Attorney General warns against alienating Muslims

Yahoo ^ | 3/9/11 | Jeremy Pelofsky - Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday warned against alienating the U.S. Muslim community, in a veiled criticism of a congressional probe into the radicalization of Muslims at home.

The House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee will open a series of hearings on Thursday about the increasing terrorism threat against the United States, with the first hearing drawing criticism because of its sole focus on Muslim Americans.

The panel chairman, New York Republican Representative Peter King, has repeatedly criticized, saying the Muslim American community has not cooperated with law enforcement agencies and that some mosques encourage radicalization.

But Holder said that leaders and members of the Muslim community in the United States "have contributed significantly" to resolving cases and also said focusing on a single constituency was risky.

"Tips that we have received, information that has been shared has been critical to our efforts to disrupting plots that otherwise might have occurred," Holder told reporters during a news conference on another issue.

"My focus is on individuals as opposed to communities and I think that is what we need to be focused on, what is it that drives individuals to do certain things," he said. "We don't want to stigmatize, we don't want to alienate entire communities."

King has repeatedly defended the need for the hearings and the focus on Muslims, citing attempts by the militant group al Qaeda and its affiliates to openly recruit Muslims in the United States to launch attacks.

At the same time, King has acknowledged that the vast majority of Muslim Americans have no connection to terrorism.

[Persevero]

They should worry about alienating us.

[NormsRevenge]

http://homeland.house.gov/

Hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.”

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing entitled “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” The Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.

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Witnesses

Panel 1

Hon. John D. Dingell, A Representative in Congress from the 15th District of Michigan

Hon. Keith Ellison, A Representative in Congress from the 5th District of Minnesota

Panel 2

Hon. Frank Wolf, A Representative in Congress from the 10th District of Virginia

Panel 3

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Mr. Abdirizak Bihi, Director, Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center

Mr. Melvin Bledsoe, Private Citizen

Sheriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

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Live Feed Web Cast

http://homeland.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/homeland/20501/150_homeland-chshearing_070430.asx

[NoRedTape]

Holder is out in LEFT field.

[allmost]

Where did these people come from?

[TruthConquers]

Why, because Ozombie is one of them?

Traitors!

[goodnesswins]

Holder will have blood on his hands...

[Crim]

Jihadists...MORE of “Holder’s people...”

[TsonicTsunami08]

Attorney General warns against alienating HIS PEOPLE!

Fixed!

[madison10]

Where did these people come from?

The pits of ___________. They've been training and lying in wait since the 1960s. (...and some before)

[2ndDivisionVet]

From The Audacity of Hope by Barack Hussein Obama: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

[onedoug]

Bring it.

[dila813]

Holder Translated:
Don’t piss off them Muslims, they may blow themselves up along with me.

If they ask me to convert, I will to save this country from them. I am ready to surrender. Just don’t hurt me.

[BigCinBigD]

Holder can go frak a camel.

[Frank_2001]

“Jihadists...MORE of “Holder’s people...”

LOL, in Arabic the words for “black” and “slave” are identical.....

[Aroostook25]

Attorney General warns Muslims against alienating Americans.
Oh, wrong attorney general.

[wac3rd]

He is worried about his people, meaning Black Muslims, like his Boss, O’Kenya.

[I still care]

Is this scary or not, the AG does not want to know about radical muslims because it might upset them?

And this man is charged with defending this country. He is unfit.

[CrazyIvan]

Makes Neville Chamberlain look like Patton.

[robowombat]

There is more than the usual mau-mauing using the race card.Many pretty solid types such as Ralph Peters go nuts if there is any imputation that there is a systemic problem with Islam and that it represents at least an adversarial threat of not an existential one. What is it that causes this visceral reaction and produces cries of Nazi and other abuse if this topic comes up? Why are so many fairly center right types so defensive about Islam? Five years ago there was similar reactions on this board anytime the problem with mass illegal immigration was raised. That has pretty much disappeared here but I wonder if the same nerve is being hit about this topic. So many who are center right have absorbed so much cultural Marxism in ways they don’t even begin to know while in schools or government service. Liberal death wish thinking, white guilt ideology, and post modern nihilism disguised as multiculturalism have been indoctrinated to so many through so many fora that they have had a major impact on how even professional soldiers think about potential or actual enemies. The shorthand for this is ‘Political Correctness will kill us , literally not figuratively.