TP:Grover Norquist Is Showing "Signs of Converting to Islam"

[General Mung Beans]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/0 ... 72347.html

Cathie Adams: Grover Norquist 'Showing Signs Of Converting To Islam' Because He Has A Beard
The Huffington Post | By Paige Lavender
Posted: 06/01/2013 3:35 pm EDT



Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum and former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, made questionable remarks about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist during a recent speech on “Radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

In a video posted by the Far North Dallas Tea Party and reported on by Right Wing Watch, Adams can be heard saying Norquist is “showing signs of converting to Islam himself," citing his beard as evidence.

"Many of us know him because often times we like what he says about economic issues, but Grover Norquist is trouble with a capital T," Adams says in the video. "As you see he has a beard, and he's showing signs of converting to Islam himself."

Adams brought Norquist's wife -- Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim -- into her argument.

"He's married to a Muslim woman, but he denies that he has converted himself. He denies that," Adams says.

Norquist has been the subject of anti-Muslim attacks before. Frank Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy, has accused Norquist of "credentialing the perpetrators of this Muslim Brotherhood influence operation" in the past.

"We are in a war, and [Norquist] has been working with the enemy for over a decade," Gaffney wrote in a January 2011 op-ed.

Norquist has spoken out against attacks on Muslim Americans, notably calling GOP efforts to halt plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near the destroyed World Trade Center site "a distraction from a winning game plan."

Click here to watch the full video of Adams' remarks, and click here for more from Right Wing Watch.

I checked, this is not a parody.

[Guardsman Bass]

Norquist's had a bunch of that kind of bullshit flung at him over the years, because he married a muslim woman. This is just the most recent.

[Skywalker_T-65]

I have Muslim friends...does that make me a closet Jihadist?

Hard to understand how they can make this type of jump. That, and even if he is Muslim it doesn't mean he goes around going 'Death to America!!!' like most of the Right thinks all Muslims do.

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

I have Muslim friends...does that make me a closet Jihadist?

Hard to understand how they can make this type of jump. That, and even if he is Muslim it doesn't mean he goes around going 'Death to America!!!' like most of the Right thinks all Muslims do.

Yes, yes, it does*, on both counts.


*not to reasonable people, but to the ignorant, bigoted jackass wing of U.S. politics.

[Flagg]

I have Muslim friends...does that make me a closet Jihadist?

Hard to understand how they can make this type of jump. That, and even if he is Muslim it doesn't mean he goes around going 'Death to America!!!' like most of the Right thinks all Muslims do.

Yes, yes, it does*, on both counts.


*not to reasonable people, but to the ignorant, bigoted jackass wing of U.S. politics.

The word you're looking for is "republican".

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

I have Muslim friends...does that make me a closet Jihadist?

Hard to understand how they can make this type of jump. That, and even if he is Muslim it doesn't mean he goes around going 'Death to America!!!' like most of the Right thinks all Muslims do.

Yes, yes, it does*, on both counts.


*not to reasonable people, but to the ignorant, bigoted jackass wing of U.S. politics.

The word you're looking for is "republican".

Mostly, but not entirely. From my experience, anyway.

[Dr. Trainwreck]

Is there even any proof that his wife is a practicing Muslim, or they just infer everything from her name?

[General Zod]

Is there even any proof that his wife is a practicing Muslim, or they just infer everything from her name?

The funny part about this post is that you make it sound like being a Muslim is some sort of crime.

[Tanasinn]

Uh...no he doesn't? He's just pointing out that they may not have any base for their paranoia to begin with. Which would, in itself, be funny.

[General Zod]

Uh...no he doesn't? He's just pointing out that they may not have any base for their paranoia to begin with. Which would, in itself, be funny.

I'm just wondering why it matters if she's Muslim or not. Their paranoia's baseless bullshit all the same.

[Tanasinn]

Because it's funnier if their secret Muslim Manchurian Candidate accusations stem from a marriage to a woman who isn't Muslim in the first place.

[Simon_Jester]

Norquist has done more damage than any single Islamic terrorist- measuring the opportunity costs alone, the roads and schools not built, the research not done, the children not fed...

He's one of those people I look at and think "if a foreign force had done this, instead of it being a self-inflicted wound from our domestic political process, we would be at war with that foreign force."

[Dr. Trainwreck]

The funny part about this post is that you make it sound like being a Muslim is some sort of crime.

I... no. Like Tanasinn said, it's funnier that way. It's like the difference between howling at the moon naked, and howling at the moon naked and painted with mustard.

[Gandalf]

Norquist has done more damage than any single Islamic terrorist- measuring the opportunity costs alone, the roads and schools not built, the research not done, the children not fed...

He's one of those people I look at and think "if a foreign force had done this, instead of it being a self-inflicted wound from our domestic political process, we would be at war with that foreign force."

How much blame can really be put at Norquist's feet, as opposed to those who keep voting for people who sign his silly pledges?

[Simon_Jester]

Eh, you're right, I'm conflating the man with the movement.

Norquist, at most, was a major player in getting the "antitax fanatic" ball rolling; it would probably exist even if he'd never lived.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I have a full mountain man beard....

[madd0ct0r]

you're a bear. you get a species exemption.

[Saxtonite]

I have Muslim friends...does that make me a closet Jihadist?

Hard to understand how they can make this type of jump.

In Islam males have to convert to Islam if they want to marry a Muslim female, "Traditionally". Non-Muslim females can marry Muslim males w/o conversion....

[The Duchess of Zeon]

The only picture of his wife that I've found shows her to look incredibly Caucasian (suggesting her family might have been a member of the Ottoman era landowning class in Palestine which was usually from other parts of the Empire and not actually Arabic) and drinking a glass of wine. She was however definitely at least notionally born Muslim as she grew up in Kuwait and they did not accept Palestinian Christian refugees.

[The Yosemite Bear]

now, now DoZ we can't confuse these people with actual facts, and history....