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LI Muslims Fume Over King's [R-NY] Remarks
Newsday ^
| February 12, 2004
| Elaine S. Povich
Posted on 02/13/2004 12:28:15 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: muslimamericans; peterking
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:28:18 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:32:30 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Paleo Conservative
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!
To: aculeus
I don't recall reading about Muslims "fuming" over, say, September 11.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:40:04 PM PST
by
kevao
To: Valin
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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:40:58 PM PST
by
wtc911
(Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?)
To: aculeus
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:41:30 PM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Principles, not blind loyalty)
To: kevao
they're always "outraged" by some imagined slight.
thank you for telling it like it is, rep. king.
To: aculeus
To: aculeus
Keep it up King, if the Moozies are upset, you are doing something right.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:45:56 PM PST
by
Chris Talk
(What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
To: aculeus
Peter King is a good man.
The truth hurts.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:48:41 PM PST
by
petercooper
("daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime" - Nicole Gelinas, 02-10-04)
To: kevao
" 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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:50:34 PM PST
by
blam
To: kevao
"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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:52:39 PM PST
by
blam
To: swarthyguy
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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:53:33 PM PST
by
angkor
To: blam
So, Congressman Peter Kaiser?
To: angkor
Tell Grover Norquist and the White House.
To: angkor
I just bought a used copy on Amazon. Hope it's worth it!
To: swarthyguy
"So, Congressman Peter Kaiser?" Apparently not everyone. I took Gloria Mueller/Miller to my HS junior prom in 1960, lol.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:59:30 PM PST
by
blam
To: aculeus
"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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 1:00:23 PM PST
by
RonF
To: petercooper
Peter King is a good man. I'm almost ready to forgive him for inviting Gerry Adams to the White House.
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posted on
02/13/2004 1:03:43 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
"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.
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posted on
02/13/2004 1:07:34 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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