Kristof Concerned King Hearings May Offend Muslims In 'Radical Mosques'
Isn't the existence of "radical mosques" in America the problem?
Nicholas Kristof is concerned that Cong. Peter King's hearings into radicalization in the American Muslim community will cause Muslims, particularly in the "more radical mosques," to feel that people are "picking on" them.
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Kristof offered his commentary on today's Morning Joe.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: I'm sure that at mosques around this country, especially the more radical mosques, this is going to be seen as one more evidence that people are picking on us.
So Kristof acknowledges the existence in America of "radical mosques." Isn't that the very proof of the need for inquiry along the lines Peter King is conducting? What Kristof suggests sounds like appeasement. People in "radical mosques" might feel like they're under scrutiny? Good.
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Afraid of gaining information about Muslim terrorists?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 8:59am.
I'd like to know the difference between "normal" mosgues and radical mosques. Wouldn't you?So. what is his point?
Submitted by Thalpy on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:00am.
We either deal with them now or later.Inhospitable?
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:00am.
Lets see now. We are concerned that we might be viewed as being inhospitable to people who have killed thousands of us in the past and are sworn to continue to kill us until we give them all we have and believe in. Damned if I don't think that some of these liberal talking heads are certifiably insane.Yep, people flock from all over the world
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:13pm.
To come to the USA, because we are intolerant bigots, who knew?Well duh!
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:09am.
Well duh!
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
They offended me first, those radicals who want sharia law
Submitted by Funbowhunter on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:15am.
I am tired of the liberals coddling a religion who disparages women, kills those who convert away from it by beheading, want to have a theocracy, have honor killings, etc. etc. etc. Thank you Mr. King for having these hearings!OFF ALL OF THEM
Submitted by SnapTie on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:18am.
http://shariah4america.com/NewYork/The-Islamic-Demolition-of-the-Statue-... That's what this website is calling for Muslims in America. Click on the pictures and see how they want the White House and Lady Liberty to look.SnapTie...
Submitted by adamsmith on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:14am.
Is this site a joke or is it real? I didn't spend more time there than what it took to look at the Statue of Liberty in a Burka....Not a joke
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:50am.
They are serious. DEAD serious.
Many of us wish it was a joke.
-Jon
What's the bigger concern?
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:19am.
Dang, Faulkner, stole my thunder. Was gonna say he's concerned with us picking on them, but I'm more concerned with them trying to kill us. As for mooslums, their god is dead, and their religion is nothing more than a political ideology wrapped in rotting rags.Substitute the words Tea Partier and or conservative christian
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:23am.
You would never see him speak up that way for hard working law abiding American citizens who have been insulted and demeaned far worse on a daily basis for two years now.Flip the coin
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:28am.
If some dude ran around shooting people while yelling 'Long live the Pope!' Kristof and his ilk would be the first to demand the US government shut down the Catholic church.Come on, you have to admit ...
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:31am.
Kristof's complete lack of irony is hilarious.Cognitive Disconnect
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 5:34pm.
Cognitive DisconnectAgree with all comments so far
Submitted by FastEd on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:41am.
Is this then, the level of US media thinking? They agree with security but don't know it? What else will they inadvertently (sic) see as the truth? When will they start blaiming GW Bush for the radical muslim prroblem? [never mind]"We the People . . " Hey, congress - I'm one of the people - start listening!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Not a fan of congressional
Submitted by buddyc on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 9:57am.
Not a fan of congressional "show hearings" but in this case let King do his thing and if it is over the top, criticize him then.Kristoff is right,
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:06am.
These hearings are extremely bad for those who truly want to defend the US and the citizens of this nation. Not because it will insult Islam, because it will, everything does, including our very existence. The reason this is extremely bad is because very few will see these hearings and the media will have hours of conversations to cherry pick (in some cases they won't have to cherry pick) sound bites that will cause anyone concerned with Islam to be portrayed in a racist/intolerant light. They do this now but these hearings will give them much more material.
There will be no coverage of actual dangers so as usual alternative sources of news are the only places people may get a glimpse at the truth but the media will be out with their mega-phones with a whole set of ammo to use against anyone who questions the motivations of Islam.
Amen to all of the above
Submitted by ant on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:03am.
If ABC, for one, had real reporters, they'd be calling for an end to "radical" Mosques in America instead of trying to incite a reaction to gay gropefests in NJ diners.I don't give a rat's left _______ about Muslims being offended
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:13am.
If they don't like it here (and I really hope they don't), they can pack up their turbans, robes, sandals, camel hair rugs, as well as their bombs, and get the Hell out of my America.
Islam is a fraud, and serves no purpose other than to enslave, terrorize, and kill. It has left nothing but destruction and death wherever it has been.
The "civilized world" may not yet understand that it is at war with all of Islam, but all if Islam is damn sure at war with the civilized world.
I do not understand why so many supposedly "enlightened" people are so painfully ignorant when it comes to this this bass-ackward, 7th Century, barbaric political movement.
For 1400 years, the Islamists have talked peaceful coexistence, all the while sharpeng their swords and waiting patiently for their enemies (which includes not just all infidels, but other Muslims as well) to show a weakness that they can exploit.
We have done the one thing you cannot do when dealing with these primitives - we have shown weakness.
I fear a coming generation of Americans (assuming there are actually going to be future generations of us - and that is not at all certain) are going to pay dearly for this hideously stupid mistake.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Making a mosquery of Islam
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:22am.
Rep. King's investigation into the purported radicalization of Muslims will make Muslims in radical mosques feel picked on? Who the foxtrot makes this stuff up?Name calling
Submitted by Huapakechi on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:23am.
I do love the comparisons of Rep King to the 1954 anti-communist Sen. McCarthy hearings. It turns out McCarthy was correct in his suspicions. I suppose Rep King will be similarly vindicated, hopefully much quicker.Political Correctness now a weapon of radical Islam
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:27am.
The muslim radicals know a good thing when they see it. They knew they couldn't hope to defeat America militarily. But in the Left, Democrats and Liberals, they saw the perfect useful idiot allies. After seeing in 1993 how easily Disney caved after Arabs pretended to be offended by the lyrics in the opening song of 'Aladdin', Muslims knew they had just been handed the perfect weapon - political correctness. Now they don't even have to wage jihad. They just have to gather a gang of shouters together and get them to pretend to be 'offended' by this and that, and the liberals/Demorats will fight FOR them. But nearly 20 years and people are finally starting to awaken. You can't appease these people no matter how hard you try. We tried appeasement all those years, and what did we get for it? A burning, smoking crater in Manhattan where 3,000 people died just trying to go to work one morning. The time has come to stop trying to placate people who will never be satisfied. Political correctness and multiculturalism have failed. The time has come to live our lives and if Muslims are 'offended', then the time has also come to let them wail and scream and just ignore them. So let them scream about these hearings. But don't pay any attention to them. They have the right to speak, but they don't have the right to be listened to. Eventually, once they see that they can't trick us into slitting our own throats, they'll grumble and whine and retreat to their terrorist caves and we can FINALLY get back to prosecuting terrorists and wiping them out in their hidey-holes.The right to speak
Submitted by Huapakechi on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:34am.
Yeah, but keep your CCW with you at all times, and if you hear the scream of "allah akbar", be ready to shoot! It's better to have and not need than to need and not have. This applies to handguns and fire extinguishers. There are no substitutes!REALLY ?!?!?!?!
Submitted by All American on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:46am.
I sure hope so ! Maybe this will make them show their hand just as the Gov. of WI made the libtards show theirs... NOTHING would make my day more than having a bunch of wild eyed savages attacking me or mine....it would give me a way of getting rid of all those pork-filled hollowpoints I have. BTW: their cult of death is OFFENSIVE to ME ! islam Is LameI hope they are offended, really.
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:50am.
Kristof Concerned King Hearings May Offend Muslims In 'Radical Mosques' .... then we can weed them out once and for all. Back to Arabia........Radical or otherwise
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:56am.
The other day I mentioned Zuhdi Jasser who is taking part of the hearings. He doesn't agree with the radical muslims and some of what he says makes me think the reason the "muslim community" doesn't say much is because they are in fear of their lives from the radicals.
For the longest time, I had equated all muslims in the same category but after reading this:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/09/american-muslims-view-communit...
I'm wondering if there really are two separate groups of Muslims after all and it's the radicals that are really giving them a bad name.
The only thing I'm not clear on is if this group of Muslims that Jasser(I wonder if Rima Fakih would be part of it) is part of is if they look to something else besides the Koran and the writings of a pedophilic madman. Does anyone know?
-Jon
Iron-y-deficient diet....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 11:16am.
Absolulely de-frickin'-licious in the stratospheric level of self-UN-aware and clueless irony in this idiot's professed fears.
Gee, don't arrest serial killers and/or lunatic mass-murderers, you'll just make them angry! Don't you dare interrupt the cadre of crazed suicide bombers huddled in the basement, who are busily working their crooked little fingers to the bone as they prepare for a glorious mass detonation at a Times Square New Year's Eve gathering. You'll just upset their fragile little psyches and make them even madder. Just leave them alone and hope for the best.
While no one is advocating mass Muslim internment camps, yada, yada, yada, the fact remains that the best way to avoid dying from a malignant, aggressively-growing cancer tumor is to identify where it is and to remove it from the body before it proves fatal.
As has been often defined in the past -- Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggy," while looking around for a great big rock.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
I hope the vermin ARE offended....
Submitted by Patriot II on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 11:44am.
They offend the living crap out of me....if the bastards don't like it....GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA! Before there is a bounty on their heads...literally...like it is in the muslim countries..! imocut off our own heads
Submitted by jackieaxe on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:00pm.
Maybe we should offer to cut off our own infedel heads as an outreach to the islamics that killed 3,00 of us on 911?You can't avoid offending hypersensitive radical Muslims
Submitted by nkviking75 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:03pm.
The radical Muslims of which Kristof speaks are offended if you look at them wrong. It is impossible to avoid offending them America's very existence offends them. There's no use in worrying about it.“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Somebody tell
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:36pm.
Kristoff , that Muslim is a sect of the Catholic Church and he will be okay with anything they want to do.BIG GOOF
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 3:04pm.
Posted in the wrong place