Ground Zero Imam Issues Threat To New Yorkers ... et al!

Edmund, I read the article and there is no doubt to the intent of D'Souza's piece and his attempt to help along the foolish and bizarre narrative surrounding President Obama's Kenyan heritage. His spin? The President has been possessed by the spirit of his dead father, a Kenyan tribesman.

Since Newt Gingrich has embraced this latest nonsense, I guess we should be able to predict the Right Wing nutcases will be altering their 'Obama was born in Kenya' litany to add, or substitute, the latest nonsense.  

Neither candidate Senator Barack Obama nor later, as President Barack Obama, has he ever issued or proclaimed any leftist agenda, contrary to the disinformation propaganda campaign ceaselessly promoted and parroted by the Right Wing of the Republican Party.

The GOP and the TEA Party have fallen prey to their own disinformation campaign, made real during the wanderings inside their own created propaganda.   

It may be your ears, Edmund, if not your head, that has/have already been eaten off or severely damaged.

Smoke and Mirrors: The Role of the TEA Party in American Politics

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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.

—Rod Serling

Being reminded of The Twilight Zone, rooted in Mr. Serling's brilliant fictional fantasies, Nanute, makes the strategy which you've noted here, a decided upon strategy BY the Republican Party where they entitle themselves to their OWN facts ( .... and that is EXACTLY what it means to "CREATE OUR OWN REALITY"!), is even MORE scary AND creepy, since we are living this FOR REAL in real life!

Maybe that's where they got the idea?!?!

A variety of media sources, in print, on the internet and on television, have noted the increased friction and distrust as relates to some of the rest of America and its beliefs and concerns regarding their American neighbors who practice Islam.

In addition to the tragic events of 9/11 aiding in this process, serious consideration and a spotlight must be shone on the nearly 24 hour/7 days a week campaign waged by elements of the Right Wing for nearly 4 years, as a contributing source of extreme angst and anger at Muslims and Islam.

When Senator Barack Obama began his candidacy for President of the United States in February 2007, the Right Wing attempted to link his upbringing as having included training at a Madrassa school, writing article after article about then Candidate Obama's fictionalized links to the Muslim world, with former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney taking continual swipes at the candidate, and then later, President Obama.

Mr. Gaffney cannot be dismissed as any ordinary Right Wing kook. He has secured a reputation as a respected 'expert' voice regarding what he calls Islamofascism, despite his numerous bizarre claims, including secret signals HE sees being given by President Obama to the Muslim world and the redesign of the U.S. missile agency logo, despite the logo's redesign occurring during the BUSH administration ( the change identified BY the Bush administration to save money by using less colors), reported by Mr. Gaffney to be some sort of homage to the Islamic world. 

The most dangerous and ominous baseless claim targeting the President has been the 'theory' that he is some sort of 'Manchurian Candidate', who will, at the 'right time', turn over the country to radical forces that claim to be adherents to Islam.

Add the bizarre belief by some that President Obama is the anti-Christ, of biblical fame, and there is no denying the influence the Right Wing has wedged between those predisposed to these beliefs and any attempts to dial back the rhetoric to rational thinking.

For those among the American citizenry that have followed this line of personal attack against the President and have not discounted these assertions, for nearly 4 years, it is easy to perceive the peril they envision as they are NOW, more than any other time in their lives, fearful of the nuttiness that has been promoted by the Right Wing, with things coming together, to their way of thinking, with all previous events 'prophesied' by the Right Wing poised to fall in place.

It seems that a certain percentage of the population has succumbed to the "we create our own reality" mindset as believed by former President Bush, his  aides, and advisers. From Ron Suskind's NY Times profile of Bush:

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' The New York Times > Magazine > In the Magazine: Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush

If all that isn't bad enough another tactic they are openly pursuing toward securing themselves as the dominant faith is through overpopulation...they had a website a couple of years ago, probably still do, with a "birth ticker" counting the muslim babies they were bringing into the world, and showing the falling figures of the Christian and Judaism populations. The site went on to extensive rhetoric encouraging all muslims to have as many children as they could to promote the "world's fastest growing religion".

It's childish and destructive, and I wonder since global warming is a common leftist cause, as is opposing those who oppose his mosque, what they would say about the obvious contradiction?  (not that I am right OR left)

Edmund, The West is at a crossroads. It is possible that radical elements in the West will be able to de-claw America. The  EU countries are currently sitting ducks in a barrel watching their countries unravel piece by piece  as it is being  held hostage by hostile Islamic culture that is totally integrated with Koranic writings making clear that at every opportunity one must ,lie,cheat, and make alliances with the infidel in order to overcome and over power their culture and restore Islam back into world dominance. 

Not all Muslims buy into this "truth" but in fact very few have the strength and courage to scream at the top of their lungs, "the emperor has no clothes" and deceit is the checkmate to the pawns that we are regarding the real intent of radical Islam. 

Thank you for injecting some valuable information into this that I did not know.

Here is something all of Islam must face however. Remember the extremist Christians who were bombing abortion clinics in the '80s? That only really ended because of pressure within the congregations and faith itself, convincing the minority their actions were not consistent with their faith.

However mainstream Islam seemed to take a stance that "it's not us, it just some extremists doing things in our name"  and getting overly defensive to critics- while at the same time polls in the middle east were revealing that (the majority of) muslims as a whole, while disagreeing with the violent tactics being used, still tended to agree with the philosophies and goals of Al Qaeda against the west.

While I agree the "war on terrorism" has been hyped up for other agendas I still tend to resent the feeling I perceive that Islam or any other religion wants t dominate the world. I don't think all Muslims are terrorists but if people are committing violent acts in your name promoting your agenda you can't get too defensive when these acts are attached to your shared faith. It's up to them to police their own and if they can't do it we will have to and that's going to be pretty ugly.

As for the mosque I think another NowPublic user said it best:

"They should have the right to build it and the wisdom not to"

What you are quoting from Forbes is actually from the jacket of a book by Dinesh D'Souza about Barack Obama's father. D'Souza is a man with an interesting perspective and experience. Being born in India, raised a Catholic and later became more focused on an Evangelical approach to Christianity - he is well aware of the history and of the oppressive CONTROL of imperialism. It is this point of order that Barack Obama has to be judged from.

He lied by presenting himself as a left-centrist wanting to bring transparency to the processes of Government.We are now all suffering under a CONTROL freak who appoints people to positions of power over lives without the Constitutional assured review and over-cite of the members of Congress.

Karen, please pull your head out of the sand before the ants eat it off!