Trump Strives to Undo 70 Years of Bipartisan U.S. Mideast Consensus | Tikun Olam |
In his place, the Wall Street Journal reports that Frank Gaffney has been tapped. He is the founder of the Center for Security Policy, perhaps the most Islamophobic think tank in Washington.
An NGO which monitors US hate groups, the
Southern Poverty Law Center, calls it“… a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece
for the growing anti-Muslim movement
in the United States.”
About Frank Gaffney, Jr | SPLC |
Gripped by paranoid fantasies about Muslims destroying the West from within, Gaffney believes that “creeping Shariah,” or Islamic religious law, is a dire threat to American democracy. In 1988, he founded the neoconservative turned anti-Muslim think tank Center for Security Policy. He favors congressional hearings to unmask subversive Muslim conspiracies, and was even banned from far-right Conservative Political Action Conference events after accusing two of its organizers of being agents of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In His Own Words:
“We’re witnessing not just the violent kind of jihad that these Islamists believe God compels them to engage in, but also, where they must for tactical reasons, a more stealthy kind, or civilizational jihad as the Muslim Brotherhood calls it. We’re witnessing that playing out, not only in places in the Middle East but also in Europe, in Australia, in Canada and here in the United States as well.”
Appointed in 1987, Gaffney was ultimately forced out of the Pentagon. The Washington Post observed at the time that within four days of Frank Carlucci’s appointment as Secretary of Defense, all his belongings were boxed in.
○ Fear Inc: Funding Islamophobia in America
○ McCain’s Dismissal of Bachmann’s Accusation – More Background [Frank Gaffney Jr.]
○ Neocons Covert Action and Ukraine Watch
The analysis of “a powder keg” or “Pandora’s box” or just plain common sense predicted what would pass in 21th century America with George Bush and Barack Obama on foreign policy in the Middle East. Could it get much worse with a mix of Trump, evangelical thought and the second coming of Christ?
Further reading …
○ Why They Don’t Want Us in Syria by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
