LI Muslims Fume Over King's [R-NY] Remarks

Newsday ^ | February 12, 2004 | Elaine S. Povich

[aculeus]

Washington -- Rep. Peter King said Wednesday he continues to believe that 85 percent of the mosques in the United States have "extremist leadership," and that while most Muslims are "loyal Americans," they are reluctant to come forward to cooperate with law enforcement when they hear anti-American rhetoric or plots.

King's comments, first made on the Sean Hannity radio show Tuesday, prompted outrage from the American Muslim community. Ghazi Khankan, director of the Westbury-based Islamic Center of Long Island, called King "out of touch with the Muslim community" and said he was particularly offended because King has visited the center many times.

[Paleo Conservative]

Rep. Peter King said Wednesday he continues to believe that 85 percent of the mosques in the United States have "extremist leadership,"

He's seriously underestimating.

[princess leah]

I'm glad to see SOMEONE state the unvarnished truth for a change...If we are truly at war with terrorists, then mosques ALL need a clean sweep and if they don't like it, don't let the door hit 'em too hard on the way out! It's about time America stop being the welcome mat that gets torn up!

[kevao]

I don't recall reading about Muslims "fuming" over, say, September 11.

[wtc911]

How good do you think Rep. King's contacts are? He's structured an entire novel around what he knows about muslims-in-America obstructionism.

Knowing Newsday, which is four giant steps to the left of the LA times, I am sure there is troom waiting on their OpEd page for another editorial from your guys.

[KantianBurke]

[contessa machiaveli]

they're always "outraged" by some imagined slight.

thank you for telling it like it is, rep. king.

[swarthyguy]

He's right. Saudi money preaches hate to America.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076986/posts

Yemeni imam raising funds in Brooklyn.

[Chris Talk]

Keep it up King, if the Moozies are upset, you are doing something right.

[petercooper]

Peter King is a good man.

The truth hurts.

[blam]

" don't recall reading about Muslims "fuming" over, say, September 11."

Yup...and I don't recall reading about us caring what American Nazis thought in WW2 either.

[blam]

"I don't recall reading about Muslims "fuming" over, say, September 11."

In fact, Germans in the US during WW1 & 2 would change their German sounding names...Mueller would become Miller and such.

[angkor]

Yemeni imam raising funds in Brooklyn.

That's not the half of it.

Everyone should read Terrorist Hunter by Anonymous to understand how pervasive the radical Islamist agenda is in American mosques, and how these mosques support the terrorist/Islamist agenda.

[swarthyguy]

So, Congressman Peter Kaiser?

[swarthyguy]

Tell Grover Norquist and the White House.

[technochick99]

I just bought a used copy on Amazon. Hope it's worth it!

[blam]

"So, Congressman Peter Kaiser?"

Apparently not everyone. I took Gloria Mueller/Miller to my HS junior prom in 1960, lol.

[RonF]

"If he wrote about Muslim extremists in Nassau County, it is very much in poor taste, because extremists do not have a religion," said Khankan, adding that his mosque has offered cooperation in the fight against terrorism to Nassau, Suffolk and New York City police officials and FBI agents. "Would King write another fiction and say that some Catholic extremists would do a terrorist act, or that some Jewish terrorist would do some violent acts on Long Island? He wouldn't dare, but he thinks that because we are small in number, he could try to sell books on our backs."

Perhaps Khankan should read King's book:

King said he used the information he got on Muslim leaders from law enforcement officials for a plot line in his new novel "Vale of Tears." In the book, a Muslim extremist group cooperates with remnants of the Irish Republican Army to plan a terrorist attack on the United States.

Seems to me that "writing about Catholic extremists" is exactly what he's doing.

[aculeus]

Peter King is a good man.

I'm almost ready to forgive him for inviting Gerry Adams to the White House.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"Would King write another fiction and say that some Catholic extremists would do a terrorist act, or that some Jewish terrorist would do some violent acts on Long Island? He wouldn't dare,

Because outside of the Irish blowing each other up, the ONLY acts of international terrorism have been by MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. Or perhaps they aren't extremists at all, but the norm.