He had been described as a "darling" of the Right Wing. Tough talking, in-your-face, not afraid to gut jobs and bust unions. He had been considered as "Presidential Material".
But not any more.
The Governor of New Jersey has done something unforgivable.
He has appointed a Muslim judge. A Muslim judge who has defended "terror suspects" and got them off.
Christie has appointed Sohail Mohammed to the New Jersey Superior court, serving in Passaic County, home of the state's largest Muslim population.
As detailed in Think Progress, Mohammed is
an immigration lawyer in Clifton, NJ who notably defended many Muslims caught up in post-Sept. 11 dragnets, in which the Department of Justice quickly and secretly arrested hundreds of Muslims in the wake of the attacks. Often, the false pretense of an immigration violation was used to hold these men for many months, even though a vast majority of them had no connection to terrorism whatsoever.
In the short profile in the New York Times, Mohammed
worked in the aftermath of the attacks to try to foster trust between American Muslims and law enforcement, particularly federal officials.
He also
was on former Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s short list of potential judicial appointees, but he was not nominated.
All in all, he sounds like the kind of judge one should appoint--thoughtful, an advocate, and one to build bridges.
But don't tell the Right Wingers that. You should see what these folks have written. I have, so you won't have to.
First, we give you the "Lonely Conservative"
For those of you thinking Governor Christie is the conservative next best hope, think again. He may have good ideas when it comes to the teachers unions, but he seems to be a one issue wonder.
And from that article, it seems that "real conservatives" have other problems with Christie, but that's another diary.
Next, we bring you a choice bit from "uncoverage"
New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s conservative credentials as a budget-buster have been legend, but now there is a dark cloud over him that should end all discussions of his "future career" in national office. Christie’s ties to radical Islamists are so troubling, they should be investigated by a grand jury.
Finally we get to some "big guns"
First, Debbie Schlussel:
Are you a fan of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a darling of the Tea Party activists? Are you planning to support him for the Republican nomination for President in 2012, for which he’s rumored to be planning a run? The conventional wisdom is that Christie’s biggest drawback is his obesity. But he’s got a much weightier problem: his big, fat love affair with HAMAS Muslims in New Jersey.
That Passaic’s Muslim population cheered on the attacks was covered even by Islamo-pandering, far-left MTV. Sadly, Christie is seeking this small, vocal, whining minority’s votes (even though this is a population that doesn’t vote in high numbers and won’t make a difference). To that end, Christie is nominating an extremist Muslim (redundant phrase), Sohail Mohammed, lawyer to assorted Islamic terrorists, to a Passaic County Superior Judgeship. Yup, Chris Christie rewarded those Muslim mobs who cheered on U.S. soil for the mass murder of 3,000 Americans with a judgeship.
Yup, it’s not that Chris Christie is fat. It’s that in pandering to the most extreme, most openly pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah Muslims, he’s simply a fathead. Chris Christie was George W. Bush’s U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, NOT Barack Obama’s.
Uh-huh. That’s your conservative. And don’t expect to hear the partisan echo chamber of Hannity, Levin, FOX News, or anyone else expose this disgusting jihadist-pandering by Christie.
In fact, yesterday, Christie was on FOX News Sunday and endured only the slobbering wet kisses of Chris Wallace.
Wake up, conservatives and Tea Party activists. The left has no monopoly on sleeping with the enemy. When it comes to consorting with jihadists, the prostitutes who slept with the 9/11 hijackers ain’t got nothin’ on either liberal Democrats OR conservative Republicans.
Finally, the queen of Islamophobia, Pam Geller
Governor Christie looked and sounded like he could be presidential. He's not. He's in bed with the enemy. All the other stuff doesn't matter if you don't have your freedom.
I had refrained from posting on this until all the facts were in. They're in, and the Sultan has them. What a crushing disappointment. He is off the list. The GOP field for 2012 is narrowing.
She links to a piece by Steve Emerson (Where have we heard that name before, we wonders?)
New Jersey, the Garden State, has just taken its first step toward becoming the Sharia State, with Governor Christie's nomination of Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. The Sohail nomination continues Christie's unfortunate pandering to the American Muslim Union and the Islamic Center of Passaic County.
And that piece ends with this gem:
If you wondered why Governor Christie intervened in the Ground Zero Mosque issue or why a New Jersey state employee who participated in a protest against the mosque by burning a few pages from the Koran, lost his job-- you were only seeing the tip of a very large iceberg. In Muslim heavy states such as New Jersey, politicians and law enforcement have been largely suborned. In their attempt to co-opt Muslims, they instead have been co-opted by them. Who is really working for whom? Decide for yourself.
UPDATE: Thanks for the rec list, everyone. You know, as I was sitting here I got to thinking: Wouldn't it be a wonderfully funny thing to go trolling on Rush or Beck with this nugget? Acting all bewildered at the actions of Christie, just to see what their reactions would be.