Benghazi Investigator Slams America and ‘Islamophobes’

America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration’s lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities.

So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on “what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia,” a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islam’s stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of “McCarthyism,” hurling the epithet “Islamophobe” the same way American leftists use the word “racist” to shut down debate.

Pickering’s pontifications came two and a half weeks after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named him to head a State Department “Accountability Review Board” tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding the deaths on Sept. 11, 2012, the 11th anniversary of 9/11, of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and security personnel Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

At last week’s panel discussion, Pickering piously but incorrectly invoked the Holocaust to argue that American Muslims were somehow in danger.

“I’m not great at quotations,” he said, foreshadowing a misattribution to come.

“Perhaps it was [German theologian and dissident] Dietrich Bonhoeffer who said of the Nazis, when they came for the Jews, I didn’t speak up. I was not a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didn’t speak up, I was not a Catholic. When they came for us, no one spoke up. There was no one left to do so,” Pickering said, paraphrasing famous, poignant verses actually spoken by Third Reich-era German pastor Martin Niemoller.

Pickering said that Americans’ lack of familiarity with Islam –and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans— fuels hostility toward Muslims.

“Data shows that those Americans who do not know Muslims, who do not know much about Islam, are the ones who harbor the greatest feelings of prejudice,” he said.

There is a “strong, continuing, and perhaps, in an unfortunate way in some areas, growing, prejudice against Muslims and Islam,” he said.

However, he added that veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have so far avoided embracing this anti-Islamic bigotry. “Many of the soldiers are still serving and I think that also is helpful because they understand that as loyal Americans that kind of prejudice is not to be expressed.”

Pickering urged what might amount to a zero-tolerance policy against so-called Islamophobes in American society. “There are strong efforts as well that we must make to deal with opinion leaders who harbor these prejudices, who espouse them and spread them,” he said.

Although the former envoy did not elaborate on what those “strong efforts” might consist of, his statement is worrisome. The Obama administration is openly hostile to the First Amendment.

After the Benghazi debacle, President Obama went before the United Nations General Assembly and apologized for America’s free speech protections. Pushing the false cover story that the attacks on U.S. missions this past Sept. 11 were prompted by an anti-Islam video virtually no one saw, the president said that “the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Weeks before that, Department of Justice official Thomas Perez pointedly refused during a congressional hearing to rule out supporting Saudi-style anti-blasphemy laws.

Pickering wasn’t the only panelist last week to describe ordinary Americans as a threat to Muslim inhabitants of the United States.

In a particularly revealing soliloquy, Arab American Institute president James J. Zogby, whose younger brother is renowned pollster John Zogby, passionately inveighed against his fellow Americans, and particularly Tea Party supporters, labeling them dangerous racist Islamophobes:

“I think that there’s a direct correlation between the president of the United States and Islamophobia. As we do our polling, we find that it is not the universal phenomenon. This hatred toward Muslims is largely concentrated with middle class, middle age, white people, and then it overlaps almost identically with the Tea Party. It is not a Republican thing. It’s a generational thing.

And it is a phenomenon born of a simple set of conditions, collapse of home mortgages, foreclosures increasing, pensions in collapse when the stock market went down, unemployment doubling, the decline of the American dream. In our polling we always used, when we’d say, are your children going to be better off than you, that’s the American dream question, we’d get two thirds saying yes. We now get two thirds saying no.

And in the midst of all of that this group of white middle aged, middle class men looked around and saw a young African-American, educated at Harvard with a middle name Hussein, and didn’t like the president of the United States of America. It fueled this phenomenon and it opened the door for the wedge issue to operate and it’s operating simply among that demographic. It’s not a universal phenomenon. It’s not found among African-Americans or Asians or Latinos. It’s not found among young white kids. It’s not found among college educated professional women. It’s found in that one narrow demographic. That’s where the bad numbers come from.

He continued: “And I think that, if, we had, I have a lot of gripes with George Bush, but if he were president, he would be doing what he did, which is put his foot down and say stop. I think we would not be seeing the phenomenon growing as we see it growing. But the problem is is that if Barack Obama says stop they say, you’re just the damn problem to begin with, you’re not one of us anyway,” Zogby said, affecting an accent that might be characterized as “redneck” or “country.”

There is “an overlay between the racism and the Islamophobia” that is “being used as a wedge issue” against President Obama, he said. Zogby also described controversial Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Muslim and an extreme left-winger, as “a gift to America and Congress, an extraordinary person who could not be better than he is.”

It should be noted that Zogby’s views are unremarkable in leftist circles. They are within the mainstream of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1984 Zogby was a senior advisor to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign.

Pickering said he agreed with Zogby’s critique. “Let me just go further,” he said. “Jim, I agree with what you say about both domestic politics and the wedge issue and the effect on the attitude towards the president. I’m deeply concerned.”

The fact that the U.S. has “fought two long, difficult, and fruitless, in my view, wars against countries which are Islamic and in which that particular set of issues contribute to stereotyping, to phobia, to basically loose talk, jokes, and all the things that go to tend to make up bigotry and in a sense authorize it because we were at war, is, in my view, part and parcel of the phenomenon that we see now,” he said.

Pickering also praised his fellow panelists American Association for Muslim Advancement executive director Daisy Khan, and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, as “wonderful people” whose “hopes and aspirations … we all, I believe, widely share.”

Khan and Rauf are prime movers behind the proposal to build a victory mosque near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Khan becomes apoplectic when discussing those who question the wisdom of building a Muslim holy site so close to the place where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in an Islamist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Asked in 2010 if America was “Islamophobic,” Khan replied that “It’s not even Islamophobia, it’s beyond Islamophobia — it’s hate of Muslims.”

Critics say Pickering is unfit to head any probe of what happened in Benghazi because he harbors sympathy for Islamism and is suspiciously cozy with Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The former envoy has ties to the pro-Iran Islamist front group known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC recently lost an important defamation case in federal court in which it unsuccessfully argued the group was not a tool of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

NIAC is one of several “Jihadist entities hostile to American interests,” according to an influential report by Clare M. Lopez of the Center for Security Policy. NIAC is involved in “a de facto partnership” with its notorious Islamist ally “the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs’ party line.” CAIR is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation trials.

Pickering counsels against attacking Iran, arguing war with that country “would be madness, and catastrophic for U.S. interests.” He wants the U.S. to resume diplomatic relations with Iran, which were severed in 1980 after Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. Embassy and 52 Americans.

Pickering opposes proposed legislation that would make it “illegal for any American diplomat to have any contact with an Iranian official.” He supports a plan for a multinational uranium enrichment consortium in Iran, which is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.

The U.S. has had a trade embargo in effect against oil-rich Iran since 1995. Pickering desperately wants trade sanctions relaxed.

Composing an op-ed from a parallel universe in which Iran doesn’t put homosexuals and religious dissenters to death, finance Islamofascist terrorism, or aspire to vaporize Israel, three months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Pickering argued that Iran was bursting with “big opportunities” for the United States.

“Iran could become a stabilizing influence in a congenitally unstable region,” he wrote Dec. 28, 2001, in the Washington Post.

Iran “has attributes unique to the region: rudimentary but real politics based on free elections; a legitimate government; a history and culture all its own; and uncontested borders fixed by that experience, rather than imposed by other governments,” Pickering opined. “Iran has had its revolution and never come close to imploding. Support for the hard-line Islamist clerics who came to power in that revolution has dwindled. Iran is a largely moderate and pro-American society.”

Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s cover-up of its catastrophic failures in Benghazi continues to flounder.

On Oct. 31 Catherine Herridge of Fox News reported that Stevens personally begged for adequate security for the consulate in a classified cable sent to Secretary Clinton’s office on Aug. 16. “There can be no doubt that this is really a cry for help from the people on the ground,” Herridge said, referring to the cable as “the smoking gun warning.”

“If you couple this with the fact that we were coming up with the 9/11 anniversary and if you couple this with the statements that a videotape was somehow responsible, what you see is that is completely undercut. This cable says that, ‘The militias and al-Qaeda are here, we essentially think that we are next.’ So to take this attack and to suggest for such a long period of time that it was [an anti-Islam] video when you have a classified cable and the intelligence, it just doesn’t match up,” she said.

“I can’t think of anything that would be more specific than if these [terrorist] groups had emailed the State Department and said, ‘Here’s the time, here’s the place, and here’s the method of the attack,’” she said.

“I think it’s important that the people who lost their lives have themselves honored with the facts and I think we’re starting to get the facts,” Herridge said.

With Ambassador Pickering steering the official State Department investigation, those facts seem likely to be sacrificed to political expediency.

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  • Sashland

    Pickering's Islamofellatio

  • Moishe Pupick

    F., 11/02/12 common era

    If many Moslems AREN'T jihadis, that's in spite of the Koran's theology and not because of it. Pickering is merely another useful idiot for The Moslem Brotherhood, an ally of Nazi Germany during World War 2.
    It's objectively not "phobic" to fear a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Sadly, with the demise of critical thinking in America's public (read "government/NEA") schools, many people will vote to re-elect Barry Soetoro because they think that he is their saviour or Santa Claus.

  • http://twitter.com/ylem0 @ylem0

    We can see what Muslims have done to other countries and what Muslim men do to children and to women. We can see Islamic women who are willing to turn their children into a bomb to blow up innocent people. We can see what Sharia does to Muslims.

    One thing is for sure… Congress needs to appoint an outside investigator that isn't loyal to Obama.

    • Sunbeam

      Yes, you're bright and absolutely correct. I'm with you. And what about the others? I sincerely hope that all Americans would make the same stand as what you've requested here. If the enemy should work against itself it will surely collapse. "Congress needs to appoint an independent body as its investigator". .

    • Mary Sue

      getting a Kenneth Star or other Independent Prosecutor for something like this will be like pulling teeth.

  • Ghostwriter

    I agree with much of the article but one part stood out. It said that wasn't Islam ITSELF that Americans have a problem with,it's been Islamic TERRORISM,and the lack of condemnation of it from the Muslim world itself. For years,the Muslim world has been silent as Islamic terrorists murder Americans and others for no reason other than they don't practice the same religion they do. If Muslims actively protested these crimes and were visible in doing so,then Americans would feel better about their religion but they don't do that. They've NEVER condemned a single act of terrorism against Americans in all the years Islamic terrorism has been going on.
    As for Thomas Pickering,he's a fool. The Iranian mullahs are no friend of freedom. They're bloodthirsty beasts who want to kill non-Muslims. I wish he and others like him would wake up. These people mean what they say. They want to kill everyone who ISN'T Muslim. The sooner we realize that,the sooner we can think of ways to deal with these butchers.

    • Mary Sue

      well, I think it is valid to say that the muslims that could be condemning it are too scared to speak up. I think there was an article on Jihadwatch not long ago about an Imam who wasn't even really that moderate who preached that killing other muslims was bad, and the jihadis put a bullet in him.

      • Sunbeam

        Yes, they are too scared……knowing there were criminal thugs.

  • Dan

    Maybe Thomas Pickering should talk to the christians in the middle east, who are being persecuted on a daily basis by Muslims, or go to Saudi Arabia and ask if he could build a Christian church or Jewish synagogue there, or better yet go to Mecca, the Muslims there I'm sure would be open to Christians and Jews and would help them build a place of worship, I'm sure he would get a warm welcome. Thomas Pickering is foolish if he thinks Americans don't see what's happening not only in the middle east but all over the world. I think the writings on the wall, with all that's going on in Egypt and an Obama supported radical Muslim Brotherhood President (Morsi) in Egypt isn't waking people up I don't know what will. God Bless all Real Freedom Fighting Patriots.

  • Gene W 1938

    use the outline of the one page proof that God authored the Bible to evalute the Koran [http colon // jc dot does-it dot net] and it will be bundantly clear that satan is its author.
    So iftruth and true fact is hate than what is lying?

  • Mari Jo O'Neill

    We do need to get Obama out, he has refused since he took office to use the words "terror or terrorism" and that is a reason that he cannot be trsuted. When the Fort Hood shootings occured everyone knew that Hasann was a :terrorist" but Obama refused to call his actions a "terrorist attack". Instead he calls it works place violence. This fraud in the White House needs to be put out. There are people in the White House that are in favor of these terrorists and their Sharia Law. There are judges in this Country who would like to use this law. People need to wake up and vote to get Obama out before it's too late.

  • Jim_C

    Good luck with the Benghazi "coverup," I'm sure the lid's ready to blow right off!

    Once Obama's re-elected, will this story fade, or will it get kooky "birther" legs? Can't wait to find out!

    • Mary Sue

      1. the birther thing Ironically was started by Obama himself, back in 1996 where a pamphlet introducing him as a speaker to some place said he was born in Kenya.

      2. There's nothing Birther about this. There are facts here and the mainstream press are sitting on them hoping nobody notices so that Obama can have a chance in hell of being re-elected.

  • mlcblog

    Another Obama stooge. Anything to protect Islam the holy from having anything bad said about it. PIckering is a fool.

  • Jim_C

    "As Obama's coverup disintegrates…" yeah, almost as if it never existed to begin with! LOL

    I think this situation calls for–you guessed it! another GOP independent investigator!

    I mean at some point, conservative media is eventually going to have to report some facts about the event rather than speculate over "rumors." Come on, go git 'em, tigers!

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "I mean at some point, conservative media is eventually going to have to report some facts about the event rather than speculate over "rumors." Come on, go git 'em, tigers!"

      Fact: The Whitehouse monitored the attacks in real-time and prevented any defensive response. Fact: the Whitehouse lied about it's awareness and root causes.

      Fact: You have psychotic delusions about facts.

      • Jim_C

        Not facts.

        Wishes.

        From conservatives who wish bad things would happen to this country so the guy they like almost as little as the one in office can get in.

    • Mary Sue

      oh yeah because the Mainstream Media is reporting all the facts religiously. Oh wait…

      • Jim_C

        I'm sure some "conservative" "reporter" will blow the lid off this thing any day now!

        • Mary Sue

          CBS news irresponsibly sat on some audio of an interview with obama until just yesterday! They had it for a WHOLE MONTH and didn't say anything.

  • alantatanka

    The only reason we are not a Sharia nation yet is because there is not enough of them here yet. They and the left will use our own laws to destroy our country.

  • joe

    I have three usa soldiers sending me E_mails from the battles & conflicks they are in, they all say the same thing,these people don't know the word civil. They are not smart,they are jackles.wake up america.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "these people don't know the word civil"

      Nor concept of civil society in any way, from accepting the facts of microbiology to rule of law that was not derived from the moon god.

  • elvischronicles

    Just in case you didn't know, most people who work in the State Dept, for a Democrat president, are basically Leftists. So, once again, those of us who have been learning about Islam, the Qur'an, the Hadiths, the Sunna, we don't know our butts from holes in the ground, but some guy who spends all his time with C.A.I.R. and other lying spokesmen for the Muslim Brotherhood, has the nerve to call us Islamophobes? Ah, you see, there's nothing to worry about if a Muslim has a gun and starts yelling, "Allahu Akbar." How about Mr. Pickering answer the door when the gun-toting Muslim comes a knocking at the door of his house.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "How about Mr. Pickering answer the door when the gun-toting Muslim comes a knocking at the door of his house."

      Useful idiots are kept alive for longer than most, usually. Stevens is of course not the only exception to that rule.

  • toto

    People like this just make me lose it! He is a traitor to America, for God's sake, MUSLIM RADICALS are attacking us violently and culturally. The insanity must stop, if Obama wins, our country will be in mortal danger with nut jobs like this holding positions of power.

  • pierce

    We certainly have some very astute observations and ideas on this page. Now all we have to do is get a new president elected next Tuesday. If all these people get to the election stations (polls) on Tuesday, we will have no trouble ending the aspirations of Barack Obama for a 2nd term.

  • Mikado Cat

    This guy is just too wise and insightful to waste on a inquiry, send him straight to the consulate in Libya to fix everything with the misunderstood innocent Muslims.

  • Sunbeam

    Pickering is either a liar or an ignoramus. It's a shame to have this people stack against their own. These are seen as traitors of the land sold to the adversaries. He calls it a "benign religion"??? Everyone knows this to be a malignum invasive religion, and yet he calls it benign. He thinks he can fool the people, maybe those who are ignorant just like him.

  • montanamiles

    So the fox put another fox in as lead investigator and he blames we the people in nearly the same way that the video was originally used to blame for the attack in Benghazi. Time to catch the fox by the tail, or should that be tale, and throw him out of office. Time to vote Obama out.

  • Sunbeam

    With just three more days to go before the election, all Americans should call out their gang to come out together this time around for the last time to cast in their vote to the right side, failing which would be detrimental to America's long legacy. of this free land. Americans must learn not to take things for granted, especially peace and free will for granted. You've learn what Islam is all about and not doing anything to prevent its advancing shall be a bitter lesson to all. Please do not learn thru the hard way. Equip yourself with all the knowledge and wisdom you can get hold on and do whatever you can in your entirety to deal with the issue as it is. It takes everyone to work and to work.

  • Howard

    Too bad pickling wasn’t there instead of Chris & the three men (SEALS) that were, Pickles could have got on his knees and bow to low-life Allah-BOB-ON-ITZ & to sympathetically curl to his fatal positions as the misunderstood mozlemz de & beheaded him.!!!

  • Ogutai

    “Data shows that those Americans who do not know Muslims, who do not know much about Islam, are the ones who harbor the greatest feelings of prejudice,” he said. I came from a muslim country; I grew up in a muslim country and neighborhood; I studied Islam thoroughly. Heck, I was married to a muslim woman. It is not prejudice. It is based on my factual knowledge about Islam that I believe I am qualified to say: Islam is a menace to mankind!

    • Sunbeam

      Thank you for your truthfulness, Ogutai. Do educate those who are still ignorant of this truth. We praise your honesty.

  • Wallace Brand

    Pickering is a fox investigating the chickens.

  • http://youtu.be/dnnExRYQ9CY Rob

    This guy is pathetic. Who is the president? This video answers. http://youtu.be/dnnExRYQ9CY

  • LindaRivera

    Obama’s Benghazi investigator tied to Libya bombing
    Globalist doctrine employed to depose Gadhafi regime
    http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/obamas-benghazi-invest

  • LindaRivera

    NEVER forget that the ruthless Obama-Clinton administration provided approximately 2,000 firearms to the barbaric Mexican drug cartel who work VERY closely with the Muslim terrorist organization. Hezbollah, known as the A team of Muslim terrorists is throughout Latin America. Hezbollah has set up operations close to our border.

    The U.S. government-provided firearms have been used to kill hundreds of Mexican innocents.

    Bible, Genesis 4:10 And God said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground."

    • Mary Sue

      and that, all to assure sarah brady that "Don't worry, we've got something in the works [to restrict firearms]."

  • Western Spirit

    I''m glad to hear America is a hotbed of Islamophobia. A term stolen from Political Correctness to weaken our perception of the reality we face in Islam's attempt to conquer us.

    Maybe there are still enough Americans whose brains haven't been clouded by our culture of lies to save us.

  • garyfouse

    Nobody "is coming" for the Muslims in the US. On the other hand, they are coming for the Copts in Egypt, the Christians in Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Nigeria, the Jews in Yemen, as well as the Bah'ai and gays in Iran.

  • popseal

    The Oxford History of Islam, Encycopedia Britannica, the works of Bernard Lewis and even Islamic apologist Andrew Wheatcroft clearly reveal Isalm as a violennt supersition founded by a known killer. Pacifists, uninformed sheeple, and DHMMI wannbes (CNN, multiculturalist, etc) operate under the hope of being the last one eaten by the alligator they're feeding.

  • http://frontpagemag.com jose

    We all know the truth, they “muslims” are trying to mass muder us here in America. We have to speak out against them before they kill us by the millions.

    • Sunbeam

      And forbid their continuous planting of mass mosques on the American soil. This has to be stop if Americans truly love their country. Once they succeeded in planting mosque all over country, they're in fact saying or implying that the place is theirs to keep where the mosque was being built on. This is their criminal tactic.

  • WilliamJamesWard

    America's lack of familiarity with Islam??? Where was Pickering when Islam demolished
    the Twin Towers, or is he going to claim Islamaphobes were flying the planes and that
    we have it all backwards. Pickering is pickeled or the most demented leftist in the group
    of anti-American shills for Islam. Part of the Democratic Party treason against sanity,
    when will these swine be put away, have we no prisons, no remote lands that they
    can be deported to? It may be that Benghazi was allowed to happen because the
    Obama administration could not destroy their confederate jihadists no matter what,
    lying to America, the lives of the attackers were apparently more important to them
    than the four murdered Americans and American dignity………………….William

  • pagegl

    At what point can we try someone for treason?

    • Winghunter

      When we no longer have political leaders who cry at the drop of a hat. (AND the clowns who voted them into that position.)

  • Dona Clotilde CNT HD

    OI eu sou a Clotilde

    • Mary Sue

      no comprende senorita.

  • Herb Benty

    Pickering, like all atheistic lefties, would like all Jews and Christians to disappear. Muslims want nothing more than to kill all Jews and Christians. A match made in Hell, don't you think? When I think of the unlimited power of the Judeo- Christian GOD, I actually feel sorry for atheists and leftys! We must fight them though because they think evil is the right way.

    • Mary Sue

      THey wanna kill the atheists too since atheists are "apostates" but they MIGHT save em for last.

  • Winghunter

    Islamists do not want co-existence; they want surrender http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/is

    Three Things About Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w

    “Islamist-supporters infiltrate Obama Admin to subvert US security,” reveals ex-CIA’er, Clare Lopez https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe

    Muslim journalist defends spying by NYPD, says some Muslims ‘use religion as cover’ http://fxn.ws/y3NbBI

    What Islam Isn’t By Dr. Peter Hammond http://bit.ly/62aHxu

    Islam Permits Lying to Deceive Unbelievers and Bring World Domination! by Dr. Don Boys http://bit.ly/KIwW1

    Islam, peaceful Islam, is about destruction of all Kafir civilization http://bit.ly/nVoSOo

    Islam’s Uninterrupted History of Forced Conversions http://bit.ly/n6CvPO

    Sharia Law Already Devouring UK http://bit.ly/t7Ddoi

    78% of UK Muslims oppose freedom of speech (video) http://bit.ly/g93sNI

    “Lets turn Belgium into an Islamic state. We reject democracy. To all infidels, adjust or get out..’ http://bit.ly/qfsuY6

  • kobi

    “I’m not great at quotations,” he said, foreshadowing a misattribution to come.

    “Perhaps it was [German theologian and dissident] Dietrich Bonhoeffer who said of the Nazis, when they came for the Jews, I didn’t speak up. I was not a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didn’t speak up, I was not a Catholic. When they came for us, no one spoke up. There was no one left to do so,” Pickering said, paraphrasing famous, poignant verses actually spoken by Third Reich-era German pastor Martin Niemoller.

    Actually, Niemoller did not mention the Catholics, and the Nazis never "came for the Catholics". As a matter of fact Hitler signed a concordat with the Vatican at some point before the war (I believe) and was never excommunicated by the Church. Some monasteries and convents, and men and women of the cloth did indeed rescue Jews and others persecuted by National Socialism, and certainly many clergy in Poland were murdered, however it is also important to remember the role of particularly French, Croatian and Spanish Catholic clergy in collaboration with the Nazis and in helping SS war criminals to evade justice after 1945.

  • gman213

    Pickering is a void surrounded by a sphincter.

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    Bom Dia Comentaristas

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  • Keith1941

    When he used the term, "McCarthyism", you didn't have to read any further!

  • BS77

    Yeah, why be phobic about the greatest threat to humanity on the planet?

  • maria_de los angeles

    This 'useful idiot' is a shill the the radicals. That he was appointed by the political Hiliary shows her of the issue as well. Then we have Huma. Then, can anyone believe this administration would claim that Biden speaks for anyone but a ship of fools? Please wake up America and thinking citizens …..

  • Guest

    This new State Dept DEFLECTOR HOPES that he can WHITEWASH the situation.
    .
    This was a setup BY Obama, so that he could PRETEND to negotiate, and so he could RETURN the blind sheik to the Muslim community.
    Obama IS TRAITOR !!!!
    Vote him OUT !!!!
    He has LESS than 40% support of the democratic party.
    IF he is re-elected, TAKE TO THE STREETS and DEMAND an INVESTIGATION into MASS VOTER FRAUD!!!!
    The ONLY way he could be re-elected is with VOTER FRAUD, committed by Soros, Holder, and Obama himself.
    .
    Remember the West Virginia democratic primary.
    Of those that showed up to vote –
    20% voted NO Preference.
    40% voted for an Unknown, who was a felon in jail. So voters REALLY did not know who it was, that they were voting for. BUT it was NOT for obama. THIS IS A CLEAR VOTE AGAINST OBAMA!
    40% voted for obama.
    At that time, obama had LOST 60% of the support of the democratic party.
    .
    AFTER THIS primary – obama made public his stance on GAY marriage, and abortion rights.
    .
    This LOST him ALL of the support of ALL of the religious groups within the democratic party.
    .
    Obama does NOT have the support of EVEN 40% of the democratic party.
    IF he wins, TAKE TO THE STREETS, and DEMAND an investigation.
    There is ONLY 1 way that he can win – VOTER FRAUD, committed by Soros, obama himself and Holder.
    Investigate, prosecute and IMPRISON these 3, for 30 years!
    …remember this – West Virginia does NOT have the smartest group of people in OUR country, and IF THEY can see THROUGH obozo's BALONEY, the rest of us are WAY AHEAD OF THEM!

  • hhn1776

    I imagine that the Ambassador will close his eyes to news of the "Last Christian in Homs Murdered," nor his last words telling his assailants of the 10 commandments and Jesus.

  • Dwaign

    Why is ignorance of the truth such a common symptom of much of the left in the Democrat Party?

    • Mary Sue

      It's a side effect of the purple koolaid. They think that caring and hope and change is all that matters, and those inform their "facts".

  • jdc

    As a christian
    YES i am afraid of loosing my head to the Islao Nazis..
    Islam is a DEATH cult spawned by satan himself..

    So yes I and all rational people are definantly afraid of Islam and its evil intents..

    But I will never surrender to the demonic false god of islam
    I would rather die than to live as an islamic slave…

    • Sunbeam

      Good say. But you needn't be afraid of. Be of good courage to stand and fight to the last with comrades of the same as us. We're not alone in the fight against this menace. We've to pulled our resources together and stand united as ever with the same voice, same tone, same spirit in this fight against every odds that is darting our way. There could be no other way. The enemy is a powerfully foe with a description of a criminal thug like of attitude. It is how they operate as in many other ways they've operated.

  • Dwaign

    I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're a bigot and anti-islamic, and we should stand up and say, We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration. Yo, Thomas Pickering!!!

  • mah29001

    I'm tired of the Islamophiles and the Islamic supremacists behaving like children when they're questioned.

  • Robert Martin

    Thomas Pickering do yourself a favor, pack your bags, take Hillary Clinton and Hussain Obama with you and move to the land of Islam. You sir are a intellectual without common sense! Which is so often found in the Ive League Inistitutions and Universities of the Progressive Humanist Socialists agenda. You and those like you would be happier in the Totalitarianism of Islam or that of Marx/Stalin.

    The Koran is the life blood of the sons of Ishmeal – the blood of their oppressed, the sword is their instrument of conversion.

  • H.j.Dcruz

    The objective of Muslims is to take over the west and Islamise it. The Muslims know the whites are a dying race and liberal democracy has made them like this.

  • H.j.Dcruz

    The word Jihad means to strive.In the eyes of a Muslim everything that they want can turn into Jihad.If they want their way of life it could mean Jihad. The west will then submit to them or face Jihad.