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Hanukah at the White House
One of the guys at Powerline went to a Hanukah reception at the White House this week and had a great time. He describes with admiration the wonderful cultural sensitivity shown by the White House staff. For example, as each couple lined up for a photo with President and Mrs. Bush at the start of the evening, they were asked by a Marine in dress uniform if they observed Jewish law regarding touching between the sexes. (Explanation: Hasidic Jews do not shake hands with members of the opposite sex who are not close relatives, so the question was evidently asked in order to inform the First Couple whose hands they should shake or not shake; though I wonder how many of the guests at the White House were actually Hasids.) The dinner, he continues, was “fully kosher and prepared under rabbinical supervision. We were told that the fully kosher meal was a White House first, at least insofar as the Hannukah reception goes…. My friend Rabbi Joshua Borenstein … conveyed great emotion in noting the hospitality and respect accorded to observant guests, of whom there were many.” So, Bush turned the White House over to the Jewish community, evidently getting advice from rabbis on every little detail so as to meet the subtlest Jewish requirements and make Jews feel right at home. The Powerline writer seems to think this is just great. He either doesn’t notice, or doesn’t care, that the same exquisite cultural/religious sensitivity shown by the White House toward Jews as a group is shown by the White House toward Muslims as a group when it holds its annual Ramadan dinner, making the guests hum with pleasure with presidential remarks about how Islam is a religion of peace and love and kindness and tolerance. The same imperative that makes the president suck up to a mostly assimilated American minority such as the Jews, makes him suck up to our country’s mortal enemies. But that’s the way “diversity” works, isn’t it? There’s no longer any allegiance to or concern for the society as a whole, there’s no longer any thought as to whether it is appropriate for the President of the United States to turn his official residence over to each and every religion, including the “religion” that is bent on imposing Islamic law on the whole world. All that anyone cares about is that his culture or religion gets stroked. And, most sadly of all, no one thinks to be offended at the thought of being invited to the White House as a member of a religious/cultural constituency, instead of as an American.
It’s multiculturalism at the White House, and Powerline, a “conservative” website, is gaga over it. Email entry |