How would you like it, as a taxpayer, to see your government
spend 100 million dollars (and counting) to feed the daydreams of a wacko
bigot, deluding himself into believing that the only thing preventing the Jews
from taking over the world are the Muslims who vie for the same goal?
Believe it or not, this is how much the American government
has spent so far on capers by Daniel Pipes who founded an outfit three decades
ago under the 501(C)3 provision of the tax code, and named it the Middle East
Forum. If that's not enough to chill your blood, you'll blow your mind when you
realize that the Pipes creation, whose budget is four million dollars a year,
is a breeze compared to the untold number of cyclones that siphon off billions
of taxpayer dollars year after year after year.
The sad truth is that the charlatans that establish and run
these outfits –– falsely calling them think tanks –– get paid by America to
engage in activities that hurt America's standing in the world, hurt its
national security and hurt its business dealings worldwide.
Feeling secure financially, Daniel Pipes spent decades
trying to scare the American population about the Muslim population within it,
but got nowhere because what he said on the electronic media and what he wrote
in the print media did not match what the people saw when dealing with the
Muslims they befriended or worked with. And so, having lost the battle in
America, Pipes turned his attention to Europe where he tried to accomplish out
there what he failed to accomplish in America.
Thinking he is doing a great job and feeling vindicated,
Pipes wrote about his European exploits for an American audience as if to spit
in the face of the taxpayers that refused to buy the hate-mongering he did at
home. And of course, being a Jew, he showed no respect for the fact that it was
those same taxpayers who bankrolled his European trip. The column he wrote came
under the title: “A look at the Continent's leaders,” and was published on
August 1, 2018 in The Washington Times.
The astonishing thing about the article is that it shows an
amount of research that must have cost an enormous sum of money to put
together. Whether Pipes did the work alone or took a staff with him to Europe
or hired local researchers; a number of questions must be asked about the
utility in identifying and edifying the hate-mongers of a continent made of
dozens of countries where dozens of languages are spoken. Having accomplished
this much, thanks to the generosity of America's taxpayers, Pipes chose 14
names to tell his audience about.
One of those is Geert Wilders, a longtime idol of Pipes
that's having a hard time getting back in power. Ten others are in power at
this time, and doing a good job at scaring their constituents about Islam, says
Pipes. Spread all over Europe, they are: Siv Jensen,
Christoph Blocher, Robert Fico, Milos Zeman, Markus Soder, Heinz-Christian
Strache, Horst Seehofer, Matteo Salvini, Jarosaw Kaczynski and Viktor Orban.
As well, three other characters are up and coming, he says, because of their
exceptional ability to spread anti-Muslim hate. They are: Jimmie Akersson, Jens Spahn and Morten Messerscmidt.
That, my friend, is what the taxpayers of America are paying
millions of dollars to learn about in Europe, having rejected the lesson that
Daniel Pipes was trying to ram down their throats in America.
But what exactly is that lesson? Well, a condensed version of the Pipes article
telling this part of the story goes like this:
“Who is the most important European alive? Geert Wilders
because he is best placed to deal with the Islamic challenge … not the U.K.
prime minister, French president, German chancellor, or the pope … Here are
outstanding leaders: Norway's minister who leads an immigration-restriction
party. Switzerland's key figure in the anti-immigration politics. Slovakia's
strongman who says Islam has no place in Slovakia. Czechia's president who
warns against Muslims. Bavaria's premier who demands tougher security along
borders. Austria's vice-chancellor who wants to initiate a minus-immigration
policy. Germany's minister battling to keep migrants out. Italy's interior
minister who made it his task to expel 500,000 immigrants. Poland's eminence
grise who focused on immigration issues. Hungary's autocratic prime minister
who argues for a traditional Christian Europe … One of the figures named here
may yet become a world-historical figure”.