of the Islamic community and attend those hotbeds called mosques, then TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY (as good and loyal citizens of course) to keep your eyes and ears open as any ‘extremists’ could easily let their guard down in such a carefree, kuffar-free environment – and BTW don’t FORGET to report to us any and all “harmful” WORDS!)
Hopefully Booker will responsibly inform himself about Islam and drop a naive question such as “Do you believe people worshiping some other ‘Gods” [replace with ‘Allah’ here] is something NEGATIVE in our country?!”
I bet Barack will be a gung-ho Booker-Backer!
Carol (the 1st) says
…if he ever decides to give up the Presidency, that is!
PRCS says
Pompeo was, and remains incorrect with this statement from that event:
“…with the right to practice their religion…in the way that they want to.”
That tap dancing P/C drivel is not merely false, it’s on par with the failure to note that the “if you save one life” snippet from Qur’an is directed at “the children of Israel”.
Individuals can believe whatever they want to, but they cannot legally practice those aspects of their belief which violate the U.S. Constitution and/or relevant law.
Politicians don’t need to reference a particular religion to make that clear and should let idiots like Booker try to argue otherwise.
mariam rove says
This a…hole represents NJ. He has done nothing for NJ. Irvington, Camden, Newark, ant the rest of them are the biggest s..holes in the nation and have gotten worse. M
Carolyne says
Is Camden still part of the US?
livingengine says
Colin Flaherty on Corey Booker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F808FLT3wXM
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I believe there is a defect enshrined in the US Constitution regarding religious freedom. That defect is that religious toleration is absolute and unconditional.
I repeat myself when I say that the basis for this religious toleration comes from the Enlightenment. And that the philosophers of the Enlightenment made it clear, religious tolerance should be conditional. As John Locke, expressed it, no religion that fails to extend religious tolerance to other religions should be tolerated. Nowhere in the US Constitution, to the best of my knowledge, is there a test for this tolerance.
gravenimage says
Democrats grill Pompeo about personal rights of Muslims in the U.S.
………………….
The idea that wanting to protect Americans from Jihad violates Muslim’s rights is quite grotesque–unless they believe that oppressing and murdering Infidels is a core right of Muslims.
Terry Gain says
GI
Beautiful. Your logic cannot be gainsaid.
Brian hoff says
He didnot get the foreign policy committee approval.
762x51FMJ says
Islam is the doctrine of death
of the son of slaughter.
762x51FMJ says
An angel spoke to heaven and asked if the world could be over…
And they sentenced us to live today and die when we are older….
Granddaddy says
Muslims want us to think that the US “has always been a Judaeo-Christian-Muslim” nation — I’ve actually heard them say this — and now apparently some people are buying into it. Not only that, but Islam wants to insinuate itself into Christianity and Judaism with its plagiarism of stories out of the Bible, all the while claiming that it’s all Muslim from the start, and that WE are all Muslims from the start too, and that’s why we are all “infidels” (as in un-faithful) and not just unbelievers. We owe them, in other words.
This is their doctrine. All the while, all one has to do is read the Quran and see what it actually says. And yet, somehow, no one has the time to do that. And so we get people, like Senator Booker, who think they know Islam when in fact they know a lot of lies and waste everyone’s time and money with their loud talk and ignorance.
Here’s my complaint: if this is so wrong, if Islam really is a religion of peace and not the evil barbaric subculture all the nay-sayers claim it is, if it’s so so important to defend the rights of a nation of people who shout to the world that they want us all dead, then why won’t the bigwigs take the time to read Islam’s most holy book (the Quran) and prove what they’re saying is true? They could quote from it and stop all the Islamophobes in their tracks. And that would be the end of it. But they won’t do that. And here’s why: because they know they’re wrong. If they’re not wrong, let them prove it. Otherwise, it’s just a lot of shouting and lies and taqiyya.
Carolyne says
Yes, Muslims believe that everyone is born Muslim, but some of us stray from Islam and we must be brought back or killed.
It’s as simple as that.
Carol (the 1st) says
If you love something, set it FREE. If it comes back it’s yours; if it doesn’t then it never was.
mummymovie says
The CAIR-Sarsour-MB/issue conflation/script-flipping/victimology crowd has proven very effective at co-opting the causes of other groups, and Dems are taking the identity politics bait, hook, line & sinker… i.e. Black Lives Matter & “feminist” marches.
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hassan-be-wary-of-muslim-causes-that-dont-represent-the-faiths-moderates
This Pompeo grilling by Booker is some of the manifestation of that.
Infidel says
Have these Dems ever grilled a Jehaadi, esp the stealth ones, like how they grilled Pompeo?? U all know the answer… there is no need to explain
Cheer Bear Girl says
Muslims will take away women’s rights and the rights of other kaffirs.
Linnte says
My God this Democratic senator has no clue. And I just wish he would read the Qur’an. This ticks me OFF so bad!
Troybeam says
Muslims in America, American Muslims: conflict of interest, conflict arises when a person either is born into or accepts Islam and that conflict is this: Sharia Law becomes the legal system ALL Muslims must adhere to. Koran states a Muslim cannot serve a foreign government therefore the Constitution becomes null and void for all “American Muslims” yet it can be used against the nations people via the First Amendment which is why I am constantly stating that Islam needs a status change from religion to that of its origin a theocracy. Once that is completed than Islam will have to leave.
The Constitution is the Law of the land, Sharia Law is the legal /judicial system that only APPLIES to Muslims: A nation cannot operate with 2 different legal system, one for the people and one for Muslims only. Sooner or later the clash will begin, have a doubt look towards Europe where Islam is gaining ground by mass migration as one area but the real area is in government, a prime example is England where a Muslim Mayor has forced the citizens to live under sharia law without conflict from other government offices as Muslims are filling positions of power and its called stealth jihad.
Linnte says
Exactly about Islam being a Theocracy, BUT I say it’s worde than that. Islam is a Totalitarian Governmental System which also has a religion named Islam.
When we continue to use terms that the average American has no definition for, no acute understanding, our message will fail. It’s the same principal of Obama not calling ISIS or ” radical ” Muslims, Islamic.
A ten year old can understand “Governmental System’.
Linnte says
Not Worde than that, but WORSE than that. Darned thumbs.
Sam says
This will go on until we declare ISLAM IS AN EVIL CULT.
Until then get ready for more bloodshed on the planet.
RK says
Here’s some important info about the democrat party – muslim brotherhood/cair all run under what party? Answer: democrat…
This is the democrat party so wake the hell up and educate u’rself people before U destroy America…. noting below and there are many more just like him!
— In November 2006: Democrat Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.
He should NEVER have been allowed to do this in the United States of America — not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization.
After the official swearing-in ceremony he posed for photographs with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both of them posed with their hands upon a copy of the Quran.
– As is written and they say: “infiltrate from within” and “war is deceit” and to lie and deceive the infidel IS allowed!
… please educate u’rself instead of being blinded by BS rhetoric and indoctrination by lying politicians and media …. do u’r own homework and find the truth for u’rself…. they preach their own spin of BS rhetoric…. wolves in sheep’s clothing….
We cannot become one/united unless we stand tall on and for the truth and stop this type of insanity and anti-American BS/agenda on our soil!
RK says
The new Nazis aren’t reading Mein Kampf — they’re reading the Quran.
Let me explain…
You see, the Left has been calling our President a Nazi and comparing him to Hitler for over two years now…
…never mind the fact that he has the best relationship with Israel of any President to date, or that he has a Jewish daughter, three Jewish grandchildren, and a Jewish son-in-law.
But if they really cared about genocide and anti-Semitism, they would know that the real neo-Nazis are on THEIR side.
That’s right.
The real face of Anti-Semitism is in a hijab.
Just read what Students for Justice in Palestine and Muslim Student Association members tweeted:
“@DictatorHitler: How many Jews died in the Holocaust? Not enough’ @PrincessLulllu @thearabgirl HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA”
“F**K THE JEWS F**K EM ALL KILL ALL THE JEWS ATTA BOY HITLER”
“Hitler had alot of great ideas. We need a guy like that in the white house”
Of course, no one at CNN or MSNBC is going to talk about this.
They only care about “anti-Semitism” and “hate” when they can use it to push their anti-Trump agenda.
But they have nothing to say about the Hitler youth posing as “Students for Justice in Palestine” and the “Muslim Student Association.”
We all, those of us that are honestly paying attention, know the unholy alliance between the Left and Islam will stop at nothing in their mission to destroy the Judeo-Christian values that we hold dear…
…so it’s up to all of us to expose their hatred for what it is.
– David Horowitz
R Cole says
Thought the way Pompeo answered was actually pretty good. With the exception, after some browbeating, Pompeo said he respects Islam, when instead it is people you should respect, if they are deserving.
Cory Booker tried to go after Bridget Gabriel and Frank Gaffney claiming the ‘reputable’ SPLC [more SNL] lists them as engaging in ‘hate speech’, Pompeo said, I’ll tell you who’s really bad, who I did speak out against, Fred Phelps.
I thought that was hilarious, never mind Fred Phelps is no longer with us!!
Pompeo didn’t throw off his values for the Democrats, which means he means business.
Quite enjoyed that exchange!!
We honor freedom of conscience for a reason.