Posted on 12/20/2010 4:06:13 AM PST by Scanian
The radicalization of Muslim communities will be the subject of Congressional hearings next year when Rep. Peter King (R-NY) becomes chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. The impetus for the hearings, according to the congressman, are complaints by law enforcement officials concerning the lack of cooperation of Muslim leaders in terrorism investigations.
A CBS News report on the planned hearings, announced Thursday, quoted two apparent Muslim leaders: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress, and Abed Ayoub, legal director of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Rather than displaying any concern about the difficulties encountered by law enforcement or, at least, welcoming the opportunity to publicly state their case, both men instead objected to the hearings outright.
Deflecting attention from the merits of this serious public-safety matter, Mr. Ayoub resorted to hackneyed racial rigmarole. And Rep. Ellison's words about the planned hearings were downright head-scratching:
"We need to make sure that we stand for civil liberties, so we can deprive people like Osama bin Laden of the claim that Muslims are poorly treated in America. The United States is not at war with Islam."
Rep. Ellison (formerly known as Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison, and Keith Muhammad) sits on the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs committees and is entering his third term. A 2006 article about Ellison in the Weekly Standard ("Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman") chronicled his "ties to the Nation of Islam" and said:
"Ellison's record also includes a multitude of embarrassments of the traditional kind. He fell afoul of the IRS after failing to pay $25,000 in income taxes; he ignored fines that he had incurred for parking tickets and moving violations so numerous that his driver's license was suspended more times than he can remember; he was fined for willful violation of Minnesota's campaign finance reporting law. It amounts to a striking pattern of lawbreaking since he undertook the practice of law in 1990."
In The Grand Jihad, the eye-opening must-read book by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, Ellison is described as "a fixture at anti-police protests and rallies in favor of thugs and cop-killers."
Earlier this month, Rep. Ellison was elected co-chair of the Progressive Caucus in the House. (Yes, you read that right.) Given his propensity to skirt the law and his apparent disdain for the men and women who enforce it, Rep. Ellison's objection to the planned hearings rings hollow, to say the least.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, according to DiscovertheNetworks.org, is a civil rights group that opposes U.S. aid to Israel, ethnic profiling of Arab Americans, the Patriot Act, and the U.S. war on terror and supports "Palestinian "martyrdom" campaigns in Israel." Its sources of support and funding include the Saudi Royal Family.
The government of Saudi Arabia and some members of the Royal Family have channeled hundreds of millions or -- according to some sources -- billions of dollars to various Islamist causes throughout the world during the past half century. Saudis are Islamists and, as McCarthy wrote, Islamism is:
"The belief system which holds that Islam is the complete, obligatory guide to human existence, governing all matters political, social, cultural, and religious, from cradle to grave (and, of course, beyond). 'Islamist'...refers not just to terrorists but to hundreds of millions of believers who share the terrorist goal of installing sharia societies though they do not actively encourage brutality."
Islamists, as described in Grand Jihad, are "Muslims who reject individual liberty, freedom of conscience, secular democracy, and equality of opportunity." Islamism, like "neocommunism," is "totalitarian, collectivist, and antithetical to the core conceit of American constitutional democracy, individual liberty." It seeks to "establish and spread Allah's law on earth." In effect, Islamism is radicalized Islam.
Contrary to the overwrought outcries from certain leftists, the subject of the House committee's inquiry isn't novel or otherwise unique to it or its incoming chairman. The problem is real and the hearings are necessary, important, and timely. In September 2006, the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI testified about Islamic radicalization before the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment. In 2007, New York City Police Department issued a 90-page report on the topic. Last month, Los Angeles Police and other area law enforcement agencies held a two-day "radicalization conference."
I saw a Muslim fall into Lake Isabella last night and being a responsible citizen, I informed the emergency services.
>> It’s 11:50 AM and they still haven’t responded! Now I’m starting to think I wasted a stamp!
Islam is a vile, barbaric, gutter religion for a vile, barbaric, gutter people. It should be wiped off the face of the earth, starting in America.
I see what the problem is. You should have notified the EPA.
If Minneapolis is electing freaks like Keith X to Congress, Chicago needs to start worrying that it has competition for designation as the fruits and nuts capital of the Midwest.
What is it with the use of this word “radicalized” as if this craziness is somehow adopted? Just another way of trying to confuse reality. How in the world can mothers cut the guts out of their own children and fathers kill their own progeny? These people are born blood thirsty, hate filled, and vile human beings. If they are not killing ‘infidels’ they are killing their own kind. History says that is the way it has always been and, if history is our guide, the way it will always be.
Findings of the report will be:
“They are all radical... who knew”? Free Republic knew!
LLS
My understanding is that “Friday prayers” sermons, even in US mosques, are filled with calls for bloodthirsty action in the name of sharia law and jihad. Not only the support of terrorism goes on but recommendations of wife beating and honor killing for females who “dishonor” or “embarass” their families and “faith.”
It is all based on Muslim sharia law which, in turn, is based on the Koran and the sunna. So it is “holy writ,” as far as Islam is concerned.
The idea of a genuinely spiritual religion dealing with human conscience escapes Muslims. They are as carnal as a rock and the most power hungry and viciously bloody people on earth.
No, it's not the people, it's the ideology.
Just as there was nothing inherent in the Russians that led to Stalin or in the Germans that led to Hitler or in the Chinese that led to Mao.
It's the ideology of the House of Saud (Mohammad-ism) that drives the evil we see today.
“The United States is not at war with Islam.”
But Islam is at war with anyone who doesn’t submit.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress . . . objected to the hearings outright.
Rep. Ellison, formerly known as Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison, and Keith Muhammad . . . Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman
. . . failing to pay $25,000 in income taxes; he ignored fines that he had incurred for parking tickets and moving violations so numerous that his driver's license was suspended more times than he can remember; he was fined for willful violation of Minnesota's campaign finance reporting law. It amounts to a striking pattern of lawbreaking since he undertook the practice of law in 1990
Ellison was elected co-chair of the Progressive Caucus in the House
Right you are...he is a crook as well as a traitor.
Well, you are welcome to your opinion and I have mine. I believe that certain character traits are part of a race just as they are in the animal kingdom. Some people foolishly believe that if they raise a lion cub from birth they can domesticate the pet. This is all well and good until the day when the lion kills and eats its master.
A Rep versus a former Senator and MOTUS isn’t much competition. I don’t Chicago has much to fear.
Now, now, we can’t overlook Al Franken, can we?
I guess Jesse Ventura has moved away.
I’d forgotten them, good point. I was thinking about raisin lovers and not garden variety fruits and nuts.
islam is a race? When did that happen?
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