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| Bad Night for CongressÂ’ Anti-Islam Caucus |
| 2012-11-07 |
| A congressman who routinely accused American Muslims of being enemies of the United States looks likely to go down in defeat. Another, a former presidential candidate who warned of a wide-ranging Islamic conspiracy to undermine the government, barely won reelection. A third, who espoused the same conspiracy, opted not to run. It’s not been the greatest night for Congress’ anti-Islam caucus. That caucus was a legislative bastion of support for a group of self-anointed counterterrorism analysts that tried to convince the FBI and the military that the Islamic religion was to blame for terrorism. That group is already beleaguered: President Obama has ordered its teachings removed from counterterrorism training across the government, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declares it “totally objectionable.” Now it’s got fewer allies in Congress to fall back upon. Allen West isn’t conceding defeat in Florida’s 18th district, but challenger Patrick Murphy appears to have beaten the Tea Party favorite. According to Politico, Murphy’s narrow vote total is larger than the margin that would trigger a recount. If West has lost his race — perhaps the most lavishly funded among House candidates — the House will have lost one of its most prominent exponents of a global Islamic threat. West, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, professes that Islamist terrorism is merely authentic Islam. “This is not a perversion, [the terrorists] are doing exactly what this book [the Quran] says,” West told a 2010 audience, following a disquisition on Charles Martel’s fight against a Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732. When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the 2010 construction of an Islamic cultural center a few blocks from Ground Zero, West dismissed Bloomberg as ignorant of “the history of Islamic conquest against western civilization.” West has been unapologetic about the act that ended his Army career: firing a gun near the head of a Iraqi detainee in 2003; Glenn Beck dubbed West “a modern-day ronin.” |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 With "Eyes wide Open"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-11-07 20:06 |
| #1 Iff West is a true "Ronin", as in Japan's "47 Ronin", he will not give up until the evil is destroyed and the name + honor of his abused-n- deceived dead Lord + Asano Clan is restored. * FREEREPUBLIC > [Newly released audio tape]ZAWAHIRI: BENGHAZI ATTACK SHOWED US WEAKNESS. History + Sun Tzu would argue that WEAKNESS INVITES WAR - THE JIHAD [Nuke-WMD?] WILL COME TO AMERIKA, + ALL THE WHILE THAT AUTHORITARIAN SOCIALIST [Fascist] IS VIOLENTLY? ARGUING OR DIVORCING FROM TOTALITARIAN SOCIALIST [Communist]. Its only a question of "when", not "iff". * FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Silobreaker.com = KavKaz center] MOSCOW RAPIDLY BECOMES ISLAMIZED, RUSSIAN POPULATION RAPIDLY DIES [dying] OUT. IMO dare Russia devol into a Muslim State [super-Pakistan?]wid SS-18's + SS-25's ICBMS + DELTA SUBS. * BHARAT RAKSHAK > US SENATE PANEL TAKES ON SAUDI RADICAL ISLAM. Growth of Saudi-style Wahabism in America may one day devol into a de facto National Security threat. Ala "RED DAWN II", IFF THE WILY NORTH KOREANS EVER DO INVADE AMERICA = AMERIKA, THEY MAY HAVE TO FIGHT LOCAL HARD BOYZ = ISLAMIST JIHADIS/ MILTERRS ALREADY FIGHTING THE US FED-LOCAL GOVTS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-11-07 20:05 |