Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Red Scare Redux: Islamofascists
Posted by:
Hammer / 9:03 AM
Agape
reports:
...While America took time over the weekend to honor those who have given their all to protect the nation's freedoms, word of a new internal threat has surfaced. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy says a new threat is facing the nation and must be acknowledged. He says it is linked to the war on terror. "Radical ideology that is masquerading as a religion in the Muslim faith ... is taking hold not only in parts of the world that we're familiar with, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bosnia, and Indonesia, but also here in the United States," he says. Gaffney labels that ideology as "'Islamofacism [sic]" -- and he says it has infiltrated America's prisons, military, colleges, and even its political system. If it is not dealt with, he says it will be to the nation's moral peril.
Unless Gaffney is talking about Bandar Bush, he's just plain silly. The Taliban has moles inside the Pentagon? Al Qaeda operatives have infiltrated Congress? Scare tactics and smears, that's all they've got.