Where is Obama’s Hindu Outreach Advisor? How about his Jewish Outreach Advisor? How about his Native American Medicine Outreach Advisor? How about one for the Baha’i? the Jains? the Buddhists? the Sufis? the Ahmadiyya? the Christians?
What’s that, you say? Isn’t a Muslim advisor also a Sufi advisor?
No, not in this county. Obama’s Muslim Outreach Advisor has purely Wahhabi (conservative, if not radical, Sunni) connections, and they consider the peaceful and mystical Sufis apostates on whom there is a standing death sentence. They also openly attack and threaten the Ahmadiyya and the Baha’I, so they are, in fact, very quick to slap an “Infidel” label on any Muslim that doesn’t agree with them.
But Obama does have Muslim advisors to the exclusion of all other minority religious groups. Obviously, with Christians making up 78% of the American population, we’d have to concede they probably don’t need “outreach.” But have a look at the demographics of religious minorities in the United States (from the CIA’s The World Factbook):
Jewish: 1.6%
Buddhist: .7%
Muslim: .6%
All others, including Native American, Pacifica Islander, animists, etc.: 2.4%
Unaffiliated or No Religion: 16.1%
How many Muslims is that, exactly? Well, because it’s illegal to ask that on census records, there’s a good deal of guessing – and propaganda – going on. The ever-suspect unindicted co-conspirator in terrorist financing – CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, originally known as Hamas in the United States – gets almost all of its funding from Saudi sources. Muslims have fled this pariah in droves since 9/11, but CAIR still falsely touts itself as the premier Muslim “civil rights” organization in America. Its major thrust seems to be the hysterical screaming of “Discrimination!” and “Racism!” whenever pundits expose overt and covert jihadist activities in the United States. It is particularly fond of the harassment lawsuit tactic on the probably theory that they have more money, so they can outlast soothsayers in court. That’s true: They have grants from Saudi Prince Alwaleed (always in the list of the world’s 10 richest people) in excess of $50 million.
At any rate, CAIR’s propaganda says that nearly 7 million Americans are Muslims. The City University of New York, however, did a non-census religious survey, and they have placed the number at 1.1 million Muslim adults plus .7 million children, or 1.8 million. As of 2007, the CIA agrees: It’s 1.8 million including children, or .6% of the population.
All right. If one is going to have outreach programs for subgroups that claim to be misunderstood and beleaguered minorities, that’s fine. But do it for all, not just one group.
In fact, Muslims, who are not the most beleaguered of all the minority groups in America. Always the greatest victims of hate crimes are blacks. Of all hate crimes, violence against blacks tops the list with 51% or more.
But of religious hate crimes, it’s always the Jews getting kicked the hardest. According to the FBI’s hate crimes figures for 2007, there were 1,628 victims of anti-religious hate crime. Some 69.2% of them were Jews, attacked on an anti-Semitic basis. Only 8.7% of them were victims of anti-Islamic bias.
All hate crime is despicable, and any Muslim who is attacked on the basis of religious orientation should absolutely scream bloody murder. And call me up. I’ll scream bloody murder, too.
But that Obama has a Muslim Outreach Advisor but not a Jewish one, when Jews are overwhelmingly the most attacked religious group in America, or a Hindu one – given the fact that Hindus are on a demographic par with Muslims – is indication of political pandering, if not fear. It elevates American Muslims to the state of a privileged province of the American population landscape.
And more worrying still is the pool of radical Islamists from which he has chosen his “advisor.”
In fact, he’s had two, both bad apples:
• The first was Mazen Asbahi, whose radical Islamist connections were exposed by the Wall Street Journal, which discovered his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and imams involved in terrorist funding. The WSJ submitted a list of questions to the Obama’s campaign. But they didn’t get answers: Instead, Asbahi instantaneously resigned and was replaced by:
• Minha Huseini, who then promptly met, on September 15th, in Virginia, with several Islamic organizations with ties to Hamas. Mazen Asbahi was also at the meeting. Then she had din-din with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arguably the worst women’s right offender on the planet with the possible exception of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.
So, Obama is not choosing from the truly moderate Muslims in America – had he done so, he would have gone to the Sufis or the Shia’s, not to the very enclaves of Sunni radicalism that brought us 9/11.
And, as Amir Taheri pointed out earlier this week in Forbes, Obama, widely touted by the radical imams in Iran who claim his ascendency in the West heralds the coming of the 12th imam and the triumph of Islam all over the earth, is the worst news for the majority of Iranians – intensely pro-American – who fear his election and the impact that his pandering will have on their hopes for freedom.
It is no accident that Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood have all endorsed Barack Obama. And even though an unsubstantiated allegation that Al Qaeda had endorsed McCain, such is only a use of reverse psychology. Al Qaeda tried to play it straight in endorsing John Kerry, and it backfired with Bush’s re-election. They learned. This time, if they did it at all, which any dispassionate observer must doubt, they used reverse psychology: If they tell us to vote for McCain, obviously we’ll think we should vote for Obama. Hopefully, America is now shaking off this mesmerism, this trick of light and mirrors.
The bottom line is that we have a Presidential candidate passing over the Muslims in America proffering real solutions and in deep with exactly the minority that is a problem for both Muslims and non-Muslims who cherish values of free speech, freedom of religion, and equal rights under the law. We have a Presidential candidate refusing to turn over his birth certificate and his records from Columbia and Harvard and Kenya. We have a Presidential candidate taking instructions from Muslims of the worst sort – Muslims NOT representative of the American Muslim community. And we have a Presidential candidate who makes comments at a Muslim rally, the video of which the Los Angeles Times will not release.
There is too much wrong here, too much hidden, too many vicious associations – from the violent Bill Ayers to the racist Jeremiah Wright to the terrorist-associated Muslim advisors -- to allow this man at the helm.
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