Campaign flyer offends Muslim community

ROCHESTER - There is a new debate in Monroe County related to Governor Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The debate has worked its way into the county legislature races. It has to do with a campaign mailing sent out by the Republican Party.

It is not so much what it says but what it shows that has members of the Islamic community upset. The flyer suggests that county legislature democrats want to license potential terrorists and the literature contains images intended to depict terrorists.

"Seeing these things are very wrong for me to see it in that way it means someone is profiling me that I'm a terrorist," said Dr. Muhammad Shafiq.

Dr. Shafiq is the Imam at the Islamic Center on Westfall Road in Rochester. He says the images are offensive to Muslims and believes the Republican Party is using fear tactics to persuade voters.

"Especially as a Muslim, it looks very very wrong the way they portrayed the pictures as linking Arabs and terrorism, equalizing them to terrorism, is racial profiling," said Dr. Shafiq.

"I really do take issue with that way of thinking because, again, that piece is about not one particular nationality," said Dinolfo.

Dinolfo says licensing illegal immigrants could jeopardize the security of the entire nation. She uses 9/11 as an example.

"The fact remains that there were terrorists who came into this country and harmed our country using licenses to do so," said Dinolfo.

I sent the following comment to WHEC TV, who posted the article on their web site:

Re: your recent article titled “Campaign flyer offends Muslim community”, located at http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S244193.shtml?cat=566.

So the Muslims are offended? What else is new? They get offended at everything-except the killing of non-muslims. Why should I care if they get offended? Why don’t they care if Americans get offended by the actions of Muslims? They expect everybody to bend over backwards to not offend them. It’s about time the muslims in America learn that the Constitution never guarantees a person will not be offended.

I for one and sick and tired of the continual whining, carping, and complaining that muslims do every time their “delicate sensibilities” get offended. If they can’t take life in the US, they can leave (or go back) to a country that practices Sharia law.

Why don’t you report on how non-muslims are offended by Muslims? I’m offended by the special treatment that muslims get in this country. Why don’t you report on how I’m offended? Why are muslims the only group that can’t be reported on honestly? Or would that disrupt your “narrative” of how the US is always in the wrong, and that non-US societies are always right?

"...I hope everyone has weapons and the practice and skill to use them. When the hammer goes down on Iran, and it will, the Saracen "community" in this country will strike wherever they are located. Got a mosque in your town? Got shopping malls in your town? This war will then finally get real to all Americans as the shooting and the explosions happen in your city, on your block, maybe at your house.

Be careful, though, at first you will not know which side your local police will effectively be on..."

Listen well, rinse your ears out, repeat!

I've been saying the same thing for the last ten months, ThanhPhero. There have been a few potential flashpoints since last December where an attack on Iran was justified, but 'diplomacy' was chosen, instead.

But time has run out on any diplomatic solution. Iran has reached the tipping-point with the number of its' Uranium enrichment centrifuges, and is adding more capacity as it has reached Industrial Production status.

This means that there will probably be an atmospheric release of radioactive materials if they're destroyed today, but that release, though a bad thing, would be minimal. Six months from now, that radioactivity release would be catastrophic, and another 'Chernobyl' in the Middle-East oil countries would be a very bad thing.

The weekends of Novenber 9th and December 7th are new-moon weekends in the 'Dark Months' (shorter days, longer nights). The USA Military is very effective in the dark-of-the-moon, and it would be a good idea to be ready every weekend from now on.

Stay well armed and safe .................................. FRegards

>>>The fact remains that there were terrorists who came into this country and harmed our country using licenses to do so," said Dinolfo.<<<

Read something I hadn't known in a Mark Steyn editorial the other day.....

"The 19 9/11 highjackers had 63 drivers licenses between them."

We really are pretty loose in this country!! You can be anybody you want to be.

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