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.
