I notice via Memeorandum that Frank Gaffney is seeing US obeisance to Islam in a logo on the Missile Defense Agency’s web site.

Here’s the logo:

Allegedly it is a replacement for the old logo:

I say allegedly because the bottom logo is still on the MDA’s web site (scroll down to the bottom left) and because the top logo looks like something designed for the web site while the bottom one looks more like a service patch.  Plus, the top logo is too stylized to replace the one on the bottom, I would think.  No one looking at the top one really know what it was for out of context.  Further, the whole thing is based on one guy’s blog post, and nothing else, as far as I can tell (not, say, a press release about logo changes or somesuch).

Gaffney takes the logo, couples it with the Obama administration’s missile defense policy decisions and concludes:

Team Obama’s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.  They seem to fit an increasingly obvious and worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam and the theo-political-legal program the latter’s authorities call Shariah.

Yes, dear readers, a logo on a web site is signal of official U.S. submission to Islam and Shariah!  Who knew?  Indeed Gaffney seals the deal with ironclad logic:  “What could be code-breaking evidence of the latter explanation is to be found in the newly-disclosed redesign of the Missile Defense Agency logo (above).  As Logan [the guy linked above] helpfully shows, the new MDA shield appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo.”

Well, there you go. 

Apparently if some dude at a web site hadn’t noticed, we would have soon be welcoming our al Qaeda overlords to force our women in burqas and such.  Or, perhaps we still will, since we are not heeding the call to panic over a logo.

You know, it is one thing to take seriously the fact that there are dangerous persons out there motivated by radical Islam who wish to do harm to the US (and others), but yet another to keep treating the threat as something akin to Nazi war machine coupled with the Soviet Union at its height with a dash of the Borg from Star Trek throw in for good measure.

While a threat of terrorism inspired by radical Islam exists, we are not in a war for our very existence and groups like al Qaeda cannot take over the world.  And we are not going to be to forcibly assimilated into some Talbanized version of the US.

Why is this so hard to understand?

Good policy require a proper assessment of the problem trying to be solved.

Beyond all of that, if we are going to get into an interpretation of the logo at the top, I would note that if the blue area is to be interpreted as a crescent, I would note that the missile is striking the crescent.  One would think that in the current War on Terror era that that could actually be interpreted as an anti-Islamic symbolic choice, not one that honors the crescent.

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3 Responses to “Political Lunacy”

1. Alex Knapp Says:
   February 25th, 2024 at 6:00 pm

   I hate to quote myself, but -

   In order for this nightmare scenario to occur, three things have to happen.

   (1) The Muslim World has to almost completely overcome centuries of violent strife between Sunni, Shi’ite, Sufi, Ba’athist, and other groups in order to united under one Calphate state that imposes sharia as the law of the land.

   (2) This sharia-controlled state, despite its totalitarian trappings, intolerance of dissent, and complete disdain for the free-market, must rapidly advance its science, infrastructure, and social organization to surpass that of the United States–whose science and technology, I might add, is unlikely to stand still. In other words, the primary lesson of the 20th century–that totalitarian, centrally controlled states invariably fall behind in technological development and manufacturing capability compared to free-market democracies (see Union, Soviet and Revolution, Cultural; see also History of East and West Germany for an empirical comparison controlling for most factors) — must turn out to be false.

   (3) The sharia state must then construct enough ships, planes, and munitions that will enable them to cross the oceans and actually invade and pacify the United States. The United States, I might add, is a country of about 300 million people, over 100 million of whom are armed and 250 million of them have access to both the information (internet) and resources (local grocery store) to build homemade military arsenals. Not to mention that we’re talking about a country that currently has a defense budget so large that it almost drawfs the next ten. Combined.

   Sorry, but I guess I just don’t see the odds of that as being very likely.

2. PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » About that Logo… Says:
   February 25th, 2024 at 8:20 pm

   [...] New reports that the logo is (as I speculated) for the web site and isn’t a replacement for anything and that it predates the Obama [...]

3. Steven L. Taylor Says:
   February 26th, 2024 at 9:16 am

   No, no, no, Alex: it will be done via logos.

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