Where is the “Squad’s Outrage?”

Recently an Egyptian court sentenced 80-year-old academic scholar, Dr. Ahmed Abdu’ Maher, to five years in prison for his honest commentary on the Islamic conquest of Egypt and the Christian Middle East. Dr. Maher was found guilty of reciting ancient Christian and Arab sources of the conquest that described events in the 7th and 8th centuries as pillage, slavery, slaughter, and discrimination by Arab Muslim invaders who established iron-clad control over Christian areas. Under today's Islamic blasphemy laws, even the reciting of authentic Arab sources, which accurately—but negatively—portray the carnage of such early Islamic conquests can result in imprisonment. 

Dr. Maher first brought condemnation upon himself in 2017 when he asked Muslim critics of President Trump’s “Muslim ban” to consider the act in light of Islam’s own history. President Trump halted immigration from a minority of Muslim countries that were on the government’s list of nations embracing terrorism. The Islamic conquests of Egypt and the Middle East and even current Islamic doctrine, however, call for bringing “enlightenment” to infidels through jihad. The reasoning of Dr. Maher has been revealed thanks to a posted translation by Raymond Ibrahim: 

Friends, in regards to … Donald Trump, we wanted to ask our brothers … a question: if this man … were to coerce, through the power of arms, the greater majority of Muslims living in America … to become Christians, or pay jizya, otherwise he takes over their homes, kills their men and enslaves their women and girls, and sells them on slave markets; if he were to do all this, would he be considered a racist and a terrorist or not? … So I wonder O sheikh, O leader of this or that Islamic center in NY, would you like to see this done to your wife and daughter?  Would you—this or that sheikh—accept that this be done to your children?  That your daughter goes to this fighter [as a slave], your son to this fighter, a fifth [of booty] goes to the caliph and so forth?  I mean, isn’t this what you refer to as the Sharia of Allah? …  So let’s think about things in an effort to discern what’s right and what’s wrong.

Dr. Maher’s continued depiction of past events has now earned him what is tantamount to a death sentence in prison. Our question to Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep.Rashida Tlaib, and other Muslim leaders in America is simply this: will you officially protest this unjust decision of an Egyptian court? Will you ask President Biden and the State Department to do the same? In light of your continued portrayal of this nation as imperialistic, racist, and Islamaphobic—can you be counted on to defend the rights of this 80-year-old historian with the same passion you’ve defended the rioters, looters, and arsonists who helped pillage and destroy many of our nation’s cities over the last several years?    

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Jack Bovee

Fort Myers, FL 
The writer has been a social studies educator, founder of Rho Kappa--the National Social Studies Honor Society--and a former Elementary School Principal of the Year in Lee County, Florida. He may be reached at: jsbovee@aol.com.

This editorial was published in American Thinker and may be accessed "HERE".

The Hypocrisy of the Left – War

Many, many moons ago, when I was still listening to Rush Limbaugh’s show, Rush had stated that the Left always accuses the Right of what they themselves are doing. This first struck home with me when I heard the Democrats accuse the Republicans of wanting to reinstitute the draft back at the turn of the century. They, and their sycophants in the media, have always attempted to portray the Republicans as war mongering cowboys. However, low and behold, it was the Democrats themselves, particularly Charles Rangel, who introduced legislation pushing for a reinstituting of the draft. This was one of many red pills I would swallow over the years.

The latest red pill regards Joe Biden’s recent bombing of Syria. I am old enough to remember when Biden (or more likely someone on his staff) tweeted at 8:30 pm on 6/22/2019, “Trump’s erratic, impulsive actions are the last thing we need as Commander-In-Chief. No president should order a military strike without fully understanding the consequences. We don’t need another war in the Middle East, but Trump’s actions toward Iran only make that more likely.”  In point of fact, Biden’s current White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted prior to that at 9:27 pm on 4/6/2017, “Also what is the legal authority for strikes? Assad is a brutal dictator. But Syria is a sovereign country.” Next thing I know, not even 40 days into his presidency, Biden bombs Syria. As I write this, the current Associated Press headline is as follows, “Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to ‘be careful,’” by columnists Lolita C. Baldor, Robert Burns, and Qassim Abdul-Zahra.

Now, to be fair, Joe Biden probably has no idea that he bombed Syria. I am not sure he knows where he is half of the time. Also, most of us have come to learn by now that we cannot expect honest and fair reporting from the mainstream media. The only people left with faith in the MSM are either rabid ideologues, close-minded bubble dwellers, or imbeciles. Now that may seem harsh, but if you were okay with detaining children in ‘Obama’s Immigration Detention Center’ and ‘Biden’s Migrant Child Facility,’ but outraged by ‘Trump’s Kids in Cages,’ then you may be in one of the aforementioned groups. The bottom line is that I have a simple question that has yet to receive a satisfactory answer, and that is, ‘Why did we bomb Syria?’

Jean-Marc Bovee,  St. Louis, MO