Thuggery

 A few months ago, I posted about the emergence of stealth Islamism in the U.S.

https://commonsense-mark.blogspot.com/2022/05/stealth-islamism.html

The indicia of Islamism seeping into our society are all around us, I observed, although they have arrived under a different rubric.   But the signs are unmistakable--- forced facial coverings (under the rubric of COVID measures), genital mutilation (under the rubric of trans rights), and the conversion of higher education into madrassas (teaching Wokeism rather than critical thinking).   Taken together, these things start to look suspiciously like fundamentalist Islam gaining a foothold in the U.S. by stealth.

But this week, Islamism broke out into the open with the attack on Salman Rushdie, fulfilling the order of a decades old fatwah issued by Ruhollah Khomeini back in 1989.  The knife attack was severe and Rushdie was put on a ventilator for some time.  He suffered nerve damage to his arm and may lose an eye.  Rushdie’s attacker has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and purportedly had loads of pro-Iranian regime posts on social media.   The New York Times and other media outlets, however, are predictably reporting that they “have no idea what his motive might be.”   Twitter, while banishing the likes of Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay and Donald Trump, has permitted Islamists praising Rushdie’s attacker to voice such sentiments on its platform. 

And remember, police foiled an attempt to kidnap and silence Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad just last summer with no reaction from our government.  Likewise, the attack on Rushdie has not elicited an outcry from this terrorist incident from our State Department.

Also, last week, the DOJ and FBI took the unprecedented step of raiding Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-A-Lago.  Merrick Garland, who is intent on putting the bananas in banana republic, claimed that Trump had documents in his possession that belonged in the national archives and some of the materials may have been classified. 

The FBI, which is at a nadir of credibility after looking the other way on Hillary Clinton’s misdeeds, Hunter Biden’s shenanigans, Barack Obama’s removal of presidential materials, the fabricated evidence used to defraud the FISA court and enable the FBI to spy on Donald Trump.   And now, it has taken the radical step of raiding the dwelling of a political opponent. 

This is truly scary stuff for our republic.  It’s the stuff of the KGB, the Gestapo and South American dictatorships.   It’s pretty clear that after all the caterwauling by the Left about the US supporting tinpot dictatorships during the Cold War (and the constant drumbeat that Trump himself had totalitarian inclinations), once they have gained power, they have no inhibitions about actually becoming what they complained about. 

The attack on Rushdie and the unprecedented raid on Trump’s residence may seem like they are unrelated occurrences.   But they are not.  The radical Left and radical Islam are closet allies now.  Remember that the Biden (Obama) administration is frantically working to lift sanctions and resurrect the fatally flawed JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal).  It sees Israel as the oppressor in the Middle East and seeks to empower Iran and diminish Israel’s standing in the Middle East.   Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are revered members of The Squad, and their rank antisemitism has been whitewashed by Pelosi and Biden.   Although there is evidence that Rushdie’s attacker was in communication with the Iranian regime, the Biden administration has been curiously silent about this vicious attack on not only a pre-eminent author but on one of the most sacred principles of the West.

In addition to the eerie fetish for face coverings, the Iranian regime and the Biden regime are both keen on silencing apostates.   Recall that Trump’s powerful signature line at the 2016 RNC was “I am your voice!”  The radical Left decided that could not stand and went to work undermining Trump at every turn, culminating in last week’s unprecedented raid.   Recently, the Biden regime tried to muzzle free speech with its Disinformation Governance Board until it was mocked out of existence.  For now, the Biden administration will have to be content to try to control dissenters’ speech through its proxies in social media, NPR and the New York Times.   The Islamists of Iran are a bit more blunt--- they will do it with knives, guns and bombs when opportunity arises.

The radical Left declared a fatwah against Donald Trump just as Khomeini did against Rushdie. 

The parallels are unmistakable if you are looking for them.