The establishment media’s disconnect with the American people

Watching the Sunday morning talk shows leads a viewer to conclude these TV hosts with their Beltway regulars are living in an alternate universe. While there can and should be an honest debate about whether or not a mosque should be built near the World Trade Center site, it is dishonest to label close to 70 percent of the American public as Islamophobes and bigots. All the hand-wringing, sighing and pained expressions! The incomprehension at how hundreds of millions of citizens could be so misinformed, so misguided! It must be the fault of fear mongers and opportunistic politicians! But not to worry, the valiant, extravagantly-paid journalist celebrities of the “establishment media” will expose the retrogrades, castigate the perpetrators of ignorance and educate the unwashed masses!

Perhaps the low point of the morning was Christaine Amanpour’s interview with Daisy Kahn, the wife of Imam Feisal Rauf. At one point Ms. Kahn, in sorrowful tones, compared the resistance to building the mosque with anti-Semitism. This from the wife of the man who will not condemn Hamas, a terrorist organization openly dedicated to the extermination of Israel. Not surprisingly, the remark went unchallenged by Ms. Amanpour. Anti-Semitism is an irrational hatred of a people simply because of who they are. How dare Ms. Kahn compare this despicable, centuries-old behavior to the completely rational and justifiable concerns that growing numbers of Americans are feeling when it comes to radical Islam!

What’s remarkable about the American people is not their sense of outrage, but their restraint. The pundits of the “establishment media” want the American people to suspend their good judgment and their own innate sense of self-preservation in the name of some abstract and mindless tolerance. But tolerance of what? As has been pointed out many times, all Muslims are not terrorists — but 99.9 percent of terrorists are Muslim.

Islamic radicals have committed 15,897 deadly terror attacks around the world since 9/11. This is as of Monday, August 21st. These bombings, assassinations, beheadings and various outrages haven’t been committed by Sikhs, Lutherans, Buddhists, Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Zoroastrians or atheists. They were committed by the jihadists of Allah, encouraged by imams and ayatollahs and plotted from mosques and Islamic centers. This isn’t speculation. It’s established fact.

Some of the 9/11 terrorists plotted at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in northern Virginia, whose Imam was Anwar Al-Awlaqi, now hiding somewhere in Yemen. The Ft. Hood jihadist had connections to this mosque and Al-Awlaqi. The blind sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, one of the ringleaders of the ‘93 World Trade Center bombing, was the leader of the al-Salaam Mosque in New Jersey. The rapidly growing Somali Muslim immigrant population has been followed by numerous arrests of Somali Muslims, most recently fourteen arrested in three states on charges of providing material support to terrorist organizations — something unheard of just ten years ago. “Homegrown terrorism” is becoming an increasingly dangerous threat.