The Outstater
Indiana’s Muslim Test
THE NEED to confront the Muslim scourge in our cities is dividing the Republican Party — or so you would expect. In Indiana, however, only Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is speaking out while other GOP leaders sit silent for fear that Julia Carson’s grandson, Andre, will call them bigots.
Indeed, the governor upbraided Beckwith for not choosing his words more carefully, for not thinking before he speaks.
OK, if the governor wants a careful word choice, how about “seditious”? That’s when you demand that your religion exempts you from a society’s norms, mores, laws and core beliefs to the degree that you would overturn them to be replaced with your own.
Freedom of religion? Do you think the Founders had in mind someone like Genghis Khan, a devout follower of Tengrism, the shamanic religion that worships “the Eternal Blue Sky.” His armies killed as many as 40 million people, estimated to be 11 percent of the world’s population at the time.
It is terrifying to realize that the leading minds of our GOP are willing to abide an openly hostile, globally controlled Islam as a benign curiosity. Look, there are reasons nobody immigrates to the 50 or so Muslim-majority nations. Our governor should be made aware of them.
Islamism’s allies of moment are the suicidally empathetic and the opportunistically socialist. They can only triumph if nobody stands in their way. And you don’t need to be a student of the Qur’an to know that both history and common sense testify to its incompatibility with “the Great Satan” America. In fact, Islam’s world leadership, stuck in the 7th century, tells us that daily in its chanted promises of “death to America.”
If that word choice is not clear enough, consider that the more gimlet-eyed political observers anticipate a Muslim mayor of Indianapolis in the next few election cycles, with the current slate of leftist Democrats setting the stage. Biden-era refugees from Somalia, Iran, Syria, etc., have burgeoned the unassimilable Muslim population, estimated as high as 23,000 in the Indianapolis metro area. A political pact with blacks and Median-Kessler progressives could swing a Democrat primary there.
Beckwith has been the sole voice warning of all this. His recent proposal to ban the purely demonstrative, disruptive and arguably political Muslim calls to prayer (don’t they have cell phones?) should be seriously addressed.
You know that Beckwith is onto something by the outrage he has generated in the ever-woke executive suites of the Indianapolis Star. The newspaper has unleashed its attack columnist, James Briggs, who would place Beckwith somewhere just this side of the Ku Klux Klan. And in a lengthy opinion piece ordered up by senior editors, the Star employed the Council on American-Islamic Relations to say that Beckwith “is exploiting his office to fear-monger and spread misinformation.”
No, the United States is a Christian nation and has every right to remain so. Our friend Gary Varvel makes that case in the current Indiana Policy Review. Last month, more than a hundred foundation members heard Varvel’s full presentation at our seminar in Indianapolis. Nobody from the governor’s office was able to attend — busy, one must assume, choosing their words carefully. — tcl
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