In the race to the bottom for votes to win office, or to preserve themselves
in office, it would be difficult to out-run Republicans as they pander to
the Hispanic vote by refusing to control our southern border against an
invasion by millions of illegal aliens. Democrats are trying and they may
soon pass Republicans in their cynical pursuit of political power.
At the Democrats' "winter meeting" (they used to call it a "retreat," before
that word conjured up negative implications about the war), a clergyman was
asked to deliver the invocation. He was Husham Al-Husainy of the Karbalaa
Islamic Education Center, a Shi'ite mosque in Dearborn, Mich.
According to a transcript published on the Website HotAir.com, Al-Husainy
offered a prayer with anti-American and anti-Israel undertones: "We thank
you God, to send us your messages through our father Abraham and Moses and
Jesus and Mohammed. Through you, God, we unite. So guide us to the right
path. The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom.
Help us God to liberate and fill this earth with justice and peace and love
and equality. And help us to stop the war and violence, and oppression and
occupationŠ"
To the untrained ear and uninformed mind, the first part sounds kind of
ecumenical, a type of universalism and religious correctness, in which
everybody's biblical or Koranic figures get equal billing, so as not to
offend. But Muslims see all of these religious leaders as Muslim prophets.
Their view is that Abraham, Moses and Jesus taught Islam and that the Jews
and Christians perverted the Islamic faith and, according to some, deserve
death for doing so.
Al-Husainy was engaging in something more dangerous than prayer. He
proclaimed religious superiority and triumphalism. Surely Democrats do not
subscribe to his not-so-subtle religious doublespeak, which places the
United States and Israel among the people God "dooms." Neither do most
Democrats believe that all of Israel is occupied and that "oppression and
occupation" applies to the Jews who live there and must be evicted. So why
invite a clergyman who leads them in such a prayer? It isn't that his
background is unknown.