Swamped by Muslims

By Glenn Greenwald -- The following is a letter sent by Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) to various constituents as a result of what his office claims is "a flood of e-mails from constituents in response to newly elected Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison’s declaration that he would use the Koran, not the Bible, when being sworn into Congress next month."

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to comment on this, but fortunately, not much comment is required, because it really speaks -- quite powerfully -- for itself. I wonder how long it will be before Michelle Malkin, Powerline, Fox News, National Review, Bill Kristol and friends start touting Rep. Goode for the GOP Presidential nomination:



I was particularly moved by the way Rep. Goode stood up to the inquiring, treasonous "Muslim student." That was very brave, powerful and resolute of Rep. Goode to stand his ground. Maybe he is the Churchill we've all been hungrily craving.

Also notable was how Rep. Goode pointed out that all of this -- our being "swamped" by Muslims -- is Bill Clinton's fault. Clinton hasn't been president for six years now. Republicans have had a stranglehold on the Congress for virtually all of that time. Yet the fact that we are drowning in Muslims and Korans and the like is all due to Bill Clinton.

If you look too hard at the specific individuals who compose our Government, it is difficult to maintain any residual sense of optimism about America's future. It's just best not to look too closely at the specific individuals, because what you will see are many, many Rep. Goodes floating around.

Oh, sweet ironies...

There is a poem that was written by a woman who witnessed the horrors of the anti-Semitic riots in her native country and knew of the refugees who sought sanctuary. That poem speaks of a mighty woman whose names was 'Mother of Exiles'.

'From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome'.

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Already, in 1879, the storm was gathering. In a distant province of Russia at first, then on the banks of the Volga, and finally in Moscow itself, the old cry was raised, the hideous medieval charge revived, and the standard of persecution unfurled against the Jews. Province after province took it up. In Bulgaria, Servia, and, above all, Roumania, where, we were told, the sword of the Czar had been drawn to protect the oppressed, Christian atrocities took the place of Moslem atrocities, and history turned a page backward into the dark annals of violence and crime.

And not alone in despotic Russia, but in Germany, the seat of modern philosophic thought and culture, the rage of Anti-Semitism broke out and spread with fatal ease and potency. In Berlin itself tumults and riots were threatened. We in America could scarcely comprehend the situation or credit the reports, and for a while we shut our eyes and ears to the facts; but we were soon rudely awakened from our insensibility, and forced to face the truth.

It was in England that the voice was first raised in behalf of justice and humanity. In January, 1881, there appeared in the London "Times" a series of articles, carefully compiled on the testimony of eye-witnesses, and confirmed by official documents, records, etc., giving an account of events that had been taking place in southern and western Russia during a period of nine months, between April and December of 1880.

We do not need to recall the sickening details. The headings will suffice: outrage, murder, arson, and pillage, and the result - 100,000 Jewish families made homeless and destitute, and nearly $100,000,000 worth of property destroyed. Nor need we recall the generous outburst of sympathy and indignation from America. "It is not that it is the oppression of Jews by Russia," said Mr. Evarts in the meeting at Chickering Hall Wednesday evening, February 4; "it is that it is the oppression of men and women by men and women, and we are men and women."

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