Jibril Hough, president of the Charlotte North Carolina chapter of the Islamic Political Party of America (another Islamic group that seems to have sprung fully formed from the forehead of Mohammed—or could it be Saudi Arabia?) writes an editorial for the Charlotte Observer that marks the first mainstream media appearance of a bizarre Islamic canard I’ve previously found only on the most extreme fringe Islamic web sites: New party, old religion. (Hat tip: steve miller.)

It is important for the American public to know that although this political movement by Muslims may be somewhat new, Muslims have been a part of the fabric of this society, in some fashion, since before Columbus. Muslim explorers visited the West Coast long ago. Arabic writings have been found in some caves in California. The name “California” comes from the Arabic word calif, meaning ruler or leader.

The rest of this editorial is a depressingly familiar litany of victocrat whining.

Here’s the web site of the Islamic Political Party of America, complete with offensive Flash animation and a musical soundtrack best described as “Mohammed Bless America,” if you’d like to experience for yourself their noxious combination of Muslim supremacism and overbearing victimhood.

UPDATE: Here’s a page where you can tell the Charlotte Observer what you think of this outrageous editorial: Feedback. Be polite, but firm. When Islamic groups start pushing garbage like this in the mainstream media, it’s the thin end of the wedge. It has to be challenged, or it will be accepted.

UPDATE: The “press release” page at the IPPA site contains the following antisemitic insanity:

But the biased western media would not cover this story, yet they also neglected to report that 4000 Jews employed at the World Trade Center were absent at WTC on 9/11. Nor did they report on the thousands who saw WTC Building Seven fall without a plane hitting it.

Everyday as more and more independent investigations are done, the evidence is proving that the September 11th may have been some great orchestration that caught our great nation totally unaware.� And we the Muslims are left to believe the words of our president, which he later tried to change, that this is a “crusade, and you are either with them or with us.”�

Both Islam and Christianity are the victims of this devious plot and all Americans must join together to help prevent evil ones from succeeding.

And I think we know which “evil ones” would be capable of such a “great orchestration,” don’t we? (Hint: it’s spelled J-E-W-S.)

Nice going, Charlotte Observer—giving an editorial voice to a vile hate group like this. The Arab world’s madness comes to North Carolina, courtesy of the Charlotte Observer.