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Have you ever heard of Howard Lutnick? You most likely will soon.
Howard W. Lutnick is the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, the venerable financial services firm. He was one of the lesser-noted speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday — you know, the one where, if you believe MSNBC, jackbooted Trump supporters were goose-stepping around and shouting “Sieg heil!” in terrifying unison when a Charlie Chaplin-mustachioed Trump appeared and gave them the straight-arm salute.
While all that is lurid fantasy and the left’s latest shameless smear of the Bad Orange Man, Lutnick really did appear at the rally, and some leftists are using something he said there to try to stir up their cadres to hate Trump even more than they did already (as if that were possible).
The recasting of the mild-mannered Lutnick as a dangerous right-wing extremist comes to us courtesy of the New Republic, a publication that many people don’t realize still exists, but which is still churning out primo Trump-hate content for its tiny cadre of remaining readers.
The New Republic’s front page on Monday featured article after article designed to send a thrill of horror down the spine of the most fanatical Trump-hater: leftists can indulge in a veritable orgy of outrage toward and contempt for the Emmanuel Goldstein of our age with articles including, “Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument”; “It’s Not Just Trump We Have to Fear Anymore”; “Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women”; “Trump Spirals After Michelle Obama Destroys Him in Blistering Speech”; and for those who are starting to worry about how this election seems to be going, a grim warning: “If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump.”
Amid all this risible nonsense and hysterical fear-mongering, we get a particularly grim story: “Top Trump Aide Makes Terrifying Threat at Madison Square Garden Rally.” This is where Howard W. Lutnick comes in. “At Donald Trump’s rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden Sunday,” writes the New Republic’s Hafiz Rashid, “one speaker took a bigoted swipe at Muslims—and he holds an important position in the Trump campaign.”
Oh, heavens to betsy, a “bigoted swipe.” And at Muslims, no less — one of the left’s cherished victim groups. What did the dastardly Lutnick say? Did he call for mass deportations? Internment camps? A new “Muslim ban,” a fictional bogey that the left used to great effect to bedevil Trump’s first term?
None of the above. Lutnick, Rashid writes indignantly, is part of Trump’s transition team, and he “told the crowd why they should vote for the former president and, raising a fist, invoked Islamophobia. ‘So, the first thing: We must elect Donald J. Trump president because we must crush jihad,’ Lutnick shouted to cheers.”
“Crush jihad”? That’s it? That’s the terrifying threat to Muslims? If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, we were told repeatedly that the vast majority of Muslims rejected terrorism, and that the terrorists were only a “tiny minority of extremists.” So what happened to that?
For Rashid, the problem is that Lutnick didn’t say “crush terrorism,” he said “crush jihad.” Rashid asserts that “Lutnick’s use of the word ‘jihad’ in this context is an allusion to bigoted views about Islam. The term is widely mistranslated as ‘holy war,’ when the literal Arabic translation is ‘to strive’ or ‘to struggle.’ In a religious context, the word is used to describe a person’s internal or external struggle to do good deeds.”
Yeah, no. Cantor Fitzgerald had offices in the World Trade Center; 658 of its employees were murdered on that day by men who explained that what they were doing was a jihad. In 2009, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 plotters wrote a long self-justificatory letter in which they stated: “Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims.”
Times Square car bomb terrorist Faisal Shahzad explained, “Jihad, holy fighting in Allah’s course, with full force of numbers and weaponry, is given the utmost importance in Islam….By jihad, Islam is established….By abandoning jihad, may Allah protect us from that, Islam is destroyed, and Muslims go into inferior position, their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligation and duty in Islam on every Muslim.” Innumerable other Islamic terrorists worldwide have used the word jihad over the years to refer to their acts of violence.
Lutnick’s call to “crush jihad” is perfectly understandable, not just in light of the devastation of Cantor Fitzgerald on 9/11, but in light of ongoing jihad activity in the U.S. and worldwide. It’s remarkable that Hafiz Rashid and the New Republic still think they can fool people with this nonsense. But the American people have been hammered since 9/11 with false and misleading propaganda about how “Islam is a religion of peace,” so Rashid doesn’t have to work hard to get his point across.
In denouncing Lutnick’s words as “bigoted” and “Islamophobic,” Rashid is following a playbook that has been used innumerable times since 9/11 to marginalize and silence those who spoke the truth about what happened that day. It has worked quite well up until now; there is no reason why it can’t work again.
A-Mess-NBC the Lying Peacock News more like leftists Propaganda then real news
We must be kind, and with an open mind
We must endeavour to find
A way …
To let the Muslims know that when this war is over
They are not the ones who’ll have to pay.
We must be sweet, and tactful and discreet
And when they’ve suffered their defeat
We mustn’t let …
Them feel upset …
Or ever get …
The feeling that we’re cross with them or hate them
Our future policy must be to reinstate them!
Don’t let’s bebeastly to the Muslims
When our days of celebration finally come.
It was just their filthy clerics who persuaded them to fight
And their Hamas and al-Qaida merely bark worse than they bite.
Let’s be meek to them, and turn the other cheek to them
And playfully pat their women on the bum.
Let’s show them moral clarity and theat the rats with charity
But don’t let’s be beastly to the scum.
We must be just, and win their live and trust
And in addition we must
Be wise …
And ask the conquered sh°ts to join our hands to aid them
That would be a wonderful surprise.
For too many years, they’ve lived in floods of tears
Because the poor little dears …
Have been so wronged …
And only longed …
To change the world; derange the world
and set the world to blazes.
Now is the moment when we ought to sing their praises!
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Muslims
When we’re beating the Wahabis like a drum.
Let us treat them very kindly as we would a valued friend
We might send a few rabbis as a form of lease and lend!
Let’s be sweet to them, and day by day repeat to them:
“Beheadings are misunderstood by some.”
Let’s help the Arabs of Sudan to slaughter every Nubian clan
But don’t let’s be beastly to the scum.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Muslims
As their umpteenth broken treat makes us glum.
We must give them food and medicine
And everything they need,
For their peaceable intention
Will be UNRWA guaranteed!
Let’s be free with them
And give the BBC to them.
Osama simply wants to be our chum.
Let’s help them chant in Allah’s praise
And whip and stone to death the gays
But don’t let’s be beastly to the scum.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Muslims
For you can’t deprive a drunkard of his rum.
Look away from the polygamists
As they enslave their wives.
The oil they sell,
And al-Jazeera brighten op our lives!
Let’s break bread with them
Because we’re stuck in bed with them.
The street behind the palace is a slum.
Let’s saunter down to Chop Chop Square;
Enjoy the entertainment there ~
But don’t let’s bebeastly to the scum.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Muslims
When their endless acts of terror leave us numb.
Though they’ve been a tad too violent
To the Hindu and the Jew,
Still we lefties will support them
‘Cause they torture Christians too!
Let’s place trust in them
As we ignore blood-lust in them.
Compared with than we liberals are dumb.
Let’s help them to feel GREAT again ~
And teach their children HATE again ~
But don’t let’s be beastly
[ ‘Tis better to be priestly ]
And don’t let’s be beastly to the scum. ~
Lord, I apologize.
…for the typos. ~
Europe is enjoying the “cultural enrichment” of islamist Hijra (Migration) and Jihad following the mass immigration of millions of followers of “the religion of peace”…hardly a week goes by without a reported terrorist attack, sexual assault across Europe by these migration jihadists.
Would it be bigoted to long for another Charles Martel? He courageously led the Franks at the Battle of Tours in Central France, kicking the tails of the Moors, stopping their advance into Europe, and began the process of pushing them back and eventually out of Spain and Portugal. We sure could use another Charles Martel today.
It would not be at all bigoted. we could also use another John III Sobieski, King of Poland
In 1683, a Christian relief force led by John III Sobieski, King of Poland, repulsed the army of Mehmed IV at Vienna, saving Western Europe from seemingly inevitable Muslim conquest.
Actually it was not much of a repulsion. The army showed up the evening of 11 September and bivouacked overnight ouside the city. They asked that evening for one of theirs, who had had dealings with moslems in the past and knew their language, to adopt their dress and “wander” into the city to reconnoitre. He returned siome time later and gave his report. They are not alarmed as yet, but could be. The city is secured, but we can take it. Let us attack in the morning.
On the morrow the liberation army prepared to forcefully enter the city but saw no signs of resistance. Upon entering the city they found it abandoned. ALL the moslem forces had left during the night, leaving almost everything behind. the local residents reported that they had great fear of the newly arrived army and fled in fear.
One amusing note: the “spy” of the first evening had travelled with them and knew their cutlure and practices. As the newly arrived army began securing th city and dividing up the spoils lef behind, they found a large heap of some srange looking seeds in one of the street-level rooms. Thinking it was some sort of anikal fee, they offered it to various animals, none of which showed the least interest in the stuff. They fetched up their spy and asked him if he knew what it was. Upn examining he DID know, and offered to take the pile, and some curious implements found near the pile, as his share of the spoils. That “strange seed” was COFFEE.. This man set up the roasting and brewing implements and opened the first “coffee shop” in Vienna, and indeed the West. .It only took a couple more decades and coffee was known and loved throughout the West. Not long, and the Penny Universities” of London were a thriving social and economic feature, soon leading to the stock, insurance, shipping, precious metal, exchanges now common throughout the known world.
So West went East to rescue her own, took the best of the east and transformed the west.
“If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump.”
Gee, every time I think how the Democrats might steal this election, I get fatalistic and start to panic; sometimes I just can’t help myself. Thanks for cheering me up. Now I know that even in my darkest hour I’m helping Trump.
As for jihad, 99% of the terrorism today is jihad. You can be sure a lefty like Hafiz Rashid and his cronies at the New Republic know it. Mind you, many Muslims will be delighted when jihad is finally crushed. Radical Islam kills more Muslims that infidels. The young Arab who celebrated Yahya Sinwar’s death as “The best day of my life” can tell you that.
Since at least the Clinton Administration, every time the U.S. has gone to war it has been in support of Muslim populations, often suffering at the hands of their fellow Jihadist Muslims.
If we are to defend our country, crushing jihad” must be the primary aim. “There is no substitute for Victory.”
More youtube channels to watch, along with Mahyar Tousi–Harris Sultan and The Apostate Prophet.
“Calls for jihad on our streets are not only a threat to the Jewish community, but to our democratic values.”
Rishi Sunak.
Brandon Biden and the New Republic (by the way, Marty Perez, the original publisher of the New Republic which is now viciously ant-Semitic is turning in his grave ): “What’s jihad????”
Aren’t the terms ‘Jihad’ and ‘Mein Kampf’ synonymous? Asking on behalf of a bigoted Jewish family member… 😏
Truth to Liberal Democrats is like Sunlight and Crosses are to Vampires it turns them to dust
Thank you Robert Spencer for once again saving me from being Islamophobic because I ABSOLUTLY AGGREE we must CRUSH Jihad. I never considered my self Islamophobic, but I do find myself disliking people who want to kill me. I’ve known plenty of Muslims in my life, co-workers & customers and not felt fear or hatred for them. As much as I knew them, they were fine people and good citizens. I despise being called Islamophobic because I want to keep terrorist out of our country!
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.