Remember the "Free Mike Hawash" website? It seems to have very unceremoniously evaporated one day.
Prior to its demise, it was filled with indignant rants over the injustice of good ol' "Mike" (Maher Mofeid) Hawash having been arrested!
Hawash was a very well-known hardware engineer, employed by Intel. He created the "MMX" multimedia extentions used by all Pentium CPU chips (as of the point they were released). In other words, if you're running a computer with an Intel chip, you are using "Mike" Hawash's engineering.
He was a prominent author, having published books on the topic.
And, he was arrested, for being an Islamic terrorist subversive.
That's when the "Free Mike Hawash" movement kicked into gear, spurred in large part by those who knew him. Or rather, thought they knew him.
He was a great all-American type guy, we were told. The government was nuts to arrest him. It was a witch-hunt! Bias! Profiling! Bigotry!
But a funny thing happened.
While good ol' "All-American Mike" was in prison during his prosecution, he grew a long, scraggly beard, and confessed!
Oops! There went the website! The "Free Mike Hawash" folks went strangely (and permanently!) silent on the topic. I guess perhaps they felt just a little bit "used".
Somehow, I doubt that "Mike" Hawash was the ONLY fifth-columnist of that type.
Dear Representative:
As a registered voter and tax paying legal resident of the United States of America we urge you to provide us with your utmost commitment to providing the citizens of our nation protection of our rights, life, liberties, property, and our hallowed Constitution.
We are under attack by an ideology that demands our demise. We will not stand quiet in the eve of our destruction. And we certainly will not tolerate our elected representative to lead us to the slaughter.
We urge you to introduce a referendum on whether Islam is a religion, or an ideology.
The advantages and protections of tax-exempt status afforded to a religion should not be extended to an ideology determined to replace our Constitution with the Koran.
In spite of what the media reports, the American public is well aware that that the war on terrorism is in reality, our defensive efforts against the Islamic offensive. We are not being provided with the defense of both our rights and the sanctity of our Constitution as long as we allow the enemy to operate freely with in our borders.
Americans are concerned and are in extreme jeopardy and demand you perform your duties as both an American and elected representative.
In Earnest,