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
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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I am white female and a former Democrat from NC. If the rest of the country is suffering with unemployment, foreclosures and the homebuilding industry down the tube as much as NC, I think we need to convince Star Parker to forego congress and run for President! She is exactly what this country needs.
Beauty and brains , an endangered species in California
Normal, intelligent, well educated? Nope, not a snowball's chance for her. Indeed, it is Cullyfahnia's ( a little governator lingo there) loss.
WOW! An actual, normal, intelligent, well educated candidate. I wish I could vote n her district! I am also pleased to note that although she is black, the comments for her are positive. See? We are NOT racist. We just want someone with a brain, no matter what color skin they have. YOU GO GIRL!
Hey, this old white guy would vote for her.
She's just the right color - red, white and blue through and through !! ;-)
I never watch The View. I have read Star Parker's columns and seen her on Fox. She would never lower herself.
Who cares whether or not she was on The View and how does someone that reads this blog even know who is on The View?
Star Parker was never on the View. You are confusing her with Star Jones!
Aw, crap. You're right. We're morons.
Good luck to her! We need rational adults in government. Though the colour of her skin should be irrelevant, it's great when the lamestream media can't stereotype a person into their pre-concieved narrative, now the only attack they have left is the 'Uncle Tom' attack, which makes them look more ignorant than usual.