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Attorney General warns against alienating Muslims
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| 3/9/11
| Jeremy Pelofsky - Reuters
Posted on 03/09/2011 10:18:33 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alienating; attorneygeneral; bledsoe; hlder; holder; holder4alqaeda; holder4islam; holder4terrorists; holdervsamerica; melvinbledsoe; muslims; sodomhusseinobama; wot
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To: NormsRevenge
They should worry about alienating us.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:19:09 PM PST
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Persevero
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.
—
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 Sheriffs Department
—
Live Feed Web Cast
http://homeland.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/homeland/20501/150_homeland-chshearing_070430.asx
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:21:09 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
Holder is out in LEFT field.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:21:13 PM PST
by
NoRedTape
To: NormsRevenge
Where did these people come from?
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:21:45 PM PST
by
allmost
To: NormsRevenge
Why, because Ozombie is one of them?
Traitors!
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:23:12 PM PST
by
TruthConquers
( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: NoRedTape
Holder will have blood on his hands...
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:24:01 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
To: NormsRevenge
Jihadists...MORE of “Holder’s people...”
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:24:18 PM PST
by
Crim
(The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompetence..)
To: NoRedTape
Attorney General warns against alienating HIS PEOPLE!
Fixed!
To: allmost
Where did these people come from?The pits of ___________. They've been training and lying in wait since the 1960s. (...and some before)
To: NormsRevenge
From The Audacity of Hope by Barack Hussein Obama: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:25:36 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:28:53 PM PST
by
onedoug
(If)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:30:19 PM PST
by
dila813
To: NormsRevenge
Holder can go frak a camel.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:30:30 PM PST
by
BigCinBigD
(Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
To: Crim
“Jihadists...MORE of Holders people...
LOL, in Arabic the words for “black” and “slave” are identical.....
To: TsonicTsunami08
Attorney General warns Muslims against alienating Americans.
Oh, wrong attorney general.
To: NormsRevenge
He is worried about his people, meaning Black Muslims, like his Boss, O’Kenya.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:36:42 PM PST
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:36:59 PM PST
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: NormsRevenge
Makes Neville Chamberlain look like Patton.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:37:27 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
To: NormsRevenge
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.
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