At another dark period in human history, from the ashes of hate speech there arose similar concerted attacks on one of society’s minority groups. This may be just one example of a focused attention being paid to a minority group, yet it not the only.
It shows the true nature of the right, along with the fringe right, in that they will do and say anything to get a vote. And if given and supported by enough like minded people, they can continue to use these positions to further their antiquated and racist ideology.
When people are unified behind ideologies and actions which are inherently detrimental to society, the actions which are being initiated and pursued by Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), will only lead to far worse racial problems within our society.
Although no member of the Islamic Center has ever been accused of terrorism, King has singled out the mosque as a hotbed of "radical Islam" and called its leaders extremists who should be put under surveillance. He maintains that most Muslim leaders in this country aren't cooperating with authorities, even as arrests of homegrown terrorists are rising greatly.
Now, as the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, King said he is finally in a position to do something about it.
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And when he wants us to just acknowledge his xenophobic paranoia, what he is really asking us, is to justify his lunacy. To give his fringe reality world view a footing in the world of the real, is to begin the long walk down the path of pain and hurt.
"My first goal is just to have people even acknowledge this as a real issue," King said. "This politically correct nonsense has kept us from debating and discussing what is one of this country's most vital issues. We are under siege by Muslim terrorists."
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The desire to please only those who could help him get into office, at the unjust sacrifice of those minorities.
But for those who gathered at the Long Island mosque, the coming hearings represented not just a political issue, but a personal one. For the man organizing the hearings was the very lawmaker who was supposed to represent them in Washington - Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.). Long before he had become their enemy, he had been one of their community's closest friends.
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"He used to come to our weddings. He ate dinner in our homes," said the mosque's chairman, Habeeb Ahmed, a short medical technologist with graying hair sitting near the front. "Everything just changed suddenly after 9/11, and now he's holding hearings to say that people like us are radical extremists. I don't understand it."
But it isn’t even that he wishes to focus on a specific one of societies minority’s. He also is very interested in quieting major (so-called) left leaning news outlets such as the N.Y. Times. To silence the media, is to la voix de l'opposition.
As reported in the L.A. Times:
June 26, 2006 | By Faye Fiore, Times Staff Writer
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called Sunday for criminal prosecution of the New York Times, saying its report Friday on U.S. government surveillance of confidential banking records "compromised America's anti-terrorist policies." Interviewed on "Fox News Sunday," Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said the newspaper compromised national security when it exposed a Treasury Department program that secretly monitored worldwide money transfers to track terrorist financing.
These actions, performed not just by Rep. King, but by other as well, are cause for concern. It is my belief that those that do participate in such political actions should be kept an eye on. One group which seems to be doing such a thing presented this rebuff of Rep. King.
Tucson should make Rep. King rethink Muslim probe
By Jeff Stein
The shootingin Tucson offers Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) an opportunity to rethink his planned Homeland Security Committee hearings on Muslim “radicalization” in this country.
King says he’s worried about the “disconnect,” as he calls it, “between outstanding Muslims who contribute so much to the future of our country and those leaders who–for whatever reason–acquiesce in terror or ignore the threat.”
By that standard, he should have hearings on the failure of Republican leaders to denounce Sarah Palin’s “crosshairs” Web page and Sharron Angle’s invocation of “Second Amendment remedies” to Big Government and her opponent in the Nevada U.S. Senate race, Harry Reid.
Of course, that is no business for the Homeland Security Committee. Imagine the response if King’s Democratic predecessor, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, had tried to summon Palin and Angle, not to mention Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, to testify at such hearings.
King’s announcement of hearings last month proved incendiary, with law-abiding U.S. Islamic groups and such prominent individuals as Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, protesting that such an attention-getting forum will only further “vilify” them.
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Any thoughts on what you may or may not perceive as a beginning of a more energized focus on racially based legal issues growing and evolving in the United States. Do you think this could be a reaction to, or an effect of, the marketing and branding of hate speech and division we are experiencing within the United States?
Clarification:
For those who could not get past the title it has been changed from its original: The New Juden? Rep King (R-NY) and the Islamic Mosque
The original reference was made on purpose. That is the point in my broaching the question of a possible societal reactionary result of such social and political vitriol. I am not accusing Rep. King, or anyone, of being a Nazi. However, to ignore any possible historical effects of certain societal public actions, would be foolish. The gist of my perspective should be viewed, more as an inquiry into the societal effects of hate and violent speech within a society, and possible legal outcomes.