[ April 25, 2024 ]
American Thinker. I stand with Beck, and so should every red-blooded American who has watched the rise of the global jihad both here and abroad, while both the media and the government gave them aid and comfort.
It took a very long time, too long, for someone with a huge national audience to tackle this issue. Beck should be encouraged, applauded, aupported. Go. Read it. Comment.
Here's an excerpt:
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Bill Kristol has opened the French doors of his ivory tower, stepped out and deigned to address the great unwashed conservative quarter. High above the people and reality, he admonishes those on the right for not embracing the catastrophic events unfolding in the Middle East.In his opinion piece, Stand for Freedom, he dismisses or summarily denies the concrete facts on the ground. Of course, we all want freedom. Of course, we support voices yearning to be free. We fought for and believed The Bush Doctrine, and still do. But there is far more at work here, as evidenced by the fierce behind-the-scenes jockeying and arm-twisting by the on-the-ascent Muslim Brotherhood, an organization created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire for the purpose of restoring the rule of political Islam.The left-wing lemmings are eating up this discourse among us like maggots on dead flesh, but that is their only joy, so let them have it. They are overjoyed to see one conservative attack another, as Kristol goes after Glenn Beck:When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He's marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.But Kristol is so wrong, inexcusably so. Glenn Beck nailed it. The advance of Islamic supremacism is exactly what is at play here. And we are right to be cautious. Nobody expects Mubarak to survive — we only care about what comes after.Finally, someone had the guts to speak to Islamic supremacism and its global project nine years after September 11, and Kristol smacks him down. Many of us have been covering this for years, perplexed and disturbed that no one in the mainstream media dared touch it.The left always aligns itself with the totalitarian ideology of the day (i.e., Stalinism, Communism, National Socialism, etc.), and so it is with Islamic supremacism. Those of us covering the anti-America, anti-war, anti-Israel movement have documented this for years. CODE PINK, ANSWER, Al Awda, the Socialist Workers Party, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), CAIR, ISNA, If Americans Knew (IAK), Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have been working and agitating together for years.Trust me, Mr. Kristol, Beck did not "invent" that.There is nothing that Beck said that was inaccurate. It's all there. You don't have to look for ghosts. There is vast historical, political, and judicial evidence of the global jihad and its ties. As for the existence of the violent goals of the caliphate, read the Qur'an and Hadith. Tally the daily death toll of non-Muslims in Muslim countries around the world. Or better yet, take a quick look at the past millennium and the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements.There is Kristol-lite and there is reality. The Muslim Brotherhood has been open about demanding a restoration of Islamic law. They're calling for democracy in Egypt because they know they have the votes for establishing an Islamic state. And yet William Kristol writes that "the idea that democracy produces radical Islam is false: Whether in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories, or Egypt, it is the dictatorships that have promoted and abetted Islamic radicalism. (Hamas, lest we forget, established its tyranny in Gaza through nondemocratic means.)"Is that so? So please, Dr. Kristol, explain why Hamas won the elections in Gaza. And explain why all of the jihadists and homegrown terrorists who were born and raised in Western nations. Quoting Robert Spencer, "Muslims are the first immigrant group that has ever come to this country with a ready-made model of society and government they believe to be superior to what we have here."Kristol also charges that conservatives are opposing freedom, saying it is not a "sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition."We welcome freedom. We are not siding with dictators, but fighting against the tyranny of Islamic totalitarianism, and so should you, Mr. Kristol. Shame on you.Kristol laments what he claims is a change among conservatives, saying that "it was not so long ago, after all, when conservatives understood that Middle Eastern dictatorships such as Mubarak's help spawn global terrorism. We needn't remind our readers that the most famous of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, was an Egyptian, as is al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri."Indeed. Islam produces jihad, Mr. Kristol. Islam produces fundamentalism. The Qur'an commands it, demands it. Millions of jihadis are reading the same playbook. Blaming Mubarak or U.S. policy for jihad is like blaming a woman for being raped (ah, if only she didn't have that vagina, all would be well).We are not naive. We saw Western liberals usher in the reign of the Ayatollah Khomeini and that, too, changed the world forever, for the worse. Much worse.Kristol concludes: "An American conservatism that looks back to 1776 cannot turn its back on the Egyptian people. We should wish them well — and we should work to help them achieve as good an outcome as possible."Please Dr. Kristol, stop lecturing us on 1776. We live it. Every day. I have for the past nine years since 911. I strongly recommend that Dr. Kristol step back and read Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Sir Martin Gilbert, Mark Durie, Jewish history, the Muslim Brotherhood Project, the news accounts of the jihad in Thailand, Somalia, the Philippines, Ethiopia, China, Beslan, Moscow, London, Madrid, Israel, Lebanon, Sudan, Tunisia, Kenya…you get the picture.
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12 Comments
13 years ago
Theoden: Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?
13 years ago
Thank you for your brilliant comments. Precisely what I would have said if I was gifted with a silver tongue. I was taken aback by the attack on Glen Beck. I am not a follwer of his – between 2 jobs and 4 kids there is precious little time to be a follower of much. However, I do know how to use a search engine and I am an accomplished reader. The information that Mr. Beck presented on his show concerning ‘islamic socialism’ (one of the few I have actually been able to see – thanks to a sick kid) was factually accurate. He did not have to invent any of the ties he was exposing.
Slightly off point – I saw Mr. Kristoll on Morning Joe for about 30 seconds this morning and he made a nasty dig about how Fox used to be ‘fair and balanced’ – what was that about?
13 years ago
I’ll bet if you queried Beck about Wilders today, he would support him. I’ll bet it took Glen quite a bit of contemplation and prayer to ponder the true evil that is Islam and come to this decision to air his concerns about Islam. He knows it is a death sentence. He is doing exactly what Wilders has done, that of putting up a mirror in front of Islam for all to see.
My bet is he now has such superior protection, he is willing to take the risk. Not communicating this truth to his audience would forever haunt him.
Great defense of Beck, Pamela. Much appreciated.
13 years ago
Does Kristol not know the difference between “freedom” and “democracy”?
You can have “democracy” where a majority of the electorate votes to enslave the minority (or tax them at confiscatory rates, or regulate their businesses out of existence, etc.). You can also (theoretically, anyway) have a “benevolent despot” or hereditary monarch who stays in power for decades but rules with a very light hand. Which system provides the most freedom?
Western voting rights developed along with (or, on top of) the cultural understanding that humans have certain fundamental rights, including the right to freedom of religious belief and practice. No such understanding is the norm in any Islamic country.
13 years ago
I’ve been listening and watching Beck for about 5 years. I used to agree with him at 50% at the beginning. But unfortunately his views have come around to mine in the last two years and I agree with him about 90-95% of the time. I beleive his original attacks on the BANKSTERS was just because it was SOOO obvious he was tryin to get some street cred.
Now with Islam, he has just started hard on them since Murdoch and the Oil Ticks, his backers figured out that now that Murbarak has been thrown under the bus, the King, Princes and the rest of the Oil Ticks will be next. So I chalk it up to the survival instinks of the Saudi Royal House kicking in!
13 years ago
I have long complained that Bill Kristol is a wimp, and, at best, a RINO.
Fox would greatly benefit from saying “GOODBYE” to this wimp. He adds very little to any show.
He is a disgrace to all real conservatives.
13 years ago
The main question that should be addressed is what can we do as Westerners or Americans to help in realizing a better and much freer outcome for the Egyptian people? Can we do anything to guarantee a democratic outcome that leads to a free nation? And if so what is it that we can do outside of warning about the concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood taking control of Egypt? What can we do to stop the formation of a caliphate that may possibly govern the entire umma throughout the middle east?
I’m sorry but I don’t see the answers here other than letting the people of Egypt demand their own fully open Democratic vote for how they want their government to perform? Do we want the Muslim Brotherhood there or an establishment of a caliphate,of course not.
Please show me the answers on how you are going to convince 80 million people to vote a certain way?
13 years ago
A respectful rebuttal. Please don’t be so hard on Bill. He can be brought around with a little education. And this might just be a teachable moment. Send him a copy of your column and a dozen roses for Valentines day. maybe do lunch sometime soon. No sense having hostility between you two. regards
13 years ago
Consider: The missing element in every human ‘solution’ is an accurate
definition of the creature.
In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent dangers and abuses
which have characterized the affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist
in the requisite search for human identity, it is essential to perceive and
specify that distinction which naturally and most uniquely defines the human
being.
Because definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions of men,
we can be confident that delineating and communicating that quality will
assist the process of resolution and the courageous ascension to which
man is called. As Americans of the 21st Century, we are obliged and
privileged to join our forebears and participate in this continuing paradigm
proclamation.
“What is human?” GOD’s paradigm answer…
Keven J. Hasson, President of the Becket Fund, recently stated, “…the American and Soviet systems…offered differing visions of freedom and human nature.” The missing element in every human ‘solution’ is an accurate definition of the creature.
In the Bible, God’s Word has accurately defined the human being as ‘the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.’ His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans – everywhere in the world – possess. Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of choice, selection, election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise.
Further, God’s gift of criteria for choosing between alternatives supplies us with superior standards for successful visionary choice-making. Humans cannot invent (or replace) criteria greater than self, ACLU to the contrary.
Defining ‘human’ accurately is the first step in establishing accurate and successful environments, institutions, and creative relationships for earth’s Choicemaker. Middle East governments, and all leaders, would do well to pay attention: nature and nature’s Creator speak with an authoritative voice. Psalms 25:12 119:30, 173 Joel 3:14 Selah
No one is smarter than their criteria.
13 years ago
Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, and
sensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a natural
capability for enacting internal mental and external physical selectivity.
Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superior
basis of an active intelligence.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and
typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of
experience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the
following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot
define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choicemaking process and
include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of
value measuring systems and language, and the acculturation of
civilization.
The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, and
traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers.
Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles,
constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither
awe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own highest
expression of the creative process.
Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing
is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.
Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,
and bestows earth’s paradigm title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and
plural brow.
13 years ago
CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
“I should think that if there is one thing that man has learned about
himself it is that he is a creature of choice.” Richard M. Weaver
“Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and impulses; he can
rationalize his behavior. He arranges his wishes into a scale, he chooses;
in short, he acts. What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he
adjusts his behavior deliberately.” Ludwig von Mises
“To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be presumed that the
human being is responsible for his actions and responsibility cannot be
understood apart from the presumption of freedom of choice.” John
Chamberlain
“The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary of the orderly
laws of cause and effect, of probability and of chance, of which man is not
completely informed. It is complementary of them because it rests in part
upon the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator with the power
of individual choice.” Wendell J. Brown
“These examples demonstrate a basic truth — that human dignity is embodied
in the free choice of individuals.” Condoleeza Rice
“Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered universe. They
believed themselves to be a part of the universal order of things. Stated
another way, they believed in God. They believed that every man must find
his own place in a world where a place has been made for him. They sought
independence for their nation but, more importantly, they sought freedom for
individuals to think and act for themselves. They established a republic
dedicated to one purpose above all others – the preservation of individual
liberty…” Ralph W. Husted
“We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching that we can choose
either to accept or reject the God who gave it to us, and it would seem to
follow that the Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
equally free in our relationships with other men. Spiritual liberty
logically demands conditions of outer and social freedom for its
completion.” Edmund A. Opitz
“Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the worse that has
made possible life’s progress.” Charles Lindbergh
“Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the
alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise
of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Thomas
Jefferson
13 years ago
THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You
visit him?” Psalm 8:4
A: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that
both you and your descendants may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19
Q: “Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man,
that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 144:3
A: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
Q: “What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that
he could be righteous?” Job 15:14
A: “Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way he
chooses.” Psalm 25:12
Q: “What is man, that You should magnify him, that You should set Your heart
on him?” Job 7:17
A: “Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his ways.” Proverbs 3:31
Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take
care of him?” Hebrews 2:6
A: “I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me.”
Psalm 119:30 “Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Your
precepts.”Psalm 119:173
References:
Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23 Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12;
61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Psalms 25:12 119:1-176
DEDICATION
Sir Isaac Newton
The greatest scientist in human history, a Bible-Believing Christian, an
authority on the Bible’s Book of Daniel, committed to individual value and
individual liberty
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