QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:36 A.M. ET:  Andy McCarthy does some of the best work on exposing radical Islam.  He's been there.  A former federal prosector, he prosecuted the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993.  Today he asks, "Which Islam Will Prevail in America?"  Consider this:

Most of the mosques and Islamic centers in our country are controlled, to a greater or lesser degree, by the Muslim Brotherhood and its satellites. The North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) was established in the early Seventies to buy up property for the establishment of American mosques and “Islamic centers,” the latter being what the Brotherhood calls “the axis” of the Islamist movement in America. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) supplies literature and vets imams. Both NAIT and ISNA, along with CAIR and other Brotherhood groups, were identified by the Justice Department as unindicted coconspirators in the recent Hamas-financing prosecution against the Holy Land Foundation. These Islamists owe their vision to the Brotherhood. Just as important, they owe their livelihood, influence, and power to moneyed Middle East patrons, particularly the Saudis. 

Oh dear, how politically incorrect.  We must not say things like that.  It could upset people, and that's why they attack us.

In fact, America has been remarkably generous toward Islam, despite some extraordinarily disturbing things that are taught in mosques in the United States. 

The Kingdom and the Brotherhood have combined for a half-century to put American Muslim communities in a stranglehold. They proselytize a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam — an amalgam of Saudi Wahhabism and Brotherhood Salafism — that is virulently anti-Western. Its instruction to Muslims in the United States, Canada, and Europe is voluntary apartheid: Immigrate but don’t integrate, infiltrate but don’t assimilate.

We were able to ask questions, present challenges, and even take legal action when it became clear that there were rogue priests inside the Catholic Church who were engaged in child molestation.  Religious freedom has survived in the United States, and the overwhelming majority of American Catholics have supported the right to ask questions and seek justice. 

Somehow, though, in some circles, it is considered "culturally offensive" to question anything that goes on in Islam.  We usually get something like, "Who are we to question another culture?"  We're thoughtful, informed citizens, that's who we are.  And we will continue to question, and to be informed by writers like Andy McCarthy.

August 22, 2010