In the old days of the Cold War, the term "useful idiot" came to describe those people unwilling to see the true threat communism created for the whole world. These people, living here in the "free world", became "useful" to the Soviets as they created formidable political obstacles for those attempting to beat back the "evil empire."
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The August 7th American Thinker brings us an informative piece on the new "useful idiots" of our time. The writer Amil Imani, an Iranian-born US citizen, notes that the new breed of "useful idiot" refuses to believe, along with many unsuspecting Americans, that
Islam is political to the core. In Islam the mosque and state are one and the same—the mosque is the state. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even the “moderate” Islam is radical in its beliefs as well as its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers.
Click here to read the whole article. The writer hits on multiple points that cannot be made often enough.
