Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) made allegations that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the U.S. government. These people recently sent letters to five federal agencies demanding investigations into infiltration by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Robert G. Sugarman and Abraham H. Foxman, the national chair and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement, "These sweeping accusations by members of Congress against American citizens who are Muslim are unfair and misguided. Absent clear evidence of direct ties between these individuals and the Muslim Brotherhood, such allegations foment fear and cast the kind of suspicion that undermines rather than advances American counter terrorism efforts."
The Anti-Defamation League wrote letters to these five members of Congress on Friday (7/20/12), expressing their displeasure with their charges saying, "Members of Congress have an essential role to play in raising legitimate concerns about threats to America’s security from international terrorist groups,” The Anti-Defamation League wrote. "Those efforts should not be tainted by the kind of stereotyping and prejudice that has too frequently accompanied the public debate. ... We strongly urge you to reconsider your allegations and to refrain from promoting or trafficking in anti-Muslim conspiracy theories in the future."
These people were concerned that top State Department official Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) had ties through family members to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Michelle Bachmann must have had a mental relapse thinking Bush was in office where groundless accusations could sway public opinion like a yo-yo to accept whatever expenditure needed to be passed without debate or thought, or whatever person needed to be blackballed and screwed over with impunity. That feeling is still in the rage among millions of conservative citizens, most of whom are white and Christian. It is nestled in fear. What is that like? What is it like to be in power as a white person and all the signs around are indicating the end to an era of domination and supremacy? When all the chickens come home to roost? What is it like? What does it feel like to feel one's grip slipping when every standard you hold dear and over people is disseminated, and correctly interpreted, and discarded by the very people your laws were meant to take advantage of, and render, if you so desired, a person, a tribe, a nation of people invisible?
Robert G. Sugarman and Abraham H. Foxman, the national chair and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement, "These sweeping accusations by members of Congress against American citizens who are Muslim are unfair and misguided. Absent clear evidence of direct ties between these individuals and the Muslim Brotherhood, such allegations foment fear and cast the kind of suspicion that undermines rather than advances American counter terrorism efforts."
The Anti-Defamation League wrote letters to these five members of Congress on Friday (7/20/12), expressing their displeasure with their charges saying, "Members of Congress have an essential role to play in raising legitimate concerns about threats to America’s security from international terrorist groups,” The Anti-Defamation League wrote. "Those efforts should not be tainted by the kind of stereotyping and prejudice that has too frequently accompanied the public debate. ... We strongly urge you to reconsider your allegations and to refrain from promoting or trafficking in anti-Muslim conspiracy theories in the future."
These people were concerned that top State Department official Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) had ties through family members to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Most notably, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon and strongly criticized his GOP colleagues.
"When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it," he said.
Shooting into the dark terrified by the shadows you cast as the 'enemy' encroaches upon your physical and intellectual property and claims is bound to wound the wrong people who might easily be your own children! For people of color it is hard to be kind to white people lashing out in pain as their reality shifts in favor of the good of all. It is hard for millions of Black Americans to think deeply about the implications of a shift of power. We haven't learned that language, and it mocks us daily as we allow power to be rent from our hands every 15 minutes as our earned dollars go out of the communities back into white, and Asian communities.
The ethnic groups living in the United States need to ponder the shifting sands and determine when and how to build better futures not only for themselves but for the rest of the country. Since the patterns and structures of business, and social interactions, and government are firmly entrenched in the paradigms of white thought, and supremacy we have an extra responsibility to unlearn all we know. The shifts within power and the shifts of power require reassessments that defy the laws of complacency, and mediocrity, which fit so well on so many.
Because the relationships between Black and White America is so crucial to the identity and culture of the U.S. the deepest work will have to be undertaken not in the political sector, but in the realm of spiritual work, emotional restoration, parallel journeys into the unknown of remembering for the sake of the ritual of recapitulation. Relationship with food, and water has to be reestablished as a sacred undertaking, and the power over land has to taken by the Holy Women, Womb and Water Caretakers, and the children have to be blessed and honored as Sacred Beings. Warriors will have to be re-directed and assigned to the rigours of
becoming Healers.
We are living in a time of prophecy. More and more children are coming through the channels of timelessness and formlessness into the world who were once enormous conduits of healing energies now shaped into a human form that is uncomfortable to wear, but wear it they must. We need to see them. People of the old guard are terrified of them, and religious folks resent them because they (the children) require so much inner work of their parents, guardians, teachers, pastors, and lay people who think they don't need to be involved in child-rearing!
There is so much to unlearn, and as I have said, and insisted upon times before; unlearning is the first lesson of power! Before any of the other steps can be made this one has to be made before we learn how to see who and what is really surrounding us, and before we can build bridges over the chasms built by fear and engineered by hatred. It is a lot of work, but for the Christians Jesus laid down not only his life, but the foundations, the structure, the design of a healing modality rooted and from the mysterious past before his religion was born! When, and if the Jesus Walkers ascend that height, and depth the adherents of other faiths will have to match the ancient practices and our elevation beyond the heavens Enoch wrote about will be reached, but that is high of a dream for the mundane. Jesus spoke of it, and few have grasped it, and those who did have suffered for the revelations if they dared to speak, or teach them. Let me stop here.
© Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
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