The Center for Security Policy’s gala last Monday, a black-tie affair at the stately Metropolitan Club of New York, featured a procession of speakers warning darkly about the threat posed by the religion of Islam.
Tommy Waller, a marine veteran and the legislative outreach director for the group, said he had fought the enemy on the battlefields of the Middle East, but that he did not truly understand them until he joined the center. The enemy has “existed for 1,400 years” and “at the expense of 270 million lives,” he said.
Doctors study medicine, Waller continued, “but we don’t study something that has brought devastation to nearly the same number of humans as the plague.”
The Center for Security Policy, billed as a policy shop for national security concerns, has emerged in recent years as the go-to think tank for Islamophobia. The group hosted two summits for GOP presidential candidates this year, and regularly advises lawmakers. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., spoke at the event on Monday.
Frank Gaffney (pictured above), the founder and president of the center, has claimed that President Obama may be a secret Muslim and that Justice Elena Kagan enabled the imposition of Sharia law. Gaffney and the center have whipped up anti-Islamic rage across the country, supporting efforts to block the construction of a mosque in Tennessee and a Muslim community center in New York. Anders Breivik, the Oslo mass murderer, cited Gaffney and the center’s publications seven times in his anti-Muslim manifesto.
The gala also featured a performance by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy Gaynor, who competed in NBC’s “The Voice,” a reality television singing competition; and a fiery speech by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Audience members included former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
At the end of the event, Gaffney told me he fiercely opposed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s expected bid for the White House on the ground that Christie had once appointed a Muslim judge. Gaffney praised Mike Huckabee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for expressing a “greater degree of clarity” on the threat of radical Islam and “Muslim Brotherhood fronts” in America. Gaffney said he is still undecided about Jeb Bush.
Photo: Frank Gaffney (Win McNamee/Getty)
(This post is from our new blog: Unofficial Sources.)
I’m very interested in the use of viral analogies for human beings, ideas and beliefs. Seems to be all the rage these days. Kissinger infamously used the metaphor for foreign nationalists and this is usually uttered right before wiping (“inoculating”) lots and lots of people. Makes the designation of “absolute evil” in targets all science-y sounding.
Anti Muslim activists have in the past accused Islam of being responsible for the deaths of 270 million people over the years, decades or centuries.
I cannot understand where they got this figure from ? Thin air ?
Much as I detest terrorism from ANY quarter, I think the number of people killed by US led wars in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America probably runs into the millions, possibly even the tens of millions. The US military, glorified and eulogised as it is, probably has killed more people than all of the world’s terrorist organizations put together.
As soon as the article opened and showed a picture of Frank Gaffney, I knew for certain that we going down the rabbit hole into Wackoland.
These criminal freedom hating & robbing neocon extremists have negatively impacted my and millions of other Americans lives far more negatively than ANY terrorist and I don’t care where you tell me the terrorists are from. The real outside threat(s) to our country’s freedom & liberty pale when compared to the inside job these robber-baron neocons and their benefactor buddies in crime in the arms manufacturing industry would like to keep on pulling on this country and is going to end in more bloodshed alright – hopefully this time it’ll be theirs.
“is going to end in more bloodshed alright – hopefully this time it’ll be theirs.”
Let’s hope you are monitored, you sound like a dangerous individual.
looasewheeze hunnee u sew krayzee rite nowe teh lourd wahnts u two goe inn a Menshtral Shack. U r ackshally a mans butt u knead teh soilitude.
Ur minnd iz feaverush loosewheeze hunnee an u knead wrest. Ghet thee two a Menshtrul Shack!
Well, the U.S. government has killed somewhere between 20-30 million people since World War II. Less than a century, less than 1/14th of that timeline. Hypocrisy is the new norm.
Meanwhile, this happened in New Jersey, which sane people will suggest everyone should be aware of because it is in fact an attempt to murder infidels and impose Sharia:
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/29433047/new-jersey-man-charged-with-plotting-to-support-terror-group
“NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A northern New Jersey man charged with plotting to support the Islamic State group has made his initial appearance in federal court and was held without bail.
Sporting a beard and glasses, Alaa Saadeh entered U.S. District Court in Newark on Monday shackled and wearing a red T-shirt and black shorts.
The 23-year-old Saadeh is charged in a criminal complaint with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic militant organization, aiding and abetting and witness tampering. All three charges carry maximum sentences of 20 years.
The complaint alleges he bought a plane ticket for his brother to fly to the Middle East to join the Islamic State. It also alleges he told a friend to lie if he was questioned by the FBI.”
What a howl! You think that Fox News is a credible source on anything!
Try some facts: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=liberalviewer+fox+news+bias
Of course, any source that tells the truth about Islam is not credible.
Indeed. This moron thinks that shrieking “butbutbut it’s Fox News” is somehow an argument in itself.
“it is in fact an attempt to murder infidels and impose Sharia”
Loosesyphiilis hunnee know 1 is temptid to merder Zinfadels two impoaz sherry. Knot evum inn Gnu Jursey.
Yew bin drinkum again an i know u wurrit teh booz wil dissapeer, but lithsome two skripshur loosesyphilis hunnee an stopp manufustin warks off teh flesch:
Yew ar unkleen an laschivicious loosesiphillis hunnee an yer drunkumnuss rebellings poastid two offen hear don u no.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/30/11/20FCC25700000578-3144248-image-a-14_1435658515706.jpg
Remove the rag from your pie-hole and speak properly so that people can understand you, dear.
You read the Daily Fail? I guess that says all we need to know about you and your intellect …
“Daily Fail”
Aww, did you think of that all by yourself, sweetie?
That is so, so funny. Well done.
loosesyphiilis hunnee teh lourd knot liek itt wwehn yew post cummints width clammore an rath don u no.
Loosesyphillis yew muhst putt aweigh biddernuss an malignemus oar wee wil sodosmite yew don u no.
http://thereligionofpeace.com/index_files/CAIR-Baby-Small.gif
psycho!
lub u myrtle
We can always count on you, Louise, to inject levity into the Intercept’s discussion forums. But this time, Faux Noise, really? I mean, we need to maintain a certain level of decorum here, lest it descend into the sort of mud wrestling contest that so characterizes your sources.
Don’t pretend to be dumber than you actually are, sweetie. It’s a widely reported case and all you need to do is google the name of the terrorist.
loosesypphillis u cumminst haf know trewth ian speek lye.
Four yew loosesypphillis u haf no trewth in hymn an ar a lair an yer fathur iss de debil don u no.
Ghet thee beehind me loosesyphillis!
“We can always count on you, Louise, to inject levity”
Jef hunnee loosewheeze not suphose two interjackit liverity inn cummints.
Loosewheeze spillum sead awl ovar grownd hear don u no. An itz knot phunnee att awl two teh lourd.
It would be interesting to calculate the number of lives rubbed out in the name of Christianity. I have no idea what the number is, and would doubt the credibility of any number put forward, just as I doubt the credibility of the number claimed by Mr. Walrus ..er, Waller. How does one calculate such a number, practically speaking? Only by formulating a series of basically unprovable hypotheses, which are then strung together in a pseudo-logical fashion to produce a number, such as 42. Any such tally must surely reek in the manner of its most analogous effluent.
During the Inquisition, some 10,000 people were convicted but only some 1,500 were actually executed.
All Crusades are another story. They were launched to rid Europe of Islamic conquest and retake Jerusalem from Islamic conquest. No such thing as Islam’s European Golden Age, the big lie. Approximate death count back and forth and including everybody i.e. Europeans, Muslims… and all the way to Jerusalem and back is said to be about 350,000.
For argument’s sake, let’s raise it to 1,000,000. However Islam’s death count is definitely in the 250+ million of people. Muslims killed at least 80 Million Hindus and 1.5 Million Armenian Christians within a couple of years alone. Thus, figure out how many were slaughtered since Islam’s inception.
By the way, there is an historical context in Christianity. No context in Islam besides until Islam reigns supreme all over the world.
Please, stop wondering and do your research.
History is, when it comes to numbers, always a conjecture.
On the other hand, we can count very precisely the victims of Islam *today*:
thereligionofpeace.com
Ramadan Bombathon 2015 Scorecard Day 13
In the name of The Religion of Peace:
Terror Attacks: 129
Suicide Bombings: 22
Dead Bodies: 1182
Wounded: 1347
In the name of ANY Other Religion :0
By Way of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: 0
Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace :
2015.06.29 (Sanaa, Yemen) – Eight women are among twenty-eight mourners blown up at a Shiite funeral by Religion of Peace rivals.
2015.06.29 (Shvut Rachel, Israel) – A targeted attack on Jewish motorists leaves a 25-year-old dead.
2015.06.29 (Cairo, Egypt) – An Islamist bomb blast claims the life of the country’s top prosecutor.
2015.06.27 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) – Two female suicide bombers murder three people at a leprosy hospital.
2015.06.26 (Mosul, Iraq) – A physician is dragged from his hospital and executed by religious radicals.
2015.06.26 (Want Waigal, Afghanistan) – A dozen local police and unknown number of civilians lose their lives to a Taliban attack.
Strange, Lucifer, that you ignore the numerous murders of Muslims here in the US by Americans, of Muslims in the middle east by Americans, and (of course, though everyone fully understands your forgetfulness) the routine murder of Muslims by the Israelis. It is getting to be downright hilarious how you distort some facts, and altogether neglect others. Did you work in the Bush Lite White House? Or, if you are much older, did you write speeches for Goebbels or ben Gurion?
Myrtle, honey, I’m not saying that Louwheeze is deliberately injecting levity. That would require a much higher level of intelligence than he was endowed with.
“the numerous murders of Muslims here in the US by Americans”
LOL.
Sure, let’s hear it about “distorting” from someone capable of posting something *this* moronic when confronted with undeniable facts about 1200 dead innocent victims of Muslim terrorism only in the last *13 days*.
loosesyphullus hunnee y dew yew preech aghenst religulous violins? Teh lourd vary mush lieks an yewses violins. Hiss Choasun Peeple kill four hymn don u no.
Gud Kristiuns an Joos except violins loosewheeze hunnee. Teh Bibble tels uss sew. Bee wahrend Loosewheeze knot two cuntradict teh lourds ward.
Meanwhile, this happened in New Jersey, which some will suggest everyone should be scared of because it’s creeping Shariah:
“Hijab a key part of ensemble for Clifton High’s best-dressed girl”, at http://www.northjersey.com/news/hijab-a-key-part-of-ensemble-for-clifton-high-s-best-dressed-girl-1.1364524
“The senior class pick for best-dressed female senior at Clifton High School sports a black skirt and skinny jeans, ankle-high boots and a cropped white blazer in her yearbook photo. Her makeup is just about perfect, capped with plum-toned lipstick.
But there is one other fashion accessory that makes Abrar Shahin stand out: a black, white and blue-green patterned scarf — a hijab — that wraps around her head and drapes around her neck.”
It is easy to compare bad religion to a virus; I was doing it even before Dawkins. But the truth is that the darkness spreads whenever you put out the light. No epidemiology model can cover it. Oh, yes, it can explain the spread of Islam, but our problem isn’t Islam per se, but ignorance and evil no matter what the brand name. Soviet Communism, the secular terror of Ataturk, the perversions of state Christianity… the darkness has many names but seems to behave rather consistently.
Trying to stop bad religion by banning the building of a mosque is like trying to fortify the walls of your room so the dark won’t get in when you blow out the candle.
Funny that you neglected to mention Zionism. But, of course, that was consciously deliberate on your part.
Wnt is probably trying to avoid the wrath of Louise Cypher and his cohorts of Mossad.
these turds have no intention of calming things down, pushing for war and anarchy. Think tanks forget there are more Muslims in the west than is Asia now. Good Luck with the Plague mate !
If we’re going to count the sizes of atrocities according to religion, how does Christianity fare? How many people have been killed by Christian regimes, or regimes under Christian leaders?
The US alone since WW2 has killed an estimated 20-30 million, all under avowedly Christian leaders. Maybe 15-20 million African Americans died under (Christian) slavery. Genocide of indigenous peoples under colonialism contributes many million. And on and on. (See the Necrometrics site http://necrometrics.com/index.htm.) My guess is it wouldn’t be hard to rack up more than 270 million deaths against the Christians.
Powerful propaganda. Let’s see, how many people has the US murdered in it’s short 200+ year history? Tens of millions. How many people has capitalism killed around the world in the last hundred years? Tens of millions.
The people this article is about about…THEY are the scourge, they are the problem.
The Bush family revived it
“Why do kids join ISIS?” we wail…whilst allowing God-damn creeps like this to goosestep around America.
He should apologize to the plague.
Same way you should apologize to Satan?
I never compared Islam to Satan, so no reason to apologize to Satan, dear. Your dumb reply makes no sense, at all.
Perhaps he meant the bastardization of “Lucifer” as your chosen troll-name.
“Mrs Yeoman said the extreme bravery of the staff “makes you have a little more faith in humanity” and disproves any suggestion that Muslims are all violent extremists.”
At Digby, at http://digbysblog.blogspot.ca/2015/06/now-this-is-brave.html
Must read.
Bigotry is their meal ticket plane and simple.
Exactly. And it must pay well.
I have always wondered how asshats like Gaffney make a living. Who is giving these guys money to spew their inane worldview. I want names, numbers, and financial amounts.
Neocons and Israel. I am sure he gets part of the money we give to Israel every year. so basically he is tax payer funded. IMHO.
And Christianity isn’t a plague? It is used to justify a growing faciest empire that daily kills innocent people indescrimintly.
I admire them for their honesty — they are anti-Islam and don’t try to hide behind claims of being anti-Islamism or anti-Radical-Islam.
They come right out in their opposition to Islam, and all its versions, and don’t acknowledge the existence or importance of peaceful strains of Islam, like the many forms of Sufi Islam, and traditional Islam that is practiced by ordinary Muslims.
To those who want to do an in-depth study of Sufi and traditional Islam, I recommend SEYYED Hossein Nasr, Martin Lings, William Chittick, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, Frithjof Schuon, Rene Genon, Kabir Helminski, Titus Burtkard, Rumi and ibn Arabi.
http://www.zahrapublications.com
Your problem is your ideal guy that you venerate. That’s a big problem. Regardless of the strain of Islam you follow, although Sufi is definitely a milder version of Islam, you still all have the same ideal guy as the best example of a man to emulate. This is quite problematic.
More and more Muslims want a reform of Islam, of which the Qur’an also, but it can’t be carried out without first addressing the issue of the ideal man. Once he is settled, the rest will fall into place. You’ll have to eradicate his entire life as of the Medina hijra and then, all violent verses (death, atrocities, mutilations) of the Qur’an will automatically be suppressed.
And you, my friend – as a Sufi, you know full well that you are viewed as an ‘apostate’ in Islam. 90% are Sunnis, IS included.
ut that’s just it, they’re not so honest.
Gafney, when he appears on tv, always presents himself as a reasonable guy who ONLY is against extremists.
Considering that Frank Gaffney and his cult are directly responsible for the deaths of 4493 Americans who died in vain on a snipe hunt for nonexistent WMD’s (far more Americans than were murdered on 9.11), you have to wonder if his goal isn’t simply to shed American blood.
ISIS can only dream of killing Americans on the scale Frank Gaffney has — and he wants MORE Americans dead.
When do the self-appointed “patriots” who support this son of a bitch start doing a little basic math and see who is taking the most American lives?
There were WMDs. They were found later (videos of WMD caches, storage areas…) and many transferred to Syria (more videos). Last year, interesting documents were found in the home of Saddam’s defense minister which outline the plans for the Caliphate.
And yes, Al Baghdadi is an Iraqi and was in Northern Iraq when Bush invaded. In case you don’t know who Al Baghdadi is, he’s the supreme Caliph of the Islamic State aka ISIS. His name – al Baghdadi – means the one from Baghdad and Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.
Everything must be spelled out to you people, quite the pitiful lot indeed. Most commenters on this website have zero knowledge but excel in belittling. You have nothing substantive to write. Quite amazing to read this. Enjoy your evening. Bye.
Even some countries, including their leaders, suffer from acute paranoia, so they start crazy wars on anything, from war on weed to war on terrorism, war on natives, war on “the red’s”, war on “black’s”,… where is that sickness comming from is a good question that should be answered, maybe by doctors, maybe by scientists, or maybe by the not-so-insane people like you and me ? ;-)
But I would shurely neverfuckingever give them more power… better to put them inside a safe room, for the security of the people ! Before they can hurt someone ;-)
So the Christian religion, not to mention the white/capitalist/military mindset, must be the longest living pandemics from hell.
Well, yes, in its various manifestations. Witch-hunts, 13th to 18th Centuries, maybe 100,000 executions; Thirty Years’ War, maybe 6-8 million, mostly civilian; 16th Century religious wars, the Inquisition, the Crusades, who knows how many? That’s just a few samples.
Funny thing is Islam had none of this. Closest thing that is an actual genocide in Islamic History is Armenian genocide by turks. And if you read it is very obvious that by that times most of the Turks (in power) had moved away from their religion Islam. They were akin to today’s Saddam Hussein and Assad.
Quote: Funny thing is Islam had none of this.
You are not funny but ridiculous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
Propaganda spread by people like him is responsible for deaths of millions of Muslims in last 3 decades. All over middle east, Asia and in former Soviet Union. What can we say. Only if people in USA had power or even a free and transparent media may be then people like him go back into hole where they come from every time Israel is in trouble or USA need to start a new war or government needs more money from congress for its adventurous wars on behalf of corporations and Israel.
Congress always gives the money ask for, because all that bastards have shares in the military-financial industry ;-)
ALL of them !!! So more war = more money in the pocket !
Thats how America works ! And thats why noone cares about a million dead muslims ! They love killing.. for money, for oil and for the government in that countries THEY like to have ! See Lybia, Syria, Iraq, Egypt,… But the stupid people in the USofA don’t get it ! Why ? I dunno… maybe because they are the most stupid people on earth, or they believe all the lies, or they just don’t care anybody else…
But as you may know: Some call it terrorists, other call it freedom-fighters ;-)
Seems the US population only get the point when someone stands up for his rights,… like they did in Vietnam ;-)
When you give in they kill you anyway !