The Outstater
Andre Carson, Part II
I don’t have any reasons
I’ve left them all behind
I’m in a New York state of mind
— Billy Joel
NEW YORK CITY is poised to elect an Islamist mayor and at least the prospect of Sharia Law, “no go” zones, globalization of the infidel, anti-semitism and so forth, not to mention a historically ignorant race-Marxism. It makes you grateful to live in stodgy old Indiana, doesn’t it?
Wait, what? Indiana’s capital is already represented by a Muslim? Andre Carlson of the 7th District? Does he share the views of other Muslim politicians now surging in U.S. and European cities, views that include the dismantling of Western tenets?
Surely not. This, I repeat, is Indiana, Muslim or no Muslim. In the 2024 general election, Carson won re-election handily with nearly 70 percent of the vote against a consummate Hoosier Republican. Islamism never came up.
But worst case, again, might Carson see himself representing Islamism first and Hoosiers only incidentally? Neither the Indianapolis Star nor any other state medium has ever pressed that obvious question. It has allowed Carson, a second-generation politician, to clothe himself in the comfortable mufti of the civil-rights era.
The political aspects of his religion, however, deserve to be examined at least as critically as the Christian views of, say, a Micah Beckwith, castigated weekly in the Star. It is not bigotry to be concerned that Carson’s religion differs from others, and in a political way.
“Mohammed’s transition from the role of a preacher to that of a prince and a conqueror after his migration from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622 was avolte-face which has no parallel in the careers of the other great founders of religions,” wrote the late British historian Arnold Toynbee.
Winston Churchill called Islamism “the most retrograde force in the world.”There are those who say that Carson, who converted in 1990, is unavoidably Islamist, the only distinction being whether or not Muslims have reached dominance in his particularly society. And the history of the 50 or so Muslim-ruled nations tends to bear that out. Political, religious or social tolerance is not apparent in their governance.
When Carson has spoken about terrorism, for instance, he has been oddly circumspect. Is he constrained somehow, or is this taqiyya, the Islamic practice of concealing one’s beliefs when facing criticism? He has called for cooperation with Muslim-ruled nations to appease their violent elements, often with financial incentives — not what you would call Scoop Jackson foreign policy.
Once more, Islamism is a political ideology that supersedes American party label. Its practitioners do not co-exist as do modern Christians, Hindus or Buddhists. They push to dominate political and social structures.
Given that Indianapolis Muslims are now in numbers that could swing primary elections, it is our duty to sharply, fully and continuously question Carson on how he views his representation of us. You will not want to get this one wrong. — tcl
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