Some things are better left unsaid. And with that said let's see who's words are being spoken by the Democrats who, by and large want the hearings cancelled. If you're not going after the KKK, why bother, they say.
From TheDC March 11 by Matthew Boyle
From TheDC March 11 by Matthew Boyle
TheDC Exclusive: Dems at radicalization hearings recite Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group’s talking points
The Daily Caller has acquired the talking points that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, supplied to its supporters as an aid in attacking the Muslim radicalization hearing New York Republican Rep. Peter King held Thursday. Save for Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s incoherent ramblings on Thursday, Democrats’ statements and testimony against King’s hearing, whether intentionally or unintentionally, largely mirrored MPAC’s talking points.
MPAC recommended that its supporters accuse King of “pure political posturing,” and told them to say, “these hearings appear little more than a political circus with Rep. King as the ringleader.” MPAC also recommended supporters say that the “hearings hurt our national security” because of their “narrow scope.” Finally, it said supporters should say that the hearings were unnecessary because “active” partnerships between law enforcement and the American Muslim community already exist.
California Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson hit on the “pure political posturing” point in the MPAC memo. She compared King’s hearings to those of the McCarthy era.
False equivalency.
Rep. Al Green, Texas Democrat, asked why King wasn’t investigating the Ku Klux Klan, something that plays right into the MPAC “suggested message” that the “hearings hurt our national security” because of a “narrow scope.”
“I think that all criminals should be prosecuted. I think that all terrorists should be investigated which is why I said we ought to investigate all of them and that would include the KKK,” Green said. “Over a hundred years of terrorism why not investigate them too. They are rooted in a religion as well. Check their website out. You’ll see.”
When was the last time a member of the KKK murdered tens, or hundreds, or thousands while shouting Christo Akbar?
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison regurgitated all the MPAC talking points in his testimony at the beginning of the hearing.
“Ascribing the evil acts of a few individuals to an entire community is wrong; it is ineffective; and it risks making our country less secure,” Ellison said. “Targeting the Muslim American community for the actions of a few is unjust. Actually all of us–all communities–are responsible for combating violent extremism. Singling out one community focuses our analysis in the wrong direction.”
Ellison would have us look at the Mennonites or the Amish if he could. And we know how dangerous they could be!
A spokesman for Ellison told TheDC that the congressman didn’t receive the MPAC talking points and “wrote his testimony himself.” A spokesman for Green did not immediately respond to TheDC’s request for comment.
The MPAC’s talking points aren’t something that surprise Ben Lerner of the Center for Security Policy. He said they are just another example of a self-described “rights” group shifting the debate away from the issues at hand and onto whatever they want to talk about.
“Serious people are trying to raise serious questions about the issue of homegrown terrorism and radicalization in the Muslim community,” Lerner said in a phone interview. “A lot of what these ‘so-called mainstream’ Muslim organizations are doing is throwing out insults and labels to anyone who has tried to delve into this. They’re not offering any serious, substantive responses to the concerns that are being raised by Congress.”
UPDATE 4:37 p.m.:
Richardson’s spokesman, Ray Zaccaro, told TheDC that her hearing comments “were created internally through the collaboration of the Member and her staff.”
He said Richardson “drew on a variety of resources from the most credible sources in order to develop her Committee statement.” Vaccaro said MPAC’s talking points were not used.
MPAC recommended that its supporters accuse King of “pure political posturing,” and told them to say, “these hearings appear little more than a political circus with Rep. King as the ringleader.” MPAC also recommended supporters say that the “hearings hurt our national security” because of their “narrow scope.” Finally, it said supporters should say that the hearings were unnecessary because “active” partnerships between law enforcement and the American Muslim community already exist.
California Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson hit on the “pure political posturing” point in the MPAC memo. She compared King’s hearings to those of the McCarthy era.
False equivalency.
Rep. Al Green, Texas Democrat, asked why King wasn’t investigating the Ku Klux Klan, something that plays right into the MPAC “suggested message” that the “hearings hurt our national security” because of a “narrow scope.”
“I think that all criminals should be prosecuted. I think that all terrorists should be investigated which is why I said we ought to investigate all of them and that would include the KKK,” Green said. “Over a hundred years of terrorism why not investigate them too. They are rooted in a religion as well. Check their website out. You’ll see.”
When was the last time a member of the KKK murdered tens, or hundreds, or thousands while shouting Christo Akbar?
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison regurgitated all the MPAC talking points in his testimony at the beginning of the hearing.
“Ascribing the evil acts of a few individuals to an entire community is wrong; it is ineffective; and it risks making our country less secure,” Ellison said. “Targeting the Muslim American community for the actions of a few is unjust. Actually all of us–all communities–are responsible for combating violent extremism. Singling out one community focuses our analysis in the wrong direction.”
Ellison would have us look at the Mennonites or the Amish if he could. And we know how dangerous they could be!
A spokesman for Ellison told TheDC that the congressman didn’t receive the MPAC talking points and “wrote his testimony himself.” A spokesman for Green did not immediately respond to TheDC’s request for comment.
The MPAC’s talking points aren’t something that surprise Ben Lerner of the Center for Security Policy. He said they are just another example of a self-described “rights” group shifting the debate away from the issues at hand and onto whatever they want to talk about.
“Serious people are trying to raise serious questions about the issue of homegrown terrorism and radicalization in the Muslim community,” Lerner said in a phone interview. “A lot of what these ‘so-called mainstream’ Muslim organizations are doing is throwing out insults and labels to anyone who has tried to delve into this. They’re not offering any serious, substantive responses to the concerns that are being raised by Congress.”
UPDATE 4:37 p.m.:
Richardson’s spokesman, Ray Zaccaro, told TheDC that her hearing comments “were created internally through the collaboration of the Member and her staff.”
He said Richardson “drew on a variety of resources from the most credible sources in order to develop her Committee statement.” Vaccaro said MPAC’s talking points were not used.
2 comments:
After the Oklahoma bombing, the left said, in effect, "see - the main threat of terrorism isn't from Muslims, but from white men with short haircuts". But that was before September 11th.. You can't oppose Islamophobia by this kind of denial. The right doesn't like Muslims, the left is Christophobic, but no-one dares challenge support for Jewish terrorism in the Middle East, in the form of warplanes, tanks and rockets, paid for by America.
Oh God Jay, it is ALWAYS the Jews, right? You sound like a broken record. I guess if you continue to put out disinformation on a regular basis, there ARE people gullible enough to believe the clap trap that you preach. Look we all know that you HATE Jews, that much is clear in all of your writings and discourse. The question is WHY are you NOT protesting the violence inherent in Islam? WHY aren't you horrified by the barbarity shown in the video of the 10 YEAR OLD BOY BEHEADING a grown man? Where is YOUR outrage and moral compass sir? Jews, Catholics, Buddhists and little 80 year old Mormon grandmothers are NOT the people attacking and murdering populations around the globe. ISLAM IS my friend! Please talk to some of MY Muslim friends, people who lived in Iran, in Syria and in Lebanon. Ask them WHO the terrorists were? They are quite clear that MUSLIMS were the ones blowing up restaurants and hospitals, MUSLIMS were stoning women and children to death, cutting off heads, cutting off hands and feet, and gouging out the eyes of "criminals" (usually women accused of capital crimes like being raped). I don't know about you my friend? I lived for over 20 years in various parts of the Middle East. I never had any trouble going to church in Israel and amazingly Muslims had no problems going to the mosques in Israel. In fact a rough estimate made in 2004 is that there are over 220 mosques in tiny Israel. Gee how generous of those "awful" very TOLERANT Jews, allowing the same people whose only aim in life is to bring about the destruction of Israel and to see every Jew in the world dead, allowing them to worship as they see fit in the very country that they are trying to wipe off the face of the earth! I was NEVER able to go to church in all of the years that I lived in Saudi Arabia. Going to church in Egypt was an exercise in fear. I don't know Jay? Watch the viciously hateful anti-Semitic tv broadcasts that are being shown throughout the Middle East on a regular basis.
http://vimeo.com/16779150
No other area of the world, except in the Middle East, shows the films made in Nazi death camps, films showing the mangled, burned bodies of HUMAN BEINGS, films showing the murder and torture of HUMAN BEINGS, and has commentators who LAUGH at the suffering being inflicted on other HUMANS and sit there praising Hitler for a job well done. You are broken sir, damaged and hateful. God have mercy on you.
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