And Arlen Specter thought he had trouble in the Republican Party–

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Wait till progressive Democrats feast on him in the 2010 primary. Who wants this guy? The newly-minted Democratic Senator is speaking at a conference on "radical Islam" organized by the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes's group, which has continually stereotyped Muslim-Americans in its restless, and bloody, battle with "Islamo-fascism," which as often as not amounts to the expression of the pro-Palestinian narrative on campuses.

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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  1. Citizen says:
    May 15, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Gee, what a surprise. Who expected otherwise? Nobody I know from NY/PA.

  2. Shafiq says:
    May 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Muslims in the US had traditionally voted for Republicans – that was until 2008 when the rabid anti-Muslimism and anti-Arabism of the party finally pushed them towards the Democrats. The Republican Party had become alien to them and became their worst enemy. Now it seems the Democratic Party is beginning to fill up with bigoted Muslim-phobes too.

  3. Richard Witty says:
    May 15, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    There is profound Islamo-fascism in the world, and it can only be fought militarily (hearts and minds only to minimize the recruitment tools, but not conclusive relative to their willing barbarity). But, the moral negligence is to not distinguish the civil, the humane, in the Muslim world whether it is majority or minority. Most likely majority, as peace makes far more sense than warring, even more sense than "pride".

  4. AntiWitty says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    There is a profound US-Israeli facism in the world, which is why world polls consistently place these to arrogant nations in the top two spots of predator nations. They sing songs of humanism but kill more than any other, simultaneously crying crocodile tears for their relatively innocent victims. US-Israel has learned nothing from the Nuremberg trials nor from the international watch groups and laws attempting without comparable power as these two rogue nations eat up the landscape, causing misery to millions as I type. The moral negligence is to not look at the deeds of these two bulllies, to hope against hope that they are what they pretend to be. Nothing could be farther from the truth on the ground. The pity for mass America is that they are enabling this travesty to go on in an age when one is not limited to a Goebbels radio.

  5. ShittyWitty says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Excuse the typos–Witty's cavalier use of the contrived term "Islamo-fascism" made me post too quick. What would ilk like him do without their special vocabulary, bathed as it is in historical ignorance, and intentionally so? What's wrong? Why it's "Islamo-fascism" and "anti-semitism!" The world's honest people say, "BS!" Goering in his grave nods his head, grinning "Might Makes Right," with Schacht reminding him that finance is the key to that might.

  6. Jacqueline_Hyde says:
    May 15, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    Somebody say delicious? Soon's I get home I rushes to the browser thingee and take another hit of Mondo!

  7. Ali says:
    May 15, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    lol look who they have for speakers Hassan Daioleslam (Researcher, IranLobby.com) — this guy is a major piece of work. He's part of the MKO terrorist group. Alan Dershowitz (Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) Frank Gaffney (President, the Center for Security Policy) Brooke Goldstein (Attorney at law, Director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum) David Harris (Attorney at law, Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.) Joe Kaufman (Chairman, Americans Against Hate) Marc Lebuis (Blogger, Point de Bascule) Andrew C. McCarthy (Director, the Center for Law and Counterterrorism) Alan Mendoza (Executive Director, The Henry Jackson Society) Douglas Murray (Director, the Centre for Social Cohesion) Daniel Pipes (Director, the Middle East Forum) Dean Reuter (The Federalist Society) David Rivkin (Attorney at law, Baker Hostetler) Elizabeth Samson (Attorney at law, Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute) Barak Seener (Middle East Section Director, Henry Jackson Society) Senator Arlen Specter (United States Senator, State of Pennsylvania) James Taranto (Columnist, the Wall Street Journal) John J Walsh (Attorney at law, Senior Counsel, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP)

  8. Jacqueline_Hyde says:
    May 15, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    Witty's the stealth Cheney. That was his line too: 9/11, terreur-so called requires a *military* response. But that is a mistake. Al-qaeda are criminals not state actors with armies, diplomats and so on. They can only be tackled through patient, deliberate police work.

  9. jdva says:
    May 15, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Lok in the mirror, RW: There is profound Judeo-fascism in the world, and it can only be fought militarily (hearts and minds only to minimize the recruitment tools, but not conclusive relative to their willing barbarity). But, the moral negligence is to not distinguish the civil, the humane, in the Jewish world whether it is majority or minority. Most likely majority, as peace makes far more sense than warring, even more sense than "pride".

  10. rykart says:
    May 15, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Actually, 9/11 was not a crime, if we follow US definitions. The WTC met every requirement of a military installation, with headquarters of Raytheon and Boeing–manufacturers of the attack helicopters used to massacre civilians throughout the Mid East. Were the WTC situated in a country we viewed as hostile, the United states would have no reservations about bombing it and indeed, we have deliberately bombed many buildings which were entirely civilian in nature, with massive loss of innocent life. You can target Bin Laden as well as our own government with missiles and bombs and put out copntracts on our entire leadership, or you can declare both parties innocent of wrong-doing. OUR approach is transparent hypocrisy.

  11. ThorsProvoni says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    I would argue that Judonia just moved an operative from one party to the other so that he could be more effective. The Jewish Zionists in the Obama administration are discouraging prosecution of Jewish Zionists in the Bush administration because they are obviously one team with a single purpose of benefiting Judonia and with no compunction about shredding the legal system of the USA. Please note that the Specter move was fairly transparent. In contrast the Kennedy Hate Crimes Bill seems to involve plots within plots: Khaleej Times: Americans Divided by Hate Crimes Bill.

  13. Jacqueline_Hyde says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    You raise some good points. And I took another look. So there's cause for optimism; if the Lizard People pursue this extravagant course, bombing willy-nilly and what not, they're bound to self-destruct. Fall mountain, just not on me!

  14. jaime1007 says:
    May 15, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    The senator is the perfect example of calculate risk. Another stealth Zionist hawk. Who wouldn't recognized?

  15. Saleema says:
    May 16, 2009 at 3:07 am

    That picture was heartbreaking.

  16. RowanBerkeley says:
    May 16, 2009 at 5:05 am

    ahem… If the sun refused to shine I don't mind, I don't mind If the mountains fell in the sea Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through and I ain't gonna copy you. Now if six turned out to be nine I don't mind, I don't mind If all the hippies cut off all their hair I don't care, oh I don't care. 'Cause I've got my own world to live through and I ain't gonna copy you. White collar conservatives flashin' down the street Pointin' their plastic finger at me They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high Wave on, wave on… Fall, mountains, just don't fall on me Ride on, on mister business man, you can't dress like me Don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about I've got my own life to live I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die So let me live my life the way I want to

  17. Richard Witty says:
    May 16, 2009 at 7:01 am

    Of course there is Islamo-fascism in the world. Have you not heard of the Taliban? I hope you don't consider the manner in which they "govern" to be enlightened in any way. Recently, in Pakistan, Taliban forces reached 60 miles from the Pakistani capital, prospectively from the site of nuclear material. To use the term accurately is a good effort, and to oppose examples of the accurate use of the term militarily, is also a good effort.

  18. RowanBerkeley says:
    May 16, 2009 at 7:44 am

    muslim nazis with nukes, bla bla bla — what about jewish nazis with nukes? they seem to run the planet already. god, richard, you're so BORING!

  19. Margaret599 says:
    May 16, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Doing the monlith thing again, RW. The Taliban is not a solid interest group as we see in the US, unified and organized. The term as used encompasses people of many different and sometimes disparate backgrounds. Predation unifies; those predated upon gang up to defend themselves. Which keeps the cycle chugging along. Islamo-facism is a racist curseword, IMHO.

  20. Shafiq says:
    May 16, 2009 at 10:01 am

    By using the term Islamo-fascism, you've lost all my respect for you.

  21. Citizen says:
    May 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

    Who are the Taliban? http://matisak.blog.obroda.sk/blog/english_sectio... See if this historical analysis conjures up for you classical Fascism (Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy) as it does for Richard Witty.

  22. Citizen says:
    May 16, 2009 at 11:14 am

    "The principal objection to succumbing to the temptation to call Islamic fundamentalist movements like al-Qaeda and the Taliban fascist is that they are not reactions against a malfunctioning democracy. Arising in traditional hierarchical societies, their unity is, in terms of Emile Durkheim's famous distinction, more organic than mechanical. Above all, they have not "given up free institutions," since they never had any. 
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Anatomy...

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