COPPERHEADS AND DOUGHFACES, THE STATE OF THE DEMOCRACY 2006-07

Blue Dogs, moderates, Socialists, radical leftists, there’s a lot or room inside the Democratic Party’s Barnum and Bailey tent. No bearded ladies and no fakirs lying on beds of nails, though Al Gore comes close, but since the November elections there has been an alarming increase in the number of Copperheads. Maybe it was Bush’s defeat in the 2^nd Election of Bull Run that brought the Doughfaces out in their masses. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) immediately ran off to Syria to snuggle up to Bashar Assad. It was a sort of get acquainted session—learn how to love thy enemy as thyself. Bashar was an ophthalmologist before he inherited Daddy’s brutal dictatorship and he could see at a glance that Senator Kerry needed new glasses. “Try on these rose-colored specs, Senator. All the Copperheads are wearing them.” Things looked so different after his tete-a-tete with Bashar, Kerry must have thought he was a reincarnation of Clement L. Vallandigham. He criticized Bush’s attempt to free the slaves in the Middle East—it was “some kind of reward/punishment barrier,” he said. “We will always be a nation that advocated democracy…but we need to be smart about the steps we take and the pace we demand people make transitions.”

Although Vallandigham was opposed to slavery, he did nothing to bring about its destruction. He believed in States Rights and that the Constitution protected the peculiar institution. He preferred colonization for freed slaves. He did not oppose the extension of slavery into the Territories. How he would have reacted to the modern extension of slavery—the Islamicization of America—no one knows.

Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) was more eager to get to Damascus than Kerry. He had scarcely been appointed to the Senate Intelligence Committee when he was off to see the eye-specialist. “What will it be, Senator—the rose-colored glasses or the seeing-eye dog?” Why do they call it the Intelligence Committee? These rascals are no smarter than anybody else. They always seem behind the curve. Everything catches them by surprise. Is it some kind of cruel joke?

Nelson came away impressed. “He (Bashar) stated that we in fact, have an interest, common interest, to stabilize Iraq. I think it is a crack in the door, and it is for discussion to continue.” How about Amman, Jordan? That’s a good place to meet. He must have meant Berchtesgaden. It sounded like Berchtesgaden. No? There is no reason the Checzks can’t give up Bohemia-Moravia for peace in our time if not in Neville Chamberlain’s.

Nelson sounded more like Fernando Wood, Civil War governor of New York, than like Charles Sumner or Thaddeus Stevens, more willing to play footsie with Jeff Davis than with Abe Lincoln. The Copperheads were the peaceniks of the 1860s, willing to compromise democracy and social justice to maintain the status quo, and Vallandigham was the biggest Copperhead of them all. He was bigger than Ramsey Clark and George McGovern during the Viet Nam War; bigger than Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman; bigger than Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden—almost as big as Jimmy Carter is today.

General Ambrose E. Burnside arrested Vallandigham in 1863 for his “habit of declaring his sympathies for the enemy” though in all fairness Vallandigham never kissed Jeff Davis on the cheek—no, not once. The Republican Party stood for “defeat, debt, taxations and sepulchers,” said Vallandigham. There is not much difference between the positions of the Copperheads of the 1860s and the Democrats of the early 21^st Century. Vallandigham was convicted of disloyalty and was sentenced to two years in a military prison. He didn’t serve a day. Lincoln did not want a martyr on his hands so he dispatched Vallandigham through the lines into the Confederacy. This is where the Copperhead King of the 1860s parts company with the 2006 version. If George Bush should send Jimmy Carter to Iran, no matter what the reason, the ex-Pres would consider it an honor and an opportunity to trash America and the Bush administration.

Vallandigham might have been a Doughface (a Northern man with Southern principles) but the thought of hobnobbing or kowtowing to the likes of Jeff Davis must have been too much for him. He preferred the cool breezes of Canada to Southern hospitality and he stayed north of the St. Lawrence till it was safe to return to the US. He was definitely not a globetrotter.

Kerry and Nelson are comparatively new to the game and will have to work hard to catch up with Jimmy Carter who has met and has embraced and has been smitten with every dictator, major or petty, who has had the gumption to declare his country’s undying hatred of the Great Satan. The words lickspittle, toady and sycophant have had no effect on Carter. The born-again Christian who once feared lusting in his heart has bedded more brutal dictators than Barbarella and with less fear of the consequences than the average streetwalker. He kissed Yasser Arafat so often he made Jacques Chirac jealous.

Carter’s been in the Middle East promoting his latest book: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. It’s a shame. He should have looked apartheid up in the dictionary or at least got some advice from someone like Michael Moore. As usual, he has things backwards. It’s not the Jews who have been practicing apartheid, Jimmy, it’s the Palestinians and the Muslims and the Arab countries and they’ve been doing it for 1,400 years and they are not done yet.

Towards the end of his opus insignificus, Jimmy writes, “Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of the majority of its citizens—and honor its own previous commitments—by accepting its legal borders.”

“I wish I had written this book,” said Osama bin Laden.

“That man is a genius,” said Omar Bakri Mohammed.

George B. McClellan was the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Presidency in 1864. To his everlasting credit he refused to endorse the party platform. Sherman’s capture of Atlanta and Phil Sheridan’s torching of the Shenandoah Valley insured his defeat. Vallandigham went on to a useful but short life. McClellan became governor of New Jersey. And what of Jimmy Carter? He will be more famous—and more reviled—for what he did after his presidency than what he did while President and that was bad enough. The problem the Democrats face as they enter the 21^st Century is that Carter is not their only Copperhead.

A TURGID, BOMBASTIC, IMMORAL EXCRESCENCE—WHO? WARD CHURCHILL?

And furthermore, the President of this University is a “mass murderer and serial killer to boot.” Whether or not he’s a little Eichmann, I don’t know, but he is comparable to Charlie Manson. “That’s who you’ve got moral equivalency in the President’s chair at this institution.” My Lai…Wounded Knee…Abu Ghraib…it’s all the same. “How about a cage rather than a president’s suite?”

Cindy Sheehan entertaining the troops as Crawford, Texas? No, it was Ward Churchill speaking at New School University in New York and the President he was talking about was the institution’s top man, former US Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE) who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Viet Nam where he left the lower part of one leg. Kerrey served 12 years in the US Senate. He left in 2001 to become president of New School. It’s a fine institution. It was founded in 1919 to promote progressive ideas. Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey were among its sponsors.

One of New School’s student groups, Women of Color, invited Churchill to the campus to entertain the gullible with his Reservation version of George Orwell's Two Minutes Hate. Apparently, Kerrey was unaware of his presence on campus. The ex-Senator is not a Bull Halsey type.

“We brought him here,” said Jamila Thompson of Women of Color, “because he offers a framework in which we can conceptualize the struggles our community is dealing with.” Struggles? They have struggles? Churchill is a heavy hitter. Are the little Eichmanns acting up again? Has Homeland Security been profiling terrorists instead of little old white ladies in wheelchairs? That would get him out of his teepee.

“His work allows us to build broad-based networks with Native Americans (Churchill claims to be Native American), Latinos and anti-racist whites,” said Jamila. Ah, the campus SWINE (Students Woefully Ignorant of Nearly Everything)—they haven’t changed much since the 1960s; smug, intolerant, half-educated, easily mesmerized by demagogues like Churchill who are nine-tenths bile and one-tenth fraud. No, wait, that’s nine-tenths fraud and one-tenth bile. If it weren’t for Churchill’s hatred of America he would be just another shabby relic from the Cold War passing out Marxist literature to street people better dressed than he is.

“A person’s work should be engaged critically,” said Jamila. The 200 students who cheered themselves hoarse over Churchill’s trashing of Kerrey and America did not appear overly critical. But other folks were and they have expressed themselves in a series of thoughtful letters to Churchill. An unscientific sampling follows:

Dear Heap-Big Chief Churchill:

Are you sure you’re an Indian? You don’t look like an Indian. Maybe a cigar store Indian—but not like any Sioux or Arapahoe I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of them. I’ve watched every John Wayne western since he was one of the Three Mesquiteers. I can remember when Robert Blake was Little Beaver—you don’t fool me. If you’re an Indian, where do you keep your feathers? Why don’t you wear your hair in a bun? If would be a good place to stick some feathers and you would look like and Indian and not like some broken-down old Hippie from the 1960s—or was it the ‘70s? Do you know what a breechclout is? Do you wear a breechclout when you lounge around the house? Breezy, aren’t they? Have you ever met Chief Nok-a-homa? Do you live in a wigwam or in a Paleface log cabin? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you may be eligible to join the Pretend-to-be-a-Cherokee Club.

Please contact, Lonesome Polecat or Hairless Joe, Dogpatch, USA.

Hey, Wardy-Baby:

The boys here as Joe’s Bar and Grille and Gun Club have been talking about you all week. Heard what you said about Senator Kerrey. You ought to stop by for one of our get-acquainted boilermakers. We’ve been trying to figure out what you are. Iggy Cowsnofsky says you’re a Cro-Magnon. He can spot one a mile away—he says it’s because he is married to one. I think you’re a Neanderthal. I subscribe to National Geographic and you’re the closest thing to a caveman I’ve ever seen. Doc says you’re a Marxist—but, hell, no Marxist ever walked into this bar and got out alive. We’re going to take a vote Friday on just what the hell you are and we’d like you to be here. Won’t be no prize, just the free boilermaker. What kind of insurance you got?

Joseph Barr Grille, Palookasville, USA.

Dear Mr. Churchill:

I bet you never expected to hear from me. We’ve been studying about you in school—how you fought the Germans on the beaches and the fields and the streets and never gave up. You must be pretty old by now—at least 50 or 60. My Dad says Winnie the Poo was named after you. Hobbes says you are a stupid, bombastic, immoral excrescence. That must be pretty good, huh? Hobbes is awful smart; he’s a tiger but don’t let that scare you. Do you use Botox? Could you get me some? Have you ever bayoneted anyone? What did you do with Hitler’s body? Do you have an extra bayonet or a samurai sword you would be willing to sell for a reasonable price—say, less than$5 dollars? I can’t go any higher than that without violating my parole. Do not try to contact me by telephone—my calls are being monitored. Don’t take any wooden Eichmanns. Hah! Hah!

Calvin, Hobbesville, USA.

Sir:

You one heap big phony Injun! Ira Hayes cry in Happy Hunting Ground when he hear you abuse Senator Kerrey. Crazy Horse spit on you! Hiawatha spit on you! I spit on you! You heap big insult to Cherokee! You heap big insult to Chingachgook! You know what—I ask Masked Man (Lone Ranger) for one measly silver bullet. You know what—he say as soon as he done listening to William Tell Overture he give me one measly silver bullet; but no can wait. You know what—I go to secret silver mine tonight, make my own silver bullet. There be heap big trouble in Colorado when you get back.

PS: If you can’t read these smoke signals, you one heap big stupid Injun.

Tonto, long time friend of Kemo Sabe; Fran Striker County; USA.

“We believe education is the key to creating a vibrant and understanding society,” said Sir Iqbal Sacranie. That’s what Horace Mann said! Mann was a reformer and an Abolitionist; he was full of ideas. “Education,” he said, “beyond all other devices of human origin, is the greatest equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of social machinery.” Mann was promoting democracy; Sacranie is promoting the Islamization of England’s educational system under the guise of getting-to-know-you programs—a one-way street to dhimmitude for Andy Capp's kids.

Plato and Aristotle agreed with Mann. They would have been horrified at Sacranie’s approach to education. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind,” said Plato. “Therefore do not use compulsion but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.” There should be no compulsion in education. What a wonderful idea! Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn pushed the theory to its limits—the rascals! Unfortunately, Sir Iqbal is not in tune with the great educators of the past. He sees England’s educational system as a Laundromat—the perfect place to wash what little is left of Christianity out of the minds of England’s 7-11 year-olds and replace it with Islam.

One teacher, whole-heartedly embracing the latest PC indoctrination plan, said—believe it or not—“The future is in the hands of young people.” What an amazing insight! Everybody else thinks it lies in the hands of Grandma Moses and Gerald Ford! He must be a Ph D candidate—or maybe his last job was in a nursing home. (There are only four Muslim students attending the school where this fellow is employed and he is already brainwashed. It’s the non-Muslims who are to be put through the spin cycle). That is the plan.

“We found that schools were using books that were not accurate about Muslim traditions and beliefs,” explained Tahir Alam of the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB). “So we put this pack together.”

A pack? They put a pack together? Well, that was nice of them. And what did they put in the pack? Let’s see—there is a prayer cap, a prayer rug; a headscarf for little Darla, a poster of the Muslim prophets, and a compass so the little darlings can locate Mecca when they start praying to Allah. Wouldn’t want them to send those Allahu akbars across the Atlantic to the Texas Gunslinger. Heavens no! The pack also contains videos, CDs, children’s books, pamphlets and model kits—yes, model kits; not of Spitfires and Halifax bombers, but of mosques and the Ka’bah!

And Joseph Goebbels thought he was so smart! Compared to Sacranie and MCB he was an amateur—a rank amateur. A brown uniform, a twisted cross on an armband, a copy of Mein Kampf, a stiff-armed salute, the Horst Wessel Lied, and the Nazi version of Allahu akbar—Heil Hitler—was the best he could do. Maybe it was the short notice. He didn’t have much time—six years before Hitler went to war. It takes centuries to work up a first-class hatred. Goebbels knew all he needed to know about indoctrination and he realized that propaganda had to be planned and executed by only one authority, but he never did grasp—given his master race mentality—the benefits that could have been derived by turning hundreds of thousands of Poles, Slavs, Ukrainians and gypsies into ardent Allahu akbaring Nazis. Sacranie does. Over 800 primary schools in England are voluntarily using the packs to reeducate their students.

“The better they understand each other,” said Alam, “the more secure that future will be.” Alam is not lying or fibbing or prevaricating—he is practicing taqiyya. Unless England’s Muslim students are presented with packs containing materials promoting Christianity—or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism—this nonsense should be immediately halted and the perpetrators of this educational travesty should be tarred-and-feathered and run out of England on a rail.

Run Sir Iqbal out of England on a rail? Not Sir Iqbal Sacranie! Why not? It would be a good start. Sir Iqbal is not Mr. Chips. He’s Secretary General for MCB. He was knighted in 2005 during the Queen’s Birthday Honors. He has said death was too good for Salman Rushdie; he has refused to participate in Holocaust Memorial Days—in fact, he has done his best to sabotage them. He has referred to Osama bin Laden as an Islamic scholar; he has dismissed blacks as slaves; he has described Hamas as freedom fighters. Oh, yes, he is a fine fellow.

Alam, Assistant Secretary General of MCB, points to a recent study that showed young white males were a greater threat to multi-cultural integration than Muslims. According to the study obtained by The Guardian, half of the white male respondents saw no need to respect people because of their religion or gender. “Integration is a two-way process,” said Alam. “If I want to be part of a society and society doesn’t want me to be a part of it, then integration is impossible.” A society composed of Muslims and dhimmis is not the kind of society most Englishmen would want to be a part of but it is the one MCB wants to impose on England. So it follows that white males are racist because they will not accommodate themselves to the new society. It’s an old accusation. But it does little or nothing to explain why so many white girls, and blacks and Orientals as well, are being raped in increasing numbers—a veritable epidemic, in fact—by Muslim youths throughout England and elsewhere in Europe. The statistics alone would make one think twice about the charges of white racism. Why would the supposed racists almost always be the victims of interracial—or inter-religious—violence?

“It is not understood,” explains Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.com, “that Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as “their women,” the women who belong to hostile infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the infidels, someday will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hands.”

And where do they learn this behavior—in their Mad-Rats-Asses schools? “There is no evidence faith schools divide society,’ insists Alam. The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) agrees. It has given Islam’s religious schools a stamp of approval. Ofsted’s report says the Madrasses promote understanding, tolerance and harmony with a citizenship curriculum that provides a “full range of opportunities to explore the social and cultural dimension of life in Britain today.”

A full range of opportunities! Well, it that’s true, then what is good for the infidel should be good for the believer. Why not a Christian pack for the students at—say, the Jam-e-Mosque Madrassas? How about a Bishop’s miter, a length of sackcloth, a Maggie Thatcher beret, a poster of Ian Hunter as Richard the Lion-Heart in the Robin Hood series—what a kindly old gentleman he was—and a compass to guide little Mohammed through the Oxford maze? That would be quite an experience. And, of course, some videos—Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and anything by Bennie Hill. And model kits—can’t forget model kits; Spitfires and Blenheim bombers, and maybe somebody could arrange a guest appearance by Madonna! And then next week—ready or not—unload the Buddhist pact on the little rascals, featuring, of course, Siddhartha Guatama Buddha and the Tipitaka! What a heaping dose of multi-culturalism!

Would Sir Iqbal and Tahir Alam stand still for all that? Not on your sweet Tipitaka! Islam is not in England to absorb British culture; it is in England to absorb Britain. Andy Capp, Moll Flanders and Will Shakespeare will never be more than infidels; and Prince Chuckles has already converted to Islam. Hitler and Goebbels were more honest and that’s why they crashed and burned.

England’s Honkeys would be better off studying Gandhi and the Bhagavad-Gita than Islam.

“There should be no compulsion in education!” Plato versus Sir Iqbal Sacranie

“We believe education is the key to creating a vibrant and understanding society,” said Sir Iqbal Sacranie. That’s what Horace Mann said! Mann was a reformer and an Abolitionist; he was full of ideas. “Education,” he said, “beyond all other devices of human origin, is the greatest equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of social machinery.” Mann was promoting democracy; Sacranie is promoting the Islamization of England’s educational system under the guise of getting-to-know-you programs—a one-way street to dhimmitude for Andy Capp's kids.

Plato and Aristotle agreed with Mann. They would have been horrified at Sacranie’s approach to education. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind,” said Plato. “Therefore do not use compulsion but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.” There should be no compulsion in education. What a wonderful idea! Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn pushed the theory to its limits—the rascals! Unfortunately, Sir Iqbal is not in tune with the great educators of the past. He sees England’s educational system as a Laundromat—the perfect place to wash what little is left of Christianity out of the minds of England’s 7-11 year-olds and replace it with Islam.

One teacher, whole-heartedly embracing the latest PC indoctrination plan, said—believe it or not—“The future is in the hands of young people.” What an amazing insight! Everybody else thinks it lies in the hands of Grandma Moses and Gerald Ford! He must be a Ph D candidate—or maybe his last job was in a nursing home. (There are only four Muslim students attending the school where this fellow is employed and he is already brainwashed. It’s the non-Muslims who are to be put through the spin cycle). That is the plan.

“We found that schools were using books that were not accurate about Muslim traditions and beliefs,” explained Tahir Alam of the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB). “So we put this pack together.”

A pack? They put a pack together? Well, that was nice of them. And what did they put in the pack? Let’s see—there is a prayer cap, a prayer rug; a headscarf for little Darla, a poster of the Muslim prophets, and a compass so the little darlings can locate Mecca when they start praying to Allah. Wouldn’t want them to send those Allahu akbars across the Atlantic to the Texas Gunslinger. Heavens no! The pack also contains videos, CDs, children’s books, pamphlets and model kits—yes, model kits; not of Spitfires and Halifax bombers, but of mosques and the Ka’bah!

And Joseph Goebbels thought he was so smart! Compared to Sacranie and MCB he was an amateur—a rank amateur. A brown uniform, a twisted cross on an armband, a copy of Mein Kampf, a stiff-armed salute, the Horst Wessel Lied, and the Nazi version of Allahu akbar—Heil Hitler—was the best he could do. Maybe it was the short notice. He didn’t have much time—six years before Hitler went to war. It takes centuries to work up a first-class hatred. Goebbels knew all he needed to know about indoctrination and he realized that propaganda had to be planned and executed by only one authority, but he never did grasp—given his master race mentality—the benefits that could have been derived by turning hundreds of thousands of Poles, Slavs, Ukrainians and gypsies into ardent Allahu akbaring Nazis. Sacranie does. Over 800 primary schools in England are voluntarily using the packs to reeducate their students.

“The better they understand each other,” said Alam, “the more secure that future will be.” Alam is not lying or fibbing or prevaricating—he is practicing taqiyya. Unless England’s Muslim students are presented with packs containing materials promoting Christianity—or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism—this nonsense should be immediately halted and the perpetrators of this educational travesty should be tarred-and-feathered and run out of England on a rail.

Run Sir Iqbal out of England on a rail? Not Sir Iqbal Sacranie! Why not? It would be a good start. Sir Iqbal is not Mr. Chips. He’s Secretary General for MCB. He was knighted in 2005 during the Queen’s Birthday Honors. He has said death was too good for Salman Rushdie; he has refused to participate in Holocaust Memorial Days—in fact, he has done his best to sabotage them. He has referred to Osama bin Laden as an Islamic scholar; he has dismissed blacks as slaves; he has described Hamas as freedom fighters. Oh, yes, he is a fine fellow.

Alam, Assistant Secretary General of MCB, points to a recent study that showed young white males were a greater threat to multi-cultural integration than Muslims. According to the study obtained by The Guardian, half of the white male respondents saw no need to respect people because of their religion or gender. “Integration is a two-way process,” said Alam. “If I want to be part of a society and society doesn’t want me to be a part of it, then integration is impossible.” A society composed of Muslims and dhimmis is not the kind of society most Englishmen would want to be a part of but it is the one MCB wants to impose on England. So it follows that white males are racist because they will not accommodate themselves to the new society. It’s an old accusation. But it does little or nothing to explain why so many white girls, and blacks and Orientals as well, are being raped in increasing numbers—a veritable epidemic, in fact—by Muslim youths throughout England and elsewhere in Europe. The statistics alone would make one think twice about the charges of white racism. Why would the supposed racists almost always be the victims of interracial—or inter-religious—violence?

“It is not understood,” explains Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.com, “that Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as “their women,” the women who belong to hostile infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the infidels, someday will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hands.”

And where do they learn this behavior—in their Mad-Rats-Asses schools? “There is no evidence faith schools divide society,’ insists Alam. The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) agrees. It has given Islam’s religious schools a stamp of approval. Ofsted’s report says the Madrasses promote understanding, tolerance and harmony with a citizenship curriculum that provides a “full range of opportunities to explore the social and cultural dimension of life in Britain today.”

A full range of opportunities! Well, it that’s true, then what is good for the infidel should be good for the believer. Why not a Christian pack for the students at—say, the Jam-e-Mosque Madrassas? How about a Bishop’s miter, a length of sackcloth, a Maggie Thatcher beret, a poster of Ian Hunter as Richard the Lion-Heart in the Robin Hood series—what a kindly old gentleman he was—and a compass to guide little Mohammed through the Oxford maze? That would be quite an experience. And, of course, some videos—Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and anything by Bennie Hill. And model kits—can’t forget model kits; Spitfires and Blenheim bombers, and maybe somebody could arrange a guest appearance by Madonna! And then next week—ready or not—unload the Buddhist pact on the little rascals, featuring, of course, Siddhartha Guatama Buddha and the Tipitaka! What a heaping dose of multi-culturalism!

Would Sir Iqbal and Tahir Alam stand still for all that? Not on your sweet Tipitaka! Islam is not in England to absorb British culture; it is in England to absorb Britain. Andy Capp, Moll Flanders and Will Shakespeare will never be more than infidels; and Prince Chuckles has already converted to Islam. Hitler and Goebbels were more honest and that’s why they crashed and burned.

England’s Honkeys would be better off studying Gandhi and the Bhagavad-Gita than Islam.

KEITH ELLISON SHOULD BE DENIED HIS SEAT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENT HOME!

“I, Loyal Citizen of the Republic, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take these obligations freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and I will well and faithfully discharge my duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

An excellent oath—Tip O'Neill took it and so did many fine upstanding Americans, living and dead, past, present and to come. It’s easy as pie. The hand if placed on the Bible or a copy of the US Constitution, the oath is taken and America applauds. Mr. Smith is now one of a select group. But suppose someone doesn’t feel comfortable with the Bible or the Constitution, isn’t there something else upon which the oath could be taken? Like what? Oh, there are a lot of things. Someone like Jimmy Kimmel might prefer to be sworn in on a Milton Berle joke book. For Bill Maher it could be the Kama Sutra or the secret diaries of the Marquis de Sade. And if David Duke ever got elected to Congress he might opt out for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. And would Cornel West object if Mr. Snoop Dog placed his hand on Here’s for the Bitches to swear his fealty? Most members of the campus SWINE (Students Woefully Ignorant of Nearly Everything), if ever elected, would toss the Bible and the Constitution if favor of The Communist Manifesto or Das Capitol. And there’s Dianetics, Mein Kamph and the Jane Fonda workout tapes. The list is endless.

It would make sense to limit Congressional oath taking to the Bible and the Constitution before someone takes advantage of America’s incredible political gullibility and is sworn in on something hostile to both the Bible and the Constitution—something like the Qur’an. It may be too late for that though. The first Muslim member of Congress Rep-elect Keith (Hakim Mohammed) Ellison intends to take his oath on the Muslim Holy Book.

“There is no one who is more patriotic than I am,” said Ellison. “And so, you know, I don’t’ need to prove my patriotic stripes.”

What is this? Don’t ask; don’t tell? He doesn’t have to answer questions? What chutzpah! Talk like that might be good enough for Nancy Pelosi, but it wouldn’t fool anybody in Mayberry; even Opie would know something wasn’t kosher with this guy. Thousands of Viet Nam draft dodgers used the same line. If he had been standing on the porch of Grafton's Saloon someone would have called him a dirty something-or-other liar.

Taking an oath on the Qur’an would be worse than taking one on Count Dracula’s cape. Bela Lugosi might charm Hillary Clinton and frighten Pelosi but vampires are no threat to America or to Transylvania, but Islam is a threat, not only to American, but to Israel and the entire Western World as well. Ellison, by whatever name he has used in the past and he has used many, has made enough anti-Semitic remarks to please David Duke. And it’s more than that—could Ellison be trusted to uphold the laws of the land? He has had his driver’s license suspended for failing to pay parking fines and traffic tickets. He hasn’t paid his property taxes. He has violated campaign finance regulations and has defended cop-killing gangs. He is more than an ordinary scofflaw.

As a Muslim will he support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic or will he support Islam against its enemies foreign and domestic? Sure, the same questions were raised against John F. Kennedy when he ran for President, but JFK was more atheist than Christian.

The Bible says give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods. It’s Christianity’s establishment clause. There are no similar verses in the Qur’an. Islam does not recognize secular governments. Mayflower Compacts, Glorious Revolutions and Governments by the people are illegal. The Qur’an—Islamic Law—the Shari’ah—is supreme. Taking an oath on the Qur’an to uphold the US Constitution would be like John Barleycorn polishing off three fingers of Old Grand Dad to celebrate joining a Temperance Society.

So Ellison takes the oath on the Qur’an and what happens?

Qur’an 66:1 “Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows.” (The oath to the US Constitution is invalidated. It is taqiyya)

Qur’an 33:36 “It is not fitting for a Muslim man or woman to have any choice in their affairs when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger. They have no options. If any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a wrong path.” (The right path—the only path—is the Shari’ah)

Qur’an 8:2 “The only believers are those who feel fear and terror when Allah is mentioned.” (Believers in Jesus Christ are expected to feel the opposite)

Qur’an 33:26 “Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.” (America is the next land not traversed before by Islam that is to be given to the believers. See any number of statements by the Council on American-Islamic Relations)

If Ellison believes any of these excerpts from the Qur’an (a hundred more could easily have been included) he is more dangerous to American liberties than Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun and Joe McCarthy combined. If he doesn’t’ believe them there is no logical reason for him to take his oath on the Muslim Holy Book.

Does Ellison have any mental reservations? Will he faithfully discharge the duties of his office? If there is any doubt at all, the House of Representatives should refuse to seat him. It has been done before. In the years following the Civil War, many duly elected Congressmen were denied their seats in the House of Representatives because they had held governmental office in the Confederate States of America or served in the Confederate States Army. There were sound reasons for excluding them. If Ellison insists on taking his oath on the Qur’an he should be denied his seat and sent home. He is not any better than the Johnny Rebs who sought entry into the US Congress to thwart the Reconstructions policies of the 1860s and ‘70s and is more dangerous to life, liberty and the pursuit of one’s own version of God that Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler ever were.

IMAMS GONE WILD!

“I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud,” reported an airport gate agent.

“They repeatedly shouted Allah,” said an unidentified passenger.

“They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane,” explained a federal air marshal.

“That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry,” said a pilot from another airline.

Except for the praying part and the calling of attention to themselves, it could have been Butch and Sundance getting ready to blow open the doors to the Express Car on the 6:10 to Yuma.

What were the Imams up to? Did they have a master plan? Promise keepers and born-again Christians go to conventions and rallies and don’t act like that on the way home, they act like—well, Christians. They weren’t gentlemen songsters out of a spree—Allah frowns on music. Maybe it was robbery that was on their minds. Not the gold bullion that would have attracted Butch and Sundance but something more valuable—America’s sense of safety, security and nationhood. What happened on US Airways Flight 300 from Minneapolis to Phoenix was guerilla theatre. It was like a Klan march through a black neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1930s—a warning. It was in your face—a portent of things to come. The preliminary praying on the concourse was another small step in radical Islam’s plan to turn America—from sea to shining sea—into a mosque.

The Imams wanted attention; they demanded attention; they got attention. They were dragged off the plane—the victims of Islamophobia. Maybe a bucket of hot tar and five dollars worth of feathers would have been a better solution. The poor pathetic wretches insisted they were innocent of any wrongdoing. Wasn’t that obvious? They had been praying. Everybody prays. Jerry Falwell prays; Terry Bradshaw prays—prayed on the football field; Bill Clinton prays—he prayed with Jesse Jackson: that showed how sincere he was. But those were Christian prayers. Pray to Allah and it’s off to jail! They were lucky their prayer rugs weren’t confiscated! The air marshals would not have dared to treat a Scientologist like they treated poor Imam Omar Shahin! Clark Gable could have said, “Frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn,” and have been cheered but pious, devout Muslims observing one of the Pillars of Islam were treated like pariahs, like outcasts. Jimmy Swaggert, caught sneaking out of a seedy motel with a camera full of pornographic pictures, was accorded more respect than Allah’s faithful.

Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, was outraged. “It’s a shame that as an African American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while black and flying while Muslim,” he said. Please, Madhi, come up with your own slogans; stop stealing from Jesse Jackson, eventually he will sue. And you are wrong—flying while white, black, brown or yellow is more dangerous than flying while Muslim. Remember, Mohammed Atta was flying while Muslim; Richard Reid was flying while Muslim; Marwan ah-Shehhi was flying while Muslim. It’s non-Muslims who are in danger while flying with Muslims.

Bray organized a Washington rally in 1998 and played the tambourine while the faithful chanted “Let’s all go into jihad and throw stones at the face of the Jews.” Bray has referred to President George W. Bush as the “little pharaoh” and Bush’s meeting with Ariel Sharon as “morally reprehensible.” The air marshals and the police did what had to be done. The Imams were arrested.

“They took us off the plane,” protested Imam Omar Shahin, “humiliated us in a very disrespectful way.” They were praying—prostrating themselves. “If up to now,” he said, “they (Americans/non-Muslims/dhimmis/kafirs—take your pick) don’t know about prayer, this is a real problem.”

A bigger problem is how little Shahin knows about America and his apparent unwillingness to learn. The Imam’s track record is not much better than Mahdi Bray’s. He’s been associated with Kind Hearts, a charitable organization whose assets have been frozen by the U. S. Treasury Department pending investigation. Kind Heart is an offshoot of the Holy Land and Global Relief Foundations whose assets were frozen because of connections with terrorist organizations.

The Imams were in Minneapolis attending a conference of the North American Imams Federation. Shahin is a member of the Federation’s Board of Trustees. Another member of the Board is Imam Siraj Wahhaj. Like Shahin, he has a track record. His name appeared on the list of possible co-conspirators in the first World Trade Center bombing. It should come as no surprise that he has said that America will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” Also on the Board of Trustees is Imam Waleed Edrees. Edrees has memorized the Qur’an. It is unknown whether that is his sole claim to fame.

The Federation website is full of helpful hints on how to be a good Muslim. There are 14 tips for Imams for dealing with sexual abuse, assault and harassment.

Some excerpts: (Pay attention now, Archie, this is All in the Family stuff)

1. know the definition of the crime. “From an Islamic perspective, if Islamic modesty and relation between men and women and family were respected, there would be no sexual abuse or harassment. (Keep them barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, beat them if you must, but beat them lightly, after all, they are like domestic animals)

Tip #15. Did you just find out the public school a few blocks from the mosque is teaching grade five kids Muslims are terrorists women haters? (The Imams are either misinformed or are practicing taqiyya. There has been more condemnation of George Armstrong Custer and George W. Bush in classroom America than of Mohammed Atta and Osama bin Laden. Political correctness and cultural diversity insist on this)

Or that they are starting a unit on family life which includes a favorable discussion on ‘homosexual families.’ (Please—somebody inform Rosie O’Donnell)

No Muslim website is complete without a Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and the Imam’s do not disappoint. Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes would have been satisfied; Lenin would have wondered why he hadn’t thought of some of these rights. It’s probably what gave John Esposito the delirium if not the tremins. Noam Chomsky would be pleased; Bill Clinton would be pleased; George Bush would be pleased. See—Islam was hijacked! The fine print says otherwise. Some excerpts:

“The Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights is based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah and has been compiled by eminent Muslim scholars, jurists and representatives of Islamic movements and thought. May God reward them all for their efforts and guide us along the right path.”

The devil is in the details. Some devils:

b) the term ‘Law’ denotes the Shari’ah

e) in inviting all mankind to the message of Islam

g) in our obligation to establish an Islamic order

Better heat up the tar and get another bag of feathers. According to the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights the only right a non-Muslim has is to become a Muslim.

The Imams got what they deserved.