The Top 10 Islamapologist Blogs

Posted By Chris Queen On March 4, 2011 @ 6:00 am In Email,Feature,Main,News | No Comments

Whoever invented the concept of blogging was a genius. (Paging Al Gore?) We’re ten years into a new millennium, and blogs are everywhere. There are blogs devoted to a host of fascinating and not-so-fascinating topics like Civil War reenactments, JFK assassinaton conspiracy theories, macrobiotic cooking, and collecting sea glass rocks. Like we say here in the South, it takes all kinds.
One particularly troublesome feature of the blogosphere is what some of us like to call Islamapologist blogs. These are blogs whose writers stand up for Islamofascism in one way or another. That’s right — there really are people in the 21st century who defend a religion whose philosophy and values are stuck in the 7th century.
We’re talking about folks who try to convince the rest of the world that the Muslim Brotherhood is some sort hybrid of the Rotary Club and the Red Cross, writers who slap the “intolerant” label on those who disagree with a religion whose adherents freak out over women in bikinis drinking wine. Some of them actually claim that Islam is less dangerous than Christianity. (Islam didn’t earn the nickname “religion of peace” for nothing, after all.)
These blogs are made up of writers who deny the political nature of a dangerously political faith, and you’ll see blogs like these all across the political landscape. Naturally, you’ll find Islamapologists on the Left, but you’ll also discover them on the Right. Islamapologists write for sites that purport to offer balanced coverage of events, and some of them hold political views that would be laughable if they weren’t so dangerous.
With all of that said, here’s a list of the top ten Islamapologist blogs. Some of them are exactly what one would expect when it comes to apologists for Islamofascism, while others may be a bit surprising. Some have massive readerships, and others are more obscure and have more of a niche audience. The one thing they all have in common is their willingness to excuse or explain away the odious doctrine and philosophy of Islamofascism.
We’ll start with some strange Islamapology from the inside…
10. Ikhwanweb


One truly eye opening glimpse into Islamist apologism from the inside is the English language website of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwanweb. The site, which strangely enough has a banner at the top of every page with the word “freedom” written across it, isn’t exactly a blog, but it’s “opinion” pages easily show the bizarre philosophies and ideas of modern Islamists.
During the recent Egyptian political turmoil, the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed El Baradei emerged. El Baradei has apparently been the Muslim Brotherhood’s man for quite some time. In August, when an anonymous El Baradei “family friend” posted scandalous pictures of Mohamed’s daughter Laila in a bikini drinking wine, one opinion writer showed that he was willing to overlook such scandals in the name of getting their man in power:
Undoubtedly, for most Egyptians, choosing a ruler whose criminal security apparatus focuses on beating and killing civilians, and who shows no regards to human rights, freedom and dignity is far more than dangerous than electing the father of a bikini-clad daughter.
The sinful attempts to tarnish the image of Dr. ElBaradei and his cause with crude insinuations and allegations, and launching defaming public campaigns may in fact strengthen the resolve for the demands for real change.
Just a few days later, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mohamed Mosny said, “not so fast”:
…allegations from numerous sources accusing  the MB of downplaying  the significance of adhering to the ethics and morals of Islam by defending certain behaviors [are] completely out of line. The MB refutes the claims and wishes to state in the strongest possible terms that just as it is firmly committed to condemning any dictatorial, corrupt and oppressive action it is set on condemning any behavior unacceptable to the teachings of Islam and any suggestion to the contrary is simply untrue.
Even further back, after the 2008 elections, the Muslim Brotherhood praised the election of Barack Obama, because, finally the United States finally ended discrimination by electing a black president. That tolerance, the author wrote, is a distinctly Islamic value.
We considered the victory of a black man in the U.S. presidential election a highly sophisticated and civilized value endorsed by Islam. When we spoke about discrimination, we saw it as an impediment overcome by the American people.
We praise the application of the value of justice even if it is practiced by those who show us animosity; that is what the holy Qur’an teaches us.  We should be praising the American people when they succeed in ending discrimination.
To the Muslim Brotherhood, our election of Obama makes us as tolerant as they are. So we should consider ourselves lectured on discrimination by Islamists. Great. We’re doomed for sure.
Next: Your trusted source for…defending Islam and attacking Christianity?
9. CNN.com’s Belief Blog

Lately, CNN has been trying to position themselves as the balanced alternative to the leftist bias of MSNBC and the perceived right-wing leanings of Fox News. They’ve also worked really hard to put together a thorough and comprehensive website with plenty of blogs about newsworthy topics.
One of the notable blogs on CNN.com is their Belief Blog. The blog covers a wide range of subjects, all of them relating to faith in one way or another. Unfortunately, when it comes to Islam, it appears that CNN threw that claim to balance out the window.
A very recent post on Belief Blog by Stephen Prothero, a religious scholar and author of a book entitled God Is Not One: The Eight Major Religions That Run The World, came with the title, “Cancel Bigoted Hearings Targeting U.S. Muslims.” In the post, Prothero decries Congressman Peter King’s (R-NY) proposal to hold hearings to examine radical Islam without looking also at Christianity, which Prothero deems dangerous:
I have no problem with the U.S. Congress listening to testimony about the “radicalization” of Islam in America. As I have written repeatedly, I believe that the world’s religions, Islam included, are both toxic and tonic, powerful forces for evil as well as good.
The problem with King’s approach is his refusal to listen to testimony about, for example, the “radicalization” of American Christianity. Throughout America’s history Christian extremists (in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, for example) have posed a far greater threat to our nation’s health than extremists of any other religion.
But the proposed hearings are bigoted in design, and should be either canceled or reworked to avoid the appearance that the U.S. Congress – whose members are 90 percent Christian – is using its power, contrary to clear meaning of the establishment clause of the First Amendment, to promote Christianity at the expense of other religions.
Let me get this straight. Congressman King’s idea of studying the religion whose members are bent on destroying Western culture and society is actually promoting Christianity above other religions? I’m not buying it.
A blog post from last fall entitled, “Islam Is A Religion Of Peace, Or It Isn’t,” written by Imam Khalid Latif, attempts to play the “Hey, there really are peaceful Muslims” card, but unfortunately, even he doesn’t seem to be fully convinced:
Last week, New York University hosted the Intelligence Squared Debates at its Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Four panelists, two for and two against, presented arguments on the motion of “Islam Is a Religion of Peace.”  About 800 showed up to learn the answer.
Problem is, there is no one answer…
The Muslim community is by no means monolithic and viewing us as one is problematic. We are diverse…
That a peaceful interpretation of the religion, or even one that is non-radical, can only exist by ignoring fundamental texts is flawed in its logic.
As much as Muslims need to acknowledge the existence of a minority voice that is radicalized, so too does a broader society need to acknowledge the existence of a majority voice that is not radicalized and more importantly condemns radical thought. There are those who make Islam to be something restrictive and radical, but there are many, many more who do not.
If there are so many “peaceful” Muslims, why aren’t more of them speaking out? Why aren’t more of them decrying the rhetoric and violence of the supposed minority? Sadly, it appears that Latif doesn’t have an answer.
Next: There’s nothing like the reassurances of Leftist “experts”…
8. The Huffington Post

If you’re a regular visitor to NewsReal Blog, you’re aware of The Huffington Post and its largely leftist slant on the news of the day. Founded by socialite and media whore Arianna Huffington in 2005, the blog recently became part of AOL’s far-flung yet only mildly impressive media empire.
The Huffington Post has had its share of Islamapologists among its ranks. Recently, one M J Rosenberg of the Media Matters Action Network wrote that the “Arab revolution” is gunning for Israel next and that the Israeli leadership has no choice but to let the Palestinians have their way:
If the Netanyahu government, and its lobby in Washington, were rational they would be rushing to plan Israel’s evacuation from the occupied territories, and encouraging the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
That is because they would understand that the Arab revolution will not stop at the gates of the West Bank, especially when it is the occupation that unites virtually all Arabs and Muslims in common fury.
The Palestinians will revolt, just as the other Arabs have, and the occupation will end.
But it is up to the Israelis to help decide how it will end.
Rosenberg goes on to state that the only reasonable answer is for Israel to give up even more territory to Arabs. (You know, give them an inch and they’ll take the whole West Bank.)
Another recent example of Islamapologism in the pages of The Huffington Post is a post by Melody Moezzi, who is referred to as a “UN Global Expert,” which of course lends her great credibility. Her fairly incoherent post basically argues that people in the West have no need to fear these revolutions in the Middle East because they will certainly result in Islamic republics. We shouldn’t be worried at all because we don’t really know what they are:
Among Western nations and their respective media outlets, an intense fear has been perpetuated as a result of these protests: namely, that of an “Islamized” (whatever that means) Middle East.
If Western nations understood what a true Islamic republic looked like, I expect that they wouldn’t be nearly as jarred or frightened by the recent wave of popular protests spreading across the Middle East. A bona fide Islamic republic is one that respects the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, one that doesn’t torture, one that eschews institutionalized sexism and honors human rights. But above all, an authentic Islamic republic is one that is both democratic and secular.
See, everybody, there’s nothing to fear here!
To summarize what we’ve seen in The Huffington Post just in the last few days, all we have to do to achieve peace in the Middle East is give up big chunks of Israel and let the Islamic world invent a form of government that doesn’t exist.
Just let me know when it’s time to go over to the Middle East and sing “Kumbaya” with our non-sexist, human-rights-honoring Islamofascist friends.
Next: Standing up to the Islamophobes…
7. Islamophobia Today

When I stumbled across this blog, I honestly thought it was a parody, but unfortunately Islamophobia Today is an earnest, serious blog. According to the website:
IslamophobiaToday.com is a one-stop Islamophobia news clearing house on the web. It publishes the most relevant Islamophobia and anti-Muslim news stories from major newsdesks and blogs, it publishes original material, as well as a weekly editorial.
IslamophobiaToday.com is an awareness project by Americans against Islamophobia.
I know what you’re thinking: you’re glad someone is out there protecting us against the Islamophobes, right? Because radical Islam needs protecting if it’s going to succeed in destroying the West.
Islamophobia Today contains quite a few gems. One recent post, for example, condemns a Christian Indian man for having multiple wives (and asking, “What if he were a Muslim?”), as though polygamy were our biggest worry when it comes to Islam.
And check out this one. You knew it was bound to happen — sooner or later the Islamapologists would go after Fox News:
Studies have already shown that regular Fox News watchers are “substantially” more misinformed about current events than consumers of other media, and that “greater exposure to [Fox] increased misinformation on a specific issue.” But a new poll suggests the conservative network may not just be harmful to viewers’ knowledge, but to their tolerance as well…
Americans who most trust Fox News are more likely to believe that Muslims want to establish Shari’a law, have not done enough to oppose extremism, and believe investigating Muslim extremism is a good idea.
Oh, those crazy fair and balanced journalists. In another terrific post, Islamophobia Today tried to help allay our fears by giving us reassurance from a truly and completely trusted source: Jimmy Carter.
Last night, former President Jimmy Carter told a crowd of 900-plus students and Austin residents that he doesn’t fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will take power in Egypt and that he believes President Obama handled the situation in Egypt properly.
The former president has also met members of the Muslim Brotherhood during his time in Egypt. According to Carter, only 15 percent of Egyptians would actually vote for the Brotherhood during elections.
“I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be afraid of,” Carter said. “They will be subsumed in the overwhelming demonstration of desire for freedom and democracy.”
Now that President Carter has calmed our fears, maybe we won’t be Islamophobes anymore. Then Islamophobia Today will have done their jobs.
Next: For such an allegedly prestigious site, these guys sure are full of snarky hatred…
6. Talking Points Memo

Talking Points Memo is another left-leaning blog (that actually has the courage to admit its political bent) with a history of Islamapologism. Founded in 2000 by upstart young blogger Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, or TPM for short, toots its own horn on its website this way:
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is one of the most innovative political news organizations in the United States. The editors of Time magazine say TPM “has become the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future.” With its relentless focus on breaking news, original reporting and investigative journalism, TPM has made itself a must-read for DC insiders, the media who cover them and politically engaged people everywhere.
As we all know, there’s nothing more prestigious than a rave from Time. Apparently, to TPM, innovation, relentlessness, and success include playing games of moral relativism when it comes to the Islamofascists.
In a brief yet tacky editorial about Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson’s contentious interview with Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who is planning a protest outside the White House in March to call for Sharia law, Marshall wrote:
When I was a little kid I used to like watching battles between boffo lizard monsters like Godzilla and Mothra. I was into Rollerball too. Now that I’m older I have more refined tastes. But it’s the same basic pattern — two cartoonish clowns doing battle and the only problem is you don’t know who to root for because they’re both so ridiculous.
Let’s see: one is a journalist asking fairly tough questions, while the other wants to undermine our freedom by establishing oppressive Islamic law. Yeah, I can see why it’s so hard to know who to root for, Josh. What a conundrum.
In the midst of the controversy surrounding attempts by Hamas to break through Israel’s protective blockade of the Gaza Strip, TPM bloggers had the nerve to compare members of the terrorist flotilla to young black protesters at lunch counters fighting to end segregation. They also saw fit to blame Israel solely for the problems in Gaza.
During the Cordoba House/Ground Zero Mosque debate last year, TPM referred to the outrage from the Right as a “freakout.” One writer fretted over why Republicans seemed to be concerned about Muslims in a post entitled “Grand Old Islamophobes”:
Meet the new Republican establishment: worried about Muslims, and worried even more that Obama might be one of them.
So what’s the takeaway from [the poll about Obama’s religious leanings]? Mainstream Republicans — the ones who make up the bulk of the party — at best doubt Obama’s faith and at worst are completely wrong about it.
And to be a Muslim is not a good thing in the eyes of the Republican mainstream. More than 60% of Republicans surveyed by CBS last month had an unfavorable view of the faith, compared with 25% of Democrats and 39% of the total sample.
So the takeaway is this: a large chunk of Republicans think Obama is a Muslim, and more Republicans than not would say that being a Muslim is probably not a great character trait.
Last time I checked, Islam isn’t a character trait. It’s a dangerous religion bent on killing “infidels” and destroying freedom. Perhaps if the folks at Talking Points Memo spent less time siding with Islamofascists and more time studying what they’re about, the concern over Islam wouldn’t be quite so perplexing.
Next: The website that calls Howard Dean a centrist. For real…
5. Daily Kos

Another notoriously left-leaning website is Daily Kos. Formed by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a former Republican turned leftist Democrat, the site explains its purpose this way:
This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we’re all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN’s Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we’re around here and we’re proud. But it’s not a liberal blog.
Howard Dean’s a centrist? Wow, how far to the Left do you have to be for Dean to be in the center?
Apparently, the blogs on Daily Kos are community-based, and there are literally dozens of writers, most of whom use handles as opposed to their real names. And when you see what they write, it’s easy to see why one wouldn’t want to put one’s real name on it.
Some of these conveniently anonymous bloggers at Daily Kos have seen fit to turn the recent turmoil in Egypt into an opportunity to trash Christians at the expense of “democratic” Muslims. One blogger called “Radical Realist” wrote on February 20:
Recent religious right reactions to events in Egypt and the middle east provide a telling illustration. Rather than greeting emergence of a populist, democratic revolt in Egypt with even a glimmer of Jeffersonian romanticism, Beck and hard-line Christian hawks anticipate a perfect storm—a grave and gathering threat, a la the anti-Christ du jour, against Israel…
Rather than seeing Glen [sic] Beck as an isolated figure, we should recognize that his Fox show functions as a fun house mirror for rapture ready Christians. Not only does his rhetoric echo their apocalyptic revivalism, but Beck blurts out, on a national stage, in often raw-seeming, inchoate form, the End Times theorizing that is their stock in trade. …Beck makes the Left Behind right’s plodding propaganda appear almost rational.
Yes, fellow conservatives, this is what the Left thinks of everyone on the Right as — a bunch of hayseed, end-times nuts.
When they’re not trashing the Right for not being head over heels for potential Islamic radicalism in Egypt, the Daily Kos folks are going out of their way to spout the same sad, tired meme about how the Muslim Brotherhood is some sort of modern humanitarian force. Witness this excerpt from “Gustogirl” on February 23:
The Muslim Brotherhood is doing preparatory work to create its political party, named the Freedom and Justice party…
Long organized as social activists, the consensus is that the organizational skills of the MB was critical to the success of the uprising in many ways. They provided the microphones, distributed the tea and food, assisted with the clinics and it was largely MB youth who held off the pro-Mubarak forces when violence ensued.
In the eyes of Daily Kos, members of the American Right are fearful idiots, while the Muslim Brotherhood stands for peace and human dignity. Somehow, in the minds of the Left, this logic works.
Next: The pot calls the kettle “predictable…”
4. The American Prospect’s Tapped Blog

Tapped is the group blog of The American Prospect magazine. The American Prospect has a two decade history of promoting “progressive” politics. According to their website:
The magazine’s founding purpose was to demonstrate that progressive ideas could animate a majority politics; to restore to intellectual and political respectability the case for social investment; to energize civic democracy and give voice to the disenfranchised; and to counteract the growing influence of conservative media.
The magazine’s tagline is “Liberal Intelligence.” But a better tagline may well be “Knee-Jerk Reactions.” One glimpse at their Tapped blog, and you’ll see that chock full of just what we expect from the Left, with little actual intelligence thrown in.
Back in May, during the controversy over the Times Square Bomber, blogger Adam Serwer, in a post unsubtly entitled, “Republicans Go Back To Hyping Terrorism,” intimated that the Right’s concern about a thwarted terrorist attack was simply (wait for it) racist:
Suffice it to say that Republicans have jettisoned entirely the notion of the presumption of innocence when dealing with Muslims accused of terrorism — whether or not they’re American citizens. On the issue of whether Shahzad could be held as an enemy combatant, the answer is it could try, but previous attempts at doing so worked out poorly both from the perspective of justice and intelligence gathering. This isn’t a national-security policy issue; it’s a culture-war issue — the GOP is against giving “those people” rights.
So our desire (and I’d say that it’s not limited to Republicans) to protect our country from Islamist terror is about denying Muslims their rights, Adam? What about the rights of the thousands killed on 9/11? But wait, there’s more:
Watching the GOP leadership return to a narrative in which its contributing to the hysteria that terrorists are looking to provoke is disappointing but utterly predictable. The only reason they took this long is that the initial reports weren’t clear that Muslim extremists were likely behind the plot.
Riding the tired old horses of racism and Islamophobia basically takes away your right to call anyone predictable, Adam.
Serwer was back at it in February, with a post attempting to “dispel some myths” about the Muslim Brotherhood. He does this because:
The increased interest in the Brotherhood also dovetails with long-standing conservative conspiracy theories about the group’s beliefs, capabilities, and behavior that largely replicate red-baiting paranoia during the Cold War.
Serwer lets us know we don’t have to worry about the Muslim Brotherhood because they’re “not that popular,” but that they’re “moderate Muslims” who “are very good at providing social and educational services.” So, ignore their history and think of them as some sort of Islamofascist version of the Peace Corps. Or something.
No thanks, Adam. I’ll let the facts about their history speak for themselves.
Next: Islamapology from the Right…
3. FrumForum

Sometimes Islamapologism doesn’t just come from the Left. You can even find it on the Right, believe it or not. One prime example can be found at FrumForum. The site, founded by David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, purports to be:
…dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
Apparently for one of the site’s bloggers, “modernization and renewal” means sucking up to Islamists and defending their right to attempt to destroy us.
Back in September, one particular blogger, John “Please Spell My Name Right” Guardiano (Oh boy, I hope I got it right…), a former NewsReal Blog contributor, devoted an entire post to criticizing conservatives, including NRB‘s own David Swindle and Calvin Freiburger, for daring to suggest that Islam is a political and sociological system rather than just a religion.
Guardiano called out Andrew McCarthy for speaking truth about Islam:
McCarthy has written that “Islam is innately political,” and that “Islam and Communism are aligned… Both are diametrically opposed to the core assumptions of American constitutional democracy: individual liberty and free-market capitalism.”
He has called Islam’s legal code “totalitarian.” He rejects the concept of moderate Islam as an “invention” that “does not currently exist.” He declares, in the subtitle of his book, that Islam — not radical Islam, but Islam — is a fifth column political movement intent on “sabotaging” America.
Guardiano went on to, in his own words, “dismiss” David Swindle as an “extreme voice” for making similar observations to those of McCarthy. He then managed to scoff at Newt Gingrich (and McCarthy again) for expressing concerns over the spread of Sharia law:
Sharia, he added, “is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and the world as we know it… I’m frankly very tired of being lectured about religious liberty…”
If Gingrich is tired of being lectured about religious liberty, it may be because he and others on the Right – including Andrew McCarthy – are insufficiently respectful of the First Amendment. Indeed, they’ve suggested – and, in McCarthy’s case, argued explicitly – that Islam is incompatible with American democracy.
More recently, Guardiano has once again decided to pick on conservatives for worrying about the potential Islamist influence on the political landscape in Europe:
Newt Gingrich at least recognizes that what happens in the world profoundly affects American liberty. However, Gingrich can see in Egypt only doom and danger, not hope and opportunity. Ditto most congressional Republicans: Consequently, they seem to have a soft spot for dictators and autocrats such as Mubarak.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity, meanwhile, is obsessed with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he seems to imagine is omnipotent and all-powerful. And if a GOP presidential candidate has said anything positive about Egypt, I’m unaware of it.
In short, fear and loathing — of Muslims especially — rules the Right. “Some 85 percent of Muslims believe that Islam should have a role in the government,” Hannity warns.
Is this really that surprising or necessarily disturbing? Egypt is a poor Muslim country with an autocratic political tradition. Why, then, would most Egyptians not want Islam to be an integral part of the law that governs them?
So in the eyes of John Guardiano, we shouldn’t worry about the “religion of peace.” Because, you know, the Islamists are all about democracy and freedom.
David Frum himself has managed to get his hands dirty in the whole Islamapology department. Frum weighed in on the controversy surrounding Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, playing the role of crack investigative reporter as he spun the yarn of “The Secret History of the Gaffney-Norquist Feud.” I can almost picture him wearing the hat with the tag that says “Press” pinned to it like in the old movies.
The post, actually a series of smaller posts, tells a “secret history” of the Bush administration’s attempts to woo Muslim Americans to the Republican Party, a move that would have been an obvious lightning rod for controversy after 9/11. Frum actually refers to those expressing concern over Suhail Khan as “(mis)representing some very minor personalities as central figures in a giant continuing conspiracy.” Frum intimates that Khan’s dangerous associations are nothing to be worried about. Yet the truth is, we simply cannot ignore what Frum sees as “minor.”
Next: Neither Left, nor Right, nor sensible…
2. Lew Rockwell.com

Possibly one of the most mystifying websites I’ve seen in a long time is the one run by anti-American libertarian Lew Rockwell. Rockwell’s site bills itself as:
An anti-state/pro-market site on the net run by the president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Scratch the surface (which is not-so-charmingly retro, looking like a relic from 1996), and you’ll discover a radical libertarian site with plenty of vitriol toward America’s defense, especially when it comes to radical Islam.
Witness this excerpt from a post by Wiliam Grigg, written during the thick of the Ground Zero Mosque fight:
Allowing the “Ground Zero Mosque” to be built, insists Newt Gingrich, would be tantamount to “surrender” in a struggle against those implacably committed to our destruction. New York gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, a New York crony capitalist who anointed himself a paladin of the Tea Party movement, has made opposition to the “Ground Zero Mosque” the central plank of his campaign.
…Andrew McCarthy insists that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf — the Kuwait-born U.S. citizen who leads the Cordoba Initiative — is pursuing a “stealth jihad” as a fellow-traveler of the Muslim Brotherhood. “The Ground Zero project is a test of America’s resolve to face down a civilizational jihad that that aims, in the words of its leaders, to destroy us from within,” maintains McCarthy…
When American jingoists offer misty-eyed tributes to the soldiers who died in the course of “liberating” Iraq, it could be said that they are, in effect, praising the efforts of men and women who are martyrs to the cause of Sharia Law.
That slap in the face to our troops in the last sentence is particularly ugly and offensive. But we must protect the rights of radical imams to tastelessly build mosques in inappropriate places!
Exactly a month later, Justin Raimondo lashed out at conservatives for being intolerant toward those who are bent on destroying our freedom and our way of life:
In more 9/11 anniversary news: a rally sponsored by the David Horowitz-affiliated “Jihad Watch,” in alliance with Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller’s “Stop the Islamization of America” grouplet and the British neo-fascist “English Defense League,” attracted a few thousand wackos to a site a few blocks from Ground Zero, where uber-wacko Geert Wilders (Dutch neo-fascist and leading Islamophobe) made the case for banning Islam…
Wilders, Geller, and “Jihad Watch” anti-Islam guru Robert Spencer want to import Europe’s Muslim-hating racist fringe to America: their thesis is that Islam is not a religion, but a political conspiracy to impose Sharia law on non-Muslims. They raise the specter of an Islamic States of America, with American women draped in the chador and mandatory mosque attendance — a scenario that doesn’t even qualify as credible science fiction.
And if you think it doesn’t get any kookier than that, then you didn’t listen to John Bolton’s speech to the anti-mosque rally, delivered via videotape, wherein he attacked the effort by “politicians” to “impose tolerance and understanding on us, whether we like it or not…” Shortly before delivering his remarks, Bolton confirmed he is considering a presidential run: can he ride the wave of hate all the way to the White House?
Isn’t it comforting to know that there are people out there who think of those of us who don’t want to live under the thumb of Islam as “kooky”?
Next: Setting the record straight on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy…
1. ThinkProgress

It should probably come as little or no surprise that Islamapologism would come straight from the insightful folks at ThinkProgress. The blog is run by the far-left Center for American Progress, which is funded by none other than good old George Soros. ThinkProgress basically parrots all the memes of the Left, with little or no sense of humor or trace of irony (except in some cases where they try really, really hard to be funny and clever). The blog is divided into headings like “Social and Economic Justice” and “Incompetent Establishment,” a sub-blog which is dedicated to criticizing Republicans, and my personal favorite, “Radical Right-Wing Agenda.”
It won’t come as a shock to anyone, then, to learn that ThinkProgress devotes much of its space to defending dangerous Islamic ideas from the “Radical Right.” Recently, in their coverage of CPAC, bloggers and staffers at ThinkProgress derided speakers who warned of the dangers of radical Islam as being “anti-Muslim.”
Republican presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Rep. Allen West (R-FL) dedicated portions of their speeches to discussing alleged threats posed by Islam. In his address, conservative activist David Horowitz stated that “political Islam is a totalitarian movement that seeks to impose Islamic law on the entire world through the seizure of states by stealth and electoral means where possible and by terror where necessary and sometimes by a combination of the two. There are hundreds of millions of believers in political Islam.”
During the controversy over the Park 51 attempts to build a mosque in Lower Manhattan, ThinkProgress columnist Matt Yglesias stated (with what I can only assume is some attempt at snark) that the dustup over the proposed Cordoba House was no big deal because it wasn’t really at Ground Zero:
I just last night learned that the proposed Park51 location is where the Burlington Coat Factory used to be. I own a coat that I bought there… I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone describe it as a “Ground Zero Department Store” or anything like that. …certainly it wouldn’t occur to anyone to refer to the entire panoply of things that are in a 2-3 block radius from the WTC superblock as somehow being “at” Ground Zero…
Oh, okay. Our bad. Thanks so much for setting us straight on that one, Matt.
The blog also dismissed conservatives like Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich as insensitive for suggesting that the proposed mosque was in and of itself an insensitive idea:
Equating the building of a mosque near Ground Zero with a demonstration by racist skinheads or a Neo-Nazi meeting at a Jewish hotel is extremely insensitive to ordinary Muslims like those building Park 51. Unlike Nazis or skinheads, the founders of Park 51 are Sufis with no history of advocating hate or taking part in violence. In fact, the founder of the institution, Imam Abdul Rauf, has even advised the FBI and been a diplomatic envoy for the State Department as a part of the U.S. struggle against terrorism.
Rather than admitting that some people thought the Ground Zero Mosque was a bad, fairly tasteless idea, ThinkProgress chose to side with Faisal Abdul Rauf, who has said about 9/11 that the United States basically had it coming. Clearly, ThinkProgress believes that “American progress” consists of defending Islamofascists.
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So what have we learned today? We’ve discovered that apologists for Islam can be found on the Left, on the Right, in between, and way off the map. And we’ve seen that the Islamapologists are more than willing to throw others under the bus, ignore history, and distort facts to paint a rosy yet untrue picture of radical Islam. By doing so, these blogs are dangerous in that they prevent the West from seeing the truth about the threat of Muslim extremists. It’s up to those of us who know and understand the truth to get the word out to the world.
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Chris Queen hails from Covington, GA. Check out his blog, Random Thoughts From The Revolution, or follow him on Twitter.

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