Going where no mainstream politician has gone before

Rep. Virgil H. Goode, a Republican from Virginia, has taken a stand on Islam that goes beyond the usual conservative impotent handwringing on the subject and actually calls for doing something about it. Responding to letters from hundreds of his constituents upset about the prospect of newly elected Muslim congressman Keith Ellison taking his oath of office on the Koran, Goode sent them a letter that began:

I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran….

Goode has done what no mainstream American politicians or commentators, including the best known and most vocal Islam critics (see this and this and this and this), ever do. He has connected effect—the growing Islamic influence in this country—with cause—the immigration that has brought Muslims here. He has used the brain God gave him. Unbelievable.

Goode’s letter continues:

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country. I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.

Of course, this is only the beginning of a serious policy to protect America from Islam. But the main point has been made. if we don’t want congressmen taking their oath of office on the Koran, if we don’t want sharia law sprouting up in this country, if we don’t want Islam gaining power over us in myriad ways, we must stop the growth of the Muslim population among us.

Goode was denounced by CAIR for Islamophobia and bigotry, but an aide says he stands by what he has written

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Ben writes:

First, I like the fact that he blamed the American people and not Ellison, because after all Ellison is just doing what all Moslems will naturally do, follow their faith. It’s not the Muslims who are doing anything wrong, but us.

I think you are starting to see a small awakening at the grassroots level in America where people are actually starting to use their brain unlike men like Prager who just whine about it and call for the American people to wake up, but never say what they should be waking up to.

Least some good news for a change. I personally see hope in the future of the Republican party when I see stories like this. I see a possible destruction of the Bushies and their ideologies and the rise of true conservatism again. It’s a good thought anyway that our thinking about this stuff 24/7 is not for nothing.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 20, 2006 09:20 PM | Send