The Jihadi Lobby

In an example of political opportunism that is shocking both for its callousness and absurdity, attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union have blamed conservative Christians for causing the brutal Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando on Sunday.

“You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate.”

“You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate,” tweeted Chase Strangio, an ACLU staff attorney.

“The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this,” Strangio also tweeted. “No.”

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But Strangio, who apparently has a knack for offensive absurdities, wasn’t done and sought to blame the entire Republican party for the events in Orlando. “[P]eople like you will continue to fuel and embolden this type of hatred,” he tweeted about Rep. Paul Ryan.

Of course, Omar Mateem — the Orlando shooter — was a radical Muslim, and multiple interpretations of Islam call for gays to be killed, and many Islamic countries do indeed execute people on a regular basis for homosexual behavior.

But like most liberals, Strangio won’t let inconvenient truths stand in the way of his anti-Western, anti-Christian narrative. Indeed, Strangio and others would have us believe that “anti-gay propaganda” from the American Christian Right is so powerful and effective that it causes those who hate both America and Christianity to take up arms and slaughter 50 innocent people.

“Remember when you co-sponsored extreme, anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act?” the ACLU’s Eunice Rho tweeted at Rep. Marsha Blackburn. The First Amendment Defense Act is not in any way “anti-LGBT” — it merely affirms the rights of religious believers to exercise their consciences without threat of fine or imprisonment. Apparently, to the ACLU this is on par with mass murder.

This clear anti-Christian bigotry that permeates the ACLU is highlighted further by the organization’s consistent defense of the religious rights of Muslims, even when those “rights” are a direct threat to Americans and American democracy.

“Muslim communities in the U.S. have faced a disturbing wave of bigotry and outright hostility,” the ACLU website reads. “From religiously motivated discrimination and attacks on existing and proposed Islamic centers to vicious rhetoric from presidential candidates, Muslims in America are being unfairly targeted simply for exercising their basic constitutional right to religious liberty.” Of course, the organization has no similar words to offer for Christian wedding photographers.

This clear anti-Christian bigotry that permeates the ACLU is highlighted further by the organization’s consistent defense of the religious rights of Muslims.

The ACLU has attacked “laws that single out Sharia” as violations of the First Amendment because they supposedly treat “one belief system as suspect.” According to its website, it has also fought “congressional hearings on the so-called ‘radicalization’ of the American Muslim community” as well as the “infiltration and surveillance of Mosques and Muslim communities” by police and the FBI.

Let that sink in for a moment. Members of an organization that actively works to impede local and federal authorities’ efforts to stop the kind of attack that occurred in Orlando on Sunday morning are blaming that attack on the one and only religious group whose rights that organization makes no effort to protect.

Even the ACLU’s statement on the Orlando attack is designed to protect Muslims. “As we come together to heal from this tragedy, we must also continue to stand against any reaction to this horrific event that is rooted in hatred or bigotry in any form. We remain in solidarity with the Muslim community here in Florida and elsewhere.”

Many point to the apparent paradox of organizations like the ACLU’s insistence on protecting gay rights while simultaneously defending a culture and religion — that of Islam — which puts those rights directly at risk.

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But the ACLU is little more than a far-left pressure group masquerading as a civil rights organization, and while simultaneously supporting pro-gay and pro-Islamic positions may seem inconsistent, if not hypocritical, it makes perfect sense for the ideologically committed leftists at the ACLU. They are neither pro-gay nor pro-Muslim, but rather anti-Western, and this motivates all the organization does.

In its nearly century-long existence the ACLU has also defended draft dodgers, flag-burners, and pedophiles.