IN THE OLD DAYS AS STALINISTS GO….SO GOES “THE NATION”….AND NOW AS ISLAM GOES SO GOES “THE NATION”…. THEY FAILED WITH MARXISM AND NOW IN THE DEATH THROES OF THAT ENTIRE MOVEMENT THEY ARE LATCHING ON TO “ISLAMOPHOBIA”….. BLUMENTHAL IS JOINED IN THIS FORUM BY THE FOLLOWING CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Also in This Forum
Moustafa Bayoumi, “Fear and Loathing of Islam [1]”
Jack Shaheen, “How the Media Created the Muslim Monster Myth [2]”
Petra Bartosiewicz, “Deploying Informants, the FBI Stings Muslims [3]”
Laila Lalami, “Islamophobia and Its Discontents [4]”
Abed Awad, “The True Story of Sharia in American Courts [5]”
Ramzi Kassem, “The Long Roots of the NYPD Spying Program [6]”
Laila Al-Arian, “When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism [7]”
A POX ON THIS VICIOUS RAGAZINE….RSK
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/168374/sugar-mama-anti-muslim-hate
The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate
In late April, Geert Wilders arrived in New York City to tell his quixotic tale to a rapt American audience. The far-right Dutch Party of Freedom leader—perhaps the world’s most prominent anti-Muslim populist—was poised to release Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, a memoir just out from Regnery, the right-wing US publishing house, in which he recounts his courageous efforts to stop the “Islamicization” of Europe. On his US tour, Wilders proudly portrayed himself as a man on the run—a round-the-clock security detail guarding him against radical Muslims whose violent passions he had supposedly inflamed by his truth-telling—and as a man on the rise: the exodus of his party from the governing coalition had forced new elections in the Netherlands, throwing the country’s ossified establishment into chaos.
Upon Wilders’s arrival in New York, a little-known think tank called the Gatestone Institute rolled out the red carpet for him. On April 30, before a select crowd that according to Gatestone’s website had paid $10,000 a head, he held forth on the persecution he had endured during his recent trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. “This charade that happened in the Netherlands for the last few years could not have happened in your great country,” Wilders said in his speech. Then he cut to the heart of his appeal: “Islam is primarily a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. This is the truth. This violent ideology wants to impose Islamic Sharia law on the whole world, including us—the Kafirs, the non-Muslims…. Islam is the largest threat to freedom which the world is currently facing.”
Some Dutch liberals have branded him a demagogue who summons the ghosts of Europe’s dark past, but Wilders counters the accusation by assiduously cultivating Jewish support. He quotes Zionist forefather Theodor Herzl and boasts of his more than forty trips to Israel, where he once toiled on a rural kibbutz. Wilders, in fact, has made a special friend of right-wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. In Wilders’s world, the Jewish state represents Fort Apache on the frontiers of the war against the barbarians threatening Western civilization. “Mothers in the West can sleep safely because Israeli mothers at night worry about their sons in the army,” he told the Gatestone Institute. “Their fight is our fight. We should support it.”
