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The Obama Watch
Mr. President: Don’t Back the Dhimmicrats!
Will he stand up for American this time?
Despite what you may think, Dhimmicrats are not Democrats. A dhimmicrat is a Western official who uses his position of power and influence to clear the pathway for the spread of sharia — the law they have in Saudi Arabia. Dhimmi is the Arabic word for the low status person — all non-Muslims — who live under sharia.
A good example of a dhimmicrat would be former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been a tireless advocate of Arabs against Israel. Another is the Right Rev. Rowan Williams, the Church of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury, who urged his fellow Britons to make room for sharia in that sceptre’d isle. Of course, the Prince of Wales ranks high among dhimmicrats. Prince Charles recently told an Oxford audience the world needed to adopt Islamic principles to save the planet from environmental degradation. The Prince
knows a lot about degradation.
Here in America, we have two new recruits to the ranks of dhimmicrats. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently spoke out in favor of building a $100 million Islamic Center, including a mosque, at Ground Zero in Manhattan. Bloomberg’s remarks were strongly echoed by liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. Both men see the building of a mosque within sight of the place where 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11 as a test of American tolerance and openness.
It’s not. As Andy McCarthy writes: “The Ground Zero project is a test of America’s resolve to face down a civilizational jihad that aims, in the words of its leaders, to destroy us from within.”
Andy McCarthy knows more about the aims of jihadists than the dhimmicrats do. He is the former federal prosecutor who put behind bars the blind sheikh who orchestrated the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
The man behind the plan to put a mosque at Ground Zero is Feisal Abdul Rauf. Rauf has a long history of involvement with jihadist front organizations. Initially, he called his project for Lower Manhattan the Cordoba Initiative. Historians of Islam point to Cordoba — in modern Spain — as a symbolic city for Muslims. It was there that they established their caliphate, the center of Muslim rule in the Mediterranean region. By calling it Cordoba, Rauf was telegraphing his intentions.
It’s too bad Mayor Bloomberg and columnist Cohen can’t read Morse code. Feisal Abdul Rauf has written a book whose American title is: What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America. Sounds harmless. Even sounds patriotic. But Andy McCarthy has dug into the background of this book. For non-English speakers, as for example, in Muslim-majority Malaysia, the title of Rauf’s tome was: A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post 9/11. The American version of Rauf’s book is copyrighted by two outfits — the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) — which McCarthy identifies as front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood, groups that have raised millions for the terrorist organization, Hamas.
Dawa describes how Islam is spread worldwide. Dawa is Arabic, but for Americans, it might well be translated “dagger.” For that is what Rauf is offering us, a dagger in the heart of America post 9/11.
Richard Cohen argues that conservatives are trying to beat up on a “minority group [that lacks] political power and thus [can be] safely demonized.” He must not have seen the full-page, four-color ad in his own newspaper several years ago. That ad showed Georgetown University’s center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The center is Saudi-funded at some $10 million.
In the ad, the Gothic spires of Georgetown are shown at night, beautifully lighted. The cross is shown atop one of the buildings in this oldest of Catholic universities in America. But above that cross, in the night sky, we see an Islamic crescent moon and five-pointed star.
This is the “understanding” we must take from petro-dollar fueled infiltration by sharia-promoting Saudis. Harvard has a similar center, also funded liberally by Saudi money. Dean Elena Kagan fought fiercely against the U.S. military setting foot on Harvard’s campus, but she welcomed the Saudis setting up shop there.
President Obama: You need you to take a strong stance against any mosque at Ground Zero.
You need you to defend us against this dawa — this dagger — in the heart of America. Your spokesman, Robert Gibbs, calls this “a local matter.” Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank did not consider the World Trade Center attacks a local matter. They fired off rifles into the air and gave candy to their children to celebrate the Twin Towers’ collapse.
Mr. President: Don’t join the dhimmicrats. Stand up for Americans this time!
About the Author
Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio is Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Club For Growth and the National Taxpayers Union.
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Ret. Marine| 8.10.10 @ 6:31AM
Stand up for the American's this time....do tell sir when he ever has? inquiring minds and Patriots alike want to know. Hell it might be a good thing if he once, just once could go abroad and tell the wolfs of this world what We the People really think of them, is isn't a purdy thing either. I rather suspect We want them gone just as much as they do us. And you expect this fraud, pretending to be president of the cool club to entertaine the idea of standing up to the value's and principles of what makes this the greatest experiment of all times? yeah right, I think you'd have a better time convincing his dog, not the wife but his actual mut in the peoples house, to bite his ass every time he opens his ill infected lips of anything of the sort. Good grief, you sure as hell must have some faith in this creep, many millions of us out here however, do not.
Melvin| 8.10.10 @ 6:44AM
Wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first in hoping that Obama stands up for America.
The man hasn't stood up for America since birth. Can we count on the Elites that hold public office to stand up for us? Please, I'd rather be locked in a darkened room with a rabid dog.
No one is going to stop that Mosque near ground zero except us, and even with that, it is a bit of a stretch, because this Nation refuses to believe that we are in a life or death struggle with Islam.
We should expect the people of New York City to take to the streets, in light of the thousands of New Yorkers that perished at the hands of Islam.
Please don't give me this sanctimonious crap, "It's not all Muslims." You damn right it is all Muslims because that is what it says in their beloved Koran. There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. To Islam you are either a believer or and Infidel period. There is no moderate area, there is no mr. nice guy preaching love, faith, and can't we all just get along. You either believe in Islam completely or you don't
So yes we are in a life and death struggle with Islam because Islam has made it very crystal clear in what their goals are.
It is us who can't seem to find our backsides with both hands behind our backs.
Paul Clare| 8.11.10 @ 5:44AM
YOU GO! great points all! In Europe we can see (those with open eyes not too busy taking the gvt's dole) that Islam is slowly, but peacefully taking over Europe. They could never take Vienna by force, but in less than 20 years, they will have the voting power! France in less time and so goes Europe.
If you haven't read Tony Blankley's The West's Last Chance --DO IT NOW!
Starting in November, we need to clean house of those who are NOT for upholding our way of life.
AND we need to start now to inform the American public of the imminent danger!
Jim O'Brien| 8.10.10 @ 8:18AM
Sharia law is mainstream Islamic, yet it is so 16th century. The Islamic objective, not just the "extreme" objective, is to make the state and religion one and the same. It's called theocracy, and nothing could be more hostile to our free republic, for which separation of church and state is essential. Notice the silence of the majority of Muslims regarding the brutal atrocities of their despicable terrorists? If they oppose or condemn the "extremists", why don't they say so?
And this morning's TV news tells us that a "distinguished Muslim cleric", who is a key advocate of building a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center, is going on a tour / fund-raising trip to the Middle East, paid for by the U.S. Department of State (i.e., taxpayers). Are Obama and Secretary of State Clinton insane, treacherous, or both?
Ned| 8.10.10 @ 12:20PM
both, especially treacherous, but "both"
olainfree| 8.10.10 @ 8:27AM
The Ground Zero mosque is just another insidious affront to the US. An earlier version is the Muslim-inspired design of the Flight 93 memorial.
Nothing happens by chance for those determined to impose Islam worldwide. Erecting symbols of conquest trumps the historic value of places and events for the evangelistic Muslim.
What is most appalling is the number of enablers of dhimmitude that are found among the self-annointed intellectuals of the ruling class in politics and the media.
SMJ| 8.10.10 @ 8:28PM
Well said...I happened to overhear O'Reilly the other night ( I do not watch him- the hubby does) arguing like a 5 year old that he's "not sure about the whole symbolism aspect" ALL it is is symbolism with Islam. Unreal.
Louis Jenkins| 8.10.10 @ 8:27AM
Dhimmitude? We're going to be living under that piece of dog waste yet! Bloomberg has already bent to its will, and now you're asking the Pretender n Chief to stop the building of the Cordoba Center? Give me a break Mr. Blackwell! Since when has the Obamanator stopped any project done by the Muslim society? Chances are he will be the first in line to visit the completed building, and first to bow down to the paegan God. All that's lacking will be an encompassing pogram which will surely follow. New York is in for a rude awakening, and the rest of America will soon follow. Get right with the Christian God, and sharpen your sword. We'll need it.
JohnD| 8.10.10 @ 8:44AM
I say, if they build that ground zero mosque, someone should open a strip joint next door to it on one side; a liquor store on the other side, and a "Fatso's House of Pork BarbeQue" across the street.
In the name of diversity. . .
NavyBrat | 8.10.10 @ 10:05AM
JohnD. This is the comment I posted on yesterday's article on this topic:
A couple of my buddies on Townhall.com & I were talking about this very subject yesterday. The smearing of pig offal is an AWESOME idea. But we came up with an idea to piss the jihadis off while still having an AWESOME time AND making money while we're at it. Here it is:
The three of us are all BBQ devotees. I'm from Memphis, the other 2 guys are from S. Carolina & Texas (good BBQ states, but NOTHING as good as anything that comes outta Memphis, sorry Ken). We're gonna open a BBQ shop RIGHT NEXT DOOR. Whole hogs on spits, ribs & shoulder in the smokers. Scantily clad women in Daisy Duke shorts & bikini tops serving ALL MANNER of alchoholic beverages. LOUD blues, classic rock, & ole school country (Waylon, Hank Sr. & Jr., David Allen Coe, etc).
I wanna call it "Holy Smoke," though the name is still up for debate. Any other name ideas?
Ryan| 8.10.10 @ 10:28AM
Not sure of a title, but a good tag-line: "The BBQ Mecca of New York!"
NavyBrat | 8.10.10 @ 10:32AM
Now THAT's an AWESOME tag-line!!! I dig it Ryan! Thanks!
Pete| 8.10.10 @ 10:42AM
One God House of Pork
Pig Heaven
Shock and Awe Rib House
NavyBrat | 8.10.10 @ 10:58AM
I like "Shock & Awe Rib House." VERY appropriate.
JohnD| 8.10.10 @ 10:48AM
I'll be there for the grand opening, for a big pork barbeque sandwich, and I request you play David Allan Coe's, "My long hair just can't cover up my redneck"
NavyBrat | 8.10.10 @ 10:59AM
JohnD, your request is my pleasure to fullfill, Brother! After that, we'll play "If That Ain't Country."
JohnD| 8.10.10 @ 11:01AM
"Jack Daniels, if You Please"
uncle curmudgeon| 8.10.10 @ 3:24PM
Another menu item: a half-smoke with a little flakey biscuit wrapped around one end and a squirt of black mustard just down the link from the biscuit. Call it "Prophet-in-a-Blanket".
SMJ| 8.10.10 @ 8:31PM
Offer a drink called the Turban Twist...
Purple Lips| 8.10.10 @ 11:43AM
"Scantily clad women in Daisy Duke shorts & bikini tops serving ALL MANNER of alchoholic beverages."
The author of the Daily Gut has a better idea. Open up a Gay Club across the street. In fact, there is a vacant building only 100 feet form the mosque.
But, based don't bet on any support. In Canada, Holland, and the UK, gay activists realized too late that when it comes between gays and Muslims, politicans will always side with Muslims. If you do in fact host your BBQ with half nude waitresses and pork, Bloomberg and the DA will lock you up, and press hate crime charges.
NvyBrat | 8.10.10 @ 12:18PM
Well, The gays can open their club too. I just like the BBQ shop idea b/c it will enable me ot make money while upsetting the delicate sensibilites of the Muzzies & suicide bomber huggers like BloomBooger. And if they want to lock me up, go ahead & try. I'll beat BloomBooger down myself...With a rib bone.
DLM| 8.10.10 @ 3:06PM
"Stick your fork in our pork"
Pete| 8.10.10 @ 3:09PM
I'll have the "Die American Pigs, Die!" family platter, please. You say that is cooked with real explosives?
Paul Clare| 8.11.10 @ 5:48AM
FAN-F...ING-TASTIC! I'm ready to help fund it!
Make it big enough for Tea Party Conferences!
And LOVE Ryan's "Tag Line" HOly Smoke and right below it The BBQ MECCA! (y'all can leave off the New York part!
Impeach Don't Wait| 8.10.10 @ 9:35PM
Actually, I thought in the interest of diversity, we could offer the following:
First we put a church on one side and a synagogue on the other. Now build your mosque. What? Now don't want to?...
JS| 8.11.10 @ 6:32PM
Have y'all seen: "Dogma"? In it, George Carlin plays a Catholic Priest who is trying to re-invigorate the Catholic Church in America.
One of his attempts is: "Buddy Jesus".
So on top of one of the great names suggested by others in this thread, get yourself an great icon.
"Buddy Allah", eating a rib, smilin', winkin', and doing a big thumbs up!
Tag Line to your commercial: "Allah Wants YOU to eat at !"
But seriously, be prepared to get firebombed out of existence before you even get it opened. And don't even THINK about trying to get property, fire or disaster insurance.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.10.10 @ 9:09AM
Is this mosque going to be the catalyst that brings down this evil regime?
Good idea, JohnD!
I think just driving by and throwing a bleeding dead piglet on the front steps might do the trick.
Give the gangbangers something constructive to do.
Time| 8.10.10 @ 9:09AM
All above comments are right on. Its too late to nip this monster in the bud. We must take huge painful hits to ourselves to rid the world of this cancer, islam-muslim whatever... We have the largest number of nuclear weapons. Lets use them and make more. There is but one way. It is the gangrene of humanity, lose the leg, save the patient. Or stay passive, inclusive, in denial to the end. If only the Templar had had the nuclear!....
davelnaf| 8.10.10 @ 9:58AM
Liberals are so deeply marinated in guilt over what they see as the too aggressive way we have fought Islamic radicalism since 9/11 that they are mentally unable to deal with the virulent hostility of Muslims toward everything non-Islamic. It took 9/11 to get some of these people to temporarily support the war. And, now, almost all have gone back to their pre-9/11 mentality.
Muslims marinated in their preferred delusions aggressively seek to put mosques anywhere they can. They are driven by the belief that Islam is also a faith that conquers with ideas. There is nothing in Islam that supports this belief, but with Islam checked on the battlefield they must do something. Given the soft-headedness of our PC addled political culture it is a pretty good bet for them to stay in this fight for the Ground Zero mosque. The stakes for them are too high; a loss might set a precedent to prevent the construction of mosques elsewhere.
The Ground Zero mosque should not be built just because Islam is as bad as it is, but because not building it would help break the hold that political correctness has on some people for their, and our own, good.
Melvin| 8.10.10 @ 9:58AM
Oh, its never too late. Eventuality the Elites will figure out that their grand master plan is dog squeeze and will promptly get on their private aircraft and flee the United States and go home to their EU masters.
This will leave us with something that we knew we had to do all along. Beat the Muslims back to the sands of the Arabian desert or whatever what squalid utopia they came from.
Bottom line Muslim Nations have their land and Western Nations have theirs. There will be no multi-cultural feel good, sing Kumbaya between the two civilizations. It didn't work in the Crusades, it didn't work during the Ottoman Empire, and it sure as hell isn't going to work now.
The elites seem to think that they can force our two civilizations to get along. Wrong answer camel breath, it isn't going to happen ever.
Ryan| 8.10.10 @ 10:30AM
What's going to be interesting is to see who actually builds it if it does go through - there are plenty of NYC Union workers who are apparently refusing to work on the job if it's authorized.
Melvin| 8.10.10 @ 10:38AM
Ryan, there will not be one infidel that will lift a hammer on that job site. Infidels don't or are not allowed to build mosques. Only Muslims are allowed to work on Muslim job sites.
Gad| 8.10.10 @ 11:09AM
It is a fact the Muslims are trying to spread their beliefs and occupy the world. If you don't see this you are ill informed. The ground zero Mosque is and excellent example. This is their way of showing they conquered this area of America.
cdc| 8.10.10 @ 11:17AM
Of course they are, spread is what religions try to do.
Melvin| 8.10.10 @ 12:50PM
Nahhhh, come on now. Yes, other religions do so peacefully. How many Lutherans have you known lately that have stoned their wives, or how many Presbyterians do you know that strap exploding suicide vest on their children?
doolittle| 8.10.10 @ 11:21AM
I know of one young man who dropped a couple jars of pickled pig's feet on Baghdad one fine day....
Bob Miller| 8.10.10 @ 11:48AM
Are we expecting Obama to reject all his old beliefs and associates because that would be good for America? How naive!
Oldefarte| 8.10.10 @ 1:23PM
He cannot 'stand up for Americans', since he is [as you say] a.........dhimmicrat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
john| 8.10.10 @ 2:18PM
During the course of converstation with cbs/nbc? Stephanapoules Obama stated " MY MUSLIM FAITH" the reporter had to tell him " you mean your Christian faith.
DO WE NEED TO KNOW MORE!!!!
Becky| 8.10.10 @ 2:33PM
We cannot expect this man to stand for America. He has shown no inclination to do so.. I do not suspect he will in the future. I do not believe he has any American blood in his veins. His mother may have been classified as an American; merely a formality. She subsequently rejected this nation. His father, we all know about, hence = Obama. He is not the first American president to dislike our system. I pray he will be the last. I really do not know how much more this nation can endure. Americans must stand up and defend this country and vote these people out of office . Know the candidates you are voting for in future elections, listen to what they say. He told us what he would do. Wasn't anyone listening to his plan to "fundamentally change America"? I heard his words, they scared me during the campaign, and they scare me more today.
Flee| 8.10.10 @ 2:58PM
Can someone tell Gibbs that the AZ immigration law was a local matter too. Our preference to buy or not buy health insurance is a local matter too. The MA policeman arresting Obama's friend was a local matter too. I guess that stay out of it attitude only surfaces when it is uncomfortable to take a stand.
Al Adab| 8.10.10 @ 3:37PM
Just imagine Barney Frank under sharia law. What a dream come true.
Uncle Sam| 8.10.10 @ 3:53PM
Yes, I can see we are in for some troubles here in our beloved land. The winds of Revolution are blowing, long live the Declaration of Independance! We will put down with Exteme Prejudice any attempt to change our American way of life! you have been warned.
dac| 8.10.10 @ 4:23PM
Great thread on the BBQ joint and gay bar next to the sharia-thumping diaperhead mosque. Let's get creative-- Maybe combine the two, a queer BBQ joint, "Sweet Asses Sticky BBQ." Cafe-style umbrellas outside with a lazy pig with a catch rag over his crotch area and the tag line "Pork You!".
After all, Islamofascists offend me (so do gays, but to a much lesser extent), let's offend them. Taking and giving offense used to be a decent, normal American thing to do. Thicken up your skin or get the F out. And please make it good BBQ--I know, hard to do in NYC but it can be done. And print t-shirts by the thousands, you'd have a lot of takers.
N| 8.10.10 @ 5:24PM
I'm a life-long democrat who worked in the WTC - I was there on 9/11 - Michael Bloomberg wasn't. What I witnessed & experienced that day will haunt me for the rest of my life. Yesterday I got a phone call asking for money for the Dems. I told them as long as they support or remain silent about the mosque, not only won't I contribute to them, I won't vote for a single Dem in Nov.
Al Adab| 8.10.10 @ 6:09PM
N,
Thank you for your comment. There is much more at stake today than simple party advantage.
N| 8.10.10 @ 5:26PM
As for your planned ribs joint, make sure your 10' ad outside shows mohammed eating pork. Freedom of religion for them and freedom of expression for us.
Andy Texas | 8.10.10 @ 10:24PM
One cannot call O a dhimmicrat. He's a muslim by birth or by adoption. A dhimmi is a non-muslim, no?
figus janus| 8.11.10 @ 8:28AM
All I ask is that we be left alone. The Muslims can take the world for all I care. I think that we as a nation should just say NO to letting anyone set up shop and not assimilate into our American culture. They should be sent home packing if they don't like what they see here. We should be tolerant of others but not at the expense of our own identity. Like Nancy Reagan's campaign slogan "Just say NO!". I hope they put up a gay bar right next to the Mosque at ground zero. They should put a pig butcher on the other side too!
Maria| 8.11.10 @ 12:38PM
Honestly this is a troubleing matter. Muslims will never leave us alone, they will not leave anyone alone. We need to open our eyes and fight to stop this madness. This is our Country, if you don't like it get out! Go back to your own land if it is so good and if you want to follow your laws!
JCA | 8.14.10 @ 11:06AM
I recommend this link to anyone who wants to fight against mosque-building spreading in christian countries (Operation “Pig”, in spanish):
http://www.minutodigital.com/n.....evilla-ii/
It proved very effective.