You might have missed it, but the Islamic Apology Police were on the case of the Republican governor-elect of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell this week. It seems that following the jihadist attack on Fort Hood, the Rev. Pat Robertson, a longtime ally of McDonnell’s, criticized Islam on his television show.
And no one in these not-just-politically-but-also-Islamically-correct times is permitted to do that — not even, as we have learned to our horror, senior Army personnel when presented with incontrovertible evidence that a jihadist is in their ranks.
Speaking on “The 700 Club,” Robertson called Islam “a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination.”
Here’s what we know: Islamic law (Shariah) punishes “leaving Islam” with death. Islam has a bloody history of expansionism. Almost exactly two-thirds of Muslims in four countries polled in a 2007 survey by University of Maryland/WorldPublicOpinion.org favored both Shariah and the caliphate. And the Muslim Brotherhood’s manifesto for “a grand Jihad” in America calls for “destroying the Western civilization from within” so that Islam is “victorious over all other religions.”
Robertson’s statement could be considered humdrum were it not verboten for Americans to say anything about Islam that is not sanitized.
But in bizarro world as we know it, Robertson’s statement — particularly the notion that Islam is “a violent political system” — showed up as political smoke around McDonnell, carefully tended for days by The Washington Post and a rogue’s gallery of Muslim Brotherhood associates.
Not that the newspaper identified them as such. To the Post, Mohamed Magid (“disappointed” that McDonnell had not repudiated Robertson) was “imam of the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society,” and not also vice president of Islamic Society of North America, a known Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in the landmark Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial that last year convicted five defendants on all counts.
To the Post, the Council on American Islamic Relations, calling for McDonnell to disavow Robertson, was “a Washington-based civil rights group for Muslims,” not a Hamas-linked, known Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in the same landmark terrorism trial.
To the Post, Rep. Gerry Connolly’s, D-Va., demand for an apology from Robertson represented growing “political implications.” But this is more about political payback. “Muslim Mafia” co-author Paul Sperry calls the congressman “the Saudi’s new man in Congress” for Connolly’s dogged defense of a bona fide Saudi madrassa in Fairfax Country, coinciding with, as Sperry writes, “what appears to be an orchestrated outpouring of donations from Islamists with Saudi connections.”
This is crucial information to deny readers. Behind this latest attempt to stifle criticism of Islam and to make it a liability to associate with such critics are groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which, according to its own manifesto, is engaged in a jihad against the USA.
Qaradawi is himself a leading apologist for homicide bombings against Israeli civilians and insurgent violence against Americans, military and civilian, in Iraq.
But I digress — or do I? Is not all of this information essential to understanding the motivations of those who have turned Robertson’s critical comments about Islam into a brickbat against the new Virginia governor?
Such information never enters mainstream outlets or debate. This is because of precisely the sort of hectoring enforcement of Shariah-style prohibitions on criticism, and even examination, of Islam that the Post, in full dhimmi mode, is all too willing to enable.
Indeed, the lead editorial in Wednesday’s paper was headlined “McDonnell’s Albatross,” with Robertson, of course, in the role of dreaded bird. The Post writes: “Doesn’t Mr. McDonnell owe [Virginia Muslims] some reassurance that he doesn’t share Pat Robertson’s despicable views?”
Are they “despicable,” or are they just too close to the historical record?
I guess we’ll never know.
Examiner Columnist Diana West is syndicated nationally by United Media and is the author of “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization.”
