Over Before it Started

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Methinks Representative King is a wee bit over his haid. Reading my previous post about the Politico article fills me with dread and sorrow at another lost opportunity. Doesn't King know he is going to be smeared and defamed for these hearings no matter what — so why not achieve something? Why not have the courage of your convictions?

They are worried about these hearings with good reason. "On the gonif brent a hittle" — the Yiddish axiom translated means, "on the thief the hat burns." At the last yearly MPAC Conference (December 18, 2010), one of the questions moderator Salaam Al Marayati asked his panel concerned the future hearings of Congressman Peter King. One of the panelists, an attorney named Angela Oh, said that any person subpoenaed should hire an attorney, and that the attorney should advise the committee that the person under subpoena would not appear. The other panelists agreed.
 
One of the other panelists, an attorney named Reem Salahi, made a lot of noise about King and the IRA. I have the feeling that they want the media to exploit this. The entire session was recorded and appeared on the MPAC web site.

Instead, Representative King has already conceded key points. Why? How could he in good conscience squander such an important, historic opportunity?

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In a move that will come as a relief to Muslim leaders, King told POLITICO that he’s not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, who have large followings among conservatives but are viewed as antagonists by many Muslims.

Based on this, it appears this will be a show trial completely lacking in substance. Between Emerson and Spencer, they cover the whole of it. Emerson knows who all the players are and what groups and cells they are affiliated with. He knows who everyone is and what they're doing. For King to acquiesce in his marginalization is criminal. In Spencer's case, it's just as bad. Why wouldn't King discuss the texts and teachings of Islam that jihadists use to justify violence and make recruits? For him not to avail himself of Emerson's knowledge and Spencer's scholarship is an astounding case of willful blindness. 

King aims, he said, to call retired law enforcement officials and people with “the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community.” Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in the House and a critic of the hearings, will likely be a minority witness, according to both King and the Minnesota Democrat.

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, infamous for his pro-Hamas rallies (here) and his pilgrimage to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood (here), is testifying, but Emerson and Spencer aren't? What can King achieve?

The focus, King said, will be on — among other topics — reported complaints from Somali Muslims that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups discouraged them from talking to the authorities about young men who left to fight for the Islamist cause in Somalia and on cases like that of the imam who — while ostensibly cooperating with the FBI — allegedly tipped off a would-be subway bomber off as investigators closed in.

Muslim leaders respond that American Muslims have been key to an array of terror investigations, beginning with the Muslim street vendor who first noticed the smoking car in Times Square.

“I hope my colleague from New York …. does not make the mistake of trying to paint all Muslims with a broad, extremist brush,” Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the other Muslim in Congress, said in an e-mail to POLITICO. “Because for one, that’s not an accurate depiction of the millions of peace-loving Muslims, and two, our national security depends on us forging strong partnerships with people across the Muslim world.”

Possible witnesses, according to King, include Dutch critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali and M. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of Arizona-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser is a sharp critic of leading American Muslim groups, whose agenda he calls “Islamist.”

Jasser and Hirsi Ali are perfectly lovely, but to what end? Jasser's Islam does not exist. He does not have a theological leg to stand on. His mosque threw him out. Whatever he is practicing, it's not Islam, and he speaks for no one but himself. Also, Jasser has done some strange things: in May 2009 he made a last minute effort to quash Geert Wilders' appearance on Capitol Hill under the aegis of Senator Kyl, calling Kyl's office the morning of the day Wilders was supposed to appear stating a LIE — that while Jasser had been in The Netherlands Wilders refused to meet with Jasser because Wilders "doesn't meet with Muslims." THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

And when I interviewed him back in 2007, he referred to Israel as occupied territory in the last five minutes of the interview. He blew his cover. Further, Jasser refutes Islamic antisemitism in the interview as well. He may be well intentioned, but his approach and theology is just plain unislamic. Logan's Warning pointed out recently that Jasser has no following among Muslims, and doesn't represent any Islamic tradition. So what's the point?  

King probably thinks, as do other conservatives, that Jasser is the voice of reason in our cause of educating Americans about the threat of radical Islam. But in this Jasser fails miserably. First off, there is no "reason" in Islam. There is only Islam. You cannot question, reason, or go off the reservation in any way. Hence, Jasser cannot educate about the threat, because he obfuscates the truth and has invented the Islam he follows.

Jasser is a rare Muslim voice welcoming the hearings. Other community leaders who spoke to POLITICO are afraid that their fragmented community is not ready for this fight.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is smart, fashionable and a wonderful speaker. I am not sure what she brings to the party — except for Niall Ferguson (meow, I am so jealous). She is a great spokesperson but she has removed herself from the front lines. She runs in a different crowd now. Yes, she can speak to the brutal oppression of women in Islam, but what can she bring to these hearings? If it's a former Muslim they want to hear from, who better than the world's leading scholar on Islam, Ibn Warraq?

That's all King really needs: Emerson, Spencer and Ibn Warraq.

Instead he will trot out useless empty retreads, yesterday's men, and maybe Bull O'Reilly.

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Telly
Telly
13 years ago

Angela Oh?!?!
I haven’t heard that name in 20 years. I don’t know if she’s a radical or an ideology-free self-promoter, but she is definitely a crazy-lady. If she hadn’t found her way into local left-wing politics in Los Angeles, she would be pushing a shopping cart down the street while having an extremely loud and belligerent argument with herself.
Angela and Oh are both common names so maybe it’s a different person. Let’s hope so.
Spencer and Emerson are out probably because they don’t have a Muslim background and therefore lack the proper identity (“creds”). Whatever they add will be written off as “racist islamophobia.” That is very unfortunate, but that is the way it is for now (until we change it).
Ayaan is a bona fid apostate so she will be listened to more than Spencer and Emerson. And let’s not forget that she is also an apostate of the left-wing and cultish extreme multiculturalism. I love her to bits. She will be of great benefit in setting up the background of Islamism even if she is not active lately.
As for Jasser, I have seen him on TV and really liked what he had to say at the time. But I also wondered why he doesn’t seem to get along with the anti-islamist heavy weights like those mentioned here, and Pamela Geller herself.

armaros
armaros
13 years ago

The hearings will create awareness.
Americans will at least learn about this problem. This is what makes CAIR cry.
That their agenda will be exposed not by King but by the awareness his hearings will create.
The Left and the Dems will be backed into a corner. They may cry racism and McCarthy but the Dems will be carefully watching the public reaction. King may just expose them as well along with the Islamists.
Hearings seldom achieve anything. They merely create a climate or awareness.
Bobby Kennedy didn’t eliminate the mob. He just shed light on it. Likewise McCarthy didn’t eliminate communists (though he caught a few big fish) but he created a new intelligence climate which made it harder for them to subvert America because people were made aware of their seditious plans.
Watch MSNBC attack King singing the CAIR tune.
It will make them look like they are on the side of Islam and they still will create awareness among their viewers about this danger.

Telly
Telly
13 years ago

Oops. Did I say self-promoter?
I meant hateful, evil, maniacal, manipulative, racially divisive self-promoter.

dawning
dawning
13 years ago

The ONLY thing anyone needs to know about islam is JIHAD and TAQIYYA…Everything that isn’t jihad is taqiyya.

k9gs
k9gs
13 years ago

Why did I know this was to good to be true?
Love the positive spin, but the man caved…as they all do.
On the cheery side of things I do believe the Chinese will take over before islam. We are so screwed.

john jay
john jay
13 years ago

pamela, friends:
why vote for the bastards if they prove to be gutless tools, and back down at the first sign of “trouble?”
he doesn’t want to know. he doesn’t want to inform. he doesn’t want to defend the republic from islam.
he just wants to be powerful. well, now he is. and, quite determined it would appear, to remain stupid, ignorant and deceived. but, hey, he’s powerful. he is a little old wizened man with a corvette, who doesn’t know how to drive it, and is afraid to learn.
so, peter king informs us, that he is just going to drive around town with the top down.
he just wants to be powerful, and he hasn’t a fucking clue.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
p.s. what, do republicans turn in the cock & ball set when they become the majority? what? they get this “power,” and they become spineless. just lick spittle spineless.
every time, they betray the people who elect them, and cozy up and make nice nice with their adversary. it is just sort of mind numbing.

john jay
john jay
13 years ago

pamela, friends:
and, oh yeah, it’s not exactly “on topic,” but it is about islam.–
isn’t there something in the u.n. charter about the universal declaration of the rights of man, and doesn’t it say that each human being has dignity, and the right to worship as he or she pleases, and doesn’t have to be subject to murderous rampage by state sponsored terrorism?
doesn’t the united nations and the o.i.c. get all worked up about stuff like that, and use words like “genocide” all the damned time?
well, don’t they?
so, about this slaughter of christians in iraq? where’s the united nations of that? the o.i.c.?
but, hey, even more to the point? where’s the pope? the patriarchs of the greek and russian orthodox churches? and, where or where, besides getting his toe nails done and his gonads waxed, is the arch bishop of canterbury, the head of the church of england?
when did these stalwarts decide to disappear from view? must be having the vestments out to the cleaners this last month or so? eh?
just like peter king.–
the world is awash in cowardice and fear, and of “leaders” who have not one once of moral integrity, or any semblance of moral or ethical concern about their fellow man, and about their fellow christians and jews in this little adventure called the judeo-christian ethos.
there are people who will fight and die to protect our heritage, our civilization, our societies and our religions, and we have exactly not one person worthy of the role to lead us into battle.
what in the hell happened?
is it any wonder that the arabs regard us as the lick spittles that they do?
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
p.s. oh, yes, on topic, … , peter king is a clown.

sheik yer'mami
sheik yer'mami
13 years ago

Over before it started.
Indeed.
How depressing!

hamilcarb
hamilcarb
13 years ago

Hirsi Ali will be great. Sure Emerson should be there too, But what’s wrong with Ali? She’s awesome – and remains very interested in the ill effects of Islam on women in the West, through her Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation. She’ll bring plenty to the hearings.

Kenny Solomon
Kenny Solomon
13 years ago

Rep. Peter King – R-NY – That’s who this is, yes ?
The same guy who wants to obliterate The 2nd Amendment ?
‘Nuff said.
Screw him.

Carol Eberwein
Carol Eberwein
13 years ago

Slight “tweek” Rep. Andre Carson…”our national security depends on us forging strong partnerships
with people across the Muslim world.” OUR NATIONAL SECURITY DEPENDS ON US TO DEFEAT AND KILL JIHADISTS
ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD.CAROL EBERWEIN

Grimcargo
Grimcargo
13 years ago

I would like it if King called you. I have a feeling you could sing the praises of Islam in several keys at once.

Grimcargo
Grimcargo
13 years ago

Never mind folks. All is going to be lollipops again because they are all going to sit together.They might even swap wives. But that would pose a problem with Blarney Frinks.

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

Unfortunetly you are right on Bro!

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

Kenny, I was thinkin the same thing. I always was please with King up to then. A few minor disagreements, but hey, ya can’t agree with someone on EVERYTHING. But with his assault on the Second Admendment and now losing his gonads with the Muslims, perhaps he’s been a sleeper the whole time just part of the ole good cop/bad cop game. ATLAS for CONGRESS! Enough of girly men!GIT a REAL women to do a MAN’s JOB!

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

And allow me to add American Energy INdependence NOW! DIZ, DRILL and BUILD NOW!

Mac-101
Mac-101
13 years ago

Don’t worry, there’s enough of them that will screw anything, especially the tax payer!

Yomayngsup
Yomayngsup
13 years ago

you should hear yourself–you obviously don’t know what truth is because you call it hate. you must be married to a muslim.

sDee
sDee
13 years ago

Agreed. King’s 2-cents added to the opportunistic leftist media Tuscon assault on the Constitution was incredulous. At least now the progressives are transparently duplicitous. King’s “1000 ft” solution makes no sense even for a progressive in elephant clothing. Useful idiots on parade. I’ve no theory, conspiratorial or otherwise – we just need to get rid of them.

ApolloSpeaks
ApolloSpeaks
13 years ago

Crown this King with a dunce cap and mock his meaningless hearings.
Click my name for my take on Chris Christie’s Betrayal of New Jersey and America.

Christopher Taylor
Christopher Taylor
13 years ago

Islamophobia has now become a recognised form of racism right?
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jj
jj
13 years ago

mac-101:
i have suggested that very thing to mizz geller many times.
maybe she will listen to you and give you a more “serious” ear than she has to me.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

Walt
Walt
13 years ago

So just another Dog and Pony show. Pete King is bringing the Chihuahua’s instead of the Doberman’s. All yap and NO BITE…
The PC game as usual.

Prophet
Prophet
13 years ago

A few words about Zuhdi Jasser : I was very impressed with him at first, and his video “The Third Jihad ” . Then after seeing him again and reading more about him questions kept entering my mind : He is a Muslim who is so dissatisfied with his religion that he had to make a video pointing out it’s defects and dangers. Yet he claims that these certain followers of that faith “hijacked ” the real Islam, which he admits he loves- saying it is dear to him and actually beautiful. That man is one confussed person, and he is trying to confuse others also.
I have a feeling he is so anxious to change Islam so he doesn’t always feel the need to apologize for it, and when it is more acceptable to the world that he too will be seen as the illustrious person he longs to be. He still wants Islam to be glorified, no matter what. Then too, we have to ask ourselves : if Islam is so bad- WHY is he still a Muslim ?? Mr. Jasser–Islam is Islam; there isn’t any middle road. What are you trying to do–put lipstick on a pig ?
Also, this is just my opinion of course, but I do not think Ayaan Hirsi Ali is what we think she is. Not that she isn’t an admirable person I have appreciated, but she is not really on the side of the right. Perhaps because she considers herself one who still fits in the “minority ” category she feels for others who fit that picture ,and she doesn’t like the idea of turning any alien away .For one thing, she is not anti-imigration, and is worried about Geert Wilders and his influence .Immigration is one reason she’s that way, but she just resents him anyhow; maybe he gets too much attention. She wrote an article once called, if I remember right : “How we can defeat Geert Wilders ” . What goes on ?

Vimax
Vimax
13 years ago

I love the quilted little house. I don’t usually like things that are “twee”, but this is so lovely and sweet that I am hooked. I’d like to see more detailed pictures of it.
A peek at: I was inspired long ago. I believe it was when I watched my mom make me a skirt. I asked her to show me how the next day. I sucked at it…. like really badly, but I started more simple and then moved up. I’m pretty darn good at it now.

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