Rod Dreher, has an excellent column about Muslim Brotherhood offshoots in the USA. CAIR uses the term ‘Islamophobia’ as a weapon to silence people who merely observe that Muslim terrorists are blowing up stuff. Clearly, not all Muslims blow up, but enough do to make infidels fearful (phobic) of Muslims. By analogy he explains that not all snakes are poisonous, but enough are, to make most people fearful of all snakes. Not all bees sting, but enough do, to make many people bee-phobic.

According to witnesses, what did one of the Glasgow would-be terror bombers scream as he emerged out of his burning SUV?

(a) “Freebird! Freebird!”

(b) “Allah! Allah!”

(c) “How dare you ask such an Islamophobic question?!”

The correct answer is, of course, (b), as the accused terrorists fancied themselves holy warriors. But as far as the Muslim victim lobby and its media fellow travelers are concerned, the answer is now and ever shall be (c). In their self-pitying view, only bigots notice such things.

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” said George Orwell. Six years after 9/11, it is obvious that we aren’t struggling hard enough.

With the Holy Land Foundation trial getting under way in Dallas, the usual suspects are dragging out the baseless Islamophobia accusations again. No one can deny that there are people who hate Muslims and shame on them for it. The Islamophobia mantra, though, is intended not to inform public discussion but to discourage it through moral bullying and blunderbuss.

You, too, would want to discourage critical inquiry and discussion if you were a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust all named by federal prosecutors as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case. Not only have leading members of these organizations been closely associated with extremist ideology, all three groups have deep roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, a powerful movement working globally to establish Islamic rule.

The Brotherhood’s motto? “Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our inspiration.”

A 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation turned up documents and interviews revealing the extent of the Brotherhood’s presence in America and showing how its front groups hide a disturbing agenda behind a benign public mask.

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Two things give CAIR and similar Islamic organizations legitimacy: the unwillingness of the mainstream media to ask critical questions about their ideology and funding, and President Bush’s continuing public embrace of these groups – even as his administration marginalizes Muslims trying to warn the American public that these Islamist organizations are bad news.Read the article