Rauf Blames Americans for Radicalizing Muslims

Hip Hop Mogul and Muslim For a Day Russell Simmons

In an outrageous display of audacity today, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind New York’s Ground Zero Mosque, said that Americans who criticize the Muslim community are in danger of creating more homegrown terrorists.

Speaking at the “Today I Am Muslim” event organized by a group of homegrown Hollywood morons in Times Square, the imam accused New York Rep Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, of “further alienating” Muslims by launching an investigation into domestic Muslim radicalization.

“My concern is the perception among the youth here that Muslims are under attack … by their own government,” said Rauf. “This helps radicalize people, and we need to reverse that cycle of radicalization.”

Silly us. All this time we thought Muslims were attacking us.

Rauf, who, in August 2010, boasted that he wrote Barack Obama’s Cairo speech in which the President declared that the United States was one of the “largest Muslim countries in the world,” allegedly has had close connections with terrorist sympathizers.

“Our common enemy are extremists, whether they’re Muslim extremists or Evangelical extremists,” said Rauf. The hearings “should be about terrorism … and how have people become radicalized.”

The real problem here is rounding up all of the radicalized Southern Baptists who’ve been plotting to overthrow the government and establish a worldwide caliphate. Quick, somebody take Pat Robertson into custody!

Present at the event were such learned Islamic scholars as Hip Hop music mogul Russell Simmons, who said, “It’s my prayer that this effort will start a process to eliminate the horrible sickness that is Islamaphobia that is so prevalent in this country today.”

Geraldo Rivera gushed over Simmons and Rauf for 10 minutes, all but standing in the middle of 42nd Street yelling, “Allahu Akbar.” Oh, and Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Today I am Muslim too.” Of course Kim is just about anything for anybody if the package is big enough.

Now a word about the whole Islamaphobia thing: Americans have little to fear from Muslims as long as they stay off the flight decks of jumbo jetliners or don’t express dissatisfaction with the U.S. military by firing automatic pistols at their fellow soldiers.

Representatives at the Southern Baptist Convention were unavailable for comment, but we are relatively certain that they discouraged the beating, stoning and beheading of members who are leaving in droves to convert to Islam.

The Census: A Geraldo Rivera Tutorial

Unless you’ve been in GITMO you probably know that a census in progress. Strike that. Obama probably wants to count the terrorists, too.

Liberals and progressives – my, these people give them themselves such sweet names – expand government. In a nutshell that is what they are about – bigger government. Their goals have little to do with sheltering the homeless or seeing that everyone has affordable health care. Have a look at the congressional health insurance package if you don’t believe it.

Everything liberals do is about power.

The 2010 Census is like no other in our history, not necessarily for its intrusiveness (the form is actually shorter this year), but for its intended use. Of course the information, the government wants you to know, is (wink, wink) strictly confidential.

The originally mandated purpose for the census was to apportion the number of congressional representatives for each state and to assess taxes directly for each state. Which nowadays amounts to federal money allocated back to the states largely for government assistance. This, for the uneducated in government-speak, is so Latino groups can sue us for bilingual ballots.

There is no Constitutional requirement for citizens to respond to the census questionnaire, however congress has, as one might guess, passed a law requiring it. That law is printed somewhere in English and Spanish.

To accomplish this task the U.S. Census Bureau has hired bilingual community organizing groups like the former ACORN to collect the information. ACORN is no longer viable but there are plenty of other lefto organizations out there to take their place.

In the top left-hand column of the form there is a light blue box. The box includes several paragraphs of instruction and the first question: How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010? There. Wasn’t that easy? That question alone fulfills the mandate set forth in Article I, Section 2, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

But, of course, there is more. The form requires by law that you divulge your ethnic origin, name, telephone number, and … well, you can get a rough idea at this website.

This year, for the first time in our history to my knowledge, the government will count Illegal residents of the United States in the national census. That means congressional seats will be apportioned strictly by population, not citizenry.

This is for Geraldo Rivera and other good friends to our Latino neighbors who think this is a good idea:

The way one determines how many non-resident aliens are within the confines of the United States is with a safe and sane immigration policy on our borders and ports of entry. Past administrations knew this, which is why, when the WOPs (those With Out Papers) arrived at Ellis Island, we, out of the goodness of our hearts, allowed them into the country. We knew whom we were letting into the country.

Here is the upside. Almost nobody thinks this census is a good idea this year. Liberals don’t like government intrusion because someone might discover that, while they are registered Democrat, their true allegiance is to the Muslim Brotherhood or the American Communist Party. These associations are not illegal but for some reason they don’t want anyone to know. Illegals don’t like it because, well, they are illegal. Conservatives hate it because, well, duh!

Anyway, if conservatives don’t respond to the census, not to worry, the government will simply count Hispanic heads to make up for it.

So should one fill out the form, that is, beyond the little blue box that asks how many are in your household? Aha! I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. Use your own judgment. But there are valid reasons to fill it out in spite of all the tomfoolery, so don’t trash it before you have weighed all the information.

I will, however, leave you with this:

When Barry Goldwater said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” he wasn’t suggesting that citizens take up arms and march on Washington; he was talking about this very thing. Peaceful civil protest against corrupt government.

Old School Politics And The New Right

Rep. Michele Bachmann: One of the many voices of the emerging New Right

They are not Republicans or, if so, claim the moniker in name only. Many of them are still registered that way in states where party registration is a requirement to vote in the primary election, but no party owns their heart.

I call them the New Right because, like the New Left before them, they diverge from the old school politics of the Washington powerbrokers. They draw their inspiration from one bright spot in conservative history when Republicans, independents, and even a multitude of Democrats amassed behind a man who loved his country more than his job. Ronald Reagan.

The New Right are not necessarily Tea Party members, although they certainly embody the spirit of that movement. Michele Bachmann is one and I suspect, although I don’t know, that Scott Brown is not. That’s okay; he’ll do in a pinch. Of course they have mobilized or at least come to national prominence through Sarah Palin’s galvanizing appearance at the 2008 GOP Convention. Palin epitomizes the New Right.

But, like Abraham Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Republican Party has tried to both distance itself from them, while publically embracing their ideals. An impossible task, because, at the very heart of the New Right is an honesty that cannot be faked.

While the media has tried to meld their popularity around the healthcare debate, we are in far deeper waters here. They are fed up with politicians who think they are the be-all-end-all, the final word in the managing of the country, politicians who have forgotten that they are just managers.

Joe “The Plummer” Wurzelbacher, who is barely old enough to remember Ronald Reagan in substance, is one of the New Right. Joe would be the first to remind us that it doesn’t take a brain surgeon, much less a career politician.

I believe we are seeing a true paradigm shift in the nation. People are moving not so much to the right as they are toward common sense. They have been branded homophobes because they don’t agree with gay marriage, they have been chalked up as Astroturf for the GOP because they’re conservative, and their elected officials have grossly misrepresented them. Now they are ready to do something about it.

The New right understands that stimulus packages don’t work, whether they are passed out by Bush or Obama. They understand that many in congress on both sides want to rubber stamp illegals in order to gain a vote later. They know that controlling our borders starts by closing them. They resent being called racists and intolerant because they believe these things.

Look for a candidate in the New Right near you this election year. Then vote.