Mother Jones magazine, a flagship of the American far left, is named in honor of the old Commie agitator Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, who fought for the child labor laws and the rights of mine workers in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Mother’s namesake magazine has come a long way since then, fighting now against the chimera of climate change, the evils of Orange Man Bad, and the wicked “Islamophobes” who dare, out of undiluted “racism” and “hate,” to oppose the world’s cutest and most cuddly religion.
And so Mother Jones mag announced darkly on Friday that “Republican Islamophobia Has Reached Shocking New Levels,” and the details of what Mother Jones writer Noah Lanard wants you to believe is irrational, racist hatred are shocking indeed, if you’re a blue-haired human being who isn’t sure if you’re a man or a woman.
But if that is what you really are, Mother Jones is aware that your ideological purity may have led you to miss this particular news item, as you would only have discovered it by frequenting sites that are double plus ungood in their political orientation: “If you have the good fortune of not spending time on Elon Musk’s X, it is hard to grasp just how blatant the anti-Muslim hate coming from GOP lawmakers—and tolerated by their leaders—has become. Take Rep. Andy Ogles, the Tennessee Republican who declared last month that ‘Muslims don’t belong in American society.’ Since that post, Ogles has shared anti-Muslim content on X more than 100 times.”
Ogles was concerned about Islamic jihadis, adherents of political Islam, and Sharia supremacists, not gentle shopkeepers from the subcontinent, but Noah Lanard doesn’t explain that to his hapless readers. Nor does he bother to note that when Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) wrote that “if they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” he was responding to a Muslim activist who was crowing that several New York City establishments had banned dogs, a ban that accords with Islamic law, which is particularly severe against dogs.
Instead, Lanard presents a few more examples of this supposed Republican “Islamophobia,” and laments that the thought criminals haven’t been expelled from the party, as they would have been if we were talking about the Communist Party, and Comrade Lanard were the commissar in charge. “In response,” Lanard lamented, “Republicans [sic] leaders have done little. House Speaker Mike Johnson said last month that he talked to his members about ‘our tone and our message,’ while noting that he would use different language. At the same time, he’s tried to explain away the anti-Muslim rhetoric by saying that there is a ‘lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose Sharia law in America is a serious problem.’”
Lanard doesn’t pause in his denunciation of Johnson’s alleged inaction even for a moment to explain why he thinks that “the demand to impose Sharia law in America” is not “a serious problem,” and he knows he doesn’t have to. Noah Lanard could rest secure in the assumption that Mother Jones readers would take for granted that if patriots oppose something, it must be wonderful, and so Sharia must be entirely benign, and indeed, actively beneficial.
Given that he is a leftist in 2026, Lanard finds a way to blame Israel for all this: “The legislators attacking Muslims in the most aggressive terms today have also been loyal supporters of Israel in a party that is increasingly divided over support for the nation, particularly since the start of the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.”
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One wonders if, as he excoriates these Republicans for their alleged "anti-Muslim hate," if Noah Lanard actually knows anything about Islam, jihad, or Sharia at all. If you asked Noah Lanard if he supported equality of rights for women, he would say yes. If you asked Lanard if he supported the freedom of speech, he would say yes. If you asked him if he thought people should be denied basic rights on the basis of their religious beliefs, he would say no. If you asked him if he would support killing people who rejected the dominant ideology in their society, he would say no. If you asked if he thought homosexuals should be put to death, he would say no.
Yet all that is Sharia, and Noah Lanard is certain that opposition to Sharia is "anti-Muslim hate." That’s the level of thought among American leftists today.
