Playing Us Like a Wurlitzer

          No, we do not have an Islamic mafia in America yet, to the best of my knowledge.  Furthermore, the comparison might be more accurately made to the Sturmabteilungen, Brown Shirts, rather than the families of La Cosa Nostra.  In fact, the two might emerge together as one.  For the moment, I will stick with Mafioso.

          Red flags pop up frequently now.  For example, the Council for Arab-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sues for any claim it can for defamation.  It is one of the most litigious groups in America.  It has learned to play the American legal system like a Wurlitzer to intimidate others in order to get its way.  It publishes pabulum about its peaceful intentions and the desire to serve as protectors of the poor, discriminated against, and oppressed Muslims in America.  The gullible believe this stuff.  Of course, CAIR is not alone.  There are many, hostile, anti-American Muslim groups in America whose sole goal is the destruction of America as we know it, and to erect an American Islamia in its place.

          Litigation and the threat of litigation take a lot of money.  Where do these anti-American groups get theirs?  Over and over, as we learn from publications in the public domain, Saudi Arabia funds groups like CAIR, as well as many others.  Saudi Arabia has oil from which it gets money to work its will.  Who else has substantial oil money?  Iran does, of course, and it is one of the two premier terrorist-sponsoring nations.  Which is the other terrorist-sponsoring nation?  Saudi Arabia.  All of this is common knowledge.

          The crude kind of physical jihad occurs mostly deep within Islamia today, in places such as Iraq, Lebanon, “Palestine,” Chechnya, Sudan, and so on.  This is the overt, or “blood jihad” of bombs, kidnappings, beheadings, murder, and destruction of infrastructure.  Other than sporadically, it has not been a big feature in the West since the events of 11 September 2001.

However, jihadists have not been inactive in the West, as we noted in a 2004 article, “Covert Jihad,” published on 6^th Column Against Jihad (see archives section), “The overt war form of jihad is distracting us from the BIGGER jihad, the one that is much more effective for the enemy and much more final and lethal for us.”  This “covert jihad” has the potential to make great gains in the war of Islam versus America without firing a single shot.  This is the jihad engaged in by these Saudi Arabian-supported and Iranian-supported fifth column groups in America, and they will keep being covert and successful as long as they meet no resistance or quickly vanquish any resistance they encounter, as is happening here right now.

In “Covert Jihad,” we outlined seven steps essential to the success of the American jihad:

1.      Immigrate

2.      Do not assimilate

3.      Populate

4.      Convert

5.      Subvert

6.      Exploit Western values to Islamic ends

7.      Reach critical mass and take over

All of the first six steps act simultaneously, each meeting varying degrees of success compared to the others.  The “mafia” stage involves steps five and six.

          Seeds will not germinate unless conditions are right.  The “context” for the seed includes germinating medium, water, nutrients, protection, and temperature.  Each of these factors must be within a set range to enable the seed to be able to germinate and grow.  Gardeners lump these conditions under terms like “preparing the soil.”  In the wild, seeds have proper conditions much more rarely suitable and bad odds for germination.  However, gardeners can ensure germination every time because they control the conditions by “preparing the soil.”

          This analogy extends to the covert jihad as well.  People like Sami al-Arian of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are fifth columnists as is his organization.  They prey principally on Muslims and wealthy non-Muslim American dupes.  Without another huge fifth column element, these more obvious Islamists would be like seeds in the wild, with some succeeding while others do not.

          However, others in America have been preparing the soil for the jihadists, and very successfully too.  Islamists would really only have had only to exploit the state of our culture, but they have had active help in the form of anti-American activists and their ideas emanating from American universities to pollute the culture.  This context has been detailed in “Deconstructing the Fifth Column Left” on 6^th Column Against Jihad in the form of an essay-review of a brilliant book by philosopher Stephen Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism.

          “Postmodernism” is the name for the nihilistic, anti-American political activism coming from very foul philosophy in American and foreign universities.  The name “postmodernism” does NOT reflect “something later than” modernism.  It rejects “modernism,” which consists of reality, reason, objectivity, human freedom and self-determination, ethics of individualism, and the social-political-economic system of capitalism.

          Postmodernism is the bastard spawn of two centuries of foul philosophies beginning with Rousseau and Kant, extending into Schopenhauer, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, the collapse of 20^th century philosophy, and into Heidegger who paved the way for the current intellectual crowd calling themselves “postmodernists.”  To illustrate that philosophy is powerful and practical, note that this way of thinking affects almost 100% of our colleges and universities, their liberal arts departments, their administrations, and extends through their graduates into journalism, entertainment, politics, and, sadly, down to the working populace.  This is a major poison which has prepared the ground for the seeds of covert jihad.

          Some of the postmodern fifth columnists are active anti-Americans, and they make the news regularly by assaulting cameras and microphones with their vitriolic nihilism.  Postmodernism considers language to be a weapon and the postmodernists use extreme, bellicose language as their means to intimidate people and get their own way.  They have no problem calling the president of the United States an Adolf Hitler, for example.  Language is a weapon.  The language of Democrats in the senate of the United States and the Democrat Party has become a distillation of postmodernism.

          Two very serious products of postmodernism have been “political correctness” and “multiculturalism.”  These have percolated through all layers of American society and now utterly dominate primary and secondary schools.  Covert jihadists could not be happier, because both of these processes have made their subversion of America very easy, as we will show.  Those who are not anti-American activists but who have the disease of postmodernism have abandoned reason in favor of groupism, with its political correctness and multiculturalism.

          These people resist any criticism or objective evaluation of Islam and Muslims for any reason.  They seek to nullify American cultural traditions such as Christmas, Passover, Easter, etc., because they believe someone who is not Christian (or Jewish), might be “offended” in some way by those who follow dominant cultural observations.  It has reached such a monstrous level of absurdity that the Harvard student newspaper, Crimson, decries the entrepreneurial activities of a dorm cleaning service, started and run by students, since not only can some not afford it and might have their feelings hurt by the disparity of the rich versus the poor, but it bestows a low “social status” on the students performing the service.

          Thanks to postmodernism, we have a culture fragmenting along the lines of races, genders, ages, countries of origin, religions, gender orientations, degree of prosperity, types of work, and so on, ad infinitum.  Such pressure groups used to seek shelter in the Democrat Party, but now they have so much power that they have taken over the Democrat Party and function almost autonomously.  Muslim pressure groups are right in there, exploiting the new “unmelting” pot.

          Anyone with a group can caterwaul about anything, and the unsuspecting ballast, the passive postmodernists, ardently believe that they must be heard seriously.  Both the activists and the passivists morph the First Amendment to Constitution mean that everybody must pay to provide a platform for anyone from any of these pressure groups, however irrational they are.  The Islamic “pressure group business” could not ask for better working conditions.

          The issues of political correctness and multiculturalism form a bridge between those who call themselves “liberal” and those who call themselves “conservative,” or Left and Right, politically speaking.  Each side responds characteristically to pressure.  The Left turns to groups, from lobby groups to the United Nations, because these groups make up the reality, truth, and morality to the Left.  The Right turn to religion.  Both processes, which substitute non-rational input in place of relying on reason, paralyze the culture and open the doors for the covert jihad to work in broad daylight.

          The Right live almost 100% on the assumption that RELIGION IS GOOD.  They believe it down to their toes, and they mean ALL religion because it comes from the One God who presents in many forms and goes by many names around the world.  In fact, they will and do argue that without religion and God, the world would be total chaos, and they generally point to the godless Left as examples.  They will not permit consideration of any alternative between God or no-God, Good and Evil, order or chaos, with no other ways possible.  Because of this point of view, they make the work of the covert jihadists unbelievably easy.

          Consider, for example, the current President of the United States, George W. Bush.  He is archetypically religious and possesses all of the unthinking rigidity that goes with this position.  As a result, he is the best friend the covert jihadists have.  He wages war on the overt jihad but is totally blind to the philosophy which makes possible both the overt and covert jihads:  Islam.  He and all of the other Rightists, or conservatives, twist their minds like pretzels to avoid any rational, objective knowledge of, understanding of, or pronouncements of truth about Islam.

          In fact, Pres. Bush has repeatedly characterized Islam as a “religion of peace,” that it is one of the “three great religions of the world,” and that it is “all good” because it is a religion.  To Mr. Bush and to all who believe as he does, only a small number of scoundrels, just a small percent of Muslims, have taken a “great religion of peace,” Islam, and “distorted” it to dark purposes.  Happy to exploit the president’s profound ignorance about Islam, Muslim cleric bigwigs have access to the White House, the military, the prisons, and gears of government.  In government today, Pres. Bush is not alone in militant ignorance and willful evasion; such fellow travelers form a legion.

          Not only do the Right follow political correctness and multiculturalism, but they militantly add the dimension of whitewashing Islam.  The postmodernist Left do not whitewash it; they egg it on because Islam is virulently anti-American.

          American culture is sick from bad philosophy working its will on Americans and their institutions.  Moral certainty has been abandoned by the Left and become scarce on the Right, unless it has something to do with religion.  Courts belong to the Left and are thoroughly postmodernist.  Journalists belong to the Left and have been deeply influenced by postmodernist thinking.  Politicians wallow in the uncertainty and look for short-range advantages that accrue them power.  The public education system, from K through 12, has been corrupted by products of teachers’ colleges utterly infested with seeds of postmodernism falling on intellectual soil prepared by American Pragmatism.

          How do Islamists evaluate American culture?  They view it as deliciously weak.  They have discovered that they can manipulate its institutions, particularly its legal system, and get what they want with minimal effort.  They have moved in on the universities, intimidating them into extremely easy submission to their Islamic radicalism.  In turn, universities compliantly brainwash the unformed minds entrusted to them and ferociously attack any who dare to step outside the prescribed box of “correct thinking.”  Politicians kiss the behinds of Muslim pressure group money bearers and compliantly favor Islamists at the expense of American citizens.  Journalists in general will not speak the truth about Islam—most have become “investigative-less” reporters.  Talk radio hosts, mostly Rightists, will permit no discussion about the facts of Islam or any caller criticisms of it.  Governmental agencies, such as the State Department, utterly twist in the wind to accommodate noisy Muslim pressure groups, and the White House and State Department do nothing about Saudi Arabia and Iran and their funding of the subversion of America.  The Border Patrol deny that our porous border is a problem and are almost willing to put out their own eyes rather than profile likely subversives that might be Muslims.  The FBI, under profoundly weak and politically correct leadership at the very top cannot find any al-Qaeda cells in America or identify anyone who is a danger to America if that person is Muslim.  The head of the Department of Transportation fires people who even suggest profiling.

          In the front lines of the threat from the covert jihad stand the American people.  Happily, a growing number are awakening to the dangers from Islam, but far too many carry out their daily lives uncritically under the sway of cultural influences from both the Left and Right.  The biggest fault of the American public is their inertia.  Too many show no interest in learning about Islam and discovering that they are facing peril.  Their ignorance is all the covert jihadists want, and they have it.

          [Anyone wanting the proper directions for understanding the truth about Islam may go to the Recommended page on our website, 6^th Column Against Jihad to find books and websites which tell the truth.]

          The seeds of covert jihad cannot grow without some effort on their part, and they hold back no effort.  Their focus has been and probably will continue to be subversion through exploitation of weaknesses in our system.  Here are a couple of illustrations that make the points:

          First, an article from the Tennessean, Muslims reach settlement with Dell on prayer at work - Friday, 03/18/05.

31 employees will be reinstated, managers to get training

Muslim contract employees at the Dell Inc. plant in Nashville reached a settlement with the company on issues related to a dispute over prayer in the workplace, a national Islamic civil rights advocacy group announced yesterday in Washington.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the 31 Muslim employees, who left work last month in a disagreement over Islamic prayers, will be reinstated, receive back pay, and be granted religious accommodation.  Managers also will also receive additional training on existing religious accommodation policies and practices.  

There are a couple of levels of meaning to this newspaper report.  Had this been a simple political correctness cave-in, it would have nauseating.  However, it goes much farther beyond a “cave in” and is ominous for our country.  The very simple principle is separation of religion from commerce of any kind.  That means that people are free in this country to adopt any religion, but it is never more than an individual matter.  It is incumbent upon the individual to find ways to practice his religion that do not interfere with his contractual obligations, such as providing a day's work for a day's pay.  Islam, Christianity, Judaism, scientology, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.--you name it—should stay outside when the worker enters the job work area.  He can pick it up again after work.  It is not incumbent upon the employer to be "sensitive" to any religion for any reason at any time.  It is incumbent upon the employee not to inflict his religion on the employer.  Clearly, the employer has the right to set up prayer rooms and provide religious accommodations should he wish, but not the obligation to do so.

This ruling was meant to intimidate Dell and all of the other corporations in the area and as far and wide as possible.  It did just that.

But, there is something worse in this Dell settlement, much worse.  Note that CAIR is involved.  Muslim pressure groups, of which CAIR is just one, push around corporations, courts, television networks and production studios, politicians, journalists, and all others that have power and legal force behind them.  They are following a role-model familiar to most adult Americans.

Postmodernism gave America all sorts of “pressure groups” of fractionated Americans with fractionated names, like “African-Americans.”  Under the influence of postmodernism, certain groups of blacks became a “racial discrimination and civil rights” industry.  Their job was not to “right wrongs.”  They had no interest in getting rid of the “plantations” filling America, as they erroneously claimed.  They just wanted to change ownership of the plantations.  Liberal American government could not wait to throw billions of dollars and pass special privilege laws and regulations favoring these pressure groups.  These “uncivil rights groups” took federal largess and federal power to turn themselves into a tyranny, with the help of their actively and passively compliant black “subjects” who had been stuffed full of hate and an unending sense of entitlements.  Progress of black Americans stopped and regressed.  Only now do the best of them throw off the yoke of the civil rights industry and succeed on their own out of the grasp of the tyrants.  However, the tyrants and their compliant moochers make every effort to instill guilt into these men and women who dared to succeed.

The lesson was not lost on Muslim pressure groups.  They had been doing much of this already in Europe, and Europe was much more easily cowed.  With the growing numbers and successes of influencing governments to favor Muslims over the indigenous populations, these pressure groups grew increasingly stridently nasty, and eventually openly hostile.  They now advocate hostile takeover of European governments by force while their gangs rape and pillage in European cities almost with impunity.

Well, stand by, because they are coming to America with the same acts.  Right now, they are working our laws and regulations to their advantage with great success.  The morally uncertain join the spineless and the philosophically impaired to give them their every demand.  With every success, Muslim pressure group power, daring, and stridency grows, mimicking the rise of organized crime in America.

The same process also took place in pre-Nazi Germany (see Exposing America’s Fifth Column:  Nazism, Communism, and Islam).

Muslim pressure groups are on our campuses.  They have their own schools and institutes.  They lobby our politicians.  They soft-soap our president, and they work tirelessly to gain advantage over us by legal and any other means they can get away with.  Opposition is either slight or non-existent.  When anything that could be construed as opposition appears, these pressure groups insult and threaten law suits, even imply future violence.  They are capitalizing on what they learned from postmodernism:  Language is a weapon.  With Saudi Arabian and Iranian money, they can sue anyone into bankruptcy.  Many Americans and American businesses fold in fright, at the mere thought of opposing them.

Were moral certainty about America and being American prevalent in the culture, Americans would not submit to this intimidation.  This is the escalating terrorism of the covert jihad, and it will not stop unless it is stopped.

At some point, these Muslim pressure groups will encounter opposition from the heartland of America.  When that happens, and their intimidation fails, threats of physical force and violence will follow inevitably.  Take another example, this time from the AIM Column - Federal Money Goes to Controversial Muslim Group - March 15, 2005, by Sherrie Gossett, March 15, 2005.

·          …A controversial Muslim group accused of having an association with an extreme form of Islam has also been getting federal funds.  The group, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), considers itself moderate and mainstream but has sponsored conferences in the past that included speakers known for violent anti-Jewish rhetoric.

·          ISNA describes itself as moderate in outlook but some journalists who have examined the organization contend that it is linked it to Wahhabism, the extreme form of radical Islam that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda movement.

·          Mary Jacoby and Graham Brink, writing in the St. Petersburg Times, describe ISNA as "subsidized by the Saudi government" and the "main clearinghouse for Wahhabism in the U.S.”  The New York Times has described ISNA as the umbrella organization for 300 Muslim groups and about one-third of the mosques in the United States.

·          Sayyid M. Syeed, Secretary General of ISNA…Syeed was Director of Academic Outreach (1984-1994) at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and currently sits on the International Board of the institute which is located in Herndon, Virginia.

In part, this group has grown strong through bottomless Saudi funding.  It has numerous subgroups under its umbrella, most, if not all, of which are militantly Islamic.  It does not like the exposure to the disinfecting sunshine of truth.  In some unusual, even rare cases of journalistic courage, ISNA is finding unbending resistance, and it is not used to it.  But, it has a plan to deal with them.  Continuing from the AIM article:

·          Syeed told me, "You will be hurt, you will be pained by this if you continue to write such things.”  He closed the conversation with this comment, "I am sorry if I sound harsh.  But I stand by every word I said."

·          While Syeed terms AIM's coverage of Islamic radicalism "scandalous" and "criminal," it is the failure of many in the media to report such issues truthfully that is the real problem.  Reporters should not be intimidated from reporting the facts.

You can almost hear a caricatured German accent from a grade B movie involving Nazis, “Ve have our vays.”  If you look at the history of Islam and follow current events, and you will see the ways.

          Then to underscore his power: “Syeed emphasized that ISNA is a mainstream organization and he invited AIM to meet with them at their headquarters and to get involved. “  We would be very pleased to host you," he said, indicating individuals from various organizations have offered workshops at their conferences. 

And, for the piece de resistance, he added, "We are only getting bigger," he said, "You have to work with us."

Subversives do not yet have to resort to mafia-like techniques beyond implied and explicit threats.  Too often, our government is on their side. 

Physical force comes when power is sufficient, and they think they can get away with it against ordinary Americans.  If they get away with making us such “offers we cannot refuse,” they can move into overt jihad, like the Sturmabteilungen.

You do not make an enemy go away by acquiescing to him.  The school yard bully does not volunteer to give up his status, influence, and power, nor does the totalitarian dictator, including theocratic tyrants of Islam.  Capitulation is not a sign of strength.  Appeasement earns no positive entries in history textbooks, except those written by postmodernists.  Weakness, above all weakness with Islam, will not be read as some Christian “virtue” by Muslims.  Weakness will be read by them as our willingness to have our gooses killed and cooked.  And, if that happens, we will subside into dhimmitude and slide out of history as the greatest nation that might have been.

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WELCOME THIS NEW MEMBER OF THE FIFTH COLUMN:  NATIONAL REVIEW

Welcome one of the newest members to America’s Unholy Alliance*, National Review, and its malleable editor, Rich Lowry. 

As we pointed out in Playing Us Like a Wurlitzer, you can have membership in the jihad in two forms:  overt jihad and covert jihad.  Overt jihad members wreak physical havoc, while covert jihad members conduct “psy-ops.”  Going farther, the latter, covert jihad, goes on very actively in America today and recruits two types of members.  One type is active covert jihadists, while the other type is passively non-resistant.  The passive covert jihadists may not join directly but, rather, attain membership by what they do not do.  National Review is a passive type.

As well outlined on Jihad Watch in the waning days of March 2005, National Review earned its membership through spineless retreat.  To summarize briefly, the National Review Book Service offered a reprinted book from the early 20^th century called The Life and Religion of Mohammed by a Catholic priest named J. L. Menezes.  The owner-publisher of Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer, had written a review which was used by the National Review Book Service.  The great “sin” of the book was that it told the truth about Muhammad, giving the very same information written by Muslims in holy Islamic documents, which are easily available these days to anyone who takes the time to read them.  Just as Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad’s first biographer did, Fr. Menezes recounts the behavior of a man whose behavior, according to Muslim holy documents, too much resembled that of Hitler and Genghis Khan.

That great “injustice collector” organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), found out that National Review was carrying the Menezes book with Spencer’s review, proclaimed it “anti-Muslim hate literature,” and incited its robotic followers to inundate National Review Book Service with complaints and to inundate Boeing, the airplane manufacturer, with disapproving communications about its advertising with National Review.  Why?  Because of two books carried by the National Review Book Service, both of which “slandered” Muhammad, according to CAIR.  As sure as night follows day, Boeing caved immediately to CAIR’s demands.  Shortly thereafter, National Review caved and removed the Menezes book from its sales.

Robert Spencer does a crackerjack job of documenting what Menezes wrote about Muhammad, and cites evidence from Islamic holy documents to support these statements.  As Mr. Spencer reports, Fr. Menezes was very pro-Muslim and simply used what the Islamic basic documents say about Muhammad to make the case that Muhammad was not a prophet of God.  Spencer’s articles on the 30^th and 31^st of March 2005 on Jihad Watch are very informative as is much of the related commentary from readers of Jihad Watch. 

On 31 March 2005, the CAIR website offered the following articles: 

·          National Review Removes Books Attacking Prophet Muhammad

·          National Review Silent on Anti-Muslim Hate

·          Ask National Review To Repudiate Anti-Muslim Hate 

On the same page were three more: 

·         Thank Dell for accommodating Muslims religious rights

·         AMEX, Home Depot Withdraw from FL event linked to Modi

·         Thank State Department for denying a visa to Narendra Modi 

We covered the Dell situation in Playing Us Like a Wurlitzer while Jihad Watch and Front Page Magazine cover the Modi situation.  Modi is from India and is not fond of Muslims, given what horrendous treatment Muslims have inflicted on India and Indians.

Editor Rich Lowry’s actions with regard to the Menezes book (and if he follows by removing the Trifkovic book which CAIR also complained about) are more important to an organization like CAIR than overt jihad.  Lowry is even more important than Dell, Boeing, AMEX, and Home Depot, all of whom have tucked their tails and retreated to their corners to quiver.  The importance of his capitulation and that of National Review are so important because of what both represent to groups like CAIR.

To many on the Right, National Review and Lowry represent the “GREAT CONSERVATIVE BULWARK” against all things anti-American, a reputation much relished by National Review.  Here in one organization is THE big voice of American conservatism, one which supposedly stands up for the “little people” in the red states and is bullish on God, patriotism, and Superman’s “American Way.” 

However, that loud, blatant voice of American conservatism, National Review, caved without a fight, whimpering off to join Dell, Home Depot, and that tower of gelatin, Boeing.

Lowry and National Review are also the group that threw out Ann Coulter, one of the most worthwhile voices and writers on the Right, because she does not sugar-coat writings about the people she exposes to disinfecting sunlight.  After all, we must be nice, and never, never be extreme, even if we are right—let’s not be selfish, now.

So, let’s all welcome National Review and Editor Lowry to the Fifth Column.  As passive players, they won’t get front row seating, but, on the other hand, they won’t cause trouble.  That is all CAIR wants—for now--and that is what it got, without firing a single shot.

This is what is grievously wrong about much of the American Right today.  It has no more moral certainty than does the American Left.  It stands tall and strong for America, yes—until the first breeze comes along.

Modern conservatives made a huge error decades ago.  They turned from classic liberalism and its advocacy of reason, rights, freedom, and capitalism, to religion as their sole tool for thinking.  In doing so, they conceded the appearance of reason to their enemies on the Left (this so-called “scientific” socialism, etc.), even though the Left had abandoned reason two centuries ago and were never able to make socialism “scientific,” or make rational any of their positions. 

National Review was founded by William F. Buckley, whom many conservatives have elevated to the status of a deity.  Buckley, more than almost anyone else, completely entrenched unquestioning faith as the full explanation for the nature of and existence of America, rather a psychological fusion of faith and state.  Rich Lowry succeeded Buckley, and has continued the same explanation for America.  National Review is pro-conservative, not pro-America, as it would have people believe.  It is aground on the rocks and shoals of its own making, and will not rise to the proper level of principled defense of America under its current leadership—as this example with CAIR illustrates.

You can just see folks at the National Review twisting in agony as those CAIR-instigated faxes rolled in. Muslims had gone public with the possibility that those at National Review were “politically incorrect” because they were criticizing another’s religion.  After all, say the Rightists, all religions are good and are above criticism.  Even the one that seeks to destroy us is immune from criticism, despite the fact that  it has destroyed millions, if not billions, of people over 14+ centuries.

Judging from what Robert Spencer wrote on Jihad Watch about Lowry’s comments, Lowry regards people like Robert Spencer as troublemakers on the Right, perhaps FAR Right.  Lowry did not use these words, but that is the impression I took away from Mr. Spencer’s comments.  Lowry also pushed the blame—yes, “blame”—for the Menezes book situation onto an editor who allegedly did not read the book in advance of putting it up for sale.

Meanwhile the beast in our midst has grown stronger.  CAIR relishes its victories and must be drunk with delight over the capitulation of National Review, that now defanged former bastion of the Right.  National Review has some very good writers, and they are still worth reading, but the magazine and the organization are morally weak.

These Muslim pressure groups care nothing for the truth.  The truth of Fr. Menezes’ remarks never entered into CAIR’s arguments against National Review and Boeing.  CAIR isn’t about truth.  CAIR is about intimidation.  Hitler would have been proud, since his SA used intimidation as well as more physical tactics for the recalcitrant.  Right now, America is not ready to accept Muslim pressure groups using raw physical force.  However, these capitulations to them are getting us ready, one company and organization at a time.

We have to hand it to CAIR, however, and to similar groups.  They studied the civil rights industry’s methods and adopted them whole cloth.  They have mastered intimidation.  We explain why the intimidation methods are so successful in contemporary culture in Playing Us Like a Wurlitzer.

We need to master the same techniques.  At the snap of a finger, obedient Muslims fax, email, telephone, send letters, and picket, in whatever numbers these pressure groups order.  In addition, these obedient Muslims send cash, loads of cash, to CAIR.  CAIR is also bankrolled by Saudi Arabia.  These unlimited funds are what make it so powerful, because it can sue them into bankruptcy.  It be easily damaged because it cannot be sued into oblivion because of the relatively unlimited funds.

The closing paragraph from our website article seems well worth repeating: 

You do not make an enemy go away by acquiescing to him.  The school yard bully does not volunteer to give up his status, influence, and power, nor does the totalitarian dictator, including theocratic tyrants of Islam.  Capitulation is not a sign of strength.  Appeasement earns no positive entries in history textbooks, except those written by postmodernists.  Weakness, above all weakness with Islam, will not be read as some Christian “virtue” by Muslims.  Weakness will be read by them as our willingness to have our gooses killed and cooked.  And, if that happens, we will subside into dhimmitude and slide out of history as the greatest nation that might have been. 

          It remains only for to wish National Review, Boeing, and all the rest, HAPPY DHIMMITUDE!