Don's Tuesday Column

          THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2/09/2016

              Islam is as Islamists do

As I write, the news broke that Tehama County Superintendent of Schools Charles Allen “will be leaving his office before his term is up because he is facing having his credentials revoked.” A well-written and very authoritative letter by Lou Bosetti, with support and endorsements by other respected former educators and administrators, appeared on this page advocating the immediate appointment of Harley North to the position.

The controversy surrounding Allen’s questionable credentials arose in the election that he won against North. This column concurred with the position of Allen’s opponents and North’s supporters. Some insisted that questions regarding Allen’s credentials were overblown; the money and persuasive power of the teachers’ union supported Allen.

The union was playing typical union politics, using our collective taxes that pay the salaries of educators, from whose forced union dues are derived the very monies used—in a thinly-veiled special interest campaign—to support their preferred candidate. I agree with F.D. Roosevelt and union leader George Meany that public employees have no business unionizing, and certainly no business swaying elections.

“Obama visits US mosque,” by AP reporter Darlene Superville, appeared in last Thursday’s Daily News. BHO decried the “hugely distorted impression” of Muslim-Americans and cited the fears of “young Muslims worried they’ll be rounded up and kicked out of the country…Muslims are concerned about terrorism but are too often blamed as a group ‘for the violent acts of the very few.’”

Obama cited “bullied children,” “vandalized mosques” and other instances of “unequal treatment.” He implies that Americans are failing to 1) differentiate between good Muslims and bad Muslims and 2) defer to the proper Muslim authorities and organizations in forming our attitudes about Islam and Islamic terrorism (BHO: it’s not Islamic).

Has Barack Obama spoken out in similar forceful fashion condemning anti-Semitic violence and hate crimes (also, not Islamic anti-Jewish hate)? How about the violence and terrorism inflicted on Christians by Muslims across the world (just coincidental and un-Islamic)?

AP and the rest of the Mainstream Media provided sloppy stenography for the “correct” version of the issue. No questioning of the president’s narrative appeared; no insight to the complex-but-troubling practices and beliefs of Islam.

For that, one has to find articles like “Obama’s Islamophobia,” by Roger L. Simon (searchable by title). “Barack Obama suffers from a serious case of the real Islamophobia—fear of telling the truth about Islam. Even though a ‘progressive,’ he says nary a word about the rampant misogyny and homophobia in Islam or about sharia law whose medieval strictures are preferred by 51 percent of American Muslims. Nor does he seem to care that so few of these same American Muslims actively oppose radical Islam. The president prefers the Hamas-linked CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) to courageous reformers like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. But that’s no surprise. For Obama, radical Islam doesn’t even exist.

“Instead, he claims American citizens are mistreating their Muslim brothers and sisters when anyone with a web browser can see that simply isn’t true and is yet another Obama lie. In fact, anti-Muslim acts in the USA are few and far less than those against Jews. According to the FBI in 2014, 57 % of hate crimes targeted Jews, only 16 % Muslims.”

Also, look up “Obama Defends the Faith,” by Scott Johnson (Powerlineblog.com). “President Obama seems to believe in nothing more than he does the defense of Islam. He specializes in pronouncements on what is truly Islamic and what is not [which always] preserve the good name of Islam.” Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, the San Bernardino jihadis—not Islamic.

Not only Obama’s words but his deeds—as in the Baltimore mosque (Islamic Center of Baltimore) he chose to visit—illustrate the quandary he finds himself immersed in without any apparent self-awareness. Zuhdi Jasser of the Islamic Forum for Democracy said this: “As a Muslim American I’m just insulted, this is disgraceful that this is one of the mosques—or the mosque—that he’s chosen to visit.”

Investor’s Business Daily editorialized: “President Obama is conferring legitimacy on a Baltimore mosque the FBI just a few years ago was monitoring as a breeding ground for terrorists, after arresting a member for plotting to blow up a federal building…According to the criminal complaint, (25-year-old Muslim convert) Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain,” conversed with other Muslims who worshiped there.

“He indicated that if the military continued to kill their Muslim brothers and sisters, they would need to expand their operations by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live. He said that in the Quran he learned that Islam counsels Muslims to ‘fight those who fight against you.’”

Well, not surprisingly, CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution) reportedly chose the ISB mosque for Obama. ISB is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America “which federal prosecutors in 2007 named a radical Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front, and an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in a scheme to funnel more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers—and ISB has helped organize the terror-tied ISNA’s conferences. The Shariah-compliant mosque was led for 15 years by a radical cleric—Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh—who once represented a federally designated al-Qaida front group.” (go to Donpolson.blogspot.com, click the “Islam” link, for these and more)

              “Ye shall know them by their fruits,” as Jesus said.