The Great Gazzoo of Threat Inflation Jumps the Shark on Islamist World Domination

Michael Mukasey

Via Political Wire, I see that a former Bush Attorney General [Guess which! Hint: currently a walking ad for Breitbart's Ghost] has something to warn us about... Islamists!

“You may not be interested in Islamism, but Islamism is interested in you,” warned former Attorney General Michael Mukasey at a Saturday CPAC panel of activists so fringy that they were not technically invited to the conference.

The Great Gazoo of threat inflation is hovering over Mukasey's shoulder, proudly stating how dulce et decorum it is to get other people killed in "defense" of one's country, because: Muslim hordes want global domination!

Keeping company with the likes of Pam Geller and Robert Spencer is easy when you have the facts!

“The vast majority of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims adhere to a view of their religion that agrees on the need to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on the world,” he said.

CPAC, which was looking for reasons why the GOP lost, wouldn't officially acknowledge this panel of "activists." If they really wanted to understand why the GOP is free-falling to rump party status, they'd look closely into the big brass bolas Mukasey's swinging around over his head and calling "facts."

I couldn't find a poll that shows that a "vast majority" of the world's Muslims want to impose Sharia Law on the whole world. I couldn't find a poll that shows a simple majority wants to. (Similarly, I couldn't find any poll that shows how many American Christian Fundamentalists want to impose their biblical law on the world, but there sure are plenty helping other countries pass anti-gay laws.) Lacking any obvious hard evidence on Mukasey's claims, I realized that he is, of course, bullshitting. But it's still fun to prove how full of shit he is!

The Religion of Piece is a website run by some of the looniest loons of them all when it comes to hating on Muslims. Everything they publish is designed to make Islam look as blood thirsty as possible (project much?). For a little background on TROP, check out this article from Loon Watch.

"...anti-Islam hate site, The Religion of Peace (TROP), associated with Islamophobe Daniel Greenfield, aka “SultanKnish,” who you will recall earns a pretty penny from the David Horowitz Freedom Center."

TROP is about as far right as you can get on this stuff. Or so you would think... Mainstream Republicans would certainly move toward the center to get away from this kind of hate speech, since even CPAC didn't want to have anything to do with them, officially. One would expect that no prominent member of an administration that told us our glorious war in Iraq was certainly not a "Crusade" would support such nonsense! No matter how Freudian Bush's dyslexicon might have gotten, the sensible people in charge truly believed what Bush said when he called Islam "a religion of peace."

Watch out for the right hook!

TROP has this little page of polls from the Muslim world. A whole section on Sharia Law links to polls that show majorities (or a plurality in the case of the Indonesia, the world's largest concentration) of Muslims want Sharia Law imposed on all Islamic countries. Not the whole world, just their corner of it. According to the site dedicated to making Islam look as bad as possible. 

TROP doesn't have one poll to back up Mukasey's claim that the "vast majority" of Muslims want to impose Sharia on the whole world. The polls they do have show that in the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, the idea of imposing Sharia on all Muslim countries doesn't even get a majority. 

So, either Mukasey is bullshitting, or he's got some information the rest of us haven't seen yet. Maybe he'll do us the favor of sharing it with us, because, based on this and other fun things he's said ("...not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime..."), I'd really appreciate it if he'd keep talking.