Imagine street gangs such as those you find in Los Angeles or
Chicago, getting together one day and trying to work out a truce between them
by divvying up the city into a piece of turf for each gang. Think of the pieces
as private property, considered to be territorial integrity, never to be
violated by the other gangs.
Now imagine these savages unable to come to an agreement, not only
between the gangs, but also between members of the same gang, who squabble
among themselves while calling the other gangs unreasonable. And then imagine
one member of one gang breaking off from this madhouse. He gets himself a loud
megaphone, stands outside the conference room, and shouts at the gangs, telling
them what he thinks of them and what they should do with themselves.
Call that breakaway member, Clifford D. May and read what he has
been shouting at the other gangsters in an article that came under the title:
“Troubles between Congress and religious freedom,” and the subtitle: “Some
members disapprove of USCIRF's defense of faith communities.” The article was
published on November 26, 2019 in The Washington Times.
Clifford May says he was once appointed by Mitch McConnell to
serve on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that's
now going downhill, having slipped into the process of being transformed into a
politicized bureaucracy. He recalls that the Commission, “was created 21 years
ago at the instigation of Frank Wolf, a Republican who was committed to
defending freedom or belief in other countries, while believing in
bipartisanship in foreign policy”.
May cannot hide his bitterness stating that, “the fight over
USCIRF is part of a broader effort to drum conservatives out of the human
rights community … Secretary of State Pompeo had launched a bipartisan
Commission on Unalienable Rights to ground our discussion of human rights in
America's founding principles, an idea that outraged the human rights establishment,
as I detailed in a column at the time”.
That wasn't the only time that Clifford May had written about the
subject. He did so when he visited several countries to assess what was
happening in those places. One such place happened to be Egypt where he saw for
himself a reality that proved to be diagonally opposed to what a herd of
bloodthirsty Jewish American beasts in the business of punditry, were
describing. In fact, there is not one spot on this planet where two major
religious groups live in harmony as do the Christians and the Muslims of Egypt.
Anyone that says otherwise is motivated by the desire to turn Egypt into
another Iraq or Libya or Yemen or Syria where hybrid specimen created with the
face of a human, the brain of a demon and the heart of a hyena, have managed to
do to these places what they continue to dream doing to Egypt.
And so, when Clifford May visited Egypt, and came back to write
about what he saw there, he thought it unwise to lie then, so he told the truth
about the harmonious religious relationship he detected in that country. But,
years later, Clifford May forgot what he had said then. Being no saint, he is
now saying dishonest things like the following: “Commissioners should focus
instead on the plight of Christians in Syria and Egypt.” And this proves that
the poison which runs in the veins and arteries of these creatures, cannot be
drained any more than you can drain the tongue of a viper of its deadly venom.
And that's not even the big story because all what you see here,
are but the preliminaries of an America –– the already laughed-at
self-appointed policeman of the world –– that’s now trying to appoint itself
defender of the faiths around the globe. It is trying to do this much by the
power it has conferred on a Commission on International Religious Freedom ...
the one described by Clifford May in the following comical terms:
“USCRIF is being transformed into a politicized bureaucracy. To
call attention to this danger, Kristina Arriaga, a commissioner has resigned,
explaining that a proposed bill would shift USCIRF's stated purpose, and burden
commissioners with new bureaucratic hurdles. She is convinced that members of
Congress are determined to erode the commissioners' independence and do USCIRF
irreparable damage. Commissioners are charged with monitoring the state of
religious freedom around the world, and making policy recommendations. Under
the reforms being proposed, all commissioners would begin and end their terms
at the same time, a clever way to ensure that they'd depend on staff to tell
them what they can, can't, should and shouldn't do. In this context, no deal is
preferable to a bad deal”.