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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:38 AM
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N.Y. Rep. King Criticizes Muslim Leaders (85% of US Mosques Terrorists)
NEW YORK -- Leaders of 85 percent of the nation's mosques are involved in terrorist activities, and some have made irresponsible statements about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican.

"I don't see any need to be politically correct here -- the stakes are too high," King said in an interview broadcast Sunday on WNBC-TV's "News Forum."

The 85 percent figure was drawn from research done for his recently published novel, "Vale of Tears," about the World Trade Center attacks, King said.

Muslim groups on Long Island have denounced the claim, accusing him of fanning anti-Muslim sentiment to sell books.

more.......

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-king-muslims,0,737537.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
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playahata1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:41 AM
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1. KIng should just shut up.
Loser.
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:47 AM
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2. What about all those Xtians who belong to the Klan?
Hmmmm, I wonder why King is silent about that...
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Wabbajack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:51 AM
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3. jackhole
:argh: How dare he say that.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 04:31 PM
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32. Hi Wabbajack!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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NWHarkness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:01 AM
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4. And this racist ass is, by GOP standards, a moderate
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:23 AM
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5. Oh brother.
One of the citizens in my town who owns a business is from Jordan..he is terrified, as is his wife, as they encounter some of the morons in this town..another man here is a Hindu, and he owns a business also..he told me some people had come in drunk and yelled at him after Sept 11...I told him call the goddamn cops if these idiots keep it up. Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps these screaming obnoxious neo fascists from actually killing people they dont like is that its against the frigging law and they know they will end up in jail.
Im so tired of morAns like this guy in the article.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:27 AM
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:30 AM
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7. You mean Hebrew? n/t
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usrbs Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:50 AM
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10. what the do you mean by that? n/t
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nodehopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:04 PM
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12. excuse me?
what exactly do you mean by that?
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:08 PM
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14. What? n/t
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:14 PM
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16. I have been to my relatives synagogue many times
So just exactly what are you talking about?

Don
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:22 PM
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25. Explanation, please!
I went to the bar mitzvah of a friend's son & noted nothing sinister.

Speak up, buster.
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 05:25 PM
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33. They probably hid the gefilte fish so you wouldn't see it

A more sinister foodstuff is hard to find. If you are determined to find one, go infiltrate Minnesota. Lutefisk is the only known challenger to gefilte fish in the Xtreme Horribleness category.
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:16 PM
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37. 85% of gefilte fish hates our freedom
Namely the jarred "Wasabist" sect that can only be consumed with horseradish.

We have finally identified the long-sought embryo of the Gefilte fish. It is a chimeric pike and whitefish blastula which should (if all goes well) develop into a mature Gefilte. We are constructing fate maps using horseradish peroxidase.

http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/SDBEduca/Gefilte.html
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 04:09 PM
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31. it's a rhetorical question, I take it?
(why must Jews answer a question with another question?)

If you discover two synagogues teaching the same interpretation, you'll automatically win the Nobel Laureate in Physics. Alas, this "two places at once" discovery would have you remembered beside such semitic luminaries as Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:35 AM
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8. Another Goebbels "brother", it seems,...
,...demonizing a whole population of peoples. If he wants to address "extremists", he should point out Falwell, Weyrich, Roberts, Scaife and the likes of them in addition to being specific about other extremists who do not represent the Muslim people.
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chenGOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:39 AM
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9. Ah winning hearts and minds at home too...
Always good to see the Republicans doing PR for themsleves.

Watch out DUers!!! They'll be throwing "flowers" in the streets of New York soon.
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Barkley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:02 PM
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11. First the teachers' union, now mosques. Who's next?
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:06 PM
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13. Doesn't the US have laws against
incitement to religions hatred or incitement to violence?

V
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:14 PM
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15. We have laws against "hate" crimes,...
,...but, unfortunately, "hate" speech is running rampant; and, notwithstanding that our country embraces "free speech", we really should start taking a closer look at how the runamuck neonazi hate tactics are having such a negative impact upon the general public interest. After all, laws exist which somewhat limit protests in this country on the basis of public interest principle.
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:22 PM
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17. Yeah, I was just thinking
that in Britain those comments would be seriously asking for it.

What if some idiot goes and burns down a mosque because he believes this shit? Freedom comes with responsibility.

V
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:21 PM
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24. Oh, I completely agree with you!!!
But, these subhuman-type guys who incite such actions manage to escape responsibility for their role in it by pointing to the idiot's gullibility/culpability. It has become a terrible problem in this country,...the way hate peddlers get away with their truly evil behavior.
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dai Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:44 PM
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18. According to "research" done...
...for my new novel, "Vale of Made-Up Shit", 100% of Long Island Republican reps. are xenophobic bigots.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:18 PM
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40. snicker! nice one.
Now let me understand this. He has a novel. He's
citing it as the source of his accusation? Isn't
a novel a lie by its very nature?

WEEP! My head hurts trying to stand this country
sometimes. On the other hand, my brother's little
hockey team just won the regionals and is heading
for Florida to the nationals. GO, WARD!
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:50 PM
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19. this is based on what evidence ???
" Leaders of 85 percent of the nation's mosques are involved in terrorist activities, and some have made irresponsible statements about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,"

......basicly I think its BullSh*t
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:51 PM
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20. OMG...Doesn't he have any conscience?
Now some nots will burn down folks home or beat to death anyone who has dark skin and use the excuse that they are terrorists. I live in a neighborhood with many middle eastern families. I'm so scared for them and saddened that any public official would say this.
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WheresWaldo Donating Member (272 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:52 PM
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21. thanks Khephra
for another great post.

This guy King sounds like an Islamophobe. I wonder what other phobias he has.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:57 PM
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22. Anyone starting to think the Republicans WANT more terrorism here?
They are hoping and praying for something to bail them out this November, and fear is all these scum suckers have to run on.

Don
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peterh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:15 PM
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23. In the L.A. Times yesterday….
There was a “letter to the editor” that stated:

I’m proud of President Bush and those in our military, who are ready to quash any perceived dangerous Muslim group or country – we do not want another 9/11! We have to reelect our president come November.

Make no mistake about it, there’s a lot of hate out there and shitheads like King feel empowered to inflame it…..there’s always a ready supply of ignorant Neanderthals ready to pick up a stick and grunt….
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:36 PM
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26. Neanderthals
I hate to say it, but sometimes I feel as if we're two distinct species. We're just so different on so many levels.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 01:44 PM
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27. the pugs are slipping in LI
trying to shore up the base , I guess
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:49 PM
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28. I was channel surfing and wanted to vomit.
Saw Peter "I'm a pathetic racist pig" King on FOX.
Of course, they were having an unfair and unbalanced
debate as usual.

It's funny, (in an unfunny way.) The right wingers are
so ignorant and hateful...they just can't control
themselves from saying what they really think, can they?!
Just ask Trent Lott.

What's next? All black people are on welfare?
All gay people have AIDS?
All Asian people don't know how to drive?
All Mexicans are illegal aliens?

The GOP is a big tent of tolerance? My ass. :grr:
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 06:17 PM
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36. Did You Catch This.
The Faux News person, in order to prove King correct, read a quote from a newspaper story. It went something like this "Wahabbist<sp?> clerics have taken over hundreds of mosques in the US." He's the best part, the quote was attributed to non-other than... Peter F'ing King. It was surreal. I almost did get sick.

Jay
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:43 PM
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38. I Know!!! Unbelievable!!!!
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morgan2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:50 PM
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29. Im so proud of my house rep..
such a shame living in his district...
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:52 PM
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30. What a shameful thing to say...shameful bigot.
Can't he go to jail for hate speech?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 05:57 PM
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35. I WISH HE COULD GO TO JAIL FOR HATE SPEECH!!!
Whoops, passion escapes me, again. Of course, I was screaming at you, leesa *smile*.
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 05:28 PM
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34. Meanwhile, WHERE IS ANDY SULLIVAN ON THIS?
Gee, the same Queen Andy who got all fired up over Bush's desire to ban gay marriages is totally silent on this.

Seems Queen Andy is like the typical GOPer, doesn't care about anyone else but himself!
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:48 PM
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39. Lovely guy.
I'm starting to think that Republicans just want a worldwide religiousl war.
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