Carson is America’s race-baiting, confirmed socialist and second Muslim Congressman (Keith Ellison is the first), who had a lot of interesting things to say at this event. In video clips surfacing on the internet, Carson made the above comment as well as this eyebrow-raising pronouncement, to the applause of his Muslim-American audience:
America will never tap into
educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have
in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the
foundation is the Koran. And that model that we are pushing in some of our
schools meets the multiple needs of students… America must understand that she
needs Muslims.
It’s unclear how the rote memorization of the Koran constitutes
“educational innovation and ingenuity,” or how madrassas are “meeting the needs”
of Muslim students abroad; in places like Pakistan where they abound, they
don’t seem to be producing a wealth of world-class scholars or highly-trained
professionals, but they do seem to produce a virulent hatred of things
un-Islamic.Last week a mentally retarded man in Pakistan was pulled from police custody by a mob described as “hysterical” and burned to death over allegations that he had burned a Koran. A BBC reporter notes that “the region in question is home to many madrassas, religious schools.” If this sort of violent, irrational fanaticism is representative of their enlightening educational paradigm, then perhaps Congressman Carson needs to rethink his recommendation.
Unsurprisingly, only conservative websites picked up on his “madrassas”
comment; it was completely ignored by the mainstream media. But imagine instead
if a Baptist Congressman addressing the Southern Baptist Convention suggested
that schools in America should be modeled after seminaries, and that Bible
memorization and Baptist religious instruction should be the focus of
education. Imagine the uproar from the Christian-hating left and their media
enablers. Imagine the cries of “separation of church and state!” Imagine the
fear-mongering among the fact-challenged bigots writing for Huffington Post and Slate about the dreaded Christian Right.
But let a Muslim Congressman claim that our educational
system should be modeled on Koranic schools, and there is deafening silence
from the MSM and the atheistic left.
As the Weasel Zippers website notes, Carson did respond to conservative outrage over his speech by trying to “walk back” his comment with this update on the Huffington Post:
As the Weasel Zippers website notes, Carson did respond to conservative outrage over his speech by trying to “walk back” his comment with this update on the Huffington Post:
My remarks at ICNA call attention to the fact that faith-based schools
throughout this country have excelled because of innovative instructional
methods and a willingness to engage different learning styles... While I do not
believe that any particular faith should be the foundation of our public
schools, it is important that we take note of the instructional tools these
schools utilize to empower their young people. Christian, Jewish, and Islamic
schools have experienced notable success by casting off a one-size-fits-all
approach to education, and this is a model we must replicate...
Nice try at
interfaith inclusion. Except that’s not what he said. He didn’t originally
refer to “faith-based schools” in general, but to madrassas. He also didn’t refer
to schools with a “Judeo-Christian” emphasis, but to those “where the
foundation is the Koran.” He didn’t
say America needs Christians and Jews, but Muslims.
Oh, but he referred
only to Islam in his original message because he was merely tailoring it to his
Muslim audience, you say? Of course he was – that’s what Muslim subversives do.
They say one thing to Muslims and something more palatable and watered-down to
infidels, like his HuffPost
clarification, which was also a message tailored to his audience – the
non-Muslim one. His speech assures his ICNA and MAS brethren that he is pushing
for the Islamification of American education, and his statement on Huffpost assures everyone else that he
has no such agenda.
“There are over seven million Muslims in this country,” he
said, perpetuating CAIR’s
vastly-inflated figure (there were 2.6 million as of a 2010 Pew report), “and
while we are under attack, we cannot retreat.” Retreat from what? Muslims in
this country are not only not “under attack,” which is an outrageous lie, but
our government, media and law enforcement bend over backwards to insulate Islam
and Muslim-Americans from any connection whatsoever to the war on terror – a
pathetic phrase which itself protects
Islam.
Carson asserted that “America will never win the war on
terror” without the aid of Muslim-Americans. If that’s true, then shouldn’t the
Congressman exhort his audience to do everything in its power to assist in that
victory? Instead, he followed up that statement with one urging defiant, even
arrogant, non-cooperation:
Now, it is unfortunate that there
are those who are thinking that at this convention right now we’re having
secret meetings, that we’re plotting to destroy this country. But I say to
those of you who are here undercover [and at that he grins, while the audience
applauds] Allah will not allow you to stop us.
Curious phrasing. Not “We are innocent of your suspicions.”
Not “We are just as committed to battling extremism as you are, and you can
count on our help.” But “Allah will not
allow you to stop us.” It’s hard to interpret that as anything but a firm opposition to American victory in the
war on terror.
No American government official, whether a Congressman or
our own Brotherhood-supporting President, should be engaging ICNA or MAS, which
are enemies of the United States pursuing the Brotherhood’s agenda of Islamizing
America and destroying Western civilization. No American government official
should be recommending that our school system be modeled after the
indoctrinating ignorance of Koranic schools and the infidel-hating supremacism
of the Koran. No government official should be whipping up a sense of
victimization among Muslim-Americans, who are not under assault in this country
(except on 9/11, by other Muslims) and who have greater freedom and safety here
than under the repression of Islam abroad.
Unless, of course, that government official is actively facilitating
Islam’s war on America.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 7/16/12)
