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Minimal steps against radical Islam that are seen as … too radical
Congresswoman Sue Myrick, Republican of North Carolina, has proposed a ten-point plan to combat the growing power of radical Islam in the United States. Here it is:
1. Investigate all military chaplains endorsed by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was imprisoned for funding a terrorist organization.These proposals seem like no-brainers to me. And the fact that they are seen as controversial or extreme is pathetic. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact that at present there are Muslims working as military and prison Islamic chaplains in this country who got their job through the recommendation of convicted terrorist funder Abdurahman Alamoudi (see links here and here.) What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact that Arabic translators working for the Pentagon and the FBI are not specially investigated. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact that the jihadist Council on American-Islamic Relations has tax-free status. What ought to be controversial and extreme is the fact that at present it is not an act of sedition to preach or publish materials that call for the deaths of Americans. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact that the U.S. grants student visas to citizens of a country that in its own schools promotes hatred and violence against non-Muslims. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact the U.S. at present gives religious visas to imams from Muslim countries that don’t allow reciprocal visits by non-Muslim clergy. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact that the U.S. trains Saudi police and security in U.S. counterterrorism tactics. What ought to be seen as controversial and extreme is the fact the U.S. sells military munitions to Saudi Arabia. Rep. Myrick’s proposed legislation is good and important, and she deserves support. But it is just a bare beginning of what we ought to be doing in this country about Islam (a.k.a. Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic extremism, Islamic fascism). Her plan does not even address Muslim immigration, which happens to be the way that the radical Muslims whom she is concerned about got into America in the first place and are still coming. It does not address the outrageous fact that we have allowed hundreds, perhaps thousands of Saudi-funded mosques to be built in this country, when Christianity is banned in Saudi Arabia. That Myrick’s sensible and necessary proposals, as incomplete as they are, have not already long since been enacted is proof that this country is pro-actively surrendering to fundamentalist Islam (i.e., Islam) rather than opposing it. President Bush, the leader and cheerleader of our supposed war against terror and Islamic extremism, is one of the biggest frauds in American history. Never has there been a U.S. president who talked more bombastically and carried a smaller stick. But that, as I always say, is the essence of modern “conservatism.”
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