FIFTH COLUMN ALERT: Rangel: Don't Call it 'Islamic Terrorism'
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Liberalism and Left have become synonymous. While fusing, these positions have added another important dimension, namely ignorance. Ignoring the old saying about having two ears and two eyes but just one mouth, the Left usually speak and write BEFORE engaging their brains. The result? Here is an archtypical example.
The most positive thing that could be said about Congressman Rangel's remarks would be ignorance. The alternative would be malice and aiding and abetting the enemy. He has incorporated into his being the worst of the civil rights wranglers who have turned a struggle for equality under the law into special privilege and benefits industry. Such tripe trips from his tongue without summons. You can see it in these recent remarks.
Apparently unaware of any information about the nature and content of Islam, Mr. Rangel "spake":
Mr. Rangel never seems to embarrass himself. Perhaps he is incapable.
For the rest of America, Mr. Rangel is a danger. He equates jihadist activity with "pride" and Islam with being just another religion, like being a Baptist. He seeks to shut down awareness of and criticism of Islam. His comments indicate he is either ignorant about Islam, or he is working for them. That makes him a "useful idiot" or anti-American.
His stock answer to the latter always is to throw up his service with the army in Korea. Does that make him a Manchurian Candidate?
Liberalism and Left have become synonymous. While fusing, these positions have added another important dimension, namely ignorance. Ignoring the old saying about having two ears and two eyes but just one mouth, the Left usually speak and write BEFORE engaging their brains. The result? Here is an archtypical example.
The most positive thing that could be said about Congressman Rangel's remarks would be ignorance. The alternative would be malice and aiding and abetting the enemy. He has incorporated into his being the worst of the civil rights wranglers who have turned a struggle for equality under the law into special privilege and benefits industry. Such tripe trips from his tongue without summons. You can see it in these recent remarks.
Apparently unaware of any information about the nature and content of Islam, Mr. Rangel "spake":
Top House Democrat Charlie Rangel said Tuesday that it was an act of discrimination to label groups like Hezbollah "Islamic terrorists."
Asked about the refusal by some European governments to declare Hezbollah an Islamic terror group, Rangel told WWRL's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter, "To call it Islamic terror is discriminating, it's bigoted, it is not the right thing to say."
Rangel even questioned whether, in fact, a worldwide Islamic terrorist movement even existed, saying, "We just take for granted that there is an Islamic terror movement because we do have some fanatic people who come from Islamic countries."
The Harlem Democrat complained: "When we had the Ku Klux Klan we didn't call them Baptist terrorists. When Hitler was killing Jews, we didn't call it Christian terrorists."
Rangel said Americans needed to realize "that a lot of countries may be poor, but they still have pride. And that is one thing that we completely ignore."
Mr. Rangel never seems to embarrass himself. Perhaps he is incapable.
For the rest of America, Mr. Rangel is a danger. He equates jihadist activity with "pride" and Islam with being just another religion, like being a Baptist. He seeks to shut down awareness of and criticism of Islam. His comments indicate he is either ignorant about Islam, or he is working for them. That makes him a "useful idiot" or anti-American.
His stock answer to the latter always is to throw up his service with the army in Korea. Does that make him a Manchurian Candidate?
posted by George Mason @ 2/24/2005 07:52:00 AM
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