Allen West
The political season is turning out to be a hot one with elections in a lot of districts around the United States coming up in 2010, and there are sure to be some interesting races and good old political shenanigans. There will also be Republican contenders who will resort to the cheap strategy of xenophobia, hate and Islamophobia. We already have Lynne Torgerson, (who judging from her campaign picture looks as though she saves a lot of money by cutting her own hair), the Minnesota republican running against Rep.Keith Ellison and then there is Allen West.
We have to thank our long time reader James for bringing Allen West to our attention, we have heard of West before, mostly because Pamela Geller, other wise known as the looniest blogger ever, likes to take pictures with him and gloat on how anti-Muslim he is, in fact just today she wrote “West is America’s best hope.” It also turns out that he isn’t only anti-Muslim but he is also somewhat of a racist who includes a highly dangerous degree of biblical literalism into his worldview, which wouldn’t be a problem if that would inform his personal life but it becomes a problem for all of us when it informs his policy ideas.
The truth is, it is not really clear how much of a chance Allen West has, hopefully next to none, though when he ran in 2008 he lost by only 29,000 votes, but crazier things have happened in Florida. Lets take a gander at what he advocates: he is a hawk on every issue, from Health Care and Immigration to National Defense. As you can tell he wants no Health Care reform, agrees with Michael Savage on Immigration and on National Defense says in a bizarre sentence about fighting America’s “enemies”,
I pledge to never succumb to this enemy, seek out non-kinetic means, but will stand ready to go kinetic in order to “provide for the common defense”.
I don’t know if that means he will go nuclear or is willing to fight many wars but it sounds like jibberish.
Allen West with Pamela "the loon" Geller
On his website, Allen West has a whole page dedicated to his Christian Zionist/dispensationalist view on Israel. When you read it you understand why kooks like Pamela Geller love him so much, he essentially takes a position squarely outside of the mainstream in both the Middle East and United States by stating he is against the “creation of a Palestinian state.”
I do not support any creation of a Palestinian state, to do so would be to create a terrorist state. There is already a state for the Arabic people residing in the region called Palestine, Jordan. If the Arabs can build an indoor ski slope in Dubai, they can resolve the issue of their Arab brothers and sisters…I do not support any division of Jerusalem. If I recall from history and the Old Testament, David, Son of Israel built Jerusalem and his son Solomon made it great. The muslim claims to Jerusalem are based upon a very contentious story concocted by muhammad, and of course the latter conquering of the city, even by Salahaddin. One flag will fly over Jerusalem, the Israeli flag, never any other, certainly not a UN flag.
I don’t even know where to begin in deconstructing the enormous fallacies and clear bigotry on display in the above quotations. There seems to be a mammoth disconnect in reality here, two presidents, including a man West admires, George W. Bush clearly stated that a Palestinian state will be created. He obviously believes all Palestinians/Arabs are terrorists, that they are all “Mooslims,” and that their right to live or not live in their homes in Jerusalem are based on “stories” which somehow have less validity than the “stories” in the Old Testament.
Scary, this guy is like what would happen if Glenn Beck and Pamela Geller conspired to bring their wildest dreams to fruition in Dr. Frankenstein’s lab. But that isn’t all, West also seems to believe that according to his twisted literal interpretation of the Bible, Arabs are stained forever with certain characteristics, this is the same kind of racist mindset that justified the Apartheid regime in South Africa and all other racist ideologies in the past.
Genesis Chapter 16, verses 11-12 states, “And the Angel of the Lord said to her (Hagar): Behold you are with child, and you shall bear a son, you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against everyman, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
Ishmael of course became the beginning of the Arab people….and God’s word is immutable truth.
In closing, there are battle lines clearly drawn, I know where I stand, and that is to support the State of Israel.
This kind of religious zeal imbuing our politics is old, it was thrown into the trash heap when Bush’s term ended and the Republicans who relied on this kind of rhetoric were voted out of office. Allen West, hopes to resurrect it by positioning himself in a fantastical “Kinetic” battle pitting himself on the side of Israel against those spawns of Ishmael, the Arabs/Mooslims.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Keep this up, it’s great, Loon Watch.
The more you expose the “hidden agenda” the better informed people will be.
One of the main reasons Republicans were kicked out were because they are the part of the Christian Taliban end timers for a greater Israel.
The fact that people like Allen West are fixated with Israel is perhaps the biggest reason they won’t be put into power. Most Americans will never share this vision if only for their own security, and even Evangelicals have distanced themselves from the right wing base by supporting a Palestinian state. If Allen West is serious about gaining power, he has kicked himself in the foot. Anti Israel sentiment is on the rise in America.
Good riddance into the dustbins of history, Allen West, Sarah Palin, George Bush. That was America’s blackest hour.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for writing this story guys. He was named “Man of the Year” by David Horowitz’s frontpage rag. He’s a darling of the freerepublic/jihadwatch types. That should tell you enough.
West ran in 2008 against Ron Klein and he lost 54.7%-45.3% with a difference of about 29000 votes. I haven’t seen polls for the 2010 race, but I think Klein has enough campaign funds and support to win.
I might be moving to that district for a new job soon and would not like to see a racist bigot like West assume office there.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Man pamela just has a post where she’s, and I quote “offended to the core” about a sign that asks you to call and ask questions about Islam. For some reason Abraham cannot be associated with Islam because yaknow, pamela and spinster are world renowned scholars who have ushered in a new era accepting all and that people should aspire to be great open-minded intellectual people. There works include inciting the destruction of Palestine, Jewish supremacy, and an utter complete ban on the Muslim faith: Islam. This has resulted in democracy around the Arab world where sexual Music, clubs, drug use, prostitution, theft, rape, murders, pornographic industry etc. have increased dramatically stimulating the people hormones. Both geller and spinster have earned each of them an outstanding 3 nobel peace prizes.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
It is painfully clear that you all don’t know what a real patriot is when you see one. This man, Lt. Col. Allen West - fought for your freedom to be the idiots you all so clearly are.
Talk about “racist bigots” — that’s about all you guys can come up with is to throw around nasty names that make you seem righteous and worthy.
Try defending America for a change — or move to the Middle East where you obviously don’t need the freedoms you have been handed on a silver platter by guys like him who have given their all and even their lives. Jeez.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
WOW,
Military service does not absolve you from racism and bigotry. I have many friends who served honorably and do not hold West’s racist views of the Arabs and Muslims. Try looking at things objectively.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Doesnt say much about the US millitary if a nut like this gets to the rank of Lt.Col
December 16th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
It’s a free country isn’t it? I don’t have to glorify him just because he served his country. Good for him. Except, I completely and utterly lost all of my respect for this pathetic guy. He should take note from a REAL war veteran and patriot: General Colin Powell. When he was on Meet the Press, where he also endorsed Barack Obama, he said that it doesn’t matter if Obama is a Muslim. Colin Powell saw a grave where a purple heart Muslim died in Iraq. He said he felt strongly about that matter because a young Muslim boy or girl can become president of thee United States. You see my point? Colin Powell is a respectable, intelligent, open-minded man who accepts all faiths and people. This west guy can’t keep his selfishness tamed. He served his country now he thinks he’s a god??? He can kiss my ass before I call him “Lieutenant”
December 16th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
George Bush provided hundreds of millions of dollars for the Joshua Project out of U.S. taxpayer money. You can check for yourself what the Joshua Project is all about on their site below.
http://www.joshuaproject.net/
It terrifies me that a country like the U.S. was ruled by Christian bigots whose objective is to “make disciples of all nations”.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Muslim MP MP says rape after midnight ‘not a crime’….. no wait!
A HINDU MP says if tourists in Goa India get raped after midnight it should not be considered RAPE!!!! what if he was a Muslim???
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/goa-mp-says-rape-after-midnight-not-a-crime-1843100.html
December 17th, 2009 at 12:37 am
For a group that promote “thoughtful, reasoned discourse”, most ‘liberals’ tend to use similar, if not identical, flawed reasoning. Of course, not every Muslim is a “mooslim”; nor is every Christian a “flat-earther”, or a “Bible literalist”, etc.
Considering, however, the percentage of terrorist acts committed by self-identified Muslims (actually, in the name of Islam, which is not necessarily the same thing) to terrorist acts committed by self-identified Christians, and you’ll find that there is an alarmingly disproportionate acts of terrorism committed by… Muslims. Sorry for the suspense.
And for all the thoughtless, incapable folks out there who see fit to dismiss Lt. Col. A. West for his military service (’oh, I have friends who knew someone who talked to someone who could spell “soldier”, so my babbling is valid’), you are beneath contempt. Do something real, something for others that puts you at risk, and then, maybe, you might be worth consideration. Otherwise, you’re just noise on the internet.
West is straightforward, and consistent, and works with honor toward clearly stated goals of excellence. What does his opponent offer? And you (any of you) propose that as a reasonable alternative? ‘Business as usual’?
Loonwatch is well named. It appears, however, that the authors and many of the posters qualify far more as “Loons” than the subjects mocked in the post.
Please seriously consider our current situation, and give it, and you, the dignity of intelligent, rhetoric-limited debate. What will do the very best for you, and for America?
December 17th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Thank you Emperor, good piecing together of clues, and their potential outcome. The neo cons know they’re disgraced, and are looking for ways to sneak back into the power game. We need to be ever vigilante and inform people of potential danger.
We need many more articles like this, preferably distributed far and wide on the internet by bloggers so that people are aware of the REAL reasons why neo cons are rooting for Allen West and Sarah Palin, and that reason being not for the benefit of the USA but for what they can do for the Armeggedon and extremist Zionist agenda.
I am astonished that more Americans do not realise these fifth columnists are a threat to the USA. Their policies are not official US or even Israeli policies for the middle East so they use dirty tricks and front groups to bring about their agenda all the while pretending an “islamic threat” as the bogeyman.
Allen West’s links to the likes of Pamela Geller need to be made public so that people know who supports him and why. That in itself will be a good reason for the majority to reject him and his credentials for leadership.
This is of course, not to deny that there is an extremsit threat from misled Muslims, but that is a problem that they EXPLOIT to their own advantage. That problem should of course be dealt with, but neither it’s causes nor solutions are what these liars propogate.
One of the weakeness’s in Steven Walt’s study “The Israel Lobby” was that he and John Mearsheimer focused too much on AIPACS role, and not enough on how neocons use front groups like CUFI, and other Christian Zionists.
An example, Ed Lasky from “The American Thinker” laments thus:-
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January 30, 2007
Splitting the Evangelicals from Israel
By Ed Lasky
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/splitting_the_evangelicals_fro.html
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Allen West and Sarah Palin are being lauded and feted by the extreme right wing Zionists, and Americans need to be made aware of this.
IsrPundit.com the notorious right wing Zionist blog run by Ted Belman a Canadian Jew, had this laudatory blog about Allen West, today. Clearly, the right wing Zionists are praying for this guy.
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Keep your eye on this rising star.
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=19071#comments
This guy is phenomenal. He outdoes Sarah Palin with his oratory, his message and his passion. I love her but he has her beat.
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Readers may be aware that Rabbi Jonathon Hausman who invited Wafa Stalin Sultan to speak at Ahavoth Synagogue in Stoughton, has a brother (Matthew Hausman) who blogs at IsraPundit. Ted Belman had a notorious campaign of misinformation at IsraPundit, about Obama being a Muslim.
The more you dig, the more you find that they’re all linked, all laud one another, blog for each other, but the public is not aware of these incestuous links.
It’s all very well speaking of “the Israel Lobby”, but people need to realise that the neo-cons, try their utmost to put Christian Zionist extremists at the forefront and then pretend that they are what America wants. They also do this so that when the shit hits the fan, (like it did with the failed Iraq war) they can deflect attention from themselves, and say,
“look, Americans supported this, it’s anti-semitic to blame the Lobby”.
I would ask readers to keep an eye on right wing extremist blogs, Christian Zionist as well as neo cons, and send in tips to Loon Watch or write comments for everyone when you see any potential dirty tricks being played on the gullible and ill informed public.
So far, Loon Watch looks as if it will be the website that will play a large role in informing people of this really dangereous threat. Therefore we need to all be vigilante and help and send tips and share information like this.
Great work Loonwatch!
December 17th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Not A Democrat
“West is straightforward, and consistent, and works with honor toward clearly stated goals of excellence”
Is he? These are his exact words:
“I do not support any creation of a Palestinian state, to do so would be to create a terrorist state”
Here he is pretending that “terrorism” is the reason he opposes a Palestinian state, and not because of his religous views, which would be unnacceptable to the majority of Americans. The real reason is because of his Armeggedon beliefs which are more ardently supported by Christian Zionists. He cannot openly come out and say that
“Israel should expand from it’s borders, Jews should relocate to Israel, and there must be a war between Muslims and Jews, so as to trigger the Armeggedon”.
This is what these people believe. Christian Zionists were the biggest supporters of the Iraq war.
Jews are prepared to compromise on the borders, but the Christian Zionists believe in bringing about ethnical cleansing or genocide and expanding borders from the river to the Nile.
Is this what you want for America? Their foreign policy would be guided by their religion.
Allen West has no place in public politics. Nor does any Christian dominionist.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Nabeela,
Thank you for the encouragement. I don’t know if Klein, his opponent will make an issue out of this, but I hope he does.
Someone who followed the last election, was Islamophobia a big issue?
Retaane, thanks for the update. You are a treasure of a reader with your tips.
WOW,
Please don’t be blinded by the rhetoric and see West for who he is, the man was also nearly court-martialed for shooting next to the head of an Iraqi soldier.
His views are a disgrace to the US military, and expose what Mikey Weinstein has been reporting on the infiltration of the military by extreme Christian Dominionists.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Ref: The Ed Lasky article about Christian Zionist support added by Nabela above is a whitewash. Ed Lasky is deceiving his readers when he says that Evangelicals support Israel because G-d says “I will bless those that bless you”..If that were so, their support would be conditional, but it’s not. It has ugly strings attached.
Christian Zionist support for Israel, has led to groups like Joel Rosenberg’s The Joshua Fund, and Pastor Hagee’s CUFI to donate funds to Israel and encourage Aliya (migration to Israel from the former soviet states)
This has had two major negative impacts on Israeli society.
1. The immigrants are often non Jews, or Messianic Jews or Baptists pretending to be Jews or they use fake papers to get into Israel to missionise Jews to Christianity to prepare for the Messiah.
2. The funds donated by Evangelical groups are used to fund TV stations and charities that surrpetitiously missionise Jews, fund Messianic Jewish communities secretly to proselytise and make Israel Christian. They have used their influence in the USA to ban proselytising laws in Israel, so that they can use their money to Christianise Israel, drive out Palestinians, and expand territory.
There is a website/forum run by Ellen Horowitz, called Jewish Israel. Jewish Israel specialies in exposing the dangers of Christian Zionists in America and the problems they cause in Israel, their support is more a liability than an asset.
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Jewish Israel
http://www.jewishisrael.com/ Jewish Israel takes a critical look at Israel’s alliances with Fundamentalist Christian groups, and provides a platform for ongoing monitoring and pro-active responses to evangelical missionary campaigns targeting Jews for conversion, Read more
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If anybody wants to learn the truth about the different Evangelical groups, and how American Evangelical support for Israel operates, needs to check out Jewish Israel.
December 20th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
“We already have Lynne Torgerson, (who judging from her campaign picture looks as though she saves a lot of money by cutting her own hair)”
I was right, wasn’t I?
You ARE all girls!
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Our current Congressman from Florida’s 22nd District is tax and spend lawyer-lobbyist, career-politician Ronald Klein of West Boca Raton (I am sure you already know how I feel about him). Ronald Klein lives in a house he paid $1,000,000 for, it is located in the most exclusive, 24-hour a day guard-gated, concrete-walled community named Le Jardins, and he sent his kids to the most expensive private school in Florida. All of this is paid for with taxpayer money. Now that he has been in office for one and one-half terms, he has voted for every single spending bill and approved all kinds of ear marks (including $15 million upgrade for a no-rider commuter rail that runs empty from a deadend at the north side of our district to a deadend at the south side of our district). He does not show at scheduled town hall meetings and he no longer returns phone calls - even from people who he used to call ‘friends of ron’. I and many others I know voted for Ronald Klien, we worship together and we eat at the same restaurants. Sorry to say it, but I am not and I know many others who are not voting for Ronald Klein again. It is not just the national right-wingers, but we too are fed up with Ronald Klein voting blindly in support of the adgenda. Unless we put forth someone new with some fiscal restraint, Allen West will take over our district in 2010. This opinion is not just based on Ronald Klein and what I hear about him, but is is also based on my careful tracking of Allen West from the amount of money raised, to the public’s awareness of him and to the amount of local and national press coverage he is getting. At the very least, we have a worthy oponent in Allen West.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thank you, Loonwatch.
When Colonel West’s anti-Muslim missive went out after Fort Hood some months ago, I went out and tried to find information on the man to help formulate a response to the person who sent it to me (my father). My father is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF. I had began to think about sending Colonel West an email asking him to watch his rhetoric- I mean, I grew up military. The officers and enlisted men and women I met were wonderful people and I have tremendous respect for them and our armed forces. We can disagree about when if ever they should be used but they are hands down, including concern for human suffering, the best military force in the world.
When I found Colonel West’s mission statement any thought of contacting him was lost once I got to the Ishmael bit. I am amazed this hasn’t been thrown around the media better- at least the internet! I can’t believe that when you google the subject all you get are people praising him for some of the most open racism out of a politician in the last decade. It just shows how tolerant we are of racism that is aimed at a popular enemy. Yet we continue to look at the Holocaust and say “it could never happen here,” but look at how much hatred we are willing to overlook when it suits our will to do so. (And since Obama has gained office, the explosion of anti-black racism on the internet and off has also been extraordinary, if far less than brutal anti-Muslim rhetoric. This too has seen an increase in public tolerance.)
I for one do respect Colonel West’s contribution to the military. It scares me to pieces that his anti-Muslim ideology was likely already strong at that stage, but this was a man who had a reputation as willing to do anything for his soldiers, and it sounds like he accompanied them into dangerous situations frequently. Intolerable racist viewpoint aside, this is the mark of a great officer. The incident for which he lost his job (and should have lost his job) was obviously motivated by both his racism and his concern for his men, though I think it is important to point out that its outcome is unknown. It may have saved some of his soldiers’ lives, or it may have done nothing. Colonel West himself says, in retrospect, he has no idea if the man was guilty or not but that the ambushes on his soldiers stopped. On the other hand, outside of the potential injustice of it, he may have made an innocent man anti-American, and whether Americans, soldiers or civilians, are killed as an indirect result of this in the future we’ll probably never know. If his racism hadn’t played a role, I’m sure a man of Colonel West’s intelligence could have found a better alternative.
Because yes, unfortunately Colonel West is a man of intelligence– and that’s what makes his insipid viewpoint so dangerous. I don’t understand how intelligent people end up subscribing to such bigotry, but I imagine that it at times serves the same purpose as paradigms in theory. It filters excessive information to make complicated factors simple. Bigotry tied to a strong ideology, especially one that is religious (and it usually is,) further serves as a great comfort to the active mind. The brain sees the empirical world and says “this world is a hateful, painful, complicated and hopeless place and individual life is insignificant” and evangelical religion answers, “yes it is, but you’re not insignificant, someone else is going to take care of it all, and your role is really quite simple to understand (though this is not to say easy.)” It’s not difficult to see what is appealing about this. This is indeed the opium of the intellectual. I understand that though I am religious myself.
What’s especially stupid of Colonel West, however, is a complete failure to see that his religious response is –exactly- the response of militant Islam. For all his rhetoric it just comes down to brand. West is loyal to one brand and Osama is loyal to another, but they’re both equally loyal to the same product. Of course West isn’t orchestrating the kinds of atrocities Osama is guilty of, but that’s just circumstantial because he happens to have been fortunate enough to have been born in the United States. Different circumstances would equal different outcomes to West’s ideology.
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Loonwatchers would the woirld be a better place if there was no Isreal? If all the jews went back to europe and the US would there be no more jihad from the likes of Osama and co???