Storm Track Disinformation: Mr. Zogby, Me Thinks You Protest Too Much

From The Gathering Storm

Mr. James Zogby is President of The Arab American Institute has his panties all in bunch. It seems that his “blood is still boiling” over an article published by the New York Sun (in his words “a purveyor of incitement and hate, masquerading as a newspaper.”) back in May entitled “The Three Myths About Islam”. Briefly the three myths he is upset about are:

1. Islam is tolerant of other religions
2. Muslim extremists are not attacking us but only ‘counter-attacking - responding to our attacks
3. Islam is a religion of peace

Mr. Zogby says “The article sets out to demonstrate that because of liberal political correctness, Americans had come to believe a number of falsehoods about Islam: namely that it is a peaceful, tolerant and under attack. In fact, according to the author, the opposite is true. The religion of 1.5 billion, he claims, is, by its nature and history, intolerant, aggressive, and violent. In other words, a danger to be reckoned with. This is of course, a gross distortion of Islam’s history, designed to create fear and intolerance toward the religion and its adherents. It is exactly this caricaturing of Islam that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warns about in her new book, The Mighty and The Almighty. She terms such efforts as “sophistry” and notes that “a reader trolling through the scriptures for language sanctifying intolerance and war will find it whether the texts are sacred to Christians, Muslims or Jews.””

Cut the crap Mr. Zogby! You and your fellow PC correct leftist travelers love to point to the past in defense of your position in the present. But the ongoing ideological debates on what religions have said in the past or practiced then are meaningless to the debate over Islam today. For you see Mr. Zogby, whatever intolerance and hate were preached and practiced in the past by Christianity and Judaism that Ms. Albright like to hold up as a rationale for Islam’s intolerance, is not supported by those religions today.

Read the news Mr. Zogby. Who is killing in the name of the religion of tolerance? Who is encouraging followers of your religions to kill in the name of your god. Who is preaching jihad from the mosques and in the streets? Who is killing Christians in Somalia and Hindus in India and Malaysia? It’s not the Judeo-Christian religion. If you want your religion to be respected and cease having articles published like the one you are complaining about, then ease your threatening language, violent emotionally-driven behavior and tacit or complacent acceptance of the jihadists. Show us that we are wrong your deeds not your words written in the far past or written today.

One other thing, Mr. Zogby. Your side – with your allies from the PC crowd - is doing just fine garnishing support for and propagating your lies, but once they are exposed you play the victim card. But Islam is not the victim in today’s world – but the perpetrator.

And your creeping support of sharia law is making inroads in places once thought taboo when it came to religion. The Seattle Public Schools are forming a committee to examine prayer in school, particularly to "support the needs of our diverse students and families." But the committee is not organizing to examine the full diversity of the student body, only the needs of Muslim students.

And by the way Mr. Zogby, Islam does not mean peace. It translates as ‘submission’.

We will not submit, Mr. Zogby. We know your plan. We are quickly learning that something does not smell right about your religion. We will not submit. Voices are growing. We are ready to take back our country.