Unveiling the Light

“Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our Prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam – this capital of theirs will be an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.”

The above quotation is from prominent Hamas cleric and member of the Palestinian parliament, Yunis al-Astal, as aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV and translated by Mimri TV. This occurs as former President Jimmy Carter made his unauthorized and ill conceived visit to “talk” with Hamas. According to WorldNet Daily, at the same time a top political adviser to Hamas called Carter a "noble person." WorldNet Daily also reported that in an interview with Hamas political advisor Ahmed Yousuf, Yousuf said he believed Carter’s meeting with Hamas could hoist the group’s public image and that he believed Carter “knows what is needed to achieve peace.” What would that be, a declaration of surrender?

Meanwhile Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel, killing civilians, continues to hold three Israeli soldiers hostage, and continues to send suicide bombers across the border. This is also the group that killed over 200 marines at the bombing of the marine barracks in Beirut and is now telling women and children that it is their duty as Muslims to wear bombs to kill Jews.

Jimmy Carter started the whole mid-east crisis with his handling of the Iranian takeover of the U.S. embassy which drug out into a hostage situation that lasted nearly a year and a half, disgraced the United States for its perceived impotence and ultimately cost Carter his second term of the Presidency. The American people became fed up with his antics and overwhelmingly elected Ronald Reagan who explicitly quit calling those held in Iran “hostages” and began using the term “prisoners of war.” The Iranians got the idea. On Carter’s last day of being President and just hours before Ronald Reagan became President, all hostages were unconditionally released. Carter’s ineptitude had kept them in captivity and their nation ridiculed for 444 days. It demonstrated to the radical Muslims just what was possible when the U.S. failed to act on its principals and its leadership lacked the courage of this nation’s convictions.

Today we are in a post 9-11 world with 3,000 civilian casualties, 4,000 soldiers killed, fighting directly in two Muslim countries against those who would love to see us destroyed and are fighting indirectly the very nation Carter ushered into power, post revolutionary Iran. The radicals in that world are threatening to destroy the center of the world’s largest Christian Church as a launching point towards taking over all of Western Europe and the Americas. Westerners are regularly kidnapped and publicly decapitated, tortured and maimed by these extremists, women and children are being used by Hamas to kill innocent civilians with bombs, and this group regularly launches missiles into Israel in the hopes of killing any Jews. All of this and the man who started it all decided to jump back into the fray in an unauthorized “diplomatic” attempt to bring peace.

Jimmy Carter has already shown that he had little love for the Jewish state of Israel and has held it to be responsible for the lack of peace in the Middle East. He has even very wrongly referred to its government as one of apartheid. He is perhaps the only one to have used this term for the government of Israel as it is so far from the truth. There is no separation between Arab and European Jews, or other Jewish citizens of other faiths. Now he is embracing a very radical group of Muslims who have openly declared their hate not only for Jews and Americans but who have now set their sights on destroying the Catholic Church.

Jimmy Carter is a dangerous and delusional man with a large mean streak. Who else would use the funeral of the wife of Martin Luther King to blast the President of the United States who was seated behind him and who had and continued to treat Carter politely despite the surprise personal attack? When he ran for reelection the American people had come to realize how dangerous he was and overwhelmingly kicked him out of office. Maybe we can take a quick vote and not let him back in when he returns from the Middle East.

We would be well served if this were possible but would be guilty of great sin against the rest of the world. Unfortunately Jimmy Carter is our problem and it is a great embarrassment that we must claim him as a former leader. We should pay no attention to this latest adventure of his. It is the work of a small man with narrow thoughts and dangerous inclinations of self grandeur. Yes, I know he has done much for Habitat for Humanity and other charities but he has done far more harm in other areas. Also others have pointed out that his service to these charities comes with demands for first class airfare, hotels, and staff. It is not all altruism.

Jimmy Carter is a disgrace. He coddles murderers, works against the legitimate authorities and complicates foreign policy, all for the sake of his own overdeveloped sense of importance. He says the State Department never warned him against the trip but fails to mention that he never checked with it or the administration before announcing his plans. The President; elected by the people, in consultation with the elected Senate and to a lesser extent the elected House of Representatives, is the only lelgitimate authority in foreign agreements and negotiations for this country. The State Department reports to our elected President and the President works through the State Department. Carter does not fit into this constitutional equation. He has no authority; legally, morally or otherwise. He once did, but proved himself to be incompetent in foreign matters as our president and was fired. He has only grown worse with time.

He may think he is serving the Gospel but I see no sign of the humility of Jesus in him and certainly none of the wisdom. I do see signs of a narrow minded man, despondent at his own defeats and desperate to win back some credibility, no matter what it might cost his nation, victims of terrorism, and the nation of Israel. It is a sad matter that we have to continue to endure his antics. He should receive zero support and much condemnation. Hopefully he will return to Plains, Georgia. I pray he is a better Sunday school teacher then he is a diplomat. At least there the damage he can do is contained and localized.