Ruff And Ready
By David Tatosian (08/22/08)
”I believe in the Constitution, I believe in the bill of Rights, and I believe it protects our freedom and our right to believe in a religion that you choose. I do not want them replaced with a system that institutionalizes discrimination against women and non-Muslims, something I think all Americans should be concerned about…Question: Is America ready to engage in a process of having a state (Sharia) within the state? I don’t believe so.” (Parenthesis mine) Frankfort Township Assessor Paul J Ruff’s press conference responding to an alleged anti-Muslim email Mr. Ruff forwarded to friends this past June.
Referring to that same email last week the American Islamic Association’s Afzal Ahmad stated, “I'm offended, and my community is offended. Maybe he (Ruff) needs to re-read the constitution." (Ahmed Rehab, who works for the unindicted coconspirators at CAIR was even more offended then Ahmad but he never actually saw the email so, one can forgive Rehab his hysteria: as usual he didn’t know what he was talking about.)
That said, Mr. Ruff’s grasp of the US Constitution seemed pretty solid to those of us who attended his press conference.
And having read the email it was clear that only a fevered imagination could construe it as anti-Muslim. It did call for all immigrants to assimilate to their host country’s culture and society. That’s not anti-Muslim, that’s just Standard Operating Procedure isn’t it? It sure is in the Muslim world. The email also suggested that those who wished to live under Sharia Law should get themselves to countries where Sharia law is supreme. That’s not anti-Muslim either. That’s just a reminder that western civilization is based on individual rights, equality before the (man made) law and absolute freedom from any state sanctioned religion. Ahmad would do well to read the constitution himself.
These western concepts are, of course, nowhere evident in the Muslim world.
The inability of the folks at AIA and their unindicted coconspirator friends at CAIR to comprehend and live by those concepts is not the fault of Mr. Ruff.
Nor is Ahmad’s confusion as to the difference between anti-Muslim and anti-Sharia the fault of Mr. Ruff.
In fact this manufactured dust up has nothing to do with any anti-Muslim bigotry on the part of Mr. Ruff. It is part of the creeping Sharia that has been forced on us by a host of unindicted coconspirators, their Christian and Jewish defenders, who have morphed into Bush’s non-denominational “People of Faith” special interest group, Bush himself and a media whose influence is ever fading. (As for the media; the msm from Chicago, primping and swaggering, arrived late for Mr. Ruff’s one o’clock press conference. To his credit, he started without them. All the more reason to like this guy.)
Also, this is an election year. Not only are the citizens of Frankfort subject to the Islamic jihad of the heart, word and mind, they are also subject to the malevolent creep of a Chicago Democrat style of party politics that has much to gain by aligning itself with a faux human rights issue. Let’s not forget what the Chicago human rights agenda looks like: a sanctuary policy that embraces hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, a failed public school system, high taxes, violent crime and oh yeah, Barack Hussein Obama.
Because the cities like Chicago are lost, because the cities have been transformed into vast stagnant pools of political correctness where Muslims intent on imposing Sharia law sprawl next to race hustlers, corrupt politicians and a fawning media, the fight for America is taking place in the small towns throughout this land. The cities are lost.
Mr. Ruff is up to that fight. He has stood his ground. He is, in a great many ways, representative of all of us; a no frills guy who does his job (well enough to receive almost a dozen commendations from the state), who is blunt and forthright in his speech. A trait that is most refreshing given the never-ending string of smooth orators who promise us the moon while picking our pockets.
And most important, he won’t be intimidated.
At the end of his remarks, Mr. Ruff said this, “The intimidation is alive and well today. The intimidation is calls to my home to ask us do we have a dog? Calls to my home to ask if we have insurance. People parking out in front of my home in cars and trucks for hours on end. To me that’s a form of discrimination. To me that’s a form of intimidation. And it really, really gets me aggravated.”
Clearly this is not a case of American bigotry against the poor defenseless Muslim. This is Muslim bullying and intimidation. Mr. Ruff could have folded as a result of Islam’s religion of peace tactics. He didn’t.
I said this already but I’ll say it again; this man deserves our support, whatever form it may take.
Finally, and I don’t speak for Mr. Ruff here, the unindicted coconspirators at CAIR assume that the lap dog pandering exhibited by the people of faith, politicians and the media reflect the attitudes and feelings of American citizens as a whole. They don’t.
Americans will not be told what God to worship or what allowances we must make to soothe this or that religious group.
Stop shoving your God in our faces. It gets us aggravated.
David Tatosian
Sources:
Paul Ruff-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAGlb2X-KeE
Forwarded Email-
http://blogs.southtownstar.com/lincolnway/2008/08/ruffs_email_entirely.html#more
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