Insanity & Colmes
Kathy Shaidle and I have commented recently on how unhinged Alan Colmes is. (And I was wrong, Kathy. He doesn’t look like Martin Short on a bender, as I wrote before. He looks like my second grade teacher, Mrs. Leuchterhand, butched up. Lovely, lovely woman.)
I don’t want to say he’s tight-assed, but you couldn’t pull a pin out of his sphincter with a tractor.
ALAN COLMES: In a major setback for the U.S. government, a Texas judge declared a mistrial today for five of the six defendants in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trial. Federal prosecutors were trying to the…several former leaders of a Muslim charity group to the – they were trying to tie them to the terrorist organization HAMAS. After three not guilty verdicts that prompted protests from members of the jury, Judge Joe Fish rendered his unusual decision.
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STEVEN EMERSON: Well, Alan, let’s get the story straight. First of all, what happened was that when the jury foreman said that they were all acquitted or found not guilty, then the judge polled the jurors and found out that some actually said that they were guilty. So on five of the six defendants there’s a mistrial. That means there’s going to be a redo entirely. So they were not acquitted, Alan. And on the sixth one, the number one count, conspiracy to carry out terrorism, still stands.
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COLMES: Well, let me just correct you, Steve, because there were acquittals here. To say there were no acquittals is inaccurate. The charity fundraiser Mufid Abdulqader was acquitted on all counts. Two others, the former chairman and the group’s New Jersey representative were acquitted on most counts. So there were those acquittals that took place.
EMERSON: You’re absolutely wrong, Alan.
COLMES: That’s what happened, Steve.
EMERSON: Alan, the government ruled that five of the six defendants, there was a mistrial. They will be retried in their entirety. I don’t know where you’re reading from. You’re reading –
COLMES: I’m reading from The New York Times, the Associated Press—reported exactly what I just said.
EMERSON: You’re reading, Alan, on five, read my lips. Five of the six –
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EMERSON: Alan, you know what? I don’t want to engage in further argument, because you’re wasting a lot of valuable time. But you’ve got it wrong.
COLMES: First of all, don’t insult me, Steve. The fact is I’m reporting to you what the Associated Press and The New York Times reported.
EMERSON: I’m sorry, Alan, what can I tell you?
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OLIVER NORTH: Steven Emerson, let me ask, for the benefit of our audience that may not know quite as much about these groups as perhaps you do or I do, and obviously Alan needs to learn more, just…
COLMES: I don’t need to learn more. Look, Ollie, stop that. That’s not fair.
NORTH: Let me just ask the question.
COLMES: I’m telling what the Associated Press and The New York Times reported.
NORTH: And they’re always right?
COLMES: That’s not a fair statement.
NORTH: And they’re always right?
COLMES: I’m telling you what’s been in the mainstream press, what [UI] sources have reported.
EMERSON: Alan, you stopped reading at the wrong time, Alan.
I see Steve Emerson as Sugar Ray Robinson and Alan Colmes as Jake LaMotta. Emerson revisits the dispute later in his blog and gets a few more good shots in. Ollie is more like the referee who stops the fight.
Muslims Against Sharia said,
November 9, 2007 @ 2:52 am
Emerson, a Jew who gets it
A perspective of a moderate Muslim
At the risk of sounding anti-Semitic, I want to say this: either American Jews are completely clueless about the internal struggle inside Islam or they are so cowardly, that they are even afraid to voice their opinion. Or maybe it’s a combination of both.
Every time there is a development that involves radical Islam, be it a Mayor of New York attending an Islamist parade, DOJ’s officials attending an Islamist conference, or a protester being sued for having the balls to expose an Islamist-sponsored event at an amusement park, the American Jewish community is as quiet as a church mouse. It’s like it is not even there.
The effect of this silence is devastating. Not for the Jewish community, not yet. That time is still to come. The silence affects the American Muslim community. Every time moderate Muslims are ignored and Islamists are legitimized (by either direct support from government representatives or silent support of the ADL), radicals gain ground. In the current PC climate, moderate Muslims have pretty much no choice but to keep their mouths shut.
Luckily for us, not everyone in the Jewish community is like that. There are some Jews that are speaking out. One of them is Steven Emerson, who has been warning the West about the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism since before PanAm 103. Most of his current work is focused on exposing the radicals masquerading as the moderates – those radicals who are embraced by the DOJ and the Pentagon, by the mayor of New York Bloomberg (Rudy would never get into bed with terrorist supporters) and the Treasury Department, by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, by the Congress and the White House.
There is a war of ideas within Islam, and moderate Muslims are losing. Most of Muslim clergy and Muslim establishment are paid for by the Wahhabis. Moderate Muslims are being run out of Mosques and community centers, and in many cases are physically threatened. Moderate Muslims have no place in the media or public debate, because the place reserved for Muslims is filled by Islamic radicals, who attempt to make criticizing anything Islamic a taboo. According to the Islamists, a Muslim can do no wrong.
1. When a non-Muslim criticizes Islam or Muslims, he/she is an Islamophobe.
2. When a Muslim criticizes Islam or Muslim, he/she is not a real Muslim, therefore see #1.
This is a tactic used by “moderate” Muslims, the darlings of the government and the media. But how can you call someone who praises bin Laden, or has ties to Hamas, or calls for the elimination of Israel, or wants to replace the Constitution with the Koran a moderate? They are anything but moderates, however nobody except for a few people like Steven Emerson seems to notice that. But even when the Emersons of America appeal to the public, they are often being dismissed as alarmists and racists. Well, they are anything, but. You don’t have to be a clairvoyant to predict the future when it comes to expansion of radical Islam and extinction of moderate Muslims. All you need to do is get your heads out of the sand.
Why our government is so forgiving and forgetful when it comes to individuals or organizations with known terrorist ties and anti-American views is beyond me. Why the Jewish leaders are so timid when it comes to the subject of radical Islam is incomprehensible.
I thank God every day for people like Steven Emerson, because they are the last glimmer of hope for moderate Muslims.
K.M.
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