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If you remember, during last Saturday’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher interviewed Representative Keith Ellison, one of two practicing Muslims in the U.S. Congress, but the only one to cry like a little girl during Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radical Islam last week. During the interview, Maher labelled the Koran a “hate-filled holy book,” made clear that a “vast, vast majority” of Muslims are not the problem and then asked Ellison:

Have you read Sam Harris’s book, The End of Faith?… [Harris] says, “On almost every page, the Koran instructs observant Muslims to despise non-believers.”

The Congressman responded with incredulity, calling the claim “absurd, ridiculous, and untrue” and insinuated the translation was wrong and that things were being taken out of context. Yesterday, Project Reason CEO Sam Harris (the same Sam Harris Maher quoted, who’s also an atheist and no fan of Christianity) responded with a lengthy article quoting directly from the Koran, which says in part:

When Maher asked how jihadists can justify their actions by reading these same passages in context, Ellison claimed that jihadists do nothing of the sort. Rather, they think in terms of “political grievances,” not religious doctrine, and those who oppose them have the true doctrine of Islam on their side.

It is not my purpose to defend the House hearing on American Muslims (which I did not get a chance to watch). But it is growing increasingly disconcerting to see moderate Muslims reflexively lie about the tenets of their faith. Of course, it’s hard to know whether Ellison was actually lying or is merely unaware of the contents of the Qur’an. But I have witnessed too many of these exchanges with Muslim apologists, both in public and private, to ignore the general trend. Who will reform Islam if moderate Muslims refuse to speak honestly about the very doctrines in need of reform?

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Half-a-century ago, a band of Leftist thugs violently took over the administration building at Columbia University and hijacked the American education system.  From that moment on, they used this system to indoctrinate – in fact brainwash – generation after generation into their cult of Leftism.

For the next five decades (pseudo)-intellectuals, hiding behind tenure and “Academic Freedom,” have been spewing greater and greater nonsense designed for one purpose and one purpose only: sabotaging and eventually destroying all of Western Civilization.

 
Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers

Don’t think so?  Simply consider the fact that one of the most oft-repeated chants of the Modern Liberal movement is “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Western Civilization has got to go.”

With control of the “education” system, the Leftists turned what had been a place of scholarship into a Leftism factory with a curriculum and modus operandi designed to facilitate their Utopian dreams which first required the demolition of the great (but imperfect) Western World. (more…)