{"id":8512,"date":"2012-07-24T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2012-07-24T23:06:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:06:53","slug":"congresswoman-michelle-bachman-spearheads-drive-to-demonise-muslims-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Michelle Bachman spearheads drive to demonise Muslims in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michelle Bachmann<\/p><\/div>\n

by Rob L. Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/strong>n 1953, young reserve Air Force lieutenant Milo Radulovich lost his security clearance for maintaining a \u201cclose and continuing relationship\u201d with people who were communists or had communist sympathies.<\/p>\n

Those people? His father and sister.
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\nRadulovich\u2019s crime was that his father read Serbian newspapers. One was identified as a communist publication by the US government. His sister held \u201cliberal\u201d views but described herself as \u201capolitical.\u201d Radulovich was involved in no political causes and had an exemplary record as a US military officer.<\/p>\n

Michelle Bachmann<\/p>\n

Radulovich, who died in 2007 aged 81, was perhaps the most well known victim of McCarthyism that swept the United States in the 1950s when Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed communists were infiltrating the US State Department. Victims caught up in the hysteria included rank and file government workers, teachers, academics, actors, and film producers and directors.<\/p>\n

Radulovich was ultimately vindicated but his life was irrevocably changed forever as he found it difficult to find meaningful employment for many years.<\/p>\n

McCarthyism is a disease that Americans suffer when things don\u2019t go well. In the 1950s it was the postwar anxieties over the arms race with the Soviet Union, unspoken demand for conformity that pushed women into the kitchen and the burgeoning civil rights movement that made many whites uncomfortable if not hostile. Today it\u2019s a ruinous economy and the emergence of radical social conservatives who seek to control the personal lives of individuals.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s disciple of Joseph McCarthy is Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. She and her four GOP cohorts have sent letters to five US government agencies claiming there are \u201cserious security concerns\u201d over the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s \u201cdeep penetration in the halls of our United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is also demanding an investigation into whether Huma Abedin, an American Muslim aide to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
\nAbedin is a Michigan native, grew up in Jeddah and joined Hillary Clinton\u2019s staff as an intern in 1996. She has been by Clinton\u2019s side ever since. Abedin holds a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania and made Time magazine\u2019s list of \u201c40 under 40\u201d as the new generation of civic leaders.<\/p>\n

However, Bachmann alleges that Abedin\u2019s Indian father Syed Zainul Abedin, who died in 1993, and her Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, also a holder of a Ph.D and associated with Dar Al-Hekma College, are linked to Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Bachmann\u2019s evidence? Well, no one knows for sure. Bachmann says she has it, but hasn\u2019t shown it to anybody.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is a page ripped from the McCarthy playbook when the senator made outrageous allegations of communist infiltration into the US government while holding a manila envelope he claimed held the names of subversives. Bachmann, like McCarthy, is not showing anybody her \u201cevidence,\u201d but it doesn\u2019t matter. She has smeared Abedin, casting a shadow over her nearly 20-year career of public service.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know whether Abedin\u2019s parents are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and I certainly don\u2019t care. Syed Abedin has been dead for 19 years and her mother is involved in one of the most liberal institutions in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Republicans, who usually are in lockstep with one another, have taken issue with Bachmann\u2019s dangerous attacks.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said from the Senate floor that \u201cthese attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit, and they need to stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lack of logic is an understatement. Abedin is married to former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who is pro-Israel and Jewish. If she is a fifth columnist, then she has gone above and beyond the call of duty for the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Of course, there is no evidence that she has any such connections. Yet Bachmann is not satisfied with going after just Abedin, but also Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, another prominent American Muslim. Ellison said recently Bachmann made the allegations about the Muslim Brotherhood for political gain and demanded she back up her claims with evidence.<\/p>\n

Bachmann responded by telling the right-wing Glenn Beck in an interview that Ellison \u201chas a long record of being associated with (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) and with the Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellison didn\u2019t take the bait. \u201cI knew when I raised the issue of her unfounded accusations of disloyalty that sooner or later she was going to get around to accusing me,\u201d he told reporters recently. \u201cI will say for the record that her allegations are false.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bachman\u2019s allegations against Abedin and Ellison will likely fade away, but she gains ground by making any Muslim in a high-profile government job \u2014 whether it\u2019s a judgeship appointment, aide or to an elected post \u2014 a political target and potential victim to slander. Muslims are the 21st century communists and America\u2019s new demons served up by the radical right.<\/p>\n

Courtesy: Arab News<\/em><\/p>\n

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