Virginia Military Institute - East Meets West Conference
Subversives and supremacists have infiltrated the senior level of our most critical government and social institutions. The very idea that the Virginia Military Institute would be holding an Islamic historically fallacious ad propaganda conference on Cordoba, Islam's conquest over the West, is deeply disturbing. These are future military leaders. Talk about throwing sand in the eyes of your enemy. Who is conducting this education of our military? Reza Aslan. No, this is not a joke. Reza Aslan praises a group dedicated to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within."
Reza Aslan is a case study in the poverty and ideological bias of the mainstream media these days; his adolescent gutter mentality and abject intellectual vacuity do not stop mainstream media outlets from giving him a platform, for his trivial platitudes and patently deceptive nostrums fit in with their Leftist, anti-American ideology.The mainstream outlets that feature Aslan apparently do not mind that he is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council, a group that genuine Iranian pro-democracy forces regard as an apologetic vehicle for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nor do they care that he has tried to pass off Iran's genocidally-minded Thug-In-Chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a liberal reformer. They are unconcerned that Aslan has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with Hamas -- that is, with some of the most barbaric and murderous adherents of Sharia. He has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as "the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon," recalling the useful idiots and fellow travelers who used to praise Stalinist Russia and even Hitler's Germany for their social services apparatuses.
Now, unsurprisingly, this Fritz Kuhn for our age has found another Jew-hating, women-hating, kuffar-hating Islamic supremacist group to love: the Muslim Brotherhood. (This should come as no surprise: Aslan has previously spoken at events sponsored by the Muslim Students Association, a Brotherhood group.) And he is spreading that love in the Washington Post.
And I implore all Atlas readers to contact Major Amy K. DeHart, Acting Deputy Director and demand that real scholars come and speak to this. Robert Spencer or Sir Martin Gilbert, actual historians, not the enemy in our midst.
Ph: (540) 464-7740
Fax: (540) 464-7396
Ctr for Leadership & Ethics
Virginia Military Institute
225 Marshall Hall
Lexington, Virginia 24450
Here is the unwashed version of this brutal Islamic conquest, Cordoba. Cordoba is the site of the caliphate of Cordoba. There was a major pogrom against the Jews in the year 1011. If Cordoba was a golden age, it was for Muslim conquerors, but not for the Christians and the Jews who lived under dhimmitude, deprived of basic human rights, forced to pay an exorbitant poll tax, financing Muslim imperialism and conquest.
In the book Anti-Semitism: myth and hate from antiquity to the present, Frederick Schweitzer and Marvin Perry point out that the rosy view of Muslim Spain has been used since 1948 as "an Arab-Islamist weapon in what is primarily an ideological and political struggle against Israel." This misuse of history ignores "a catalog of lesser-known hatred and massacres," including the pogroms in Cordoba in 1011 and Granada in 1066 -- both perpetrated by Muslims.
Remember the martyrs of Cordoba.
Muslim Spain was supposed to have been a famous exception to the oppression of Jews that prevailed elsewhere among both Muslims and Christians. Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong enunciates the common wisdom when she says that "until 1492, Jews and Christians lived peaceably and productively together in Muslim Spain--a coexistence that was impossible elsewhere in Europe." Even the U.S. State Department has proclaimed that "during the Islamic period in Spain, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace and mutual respect, creating a diverse society in which vibrant exchanges of ideas took place."
Yet the philosopher Maimonides, a Jew who lived for a time in Muslim Spain and then fled that supposedly tolerant and pluralistic land, remarked, "You know, my brethren, that on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael, who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us....No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have....We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear."
Notably, Maimonides directed that Jews could teach rabbinic law to Christians, but not to Muslims. For Muslims, he said, will interpret what they are taught "according to their erroneous principles and they will oppress us. [F]or this reason ... they hate all [non-Muslims] who live among them." But the Christians, he said, "admit that the text of the Torah, such as we have it, is intact"--as opposed to the Islamic view that the Jews and Christians have corrupted their scriptures. Christians, continued Maimonides, "do not find in their religious law any contradiction with ours."
Even María Rosa Menocal, in her romantic and fantastic hagiography of Muslim Spain, The Ornament of the World, acknowledges the second-class status to which Jews and Christians were relegated there. "In return for this freedom of religious conscience the Peoples of the Book (pagans had no such privilege) were required to pay a special tax--no Muslims paid taxes--and to observe a number of restrictive regulations: Christians and Jews were prohibited from attempting to proselytize Muslims, from building new places of worship, from displaying crosses or ringing bells. In sum, they were forbidden most public displays of their religious rituals."
According to historian Richard Fletcher, "Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch." On December 30, 1066, about four thousand Jews in Granada were murdered by rioting Muslim mobs--more than would be killed in the Crusaders' infamous Rhineland pogroms of the mid-twelfth century. What enraged the Granadan Muslims was the political power of the Jewish vizier Samuel ibn Naghrila and his son Joseph: the mob resented the fact that these men had authority over Muslims, which they saw as a "breach of sharia." The mob was incited to kill the Jews by a poem composed by Muslim jurist Abu Ishaq: "I myself arrived in Granada and saw that these Jews were meddling in its affairs. ... So hasten to slaughter them as a good work whereby you will earn God's favor, and offer them up in sacrifice, a well-fattened ram."
The mob heeded his call. A Muslim chronicler (and later sultan of Granada), 'Abd Allah, said that "both the common people and the nobles were disgusted by the cunning of the Jews, the notorious changes they had brought in the order of things, and the positions they occupied in violation of their pact [of second-class status]." He recounted that the mob "put every Jew in the city to the sword and took vast quantities of their property."
It is no accident that th Ground Zero mosquestrosity has been named "Cordoba House."
711-2011: East Meets West ConferenceLexington, Virginia, 23 – 25 March 2011
Diplomacy and Democratization • History, Culture, Religion, Arts & Architecture • Cultural Gala - Music, Food, Dance, Film • Economics & Trade • Hopes for the FutureA fusion between two worlds began 1300 years ago with Tariq ibn Ziyad’s crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar in 711. Please join us to commemorate the brilliant contributions resulting from the blending of eastern and western cultures. The agenda will tell the vital story of the achievements when Christians, Jews, and Muslims thrived side by side in Western Europe, building a society that lit the Dark Ages. Experts will discuss how to transform education, promote tolerance, civility, political reform, and advance human development so that we can emulate the spirit and triumphs of the early years.
Guest Speakers Include:
Dr. Reza Aslan Ambassador Akbar Ahmed
Notorious Propagandist Professor Islamic Studies American University
Ahmadinejad puppet and operative
Contact Major Amy K. DeHart, Acting Deputy Director and demand that real scholars come and speak to this. Robert Spencer or Sir Martin Gilbert, Ibn Warraq, actual historians, not the enemy in our midst.
Ph: (540) 464-7740
Fax: (540) 464-7396
Ctr for Leadership & Ethics
Virginia Military Institute
225 Marshall Hall
Lexington, Virginia 24450
You do not invite Goebbels to speak at a US Military instituion at the height of the Reich.
