Posted on 09/20/2007 12:39:18 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON (AP) — A homeland security adviser to Rudy Giuliani came under fire Thursday for claiming there were "too many mosques" in the United States — and defended himself by saying his point was that not enough Muslim leaders cooperate with law enforcement.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and the top GOP member on the panel, said his comments to the Politico Web site were taken out of context. Democrats said Giuliani should drop him as a campaign adviser.
"I stand by everything I said other than the fact that the Politico totally took it out of context," King said Thursday.
In the Politico interview, King said: "Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully, we should be finding out how we can infiltrate, we should be much more aggressive in law enforcement."
As for any political fallout, King told The Associated Press: "Rudy can take care of himself. He's a tough guy, but I would think that campaigns would respect someone like myself who says things that might be politically incorrect but are accurate in that too many Muslim leaders in this country do not denounce extremism."
The congressman was denounced by the DC-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that has long accused King of lobbing unfair attacks against American Muslims.
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Lugar’s to busy sucking up to the UN pushing the “Law Of The Sea Treaty” to worry about Muslim Extremism in his backyard.
I honestly think he’s worse than Bayh.
Lugar’s to busy sucking up to the UN pushing the “Law Of The Sea Treaty” to worry about Muslim Extremism in his backyard.
I honestly think he’s worse than Bayh.
The leftwing press?
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa, as if Rudy or King give a rats arse.
CAIR can go wallow in pig sh**
That one is more fair and balanced.
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