Back in 2011, National Review featured hard-Left Soros operative Matt Duss, a friend and associate of the likes of Linda Sarsour, hitting David Horowitz and me for committing the trumped-up Leftist propaganda sin of “Islamophobia.” That was so far out of left field even for National Review that I had to wonder if Duss or his handlers had remunerated NR handsomely enough to make this egregious example of giving aid and comfort to the enemy worth the magazine’s while. As this appointment makes clear, Duss certainly has powerful friends, as does anyone who helps further the establishment narrative. The parasites feeding on the self-hating carcass of Western civilization promote each other, reward each other, appoint and reappoint each other, and grow portly and comfortable in the process.
“Report: Sanders adviser with anti-Israel history expected to join State Department,” JNS, February 4, 2021:
Matt Duss, a former foreign-policy adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is reportedly expected to join the U.S. State Department….
It added that the position has not been finalized….
Duss has been accused of furthering anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during his tenure at the left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress.
He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.
The staffers alleged “pro-Israel Jews and members of Congress of being ‘Israel firsters,’ a term implying that those who support the Jewish state have dual loyalties,” according to The Washington Free Beacon.
He also faced a backlash for publicizing Nazi-era propaganda posters in 2013.
In 2019, Duss also drew controversy for meeting with Hanan Ashrawi, a longtime aide to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting took place after Ashrawi was denied a travel visa to the United States by the Trump administration.
More recently, Duss called the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “terrorism.” He also criticized American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris for his comparison between Rep. Marjorie Greene Taylor (R-Ga.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for their anti-Semitic rhetoric.
wth009 says
This all must stop!
Dodgers#1 says
; Did the democrats secretly convert to Muhammadanism? Considering their actions, I’d guess, yes.
b.a. freeman says
more likely, Dodgers#1, they subscribe to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend … for now” principle, rather like the nazis and the commies at the very beginning of WWII.
however, once the pious ummah seizes power, i’m pretty sure a *lot* of hard-core leftists will grasp the utility of becoming muslim. good call.
Steve Andrews says
ISLAMOPHOBE —- A non-Muslim who knows more about Islam than they are supposed to know.
“Islamophobia” is a fiction and a lie — and a contradiction in terms. A “phobia” is an “unreasonable or irrational” fear. Wise men do not ignore those who make or execute terrorist threats against innocent infidels. The other major fiction is that infidels are “guilty” of being “infidels” — such that they must be punished or exterminated by “innocent” terrorist scum.
By the way — Islam is not a “race” — it is a “religion” — it is not “racist” to oppose Islam — and Islam is open to anyone of any race who would like to force that religion on everyone else.
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Taqiyya — Saying something that isn’t true
Kitman — Lying by omission
b.a. freeman says
Steve, i think the leftists using the “racist” lie are either counting on the ignorance of the average joe-in-the-street nominal leftist, who almost exclusively sees middle-eastern muslims, and thus assumes that only middle-easterners are muslims, or as a more sophisticated lie, treating islam as a “brown people’s” religion.
BTW, somebody here at JW once posted the six kinds of islamic lies:
taqiyya (muda’arat)
tawriyya
kitman
taysir
muruna
darura
unfortunately, i forgot to write down what each word means, so we’ll both have to search that out … if it’s still possible.
gravenimage says
Here’s a good list from former Jihad Watch poster Hesperado, from his blog:
But taqiyya isn’t the only style of deceit in Islamic culture. Not too long ago I stumbled on a handy list at the “Islam Exposed” blog—a veritable taxonomy of taqiyya—on a site I’d never seen before (I encourage the reader to go there, as they have reference citations for these terms):
Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
Kitman: deceit by omission.
Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
And my favorite:
Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia in order that Muslim immigrants appear “moderate.”
https://hesperado.blogspot.com/search?q=taqiyya
James Lincoln says
Thanks, gravenimage.
To think that in the not too distant past, I did not know the meaning of any of these words…
john smith says
I’d also like to thank you for this gravenimage, and like James, in the not to distant past I also didn’t know the meaning of any of these words. Most of us didn’t James.
This is the problem that we are facing, far to many people are still blind to the true nature of islam.
When we have the likes of the pope, the msm, and most of our political leaders telling us what a beautiful peaceful religion islam really is, and that isis are following some sort of perverted version. It’s no wonder that people are still asleep.
In my line of occupation, I don’t just get to meet a lot of people, I also get to personally know a lot of people. So therefore I’m in a good position, to pass on what i’ve learnt to others, and thats exactly what I do. Most people are still completely unaware of the danger islam imposes, and many eyes have yet to be opened,so thats what I try to do.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
gravenimage says
Hard-Left anti-Israel ‘Islamophobia’ propagandist Matt Duss set to join State Department
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The more I see of Biden’s cabinet, the worse it gets.
Here’s this creep saying that the prioblem is that the US did too much to try to protect Americans from Jihad terror. Can’t have that!
“U.S. Foreign Policy Never Recovered From the War on Terror”
Only a Reckoning With the Disastrous Legacy of 9/11 Can Heal the United States
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2020-10-22/us-foreign-policy-never-recovered-war-terror
Note also his dishonestly pretending that the threat of Jihad is a thing of the past.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
All The “President’s” Men circa 2021…
OLD GUY says
What a surprise Biden would appoint someone with an anti-Israel ideology. That goes along with his anti-American position on the working class.