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November 29, 2007

Another Question For Mansoor Ijaz: 'During WWII, should Pres. Roosevelt have chosen a Japanese-American cabinet member?'

Topics: Understanding Islam

Two days ago I posted "Ijaz's Remarks On Romney's 'Muslim' Comment Invites Questions For Ijaz" in which we offered a number of very poignant questions for Ijaz that, given the present state of affairs in the Islamic world and the current worldwide war against Islamic extremism, most definitely warrant an answer. After all, we are in a worldwide war against Islamic extremism, and so far, damned few Muslims have stood up for America and condemned Islamic extremism in all its forms, including the determination to replace America's Constitution with sharia.

Today, Mary Mostert has another question for Mansoor Ijaz, one that I believe invokes a common sense response: "During WWII, should Pres. Roosevelt have chosen a Japanese-American cabinet member"?

... Is Mansoor Ijaz correct in stating that a Muslim "belongs" in the Cabinet? What would the media response have been had the question been, "whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Mormon faith in his cabinet as advisers" -- since there are three times as many Mormons in the USA as there are Muslims? How about had the question been "whether he would consider including qualified Jews in his cabinet as advisers since the existence of the State of Israel is a foreign policy issue?"

This sounds as if Monsoon Ijaz thinks there is, or should be, an affirmative action program to put Muslims in key government places.

In other words, is Ijaz nuts or an Islamist seeking to have Islamists infiltrate America's government even more so than they have already.

And as for why Ijaz asked the question and was subsequently unhappy with Romney's response, one can only surmise that it had a lot to do with the fact that Ijaz describes himself as "an American-born citizen of the Islamic faith" rather than an "American citizen of the Islamic faith." His self-description is quite telling!

Our take home message/question here is how is it that Monsoon Ijaz thinks there is, or should be, an affirmative action program to put Muslims in key government places, and why should Islam be treated any different than any other faith in America where we choose our representatives and officials not according to their faith (we're not a Middle Eastern country, Monsoon) - rather on their abilities, knowledge, and dedication to American principles, values and culture.

So far, I've seen absolutely nothing that would assure me that a majority of adherents to the Muslim faith place nationhood before the ummah. As I noted in my previous post:

Islamists, which constitute a large and growing number of Muslims (in America), have loyalty to the ummah first, nationhood (America) last (if at all). This makes the idea of Islamists (a large and growing percentage of American Muslims) living in and accepting a Democracy, an exercise in futility.

Posted by Richard at November 29, 2007 10:16 AM

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