Top 10 Islamapologists in the Obama Administration
Posted By Lisa Graas On March 13, 2011
In his testimony before the Homeland Security Committee's hearing on the potential radicalization of the Muslim community in America, Muslim reformer Dr. Zuhdi Jasser warned of the dangers of political Islam and of the unwillingness of many to address the problem of radicalization. It is the primary job of the president of the United States to enforce the laws of the land and to provide security within the borders of America. This also means that there can be no security in America as long as the White House fails to recognize that there is an element within Islam that seeks to destroy us.
It is very troubling to find the White House taking a lead role as apologist for any religion, but especially for Islam. It is not within the realm of the president's duty to decide and to proclaim for us all what Islam is and what it is not. Unfortunately, the White House has stepped up to the plate to emphatically defend this religion from all who may dare criticize it. We present for you now, the top ten Islamapologists in the Obama Administration.
#10 Tim Geithner Oversees Taxpayer-Funded Sharia.
Tim Geithner may not 'precisely' be called an 'Islamapologist'. More appropriately, he is a financier of it….using your money. Taxpayer money funds Sharia-compliant banking through the AIG bailout.
A U.S. Marine who served in Iraq is suing the federal government for distributing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to the Shariah-supporting American International Group.
The lawsuit, Murray v. Geithner et al., was brought against the Fed and the Treasury by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Kevin Murray, a former Marine who served honorably in Iraq to defend the United States from Islamic terrorists.
Murray argues that he is being forced as a taxpayer to contribute to the propagation of Islamic beliefs and practices predicated upon Shariah law, which he says is hostile to his Christian religion.
According to the First Amendment, Congress may not make any law respecting an establishment of religion. This Administration and a misguided judge not only want you to respect Sharia, they've also made you pay for it.
[A] federal district judge ruled it is OK for the U.S. government to fund commercial enterprises that promote the indoctrination of Islamic law, or Shariah, in the United States.
No one in the Obama Administration, including Tim Geithner, has raised any kind of public alarm or objection to this. Islamapologetics reaches a new level when it reaches into your pocket to pay for Sharia Law.
Next: Rasshad Hussein, Obama's Voice to the Caliphate
#9 Rasshad Hussein, Obama's Voice to the Caliphate
Rasshad Hussein is the president's Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the international organization of the 57 Muslim-majority countries otherwise known as the Ummah.
The OIC's mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide by rooting them in the Koran and the Sunnah — the core of traditional Islamic civilization and values. It aims at strengthening solidarity and cooperation among all its members, in order to protect the interests of Muslims everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified body.
The OIC is, as Andrew McCarthy has explained, "the closest thing in the modern world to a caliphate".
The caliphate is an institution of imperial Islamic rule under sharia, Muslim law. Not content with empire, Islam anticipates global hegemony. Indeed, mainstream Islamic ideology declares that such hegemony is inevitable, holding to that belief every bit as sincerely as the End of History crowd holds to its conviction that its values are everyone's values (and the Muslims are only slightly less willing to brook dissent). For Muslims, the failure of Allah's creation to submit to the system He has prescribed is a blasphemy that cannot stand.
Hussein remains in this position, as a voice for President Obama to the Ummah, despite a troubling background. He was congratulated on his appointment by two Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America: the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). And that's not all, Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA) led by Siraj Wahhaj, who is believed to be a co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, also congratulated him.
Before a Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Muslim Students Association, Rasshad Hussein made some seriously disturbing statements. For instance, he defended Sami Al-Arian, a member of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hussein initially denied that he had defended Al-Arian, but Politico uncovered the audio, forcing him to backtrack.
We can only imagine what this man is saying to the Ummah about America behind closed doors.
Next: Robert Gates Takes on Extremist Christians in Florida
#8 Robert Gates Takes on Extremist Christians in Florida
In September, 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who is President Obama's principle advisor in the war against Al Qaeda, decided to take a more personal role…by addressing a misguided minister in Florida who insisted that he was going to burn the Qur'an. We can be reasonably sure that if the minister were of the Religious Left persuasion and wanted to burn a stack of or anti-Catholic tracts, or pro-Catholic tracts, or if it had been a Code Pink activist burning a Bible, Gates would not have interfered.
The reason that we can be reasonably sure of that is that the entire reason Gates gave for addressing the matter was that he (and General Petreaeus) feared backlash against American soldiers in combat in Afghanistan. This is an almost impossible thing to believe: the enemy isn't really all that mad at us in Afghanistan, but will get really mad if a Florida preacher burns the Qur'an? Meanwhile, the Christian community was expressing more reasonable concerns that should have been expressed by the White House: backlash against Christians throughout the Muslim world.
Gates also makes a serious error in judgment in his failure to acknowledge that the Islamist view is not merely to fight…but to take power as a result of that fighting. This error in judgment enables Jihad.
The Obama administration mistakenly fixates on the "violent" aspect of violent Islamic extremism as though the terrorists consider violence an end in itself. However, the terrorists don't want to remain terrorists; they want to assume power.
The failure to understand this key point about Islamists has a direct impact on our ability to respond appropriately to these terrorists. The Islamists are not fighting America merely because they are angry with us…but because they wish to establish a caliphate.
#7 Jay Carney Stalls the American People
While the Left pushes the meme that the real extremists are the Christians…like Tim McVeigh and the minister in Florida who wanted to burn a Qur'an, they insist that we not engage in any "profiling" of the Muslim community. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, pontificates from on high:
"And we also believe that Muslim Americans are very much part of the solution here and not the problem."
How are they part of the solution? Well, though we would agree with him that Muslims are part of the solution, Jay Carney did not offer any details as Dr. Jasser did. Carney 'informs' us that the White House is currently working on a plan to address radicalization and the details on this have not yet been released.
Let us pause and try to wrap our minds around this for a moment. What we know from all of this is that the Left may profile Christians, but no one is allowed to profile the Muslim community – at all. Also, the White House knows better how to deal with this problem than anyone else at this hearing does, and just as soon as the White House gets all of that on paper, (put all of their identity ducks in a row?) they will get back to us.
That has to be one of the most troubling examples of an American administration telling us, essentially, that they have no idea what they are doing.
Next: Denis McDonough Fights the Peter King 'Problem' by Attending a Mosque
#6 Denis McDonough Fights the Peter King 'Problem' by Attending a Mosque
On Tuesday, Congressman Peter King held a hearing on the potential for radicalization within the Muslim community and he heard from a Muslim reformer, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. Before these hearings could begin, however, White House Deputy Security Advisor Denis McDonough decided to attend a mosque in Washington, D.C. where he made a curious statement:
"Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace."
As noted previously, as late as Friday, the White House said there is no report on radicalization in America. Nothing. They are preparing it and it will be released when it's ready. In this context, given McDonough's Tuesday statement, this amounts to a message from the White House that is essentially along these lines:
We have no idea what causes radicalization of terrorists but we are absolutely certain that it has nothing to do with Islam.
Logically speaking, that is what the White House is saying to America. We might ask, how is Islam an "important part of promoting peace" if the White House has no idea what causes radicalization? As a person of faith, I can tell you, this is what "faith" in a religion is. Faith is believing in things that cannot be known solely through the use of reason. The message from the White House here is that the Administration has "faith" in Islam — a belief in its transcendent goodness that has no basis in reason.
Some conspiracy theorists believe that the president is a closet-Muslim. After Friday, I came to understand fairly well that the entire Administration is now "Muslim", in some sense. They have faith in Islam that is held quite apart from an examination based on reason. We have a White House that is in faithful submission to Islam.
#5 Eric Holder Still Can't Say "Radical Islam"
Why is the White House in submission to Islam? If we listen to what Eric Holder has to say and combine it with what we've heard from others I've already mentioned, we can get a sense of what is going on in the Oval Office at large: dhimmitude.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke of the ongoing fight to protect American national security and expressed his growing concern with the threat of homegrown terror – a danger which he said "keeps me up at night."
"What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant," Holder [said].
Eric Holder, the primary law enforcement officer of the president, is so afraid of domestic terrorism that it keeps him up at night, but he refuses to say that the cause of the attacks is "radical Islam". The White House press secretary refuses to identify the threat as radical Islam. A Deputy Security Advisor, Denis McDonough, goes to worship in a mosque and exhibits faith in Islam. A supporter of terror is the White House voice to the caliphate. America's Secretary of Defense fears that something a man in Florida does with a Qur'an is going to incite extremist Islamic attacks. Not only that, we are paying the jizya (tax) through Geithner and the bailout of AIG with taxpayer funding of Sharia compliant banking. The Obama Administration is exhibiting dhimmitude blatantly.
As early as the eighth century, a formal set of rules was created to govern the relationships between the conquering Muslims and the defeated infidels. The framework of these regulations is known as "dhimmitude," a term connoting the lowly legal and social status of Jews and Christians who are subjected to Islamic rule. Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to the indigenous non-Muslim populations that surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination. A non-Muslim community that is forced to accept dhimmitude is condemned to live in a system that will protect it from violent jihad on only one condition: if it is completely subservient to a Muslim master.
Next: James Clapper: Is Dhimmitude Taking its Toll on His Mind?
#4 James Clapper: Is Dhimmitude Taking its Toll on His Mind?
As White House Director of Intelligence, James Clapper oversees the federal Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. It is Clapper's job to know as much as he can possibly know about terrorism in the United States. Unfortunately, as of late, he's made too many glaring errors to be considered competent for the job. His inability to answer even basic questions related to terrorism was noted by Senator Lindsey Graham who has called for his resignation. Clapper has said that Russia and China — not Iran and North Korea — represent the largest security threat to America. He has also said that the Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular".
Imagine if you will that you were in this man's position, being told everything there is to know about terrorism in America, and being surrounded by so many dhimmis, likely without even knowing for sure what a dhimmi is. Wouldn't it take its toll on your mind? Rather than being the most foolish person in the Obama Administration, it could be that Clapper has been the most reasonable, and the shock to his reason has pushed him so far off his game that he's now unable to coherently address the subject. Perhaps we need to send Clapper to therapy and keep him on so that the healing process of the Obama Adminstration's denials may begin.
#3 Janet Napolitano: A Useful Idiot for the Caliphate?
Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in 2009 busied herself with targeting politically conservative citizens to monitor for "extremist" activity and the potential for "radicalization", even wrongly tracking pro-life groups. In November of that same year, it was a radicalized Muslim, not a radicalized Bible teacher, who shook America to the core by murdering 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. Nearly one month later, Janet Napolitano finally offered a statement that might be characterized as a threat alert, though she still would not use the word "terror" to describe it. Two months after that, Napolitano finally used the word "terror" and "violent Islamic extremism" in her reporting on the threat to America and the attack at Fort Hood. However, the Fort Hood soldiers have yet to receive Purple Hearts because the Obama Administration as a whole, including Janet Napolitano, does not recognize it as a combat incident in the War on Terror.
The Administration, you see, takes the same basic position as the Fort Hood attacker, Nidal Hassan, on what the "War on Terror" means.
In late 2008, while working towards a graduate degree at the military's health sciences university, Hasan gave a Power Point presentation titled "Why the War on Terror is a War on Islam."
Nidal Hasan, Janet Napolitano and others on the Left need to understand that no matter how much Christians, Jews and others disagree with Islam, we are in no way "at War with Islam". It would be preposterous for America to go to war with Islam, or any other religion. The reason it would be preposterous is that America was founded on the Judeo-Christian view, not the Muslim Brotherhood view, of freedom and justice. As we can see from the attack at Fort Hood by Nidal Hasan, America is at war with "radical Islam", not "Islam", even though Janet Napolitano and others in the White House, including President Obama, will not face that reality.
Having said that, Jews, Christians, atheists, Wiccans, agnostics and pagans of various views all have the freedom in America to stand up and say "Islam is wrong" or "Islam is evil" or "Islam is a blight", if that's what they believe. Muslims, too, have every right to speak out openly about their beliefs in our national discourse, because in America we believe in freedom to disagree, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, the Left can't seem to distinguish anymore between "speech" and "murder" on the scale of justice. It is precisely this confusion in the area of speech, violence and justice that those who oppose political, radical Islam cannot say so in a university without having security check-points. "Speech" that dissents from the Left is "War" to the Left. It is for this reason that Janet Napolitano has targeted conservatieve Americans as terror threats, while terror-supporting organizations in the Muslim community are given a pass and considered part of the solution.
Next: Hillary Clinton Embraces Those Who Seek to Destroy Freedom
#2 Hillary Clinton Embraces Those Who Seek to Destroy Freedom
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is the top diplomat from America to the world. It is her duty to ensure that America's security is not compromised, particularly in the area of how America is perceived by the rest of the world. Clinton is widely adored in the Democratic Party, and Democrats in the White House surely hold her in high esteem. It would not be taking a leap to suggest that much of America's policy on dealing with radical Islam within our own borders is at least consistent with how Secretary Clinton deals with it in her capacity as chief diplomat.
Secretary Clinton has welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood's participation in Egypt's political process and issued the lifting of a ban on visas for terror-supporting Islamists. She has also met with the extremist Muslim Brotherhood front group Islamic Society of North America regarding "peace with Israel" and has spoken at a Saudi-funded college that was founded by a terrorist. Last but not least, our secretary of state has requested to meet with Islamist extremist Anwar Ibrahim. Here at home, she addressed a pro-"Palestinian" dinner that we rightly acknowledge as akin to a terror state gala .
Certainly, security in America is threatened with the Obama Administration so committed to accepting radical Muslims as legitimate "partners" in addressing the threat of radical Islam. Offering legitimacy to those who universally support the destruction of Christians, Jews and others who are non-Muslim is precisely the opposite strategy we should be employing in preventing their destruction.
Next: Barack Obama: Muslim Apologist in Chief
#1 Barack Obama: Islamapologist-in-Chief
Some people on the Right push the idea that Obama secretly is a Muslim. What they apparently don't understand is that it does not matter. What does matter is whether or not he is in possession of, or within reach of, the vision necessary to adequately address the problem of "violent Islamic extremism" in America and abroad. Clearly, in every intellectual avenue he has chosen to travel, and in every message sent by his Cabinet related to this matter, the message has been sent that Islam is inherently good and that it transcends reason and/or justice for anyone to be critical of it.
From Indonesia, to Pakistan, to the troubling theology and political views preached by his pastor Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has embraced not "Islam" but rather a radical leftist pro-Islam view. Because of this, he has staffed his Administration with other radical leftist Islamapologists and/or useful radical idiots. None of these people have the slightest idea what they are dealing with in Islam because they have for so long accepted it as a given that Islam is inherently good. Meanwhile, the radical leftist view of "justice" has always perceived the mainstream Judeo-Christian view of justice to be the problem, not the solution. Socialism is the radical leftist "solution" to the Judeo-Christian ethic upon which America was founded.
President Obama's vision has been supported by radical Muslims and is framed within the worldview which he was presented with as a child and beyond. Because of this, we may never be able to penetrate the internal intellectual walls he has erected which will naturally push out any notion that his own personally held vision, though he does not embrace it as his personal religious faith, is somehow conducive to violence.
In short, the Obama Administration fails to see the problem precisely due to the fact that if they look at the problem directly, they will see their own ugly reflections staring back at them.
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