Barack Obama as a crypto-Muslim has been relentless ridiculed by the Democrats bag-men in the state media, not to mention early efforts at making reading anything into his middle name and his early schooling in a Madassa the province of unenlightened, ill-mannered brutes.

Yet with less than half of Obama's term expired, U.S. foreign policy has become openly hostile to Israeli interests in the middle east, and freakishly indulgent of militant Islam (which in my experience is a fair description of the entire religious, rather than some radical sect...).

One can only endure so many coincidences before one entertains the 'crazy' notions.

The final straw may have been Barack Obama's open and enthusiastic endorsement of the triumphal mosque proposed to be built near the site of the World Trade Center. Not that this was unexpected considering all the rolling over on its back this administration has been doing when it comes to Islam, but the audience for his remarks is in my mind, far more damning of this administration than yet another crazy-ass statement identifying the President with the enemies of this country than with its clear and unambiguous interests.

As notable as what the President said is the company he keeps. Consider a few examples from this year’s Iftar dinner guest list:

Ingrid Mattson heads the largest Muslim Brotherhood front in the country, the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the biggest terrorism financing trial in the nation’s history and was identified as a Brotherhood “associated or friendly” group in documents introduced as evidence uncontested in that Holy Land Foundation prosecution. Ms. Mattson now presides over the selection, training and certification of Muslim chaplains for the U.S. military and prison system – interestingly, a job formerly in the hands of Muslim Brother Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder and first head of the American Muslim Council, who is currently serving a 23-year sentence on terrorism charges.

Salam Al-Marayati is president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). In 1999, then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt withdrew his nomination of Al-Marayati to a leadership position on the National Commission on Terrorism when it became public that Al-Marayati claimed that the terrorist group, Hezbollah, was a legitimate organization and has the right to attack the Israeli Army.

Dalia Mogahed runs the insidious Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and advises President Obama on Muslim affairs as a member of the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In an October 2009 interview with the London Telegraph, she made the following astounding assertions: “I think the reason so many women support shariah is because they have a very different understanding of shariah than the common perception in Western media.” “The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with shariah compliance.” “The portrayal of shariah has been oversimplified in many cases.”

As the saying goes, who are you going to believe? The apologists for militant Islam or your own eyes?

We call it the Arab-Israeli conflict, but the simple reality is that if it was merely a political conflict, it would have been resolved one way or another decades ago. This kind of perverse longevity is always due to an authoritarian, triumphalist ideology (whether religious or nationalistic). The reality is that its an Israel-Islam conflict with Israel cast in the role of the devil for resisting the will of Allah. The thing about fighting devils is that there can be no surrender, no cessation of hostility. Fighting devils is an eternal proposition, which is why we should have been much more worried than we were when various Islamic religious figures pronounced the West and particularly the U.S. as the "Great Satan".

Moderate Islam is a myth, and all one has to do is study Islam from its inception through to yesterday's date to know that with a certainty.

Democrats have grown powerful and rich on the backs of tactics that have co-opted various minorities into their circles of power. First express sympathy, the offer assistance (legal and organizational). Offer the best and brightest of the target group places in the leadership schools, when after they are fully indoctrinated and identify with the goals and values of the ruling class, offer them authority and status. These trustees, function as a familiar looking face, speaking the language of the culture they've originated from, but wholly loyal to the interests of their sponsors. Hence black, feminist and Hispanic leaders insuring that the political power of their communities flow to their masters.

Its worked so well for so long, its hard to fault Democrats from thinking they can do the same thing with Muslims. So how do I know they will fail? I'm writing this from Utah, the metaphorical Jerusalem or Mecca of the Mormon church, but the previous capital of Mormonism in Nauvoo, Illinois is perhaps more instructive. In Nauvoo, on the Mississippi river, Joseph Smith built a city, larger than Chicago in its day, and possessed of a militia that rivaled the U.S. army of the time. This was all made possible by a very generous city charter facilitated by politicians who saw this large (40-50 thousand in frontier Illinois was pretty impressive) monolithic group as permanent majority stuff.

It become clear on that and subsequent occasions, that Mormonism's first loyalty was to its religious ideology, and that while they were content to take advantage of the naivete of the political class, the church membership was never going to be a compliant special interest.

Mormons want to convert you to their faith, but Islam will kill you if you don't convert to their faith. Nothing good will come of this.