In a controversy that FrontPage
continues
to cover
closely,
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota has raised questions – not accusations, just
questions – about the infiltration of the U.S. government by Muslim
Brotherhood loyalists. She and a few cohorts have specifically addressed the
demonstrable Brotherhood family ties of Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. But under the Obama administration, anything but the most fawning
treatment of Islam or Muslims is verboten,
and so Ms. Bachmann must be punished.
Andrew C. McCarthy, former prosecutor of the 1993 World
Trade Center bomb plot, has already detailed the validity of Bachmann’s
concerns in his
excellent briefing on the topic. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has also pointed
out the legitimacy of her inquiries. But Bachmann has nonetheless weathered
smears and attacks not only from Obama’s people and their media enablers, but
sadly, even from invertebrate fellow Republicans like Speaker John Boehner and
Senator John McCain as well.
In the bluntly titled “Punish
Bachmann,” Finney predictably resorts to the left’s standard arsenal of
personal demonization: the race card, the McCarthyism card – shockingly, she
doesn’t draw the Islamophobia card but does
resort to “xenophobia” as a handy replacement. Finney calls Bachmann’s questions
about Brotherhood infiltration “politically motivated, racist, xenophobic
charges,” “baseless accusations,” “offensive,” and “ridiculous assertions” – while
Finney herself does not answer, much less refute any of Bachmann’s points. Finney’s
sole defense is that she has known Huma Abedin “for over 15 years as a friend and
former colleague.”
Making baseless, ridiculous, and politically motivated
charges of her own, Finney claimed that any suspicions about Abedin feed into
“the narrative of the fearful ‘otherness’ of our first African-American
president.” What insulting hooey. The “otherness” many Americans are increasingly
outraged about – not “fearful” of – is not Obama’s skin color, but his affinity
for Marxism and Islam. Finney claims that this “otherness fear-mongering” is
making us
a less globally competitive, internally
divided country, unable to embrace change and move forward as a multicultural,
multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious America bound by a Constitution that
calls on us to respect the rights and freedoms of every citizen.
More hooey. America is plenty multicultural, multiracial,
multiethnic, and multireligious, and already does respect the rights and
freedoms of every citizen. It is Obama himself who has made us less globally
competitive and internally divided. Finney is trying to divert attention from the
issue Bachmann raised: the subversive Brotherhood presence in our midst. She
would have us believe that such questions are not only offensive but “jeopardize
America’s security,” and that it is in our best interests to cultivate a
relationship with the Brotherhood for our own protection:
Bachmann and the others who signed
on to her call for an investigation have abused their position as members of
the House of Representatives, making baseless accusations that recklessly
jeopardize an already tense situation in the Middle East, and endangering the
life of an American secretary of State and Americans in the region by stoking
anti-American sentiment.
Stoking anti-American sentiment? The Muslim Brotherhood is the
avowed enemy of America and the West; it’s already up to its collective
henna-stained beard in anti-American sentiment. The left, quite frankly, brings
its own anti-American sentiment to the table, and sees in Islamic
fundamentalism a useful ally in the transformation of America according to
Obama’s anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, post-American vision. It is this unholy
alliance, the Obama administration’s embrace of the Brotherhood
domestically and abroad, that is jeopardizing America’s security.
As a result of Rep. Bachmann’s transgression, Finney
recommends that she “should be removed from the House Intelligence Committee,
as the others who signed should be removed from their committees.” Seconding
Finney’s call to silence Bachmann et al
is Obama’s race-baiting former Green Czar, 9/11 Truther, avowed Communist, and anti-war
record producer Van
Jones. The Weasel
Zippers website reports that Jones lent his approval of Finney’s editorial
on Twitter. “Oh yeah!!!” he tweeted, calling her piece a “MUST READ.” If Van
Jones is onboard with it, you can be sure it’s an idea that’s bad for America.
The left’s targeting of Bachmann is part of their collusion
with Islamic fundamentalists to silence even the hint of criticism about any
and all matters Islamic. Remember, this is the same administration that scrubbed
its report on the Ft. Hood shooting clean of any reference to Islam, labeling
the massacre “workplace violence” rather than jihad. This is the same
administration that is working actively with the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation to criminalize defamation of religion. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division Thomas Perez, when pressed by Chairman Trent Franks of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution on
whether the DOJ would ever “entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes
speech against any religion,” refused to answer.
In punishing Michele Bachmann, the message is being sent to
other concerned government officials: dare to raise questions about this
administration’s relationship to Islamic fundamentalists and you will suffer
for it politically. It takes a courageous politician to stand up to that. As
Eric Allen Bell, a former critic of anti-Islamism who had his eyes opened about
the Islamic threat, says:
For Bachmann to have done the
research and just tell it like it is, knowing the political cost, is
unbelievably courageous and I wish more leaders would support her in doing this
and get behind this, because the Islamization of the West is the defining issue
of our time and if we don’t wake up to do something about it now, it’ll be too
late.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 7/31/12)
