Recognizing Anti-Semitism

Sometimes thought of as a quaint and outdated proposal, the assertion that virtue and wickedness are real is at the heart of neoconservative support for American power in the world. The Taliban — which beheads innocents, chops off voters’ hands, and subjects women to lives of brutal servitude — is evil. So, too, are Iran’s mullahs, who sentence teenagers to hangings for the “crime” of homosexuality. Defeating these parties is its own reward. As evil is now part of Barack Obama’s war lexicon, he must make this point, and he must speak of victory. For once evil is invoked, compromise is off the table. Evil demands defeat.

But will he?

Like Obama, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama's policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.

We heard it in Jesse Jackson's "HYMIE town" remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright's remark about "them Jews" not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a "Jew" problem.

I have noticed this too over the years. Watch this: And read on:

Trib Propaganda for Obama

Obama's Anti-Semitic Friends

The Obama Bubble

Not the Wright Stuff

Answering Andrew

Obama's Identity

Obama Advisor Zbig's Bigotry

Deleted DKos Entry

Dem Anti-Semitism No Joke

Schakowsky the Holocaust Denier

The New Anti-Semitism

A Clear Choice

More Dem Anti-Semitic Ties

The Anti-Semitic Enablers of the Democrat Party

Hate Crime Commission Fosters Hate

Jimmy Carter

Slander and Slaughter

The Protocols of the Yearly Kos

Deny it all you like

The New Anti-Semitism

And then there's Jihad, Inc.:

The proselytistic effort to convert the infidels to Islam, known as dawah in Islamic jargon, is an important enterprise for the radical networks, and special dawah departments exist in virtually all Islamist organizations. Proselytizing campaigns are far from random; some social groups are deemed more responsive to the Islamist message than others and accordingly subjected to special attention. They tend to be groups seen as aggrieved and alienated from society, such as minorities and prison inmates. Black Americans became an early focus and were considered especially promising. Two subgroups of the black population were targeted in particular: those in the penitentiary system, and members of the Nation of Islam. Reliable figures about the success of this campaign are difficult to obtain, but circumstantial evidence seems to point to significant progress of dawah efforts among blacks. Prison officials, for instance, estimated in the mid-1990s that between 10 and 20 percent of the nation’s 1.5 million inmates — who are disproportionately black — identified themselves as Muslims, and some 30,000 black Americans were reported to convert to Islam in prison every year.

Last and most disturbing, radical Islam has without a doubt made significant inroads in its quest to infiltrate our government and institutions. Consider the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi, which is typical of the Islamist modus operandi. In October 2004 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for terrorism-related activities, and he is currently in a federal penitentiary. Prior to that, he had been a kingpin of the Islamist network: He was a top official in a dozen major Islamist organizations and in five charities suspected of funding terrorism. Despite that, he evidently enjoyed unimpeded access to the White House under Presidents Clinton and Bush (43). He also served as a State Department “goodwill ambassador” in the Middle East and as a U.S. Information Agency speaker abroad. Most important, he founded an organization called the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council and established it as the exclusive authority for endorsing Muslim chaplains in all branches of the U.S. armed forces, enabling it to place extremists in the military virtually at will.

Deny it all you like--but this is the reality. And as we know, hating Jews is always the first step.

Looking back: Minnesota Sharia, Twin Cities News, Mild-mannered accountant cuts wife's head off, Multiculti Cowardice, Chop You Up, 22 Questions, Multiculti Myopia

And my posts on the Islamic Society of North America, based in Chicago. Bill Ayers' wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, and Jesse Jackson Jr. have spoken at their convention--an unholy alliance. But you know, just beat women lightly. Not you, Bernardine. Not yet.