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Republican Rep. Peter King: DHS Should Be Targeting Mosques


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Republican Rep. Peter King and political right have been up in arms over the DHS intelligence assessment, falsely claiming it is an assault on conservativism.



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Blue Bunting (855)
Thursday April 16, 2009, 2:06 pm
RepubliCON$ will say anything, do anything, misrepresent anything to grab a headline:

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report requested by the Bush administration that warned of the rising threat of right-wing extremism. The political right has been up in arms over the intelligence assessment, falsely claiming it is an assault on conservativism.

Today on MSNBC, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) used the release of the DHS assessment to advance his well-documented anti-Muslim agenda. King told Joe Scarborough that, instead of discussing the threat of anti-government radicals, DHS should focus on the threat emanating from “Muslims” and “mosques” at home:

KING: [Napolitano] has never put out a report talking about look out for mosques. Look out for Islamic terrorists in our country. Look out for the fact that very few Muslims come forward to cooperate with the police. If they sent out a report saying that, there would be hell to pay.

Scarborough agreed: “Oh, it would be blowing up!”. Watch it: (click on link above)

King often likes to blame “mosques” for terrorism. In 2007, he claimed that it is “unfortunate” that the U.S. has “too many mosques,” a remark that was swiftly condemned by Muslim groups:

Unfortunately, we have too many mosques in this country. There are 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.

Unfortunately, these types of remarks unfairly targeting Muslims are commonplace for King. He has previously claimed that Muslims are “the enemy among us.” “[Y]ou could say that 80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists,” he said in 2004.


Furthermore, King suggested that DHS under Napolitano’s leadership is trying to downplay the threat of “Islamic terrorists.” Perhaps he should do his research before making such an outlandish claim.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Thursday April 16, 2009, 5:20 pm
This buffoon is correct about one thing:

There is an “enemy amoung us”.

It is called the RepublCON Party!
 

Allen Alagheband (0)
Friday April 17, 2009, 5:56 pm
King is a racist.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Saturday April 18, 2009, 10:02 am
Soe RepubliCON$ are so full of hatred; I wonder if it's a RepubliCON Party contagious disease?
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Saturday April 18, 2009, 1:09 pm
"Pat Robertson urges his callers to crash Homeland Security hotline" - Can you imagine what would have happened if anyone on the left had suggested this a year ago while Bush was still in office? They'd have been dragged off to prison along with several of their friends.
 

Past Member (0)
Monday April 20, 2009, 7:37 am
King was not saying go after Muslims. He was saying it's wrong that the administration should cast mainstream conservative issues as sources of possible extremism while tip-toeing around actual Islamic extremism which actually is an ongoing threat around the world as well as in America. You guys are just spinning his words wishing he was saying as a Republican that the government should persecute mainstream, non-extremist Muslims. Quit lying and face facts.
 

Bambo L. (0)
Monday April 20, 2009, 11:32 pm
dont try and rationalize with them John C., thats not how they argue. They ignor facts and shoult insults like republiCON$. They dont care about the facts only what sounds good on a t-shirt. You can feel the hate in thier speech more than anything you will hear from Rep. Peter King.
John C., there is hatred in thier speach that they focus it against people they dont get in trouble for hating. They dont hate Republicans. They dont hate anybody. They just hate.
 
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