The New York Times is immensely frightened by the appointments of Pompeo and Bolton, and that’s a very good sign. But they’ve put their smear machine into high gear. Much more below.
“Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti-Islam Groups,” by Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, April 6, 2018:
Nearly two months after the Boston Marathon bombing, Mike Pompeo, then a congressman from Kansas, took to the floor of the House to denounce American Muslim leaders for what he called their “silence” in response to the heinous terrorist attack.
“Silence has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in these acts,” Mr. Pompeo said, reading from prepared remarks.
In fact, more than half a dozen American Muslim organizations had issued statements condemning the bombing within hours of the attack. In the days following, Muslim groups organized news conferences, blood drives and prayer vigils. Mr. Pompeo was immediately informed that he was wrong, but did not apologize or respond to Muslim groups stung by his remarks….
As always, condemnations are easy, action is hard. What are Muslim organizations in the U.S. doing to prevent the next jihad massacre? Where are the programs teaching young Muslims to reject the al-Qaeda/ISIS understanding of Islam, and indeed, to reject jihad terror altogether, as well as the aspects of Sharia that contradict American law? Nowhere.
Later on the Times engages in the familiar Leftist media tactic of presenting statements that are demonstrably true without refutation, as if they were self-evidently false:
Mr. Pompeo as a congressman arranged a briefing for one such group called Act for America, or ACT, on Capitol Hill and accepted the group’s National Security Eagle Award in 2016, according to the group’s website. Local ACT chapters have protested the construction of mosques, as well as school textbooks that include information about Islam, and have promoted “anti-Shariah” bills in state legislatures. The founder of ACT, Brigitte Gabriel, has written that “the purest form of Islam” is behind the terrorist attacks: “It’s not radical Islam. It’s what Islam is at its core.”
Horrifying! Can Laurie Goodstein present any evidence for her evident assumption that terrorist attacks do not represent “what Islam is at its core”? Of course she can’t. She is just relying on the likely ignorance of her audience. It is doubtful that anything beyond a handful of Times readers are familiar with this material:
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve…” (Qur’an 3:151)“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the unbelievers’ hearts; so strike above the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)
“Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.” (Qur’an 9:5)
“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
“Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed…” (Qur’an 9:111)
And these statements attributed to Muhammad:
“I have been made victorious through terror.” (Bukhari 4:52.220)
“Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Muslim 4294)
“I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” (Muslim 30)
Mr. Bolton is chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a think tank that regularly features articles on its website promoting the notion that pliant European countries, especially Britain, are submitting to “Islamization” by hostile Muslim migrants….
Anyone who has been paying the remotest attention to what is going on in Britain and Europe will know that there is ample reason for concern about this.
Both Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Bolton have appeared frequently on the radio show of Frank Gaffney Jr., the president and founder of the Center for Security Policy, a think tank that argues that mosques and Muslims across America are engaged in a “stealth jihad” to “Islamize” the country by taking advantage of American pluralism and democracy.
Mr. Bolton has occasionally nodded along to some of Mr. Gaffney’s falsehoods. When Huma Abedin, an American Muslim who was a close aide to Hillary Clinton, was wrongly accused of being a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr. Bolton told Mr. Gaffney’s radio show that he did not see any problem with raising the question, even though a host of senators had denounced it.
A host of senators denouncing something doesn’t prove anything. Go back in history, and you can find a host of senators denouncing the abolition of slavery. In reality, Huma Abedin has extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is suspicious indeed that this was considered beyond the pale to point out, and unworthy of investigation.
On another show in 2015, Mr. Gaffney said that President Barack Obama displayed “kind of an affinity for, if not the violent beheading and crucifixions and slaying of Christians and all that, but at least for the cause for which these guys are engaged in such activities.”
Mr. Pompeo agreed, saying, “Frank, every place you stare at the president’s policies and statements, you see what you just described.”
You don’t? Obama frequently praised Islam but never had a positive word for Christianity. He let in thousands of Muslim migrants but kept out Christian refugees. I suppose it’s “Islamophobic” to point out such things.
Mr. Gaffney went on to ask Mr. Pompeo whether he had concerns about Representative André Carson, a Democrat of Indiana who is Muslim, and who served on the House Intelligence Committee. Mr. Carson has “deep personal ties to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and organizations,” Mr. Gaffney asserted, an accusation that is unfounded….
Unfounded? Really? Here is a 20-page dossier fully documenting Carson’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. It shows that Carson has worked extensively with Muslim Brotherhood groups including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), even after being warned about them. It is the height of irresponsibility, as well as dishonesty, for Goodstein to toss off this accusation as “unfounded” while ignoring all the evidence to the contrary, and not even bothering to inform her readers that it exists.
The idea that American Muslims are a subversive fifth column is rejected by mainstream experts. Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the American population and many of those who are immigrants came to the United States to escape authoritarian Muslim countries; imposing Shariah law is not on their agenda. American Muslim leaders have denounced the Islamic State, which has threatened them with death.
A captured internal Muslim Brotherhood document says that the Muslim Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991. All the major Muslim organizations in the U.S. — CAIR, ISNA, MAS, MSA, IIIT, and more — are listed in this document as partner organizations in this effort.
Wa’el N. Alzayat, who was a Middle East expert at the State Department and senior policy adviser to Samantha Power, the former United Nations ambassador, said of Mr. Pompeo’s comments, “Imagine if this stuff had been said about Jews, or African-Americans or Chinese-Americans. And yet, we’re living with an administration that is actually rewarding people with racist views or racist associations with some of the highest positions in our government.”
There are no Jewish, African-American (with the arguable exception of Black Lives Matter) and Chinese-American groups that are carrying out terror attacks and boasting that they will soon bring down the government and install one to their liking.
Mr. Bolton, a fierce critic of Mr. Obama, wrote the foreword to a 2013 book by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, “The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America.” Ms. Geller has said that the only moderate Muslims are secular Muslims, and that allowing Muslims to pray in public schools or workplaces would lead to the “mosque-ing” of America. She led the fight against a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Yes, and so? 70% of Americans opposed the Ground Zero Mosque. And what in Pamela Geller’s statements, or in our book, is false? The Times doesn’t bother to say. Laurie Goodstein knows that the easy marks and Leftist ideologues that make up the majority of the Times’ readership will swallow what she says uncritically.
JW_Reader says
Shame on Laurie Goodstein. In stead of earning degrees from two premiere institutes in the country, she did not learn how to comprehend the basics of a religion. Yet she calls herself national correspondent of religion. Ms. Goodstein should delve deeper in to Islam and learn more about it before writing these nonsensical articles. Just knowing five pillars of Islam does not make one expert on Islam. But that is what she is, I suppose.
esther says
Laurie wrote an article designed as a CAREER MOVE
Andy says
More Leftie craziness!
Pro-choice “liar” stages fake hate crime to paint pro-life community as violent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_PGTOb4c4
David Menzies: Heineken’s “racist” ad made for publicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msjL1DFrxM
BC says
Just do not see it at all. Only a paranoiac would see it. In any case the bottle starts off on the bar and then travels on the floor, if it had dropped from bar to floor it would have smashed, then it jumps back on the bar! Also it would not have enough momentum to travel that distance. Nonsense, OK i know most ads are stupid but really!
Andy says
I wonder what Ms. Laurie Goodstein would say about this:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2018/04/university-event-aims-to-combat-christian-privilege/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics+Red&utm_content=55
At the 11:00 minute mark of the video President Trump talks about Christianity – God bless him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73x6BBMYKw
J D S says
These leftist newspapers and their writers seem yo think there is nothing wrong with a so called religion that promotes murder, rape, thievery, slavery, lying and on and on it goes and worse yet this religion(?) Wants to rule the whole world so it seems to me that anyone who upholds this seems to show traitorous aspects in their speech and writings.This Is America.
Keep America American believe in it or leave it!!!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Robert writes, “Go back in history, and you can find a host of senators denouncing the abolition of slavery.”
What senators denounced abolition, when? We need to praise these senators for defending a shariah institution. But one party has been, since its founding, rabidly pro-abolition; see
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h127.html
Hopefully in 2018 the Radical Republican abolitionist hold on the Congress will be broken, and after impeachment and repeal of the 2nd Amendment, we can then proceed to repeal the anti-sharia amendments that the Radical Republicans made part of the Constitution: the 13th Amendment, which abolishes possession by the right hand, and the 14th Amendment, which gives kafirs equal status with Muslims.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein attacks Pompeo and Bolton for daring to notice there’s a jihad threat
………………
Notice that Goodstein does not actually cite anything they have gotten wrong–this is all innuendo.
christianblood says
15 years ago, just before the illegal invasion of Iraq, John Bolton, the war-mongering, neocon thug told the 1st OPCW chief, who is a Brazilian by Nationality:
‘I give you 24 hours to resign’.
OPCW chief answered: “I will not resign”.
John Bolton told him: “OK, so there will be retaliation. Prepare to accept the consequences. We know where your kids are.”
OPCW chief answered him, ‘Go ahead. I am prepared to face the consequences’.
Please watch the thuggish nature of John Bolton and the rest of this story on the video clip below:
https://www.rt.com/usa/423477-bolton-threat-opcw-iraq/
Wellington says
One of the greatest thugs in our time, christianblood, is Putin.
Easy call actually. And even a wussy like Theresa May is sick of the guy let alone someone with guts like Trump having had it with the ex-KGB control-freak——-and killer.
Putin is bad news for freedom, for the West (particularly Eastern Europe which can’t stand Putin), and even for Russia, and you remain utterly clueless of all of this.
christianblood says
Wellington
You believe too much in the empire’s propaganda! Please read the powerful (Open Letter To The American People) Written by a Texan American who now lives in the Ukraine. “..Overthrow Your Kleptocratic Oppressors!..'” Says this good man. Please read his powerful open letter to the American people on the link below:
https://russia-insider.com/en/texan-ukraine-american-people-overthrow-your-kleptocratic-oppressors/ri22745
Baucent says
“Christianblood,” Why is it I never see you turn up on threads reporting the actual spilling of “Christian Blood”?
You only appear if the thread presents an opportunity to criticize the West or America.
In summary, that then is your purpose, you have no interest in Islamic attacks on Christians at all, only as being a propaganda mouthpiece for your leader Putin.
christianblood says
Baucent
The actual spillers of Christianblood are the jihadists but the US, and West directly and indirectly collude with the jihadists in murdering Christians. To give you a fresh example, in Syria, US and the West are backing, arming, training and protecting barbaric islamic jihadist head-choppers who want to topple and destroy the secular government of that country that protects Christians and other minorities. US and Nato did the same in Bosnia and Kosovo and bombed Christian Serbs, shedding the blood of Christians there in support of their islamic terrorist buddies. As result of that, hundreds of Christian churches and monasteries were destroyed and replaced with mosques by the US and Nato-backed islamic jihadists. Please watch the clip below:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHSav7TbYBM
infidel numero uno says
RT……now there’s a credible source. NYT is also a VERY credible source for anything. Mr. Bolton is the perfect man for the job. His wise counsel will serve President Trump well. MAGA!!
christianblood says
infidel numero uno
Nope! He will probably advice Trump to start numerous “regime-change” wars in places like Venezuela, DPRK and Iran and will likely unleash WW3 in the process, a war which will, in turn, lead to a nuclear Holocaust and the destruction of the planet Earth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUgARy0C7k
Sentinel says
“imposing Shariah law is not on their agenda”
The Belgium Islamic political Party has this as their central political aim. The funny thing is that no Islamic leader would dare say that Sharia Law is NOT on their agenda as they would be shunned and face ostracism from their own adherents.
Of course this must never be mentioned out loud until they are in power because Sharia Law permits only Islam worship and customs.
SHUALI says
Ignorance, arrogance and fear masquerading as open mindedness.
herbert says
http://www.themediareport.com/2013/10/02/laurie-goodstein-ny-times-uncovered/
Wellington says
Muslims condemning terrorism done in the name of Islam is akin to Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, et al. condemning the Polish invasion of Germany in September of 1939.
PRCS says
As it pertains to Islam, “terrorism” is a white washing euphemism for violent jihad. A sleight of hand used by both the informed and the the clueless.
Now, with a record of roughly 30,000 acts of violence committed around the world by Muslims post 9/11, a mental image of Sendero Luminoso, Tamil Tiger and Basque separatist members–if there are any–isn’t what comes to most people’s minds.
Cheryl s. says
The New York Times is a disgrace. But, Carlos Slim owns it, can we expect anything more?
This woman & her ridiculous article and the gullible lefty readership would be better served if they moved the Times to Paris, or, Berlin or, Stockholm where they actually believe muslims just need to be loved more. And those damn Christians & Jews, if they would just shut the heck up about their inferior God and convert, and white privilege is what is provoking peaceful muslims to act out.
My God, the left is one big “Blue Pill.” They will NEVER recognize Truth.
maghan says
Some say Slim descends from Lebanese Arabs.
Lydia Church says
evil IS the core of islam, in every form including terrorism!
“God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions…” yes, Christianity will triumph over islam!
Lydia Church says
I am reminded of a saying which is erroneous; “I don’t want to know what you are against, but what you are FOR.” Well it is impossible to have one without the other, they are on the same ball of wax.
If you know what I am FOR, then you will automatically know what I am AGAINST.
For example, if I am….
FOR unborn babies, then I am AGAINST abortion.
FOR biblical marriage, then I am AGAINST unbiblical marriages.
FOR Israel being in the land, then I am AGAINST other groups trying to expel them.
FOR Christianity, then I am AGAINST all other religions.
FOR Jesus, then I am AGAINST mohammed and all other ‘messengers’ who had messages that were contrary to Christ’s.
And if I am AGAINST islamic terrorism, then I am FOR a peaceful existence for humanity.
Etc. So it is impossible to separate the two. Even Jesus said it!
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.” Matthew 12; 30, also Luke 11; 23.
Either you are FOR Him, or you are AGAINST Him.
If you are for one thing, you are against its opposite, and if you are against something, then you are for its opposite.
Brian hoff says
Both men are unfit to hold any office.
gravenimage says
Why? Because they notice that “Brian hoff’s” coreligionists are waging violent Jihad against us?
don vito says
Just where have you been brian hoff? JW chorus of islam deniers and jihad deniers have sorely missed your contribution. You putzy.
Freedomfriend says
We need a full moratorium on Muslim migration to the US:
At Least Five Imams in America Have Called for the Death of Jews …
https://www.algemeiner.com/…/at-least-five-imams-in-america-have-called-for-the-de…
Feb 1, 2018 – Why is it that when white supremacists chant “Jews will not replace us,” that the mainstream media and practically all mainstream Jewish groups and organizations immediately decry the antisemitism? Yet, after five imams call for the murder of the “filthy” Jews, our collective response is so indiscernible that … Link above for full report.
mortimer says
Laurie Goodstein has not read the primary source texts of Islam… doesn’t know the names of them, let alone their contents… and yet, PREPOSTEROUSLY, she presents herself as an authority on a topic that she has not researched AT ALL !
Laurie Goodstein is GUESSING when she talks about Islam. Laurie Goodstein is SURMISING when she talks about Islam. Laurie Goodstein is PRESUMING when she talks about Islam. Laurie Goodstein is INACCURATE when she speaks about Islam.
Norger says
I suspect this is absolutely true. Laurie Goodstein is no doubt secure in her “knowledge” that “true” Islam is essentially the same thing as Quaker pacifism.
underbed cat says
So true…..the fantasy Islam.
Bill says
Sooner or later her Jihadi allies will get around to killing her. I will not weep.
Jayell says
Good God! A jihad threat? Whatever next! Soon they”ll be claiming that the earth isn’t flat!
duh swami says
Bolton…The profane call him a war mongering neocon thug,,,I cak him, ‘The right man for the job’…
underbed cat says
NYT’s writers must be getting their “documentation” from the local iman….who is dedicated and obligated to cleverly protect the doctrine from the eyes of the press in my opinion. By pass reading the Quran, by pass the the purpose of the mosque, by pass the Reliance of the Traveler (sharia law) by pass history, by pass terror group,,by pass the MB goals and organizations, by pass the the teacing of jihad,by pass,by pass the (taqiyya) deception, by pass warfare methods and the truth looks like hate speech…..from the sources that did not by pass. Sincerely hope NYT’s publishes or at minimum reads Robert Spencer’s response and stops by passing the truth and they will find not all the voters fell for the deception….many of the “deplorables” have had access to factual analysis from J.W. and S. Coughlins Red Pill Briefs which are studies of the authentic sources of the goals of the Global Islamic movement and the obligation to mass refugee movements and use of terror methods for submission of invasion.
Norger says
It is remarkable how the MSM presents certain statements about Islam as self-evidently false; e.g. “the purest form of Islam is behind the terrorist attacks.”
Apart from Islamic theology (of which I will assume Ms. Goodstein is appallingly ignorant) one would think that Ms. Goodstein would be aware, for example, that virtually all terrorists self-identify as devout Muslims. If Goodstein would take a few moments to research Islamic theology she would find abundant authoritative support for the proposition that killing and being killed in the service of Allah is the only sure path to paradise. The terrorists themselves say that they are practicing the purest form of their religion and their claim is entirely plausible in light of authoritative Islamic sources. Ms.Goodstein blithely assumes that Islamic terrorists somehow completely misunderstand the religion for which they are willing to die. (And as Robert Spencer points out, all Islamic terrorists seem to misunderstand their religion in precisely the same way).
Ms. Goodstein can’t allow herself to even contemplate the possibility that “pure Islam” might be behind terrorist attacks.
b.a. freeman says
ms. goodstein shows that she is an *expert* liar (or propagandist – almost the same thing), in that she surrounds her lies with true statements, all done to mislead the reader. of all people, i would expect one who claims to be a journalist to look into the background of stories in greater depth than average; by claiming the title and *not* examining islam, this liar either exposes her stupidity and laziness, or her totalitarian outlook, and besmirches the reputations of those who defined journalism in the first place.