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Friday, April 8, 2011

“I would just say that as we approach the 10th anniversary, not for people to look upon Sept. 11 as just some historical moment like Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor or Bunker Hill...It was the first battle in a war which is still being waged.”

Ask CAIR or any Muslim group and you will be told America is at war with Islam, not the other way around.  The newest hearings on Islam by Sen, Gregory Ball have, of course riled the panties of Muslims and their masters so the usual calls of intolerance, bigotry and hate-mongering are in play.  The tears of victimhood expressed during this hearing will, no doubt bring smiles to the faces of those who know, in their hearts that Americans are racist and xenophobic.  Lefties, the media, Islamic apologists and pundits in search of a victim to highlight will once again shed no light on the realities of jihadists or Islamists, the Qur'an or any of the texts and tenets of the worlds "religion of peace".



From The New York Times April 8 by Thomas Kaplan

Hearing on Terror Includes Heated Debate on Islam 

In a local reprise of a polarizing Congressional hearing last month on the question of Islam and terror, state lawmakers warned in grave terms on Friday of the threats facing the New York area, while other lawmakers and interfaith groups criticized the proceedings as anti-Muslim and incendiary.

The hearing, which was convened by the State Senate’s homeland security committee, was something of a spectacle: Security was ramped up at the office building in Lower Manhattan where state legislators have work space, and television cameramen easily outnumbered lawmakers.

Adding to the theatrics, the hearing began to great fanfare with testimony from the lawmaker who convened the Congressional hearing, Representative Peter T. King, a Long Island Republican, who has promised further federal inquiries into what he describes as the radicalization of American Muslims.

Mr. King prefaced his comments by noting that “99 percent” of Muslims in the United States are “outstanding Americans” and not terrorists.

OK, lets do a little hypothetical math.  There are 1.6B Muslims world-wide.  According to Rep. King, at 1% the number of terrorists would be 16 million.  Not a small number, is it?  Now if we take the number of Muslims in the US which is let's say 5 million, at 1% that would mean there are around 50,000 Islamists and jihadists planning to murder for Allah.  So now the question is: what are we doing to root out those 50K, and more importantly what is the Muslim community doing to root them out?

“But the fact is: The enemy, or those being recruited by Al Qaeda, live within the Muslim community, and that’s the reality we have to face,” Mr. King said. “This is not to put a broad brush over a community, but you go where the threat is coming from, and that’s the reality today.”

Mr. King testified at the invitation of Senator Gregory R. Ball, a Putnam County Republican who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs. Mr. Ball was criticized by Muslim and interfaith groups as well as a group of Senate Democrats for his inclusion of Islamic law as one of the hearing’s topics; they accused him of exploiting the threat of terrorism to incite a fear of Muslims among the broader public.

To talk about sharia and what it means to the West will make people fear Muslims is what we are to believe.  Dhimmituse in action.

But on Friday, as reporters crammed into a low-ceilinged meeting room for the daylong hearing, Mr. Ball defended the scope of the committee’s inquiry, saying that he asked lawmakers to propose other witnesses but received very little input.

“There are some who are more concerned about the front-page press than today,” Mr. Ball said. “I understand politics. But we cannot allow our homeland security to become a political football.”

Too late, Sen. Ball.  It already is, and has been since 9-11.

(...)Ms. (Nonie)Darwish testified on Friday that young people in the Arab world are taught as children to hate America and to look favorably on terrorism. “The education of Arab children is to make killing of certain groups of people not only good,” she said. “It’s holy. It becomes holy in our culture.”

Her testimony was met with an angry rebuke from Senator Eric Adams, a Brooklyn Democrat, who held up a Koran and said that Ms. Darwish was “bringing hate and poison” to the hearing. Mr. Ball tried to quiet Mr. Adams, and their back-and-forth descended into a shouting match, with Mr. Adams suggesting that Mr. Ball was condoning bigotry and Mr. Ball accusing him of pandering to the news media.

Mr. Adams had a prefect chance to highlight the "hate and poison" within the Qur'an as he held it high, it is a shame he probably never read even one page.

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