What it takes to get an award from the AEI
At his speech accepting the AEI's Irving Kristol award, frighteningly influential Princeton professor Bernard Lewis, "described Muslim migration to Europe as an Islamic attack on the West," and "also gave a ringing endorsement for the ill-fated Crusades, which spanned two centuries starting in 1095, when various European armies tried to regain the “Holy Land” for Christendom. "
He "warned in his lecture that the West — particularly Europe — was losing its fervor and conviction in the face of an epochal challenge from the Islamic world. The Islamic world, he said, was now attacking the West using two tactics: terrorism and migration."
Dick Cheney was there.... applauding.
He "warned in his lecture that the West — particularly Europe — was losing its fervor and conviction in the face of an epochal challenge from the Islamic world. The Islamic world, he said, was now attacking the West using two tactics: terrorism and migration."
Dick Cheney was there.... applauding.
posted by mikevotes at
3:14 PM
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They used to say basically the same thing about my Italian forebears. Some people just need someone to hate.
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Anonymous, at 6:09 PM
It's just amazing to me, openly acussing all muslims and gaining high praise of the richest "think tank."
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:40 PM
Set the Way-Back machine to 1938 and you could swap Jew for Muslim in that little xenophobic spew.
And those of us familiar with the history of the Northeast (NY and NE) remember hearing stories of how the Irish Catholics were a plague on the Protestant-pure United States of Angloland.
This sort of jingoistic blend of fear and hate is like oxygen to the fire of unrest in the Eastern world. Whenever a radical Muslim needs a tool to recruit new young radicals, all he need to is point to the AEI and their kind. They don't need to create recruiting material, we do it for them.
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-epm, at 8:44 AM
Exactly.
And Dick Cheney was there, applauding.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:46 AM
Do you ever get the feeling that Cheney feels Hitler was just misunderstood? I wonder where many of these neo-cons would have stood in the war debates of the 1930s. I think they'd be standing next to Ford and Lindberg.
(I realize there are a number of Jews in this modern neo-con camp, so I don't want to draw too close an analogy. Suffice it to say, I'm talking about the broader issues of Hitler's Third Reich wanting to ensure the ethnic purity of his nation from a viral, pestilent "other.")
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-epm, at 9:42 AM
You don't have to worry, we've talked enough I'm not going to shout Holocaust denier at you.
If you want to remove the stigma, I would say they would have definitely stood with the fascists because I think they would've been as supportive of Mousolini and Hitler.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 11:40 AM
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