NPRgate and the King Hearings
Yesterday’s videotaped revelations by the intrepid James O’Keefe provides welcome grist for many mills. Most obviously, it offers irrefutable evidence that National Public Radio employs elitists who are hostile to Republicans, Tea Party activists, and others derided as gun-toting, white “racists.”
The principal focus of the expose filmed last month, Ron Schiller, the network’s now-departed vice president of development and president of the NPR Foundation, declared that his organization would be “better off in the long-run” without government underwriting.
Presumably, such sentiments will make it impossible for members of Congress to justify continued public funding of the organization when the Senate considers the decision taken by the House of Representatives to zero out NPR in the latest stopgap funding measure.
What is particularly instructive, however — and highly relevant to the hearings that Rep. Peter King will convene in his House Homeland Security Committee tomorrow — is the subtext of the new O’Keefe undercover videos: NPR seems to have had no problem sitting down with, and apparently entertaining the offer of $5 million from, representatives of a group that explicitly described itself as a Muslim Brotherhood organization and that promoted the “acceptance worldwide” (read, imposition) of shariah (the Islamists’ totalitarian politico-military-legal program).
Chairman King has made the focus of his first hearing what he calls “extremism” in the Muslim American community. A more accurate term for what ails that population would be shariah, for it is the adherence to that supremacist doctrine that obliges its followers to engage in jihad.
As a distinguished group of national security experts observed in a new book published by the Center for Security Policy, titled Shariah: The Threat to America, we must be concerned about more than just the threat of violent jihad. After all, according to shariah, where violence is impracticable, jihadists are supposed to use stealthy (or pre-violent) means to advance the cause that O’Keefe’s fictitious Muslim Education Action Center and the myriad real Muslim Brotherhood fronts share with al-Qaeda and its ilk: the imposition of shariah everywhere and the establishment of a global Caliphate to rule pursuant to it.
If a government funded organization did indeed entertain accepting funding from a group that is inherently affiliated with one religion (Islam) and one legal code (Shariah) which is treasonous of its’ own rite relative to the US Constitution (which guarantees fundamental rights that Shariah blatantly removes)…wouldn’t that mean NPR was attempting to insert religion into the puyblic sphere? WOuldn’t that be a government agency ignoring the separation of church and state? It’s like treason squared! Accepting a treasonous doctrine and taking money to support said treasonous doctrine on air for a publicly funded radio network!
Really good! It is THE thing to note that messing with our freedoms and encumbering tax supported institutions with shariah-based funding is what will drive us down the last hole. If only, if ONLY, our leaders could see that the division of free vs NOT is our First Amendment. No country that can’t enshrine and defend the First Amendment should be eligible for aid, grants, visas, education assistance, farming assistance….ANYTHING! They are NOT free, will not support freedom, and ARE our enemies and the enemies of true freedom. Such a bright line…too hard for our political leaders to see.
Why doesn’t this Peter T. King investigate the “Home Grown” radicalization of Irish Americans, who support the tradition wing of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), or Noraid (The Irish Northern Aid Committee), and being recruited by “Enemy Overseas” or worse “Enemy Overseas” the “Catholic Church ”, where their priests have rape our young American boys, what about that you hypocrite scumbag.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-8-2011/peter-king-wants-to-investigate-any-american-muslim-who-is-not-actively-stopping-terrorist-plots-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbFX8V9LTs
Kinda hard for a drug-addled mind to stay on topic – isn’t it?
Note his first link is to a fake news program.
Because they are not a current and overt threat to the national security of the United States. Duh. Winning!
Because…….not to be missed in the discussion are the terrifying realities exposed through ‘Infiltration’ and ‘The Muslim Mafia’. Islamists, via Muslim Brotherhood (implanted) terror groups, have rooted themselves in the US body politic AND in EVERY city USA, via their mosques/ schools/indoctrination ‘cultural’ centers.
Furthermore, their implantation/infiltration of ALL US campuses via their MSA, Muslim Student Association-the same group which fronted Ms Sidiqqi, a MIT student MSA leader-is now sitting in jail for her ‘outreach’/assistance to the 9/11/01 terrorists!Deeper and deeper they are burrowed within, and the mostly clueless public hasn’t a clue.
How’s THAT for stealth jihad!
I’m sure he would as soon as the IRA starts targeting Americans … How hard is that to understand ?
nice avoidance of the profanity request for comments Montana … that is some mouth you’ve got there, do you kiss your wife with that ?
I’d be willing to bet that you have never given one prior thought to the IRA … unless it was to support their “resistance” to the occupation …
Of course the key word is “thought” which from your post is not something you are familiar with …
spew your hatred somewhere it will be appreciated, like HuffPo or Kos maybe
Yeah, and don’t forget those Amish separatists and Buddhist suicide bombers! That is the country’s greatest threat, after global warming of course.
Libs! Sheesh!
Please tell that dummy Stewart that the Irish don’t have a 1400 year history of spreading their religion by the sword.
Montana, get control of yourself, unless, as a radical Muslim, you are trying to deflect. While I do not condone the guilty priests actions, nor the Catholic Church’s half measures, some perspective seems to be in order. Investigating a system that turns young people into suicidal, murders, takes precedence. Our legal system has done a credible job when brought activated in a timely manner.
There are two threads of discussion intended to distract from King’s hearings and whatever they might uncover. One is the argument that King himself has a past of supporting the IRA (objectionable at best, and hypocritical at worst) and the other is that the demon O’Keefe tried to ambush a CNN reporter on a boat covered with hidden cameras last year, and even had dildos, lube and champagne on ice waiting for her (I’m recounting this from other articles on the web, mostly on Huffpo or CNN itself). Supposedly, one of O’Keefe’s subordinates (a woman) ratted him out to the CNN reporter, who dodged the evil O’Keefe’s ambush. He’s said that he did plan to meet the reporter, but that the itemized list that had all the salacious details on it wasn’t his idea and he’d rejected it. It reads a bit unbelievable (at one point it mentions that there should be music from the 80s, but then says “no Marvin Gaye” because that’s too obvious), but none of this is the point.
Regardless of what O’Keefe did or didn’t do here (and I’ll wait until the dust clears before I make a final judgment) the real issue is what he or his assistants got these two NPR types to say. Distractions like this are just the result of someone trying to run interference for NPR and perhaps CNN.
By golly, if he starts holding hearings on Christian and Jewish groups then we know all heck will break loose, protests, death threats….. NOT.
Islam views any examination of its religious or political views/actions as an attack. It is against Islam to hold it under a microscope. The religion is straight from God, it can do no wrong. Thus to be questioned is an attack on God and is not permissible (and they will kill you if you keep saying that they are not the religion of peace and brotherhood). For a religion that is so sure if itself it sure is paranoid and touchy. I don’t see any other religions that have such widespread touchiness (yes there are exceptions for Christians and Jews, but not like muslims).
Who learned anything they didn’t already know by all this???
I did not know that high-placed officials at NPR were willing to say they would be better off without Federal funding. And to me, that is good to know.
I learned that when you troll fake muslims past sophisticated elites and neanderthal Nascar types, the Nascar types come off looking good.
I wonder if they see the irony, the hypersensitivity and political correctness pushed on us by liberals has ensnared them in their own trap.
Priceless!!
So, now that Teddy Kennedy’s dead The Left feels bold enough to impugn the IRA and other Leftist-family sources of violence?? LOL. Hypocrite scumbag indeed, isn’t “O’Keefe” an Irish name too?
if we choose to criticize those in the American Muslim population who encourage shariah, “we risk feeding the very feelings of disenchantment that may push some members of that community to violent extremism.”
Perhaps the same attitude is ingrained in the zebra as the lions begin gnawing on his flanks – if I don’t fight it I’ll be fine.
Each time I think these morons can’t get any dumber – they do.
I “choose” to criticise Sharia … if you take offense to that then that is your problem not mine …
fyi, if you are a Sharia supporter your are already a radical …
What does it take to push a moderate muslim to become radical ? proximity to Jews and access to weapons …
Not just close proximity to Jews but to anyone whom they deem as an “infidel.”
….agreed.
Here’s another good link to paste in the Google block:
….”Muslim Radicalization: Rebutting Peter King’s Critics
by David J. Rusin • Mar 9, 2011 at 2:04 pm
http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/03/muslim-radicalization-rebutting-peter-king-critics……”
The more we can learn quickly about this Islamist malignancy the better off we’ll be….I wonder if NPR will be carrying this hearing sequence “live” starting tomorrow?
….wondering from inside Deepest Central Maryland.
I couldn’t believe the woman Liley from NPR nodding, nodding at all the kind words about Shariah. Despite her “education” she doesn’t have a clue what Shariah would really do to her. Clue: she wouldn’t be wearing a nice suit sitting in a nice restaurant with the menfolk.
McCarthyism? Not a moment too soon!
Keep up the great work, Mr. Gaffney!
I think the most revealing part of all the reaction to this has been the bigotry of the elitist Left. Notice how they refuse to draw a distinction between moderate, peaceful Islam (like, say, Ayaan Hirsi Ali) and radical, violent Islam, as exemplified by the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
Implicitly, they’re telling us that All Muslims Are Alike– that they’re all terrorists, all radicals. Shouldn’t moderate Muslims be insulted?
The same goes in the immigration debate: conflating legal and illegal immigrants (and, increasingly, even Latinos who are native-born citizens) as if there isn’t a difference. Or treating Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Mumia abu Jamal as if they’re cut from the same cloth as a Martin Luther King.
There’s a word for lumping every member of an ethnicity together and treating them according to some insulting stereotype: racism.
l;kj – Thanks for your comment. I was friends with several Muslim students from Syria and Iran in the late ’70s; all were here to learn engineering and intended to return to their native lands to modernize. In the case of the Iranis, the shah had paid for their costs while here. They were friendly, funloving people with the same ethics we Christians have. There was no hatred in them. The rapid modernization efforts of the shah, who gave up his inherited lands to the people and saw a modern future for the country, caused a backlash among the primitive elements in the country. Instead of pursuing freedom and a return to their proud history as Persians, leaders of their time in the sciences, a radical group seized power and enforced a return to the dark ages. Because of my personal experience I am appalled at the prejudice which attempts to lump all Muslims into a group.
11 and Emmaliza make good points. I too remember all those Iranian students here in the 70s fondly and wonder what they are doing today and wonder how they feel about what has happened to their country. AT THE SAME TIME, the lack of outrage (yeah, I am tired of this word too, but…) from “moderate Muslims” does make one wonder. If members of your own religion started a calculated program to take over the world, subject women to second class status and kill everyone who disagreed with their plan, what would you say or do? Wouldn’t you at the very least want to disassociate yourself from such a thing??????
Like Emmalizza I too have known Iranian students that attended US universities’ engineering and medical schools. Many of them stayed and became successful engineers and scientists in Silicon Valley, CA. In fact my physician is one of them. They are not muslim, most Persian people were never muslim.
The problem isn’t that they refuse to draw a distinction between the two. The problem is that they, like you, deliberately refuse to acknowledge that the “violent Islam” is the real Islam.
While there certainly ARE “moderate, peaceful” Muslims (I am friends with quite a few), there is no such thing as a “moderate, peaceful” Islam. To whatever extent a particular Muslim really IS moderate and peaceful, he is, to that same extent, unfaithful to Islam.
And while it’s true that some abjure violence, some of those only reject it for now.
Even given that, it would be very difficult to find a Muslim who does not support sharia, and wishes to see it implemented world-wide.
I’ve been thinking for some time that all we needed to make current American Islamophobia virtually indistinguishable from the anti-Semitism of Germany in the 30′s was a forged document purporting to show the evil intentions of the designated scapegoat.
Just a question but….. what is the opposite of Islamophobia? Islamophilia? Think we should also look into Islamophilia in the media and public debate. That is, giving Muslims a pass on many, many things that would cause other groups to be raked over the coals, castigated and isolated from polite society. Interesting we have a word for irrationally fearing Muslims but not one for irrationally overlooking what they do.
There is no “phobia” in fearing a real threat, such as Islam.
There IS complete dishonesty in using such a term to describe that fear.
But then, you knew that.
The way the left hates the Tea Party is probably more akin to anti-semitism in Nazi Germany.
Poster UPDOC101 wrote on another website: “But the Tea Party is a radical, racist, Islamophobic movement that has hijacked the Republican Party. Any fool can see that. And any visit to any Tea Party meeting would clearly show that they are pretty much a band of white knuckle fundamentalist Christians. I mean really, are there any atheists in the Tea Party? Would atheists be welcomed? Or Hindus or American Indians? C’mon. Are there Muslims in the Tea Party and would they be welcomed? Its one thing to be railroaded but it’s another thing entirely to be railroaded for speaking the truth. I’ve attended Tea Party meetings here in Texas and they are all the above and more.”
That’s typical of many leftist views of the Tea Party, a regurgitation of Democrat talking points.
To bad O’keefe didn’t proffer them a cashiers check for five million, payable from the Muslim Brotherhood INC. It would have been comedy hour for law enforcement and SNL. Do we arrest the journalists for insufficient funds or NPR’s CEO for trying to accept funds from a duly listed terrorist organization? Maybe NPR should be at the hearings, and not to report, but to participate.
Jack Wiley Dithers has learned a small influential group of Leftists lead by Ezra Klein are seriously discussing forming a third party with the Ostrich as its mascot.
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http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
CheckMate: A phobia is an irrational fear, and when the world shows you violent Islam every day, and it comes to your doorstep to kill you, there is no such thing as Islamophobia. The fear and criticisms arise from experiencing reality. There’s nothing irrational about it. Anybody who labels a critic of radical Islam this way is ignorant or insincere. And to compare the critics with Jew-hate is reaaaly stupid. Your words suck.
The federal security wimp’s wish to moderate speech reveals that the terrorists are winning: “we risk feeding the very feelings of disenchantment that may push some members of that community to violent extremism.”
Milksops are determining policy, and it’s not helping. Where have all the cowboys gone?
All the cowboys are on their way to Nevada to read poetry, of course.
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/pov/neals-cowboy-poetry
ISLAM STIGMATIZES ISLAM: OBAMA AND THE PETER KING HEARINGS
In a predictable reaction to Peter King’s House hearings on Islamic radicalization in America, an obvious problem given the recent record surge in Moslems arrested for plotting domestic mass murder attacks*, Peter McDonough, deputy national security advisor to President Obama, said this: “Radicalization efforts prey on people who feel disillusioned or marginalized and that it is important not to fuel radicalization by stigmatizing Muslim Americans.” Mr. McDonough and his clueless boss seem oblivious to the fact that it is ISLAM THAT STIGMATIZES ISLAM. They’re oblivious that Islam has had a public relations problem with the infidel world from its inception 1400 years ago-since its prophet disillusioned with peacefully spreading his faith and marginalized within the Meccan community for attacking its religion as sinful, personally damning and violently hated by God, picked up the sword to save his failing movement; picked it up in rage against all infidels who scorned him and cried: ‘Believe in me or die! Believe in me or die! And if it pleases me to let you live I’ll crush you with oppression!’ Since that fatal day when Mohammed lost his mind and was radicalized into a killing machine for God Islam has become the terror and scourge of mankind-slashing, burning and murdering its way to power, glory and empire in imitation of its bloodthirsty, ruthless, predatory founder. Islam means endless war against mankind until it’s conquered and subdued. It means lawlessness and immorality in pursuit of absolute power. And the number of Moslems who believe in it are legion.
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I just watched Representative Ellison of Michigan’s blubbering address to the committee looking into the “Radicalization of Islam”. Does anyone see what he was trying to accomplish with that? Is he attempting to admonish or warn Americans against lumping moderate Muslims in with violent Jihadists? I got the feeling he was pandering to a different audience than an American audience.
@wayne… The problem with Keith Ellison’s self serving testimoney (sic) is that it’s false. Over at The Corner there’s an article by Matthew Shaffer on the entire history of the guy Ellison wept over. This fellow, a hero, was one of the few named (and lauded) in the Patriot Act for his actions that day. There’s one NY Post article that reports about the FBI questioning the man’s mother because of an unreliable eye witness, but that’s the extent of it. As usual, Ellison is being a tool.
Too bad Bill O’Reilly didn’t read Matthew’s piece before having Mr. Ellison on his show tonight. Perhaps he’ll correct “the record” tomorrow.
Why bribe NPR at all ? The leftist trash there probably would align themselves with muslim radicals for the love of it. Anything to hurt the real enemy, Americans who disagree with their politics. Still ,a good point as to how connections are made, and how one [destructive] religion is accepted over peaceful others.