Andy McCarthy asks provocatively - Time for Defenders of Liberty to leave the GOP?

Pansy-ass response by some top GOPers to findings on Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her ties to Radical Islamists, leads pro-national security Republicans to question allegiances to the Party

by Eric Dondero

Interesting development, pro-national security rightists are now questioning their long-standing relationship with the Republican Party. Has the GOP now become too soft on Islamic terrorism?

Longstanding National Review columnist, and 9/11 Terrorist expert Andrew McCarthy questions the GOP leadership response to Rep. Michele Bachmann's concerns over Huma Abedin. The very close Clinton aide, was recently discovered to have ties to the radical Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Yes, shockingly, instead of calling for her resignation, and an investigation into Hillary Clinton's possible ties to the Brotherhood, some Republicans, including John McCain, criticized Michele Bachmann and others calling for Abedin's ouster.

Excerpted from RightSideNews.com, "The Wages of Willful Blindness: Is It Time for Defenders of Liberty to Abandon the GOP?":

The embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood by President Obama, aided and abetted by the Republican establishment, is not new. It is the culmination of a gradual surrender whose silhouette was already evident nearly twenty years ago. I wrote about it in Willful Blindness, a memoir about the start of our nation’s confrontation with Islamic supremacism as a domestic threat — back in the early Nineties, when I led the prosecution of the Blind Sheikh’s New York jihadist cell, which carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Is our wayward course one that can be corrected? The ongoing controversy over Islamist influence on our government will probably answer that question.

Spotlighted are concerns raised by five conservative members of the House of Representatives about (i) Brotherhood-friendly government policymaking and (ii) government officials, such as the State Department’s Huma Abedin, who have longstanding Islamist ties. The crossroads at which we’ve arrived, however, involve a lot more than any single government official or policy. Let me be stark: Our liberty and security are threatened, and the questions not only of whether GOP leaders comprehend the stakes, but also of whether the Republican Party remains a worthy home for defenders of liberty, have become very real.

The goal of the Jihadist is always the same: Institute strict Sharia Law on the infidels

regardless of what methods an Islamic supremacist uses, his goal never changes: He aims to implement sharia. In Islamic supremacist ideology, sharia is regarded as the mandatory, non-negotiable foundation that must be laid before a society can be Islamized. Sharia is not “moderate”; therefore, you are not a “moderate” if you want it, no matter what method you use to implement it. For example, if you are an Islamic supremacist and you want to repeal the First Amendment in order to prohibit speech that casts Islam in a negative light, you are not a “moderate” — even if you wouldn’t blow up buildings to press your point...

Establishment Republicans selling out to Islamic Supremacists?

I am routinely accused of promoting hatred and “Islamophobia.” Such accusations, applied to assertions of what used to be seen as fact, do not come only from the Obama Left (including its Clinton administration veterans — the State Department, run by Hillary Clinton, and the Justice Department run by Eric Holder, Clinton’s deputy attorney general). The smears are echoed, and in many cases led, by prominent members of the Republican establishment.

I haven’t changed. The threat against us hasn’t changed. The government has changed.

The Obama administration and the Republican establishment would have us live a lie — a lie that endangers our liberties and our security. The lie is this: There is a difference between mainstream Islamic ideology and what they call “violent extremism.”

Continuing:

there remain many national security conservatives in the Republican Party. They are alarmed and extremely worried about the threat the ascendancy of Islamic supremacism poses to our liberty and security. They also see this threat magnified, to an intolerable degree, by the inroads the Muslim Brotherhood has made in the Republican establishment and in our government. As to the latter, we are not just talking about the State Department — not by a long shot. So profound is the influence of the Obama/Republican-establishment philosophy over the Defense Department, for example, that the Pentagon could not bring itself to refer to any aspect of Islamic supremacist ideology in a lengthy report on the attack at Fort Hood — a jihadist atrocity that killed 13 Americans, twice as many as were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

If the Republican Party has decided to take its cues from establishment proponents of this reckless philosophy, if GOP leaders can no longer tell the difference between hostile anti-American operatives and benign political actors, then the Republican Party has become an obstacle to liberty and security, not a vehicle for their preservation. As is the case with crushing government debt and out-of-control government spending, it appears that the GOP is choosing to be part of the problem, rather than the solution, when it comes to the threat of Islamic supremacism. Certainly, that is a choice party leaders are entitled to make. But if it is the one they have made, why should conservatives concerned about liberty and security bother with the Republican Party?

Ironically, many in the Ron Paul isolationist soft-on-terrorism camp, and the leftside of the libertarian movement question their attachments to the GOP. They wonder out loud if the Republican Party is the right vehicle to promote their views and their candidates.

But has the Republican Party become, as McCarthy suggests, hostile territory for those of us concerned about the rising threat of Islam, and Islamic terrorism? Is a third party now warranted for pro-liberty/anti-Jihadist activists on the right?

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