How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
The Free Beacon has a story headlined "Secretary of Truth: 9/11 Truther, prominent Democrat running for statewide office in Missouri." It begins calmly enough. MD Rabbi Alam is a Democratic activists -- he served as a "satellite campaign manager" for Obama in 2008 and chairs the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus, for instance -- who hopes to become Missouri's next secretary of state.
He's also a proud trafficker in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories:
Alam has speculated about Jewish involvement in the September 11th terrorist attacks and participated in an event with a Muslim cleric who has accused Israel of terrorism and alleged that the U.S. invented the HIV disease.
“Why [was] 9/11 was a official holidy [sic] for all jewish [sic] people worked in the the [sic] WTC?” Alam asked in an Internet discussion titled, “Was 9/11 a conspiracy??”
Alam went on to tout the 9/11 Truther film Loose Change 9/11, and challenged readers to “tell me how many of the Jewish people died on the 9/11 tragedy?”
Asked in an interview Monday about his provocative views, Alam stood by his controversial writings, admitting that he has been “waiting to discuss it with somebody.”
“My question was, ‘What’s the reason not a single Jew was killed on that day,’” Alam said, maintaining that his inquiries are based on facts, rather than a bias against Jewish people. “Was there a single Jew killed on that day?”
Among all the other people killed by radical Islamist terrorists on 9/11 were hundreds of Jews, including some citizens of Israel. Alam doubts that, however. He also doubts that commercial airlines could destroy the Twin Towers. The rhetoric troubles some:
“That the DNC would in any way affiliate itself with a 9/11 Truther who spews such anti-Semitic lunacy, and defends and repeats such bile when confronted, is beyond deeply troubling, it’s simply wrong,” said Josh Block, a Democratic strategist and former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Alam has decried the arrest of a Muslim activist who plead guilty to raising money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist group. In a video for the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City, he advocated getting involved in mainstream politics.
Missouri's Democratic voters can decide August 7 whether this is the candidate they want to run for Secretary of State.
It would be one thing, I suppose, if this were just some random dude running for office. But he's been invited to the White House and chairs these committees. I'm not keen on many political types as it is. But this type of conspiracy theorizing shouldn't be given a place of honor in any party.
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Jun '12
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
He hates America.
The modern Democratic Party hates America.
What else needs explanation? It's a perfect match.
Jun '12
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
I'd shorten CW's answer to: He's a Democrat, why are you surprised?
Mar '11
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
Sounds like a tremendous opportunity for Republicans to cross over and create real havoc in a battleground state.
Mar '12
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
I won't comment on this guy's relationship to fact, but would note that he wants to be the secretary of state for his state. This is important because in Minnesota, a Dem secretary of state decided the election for Al Franken, whose vote totals included felons not eligible to vote but who did anyway.
If the Dems hope to win in November, having friendly secretaries of state who can decide in favor of the hanging chad / convicted felon / illegal immigrant vote for the Dems who are running will be absolutely paramount.
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
Whatever else happens, Obama will be remembered for his achievement in reshaping the Democratic Party. He has mainstreamed the New Left radicals of yesteryear, and I suspect that, before too long, his party will do to its Jewish base what Obama himself has done to those semi-faithful Catholics who voted for him in 2008. It is his calculation that the Left no longer needs "useful idiots," if I may appropriate Lenin's phrase, of this particular sort.
Apr '11
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
"Semi-faithful" reminds me of phrases like "sorta pregnant."
Jun '12
Re: How Many Democratic Candidates Are This Fringe?
I wouldn't be surprised if many Muslim Brotherhood types or radical Islamists have studied Trotskyism as a means to power. Thankfully, these guys frequently can't help but open their mouths like Alam and reveal what they're up to.