How To Start a War

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Over the July 4th holiday, two right wing Islamophobes sat down for a chat. Jerry Boykin, the Executive Vice President of the Family Research council and Frank Gaffney, who believes President Obama is a Muslim, appeared together on a radio program. Their main topic was Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood.  Partial transcripts of the show are available at Right Wing Watch.org, and here is a sample, first from Boykin:

Secondly, Huma [Abedin] is not the only person who has penetrated our government and if you go back to the explanatory memorandum that is in our book, Sharia: The Threat, which was discovered in Annandale, Virginia in the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of their strategies was to penetrate our government and they have done so.

Boykin then goes on to detail how Grover Norquist also has associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. Gaffney responds:

I certainly agree. It’s deeply troubling that Grover Norquist and one of his folks with the Muslim Brotherhood associations, Suhail Kahn, have been active even to this day in conservative circles, serving at the moment at the board of the American Conservative Union.

Less than two weeks later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade was attacked by Egyptian protesters, and one protester was photographed holding a sign that read “Clinton is the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Also in July, Rep. Michele Bachmann, along with Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas composed a letter in which they, among other things, accused Huma Abedin of being associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. From Huffington Post:

Ms. Bachmann’s letter, signed by four other Republican congressmen, asserts that Ms. Abedin’s father (who died when she was a teenager), mother and brother are “connected” to the Muslim Brotherhood. It calls on the State Department’s inspector general to investigate the organization’s supposed influence in the U.S. government. In a separate letter, Ms. Bachmann asks how Ms. Abedin, who is Ms. Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, received her security clearance.

Coincidentally, the film being blamed for protests all over the Middle East and North Africa this past week, “Innocence of Mulims” suddenly appeared on YouTube in early July.

This past Friday, the Values Voter’s Summit welcomed Frank Gaffney, Jerry Boykin, Michele Bachmann, Bryan Fischer, Tony Perkins and Kamal Saleem to their right wing, fundamentalist gathering. Islamophobia was rampant, as were the constant attacks on President Obama, liberals, non-Christians, women’s rights and truth. Guess who else showed up? Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. On a day when protests were breaking out all over the Middle East, on the day that the bodies of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were returned home in flag-draped caskets, Paul Ryan chose to appear at an event sponsored by a hate group.

Kamal Saleem claims to be a former terrorist, even mentioning a connection to Al Qaeda, who was saved when he “found” Jesus. From Right Wing Watch:

Saleem told conference goers his made-up story about his time as a terrorist working for Lebanon, Syria, the PLO, Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and even Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, until he moved to the U.S. to wage “cultural jihad.” He claimed he and his fellow terrorists “met the professors” at American universities and colleges, which “were our playgrounds,” in order to help “the professors to establish new curriculum purposefully” to brainwash students to change “your children to hit your nation with everything they’ve got.” Later, Saleem said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is working with Islamic countries to eviscerate the Constitution and “subjugate American people to be arrested and put to jail and their churches and synagogues shut down,” which he says will happen early next year!

This is how to start a war, a war the right wing desperately wants. A holy war, a new Crusades, waged against the infidels who do not worship the same “God” the right wing worships, who have darker skin and lyrical names. Remember Bill O’Reilly and Brian Kilmeade at Fox? Both those men, along with millions of their sheep, believe that all Muslims are terrorists. And O’Reilly and Kilmeade and the rest of the right wing believe this because there are Muslim extremists who feel about us the way the right wing feels about all Muslims.

See, the right wing is behaving exactly like the Muslim extremists. Muslim extremists promote the idea that all Americans hate Islam and hate Muslims and all Americans agree with Frank Gaffney and Jerry Boykin and Michele Bachmann and Kamal Saleem and Morris Sadek. We don’t, but the lie stokes the fires of hate and unrest, which is what Muslim extremists want. Al Qaeda needs the Middle East to hate America, so they can wage their own holy war against us. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

The right wing needs America to believe the lie about Muslims in order to complete their objective: a holy war with Islam. What many cannot figure out is why. Some think it has to do with Israel needing to be a state for the Messiah to return while others believe it’s all about oil. I think it’s much simpler than that. Right wing Islamophobes want a Christian world, where other religions are not practiced. In other words, right wing Christians want the exact same world that Muslim extremists want, and like Muslim extremists, they are unable to see the similarities between the two.

All Christians are not right wing extremists any more than all Muslims are extremists. The problem is that the extremists seem to be gaining power, they have access to media and they are gaining strength and numbers. Both Christian and Muslim extremists thrive on fear and hate; it’s the only way they can get what they want.

Thanks to the LA Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Right Wing Watch and The Southern Poverty Law Center for contributions to this article.

 

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Erin Nanasi is an avid underwater basket weaver, with a penchant for satire and the odd wombat reference.
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Mike H
11 years ago

Not the same terrorist group which makes it even more distubing.
I don’t consider myself a Patriot, I don’t go to rallies, not a member of the Tea Party, I do give money to the Republican party… Ms Stereotype.
No bombing I think we should pull out of all of those countries and have harder visitation rights to those countries and perhaps an embargo. I would make it sure a thorough background check on every single person coming into the US was completed and have the visitor pay for it. Why should we continue to give aid to those countries if they are going to let our embassies fall under attack. Hey Egypt use some of that 1.6 B in aid to get some fucking troops out in front of the mess of civil unrest.

You say I can’t spell but your reading comprehension is for shit. I don’t think all Muslims are bad just the ones, much like radical Christians, who practice Koran Literialism. The Koran is not a nice book. There you go. You go walk around the country and figure out how to bash more people who don’t share your opinion.

Mike H
11 years ago

Jess – One has nothing to do with the other.
ERIN- Bottom Line is Princeton Waters is correct. Keep thinking that way until their evasuasive actions blow up something in your posh little hipster neighborhood. We don’t condone how they treat women as a culture and the “radicals” have no regard for their life if they think a suicide bomb can help eridicate the infidels. It has moved passed religion long ago into terrist activities and you sit there and make up more excuses and say it’s OK they are just misunderstood. How long have they been misunderstood? 2000+ years.

Erin Nanasi
Reply to  Mike H
11 years ago

My posh little hipster neighborhood? I live in the country, Captain Stereotype. I’m still waiting for your self-righteous indignation to include CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS, but my guess is that will be a long-ass wait. Treating women. Did you not pay attention to the crap coming out of the Value Voter’s Summit about how women have to completely cover up or men will be tempted? Sounds like a burqua to me. Bombings. Yeah, fundies never blow anything up, right? Let me try this on you: Christianity has moved passed religion into terrorist activities. Like that generality? Make ya all warm and fuzzy on the inside? In closing, all I have heard for over 3 years is how Christians are persecuted because sane people won’t let you tell our children Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs and use our tax money to teach your religion in public schools. So, when it comes to ACTUAL persecution versus PRETEND persecution, guess what, Sparky? Christians are faking it.

Mike H
Reply to  Erin Nanasi
11 years ago

Sorry just following your lead on your Mark the Partiot story which you never responded. I don’t condone any terrosit activity Christian, Muslim, Atheist et al. I missed the part when they brought out the 50s Econ books to show the place for a women… Come on, how was that twisted in your lib brain!!!
I’m Catholic and believe certain things about GOD and the evolution of mankind. I, however, don’t need to have my religion pushed onto others. I support pray in school as a moment of silence, I believe evolution should be taught in school. I believe Christians who beleive in Biblical literalism should find some other schooling for their children. Ask yourself this question what would the rest of the coutntries in the world do after SEVERAL of their Embassies were attacked by the same terrorist group? I’m guessing your response would be to get the UN to write a terse letter.

Jess
11 years ago

What about all those good Christians that are shooting to kill doctors who give women reproductive freedom or bomb family planning clinics. Oh wait, they are white so that does not matter in your world right. PUHLEAZE. Some Christians promote that same stuff, they are just pissed off another group has more publicity than they do for their vile acts.

Reply to  Jess
11 years ago

Jess, exactly. There are right wing Christian extremists, too, but they refuse to see the similarities.

Jess
11 years ago

Pamela Geller was involved with that film also. Remember she was a favorite of the Breivik guy that shot up all those kids at their conference beginning of this year.

11 years ago

So, using your logic, Terry Jones, Anders Brievik, Tony Perkins, Bryan Fischer and their ilk represent all Christians? Funny how fundamentalists always lump Muslims into one category but refuse to look in the mirror.

Pricneton Waters
11 years ago

WE hear all these stuff everyday, Thugs and Killers do not represent Islam, Boko Haram in Nigeria,AlShabab in the horn of Africa etc did not represent Islam, Etc. the problem with this assertion is that these people are operating not in a vacuum, they are adherent of Islamic Religion, they are from the community of Muslims.These people said that they did all this in the name of Islam, so the world will not be convinced with such assertion of denial. what we know is that Islam,promotes violent and killings, terrorist activities all over the world and at the same time deny it. Was Bin Laden not a Muslim, Abdulateef is not a Muslim? and many more. The world will not buy into the religious lies of Islam.

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