Star Parker is running for Congress in California. She’s a conservative and the district is liberal, so she probably won’t win. But if that’s the case, California will be the real loser.
Speaking recently of the planned Ground Zero mosque, Parker laid it on the line.
“Americans don’t need any lessons about freedom and tolerance. Millions of Muslim Americans live, prosper and practice their faith freely in our country. According to a Google search, there are about 2,000 mosques in the United States. We have one Muslim American member of Congress who took his oath of office with his hand on the Koran. Many American universities have programs where students can learn about Islam, including Columbia in New York City.”
Speaking of President Obama’s belief that Americans “somehow bore some responsibility for the antipathy toward us in the Islamic world and that outreach would help”, Parker said, “As Johns Hopkins University Middle East Scholar Fouad Ajami pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, Obama’s outreach program has accomplished only diminished respect for us in the Islamic world. Antipathy continues to run high and unchanged and it’s not because there something wrong with us. It’s because, as Ajami writes, the U.S. is a convenient scapegoat for nations and rulers that refuse to address their own problems.”
And finally Parker tells Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the $100 million dollar effort to build the Ground Zero mosque, “Of the 17 nations that Freedom House rates the ‘worst of the worst’ regarding their state of freedom, six are Islamic nations. Feisal Abdul Rauf should spend his $100 million – wherever it’s coming from – to advance the cause of freedom in Islamic countries. That is where the problem is, not here.”
We’re just guessing, but we think that the average American could really appreciate someone in Congress with the … uhhh … political will to give a speech like that.
We originally published this story with a reference to Star Parker being on the The View. Our mistake, that was Star Jones.
Source: Boston Herald
