Jewish Dems blast GOP for singling out Muslims

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Jewish Dems blast GOP for singling out Muslims | Nation | Jewish Journal

The National Jewish Democratic Council blasted what it said was a Republican “obsession” with Muslims.

An NJDC statement termed as “utterly unnecessary” a second hearing convened Wednesday by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Commitee, on Muslim radicalization.

“Taken together with examples such as Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s and Herman Cain’s deeply disturbing comments in Monday night’s debate, these hearings are a manifestation of an upsetting GOP obsession with American Muslims,” the statement said.

In the GOP presidential debate Monday, Gingrich defended proposed loyalty tests for Muslims by likening them to past loyalty tests aimed at ferreting out communists and Nazis. Cain attempted to explain past comments in which he said he would not be comfortable with including a Muslim in his Cabinet.

“Once again, King has singled out the adherents of the Muslim faith, calling into question the loyalty of an entire community,” NJDC said. “All Americans who treasure the freedom of religion should be concerned with the growing suspicion of Muslim Americans by the Republican Party, which seems to be a requirement among its 2012 contenders.”

Republicans pointed out that King’s hearing Wednesday focused specifically on Muslim radicalization among prisoners, a topic that congressional Democrats have addressed in the past.

 

[EjazR]

Muslims despised today; tomorrow, you - Roger Simon - POLITICO.com

Dear Dr. Politics: Why are you such a jerk? You call Herman Cain “hateful” for wanting to protect Americans from Muslim militants who want to kill us. It’s you who is hateful!

Reply: Let’s look at the record. This is from PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan fact-checking organization that examines the statements of public figures. PolitiFact gives Cain its lowest rating, judging his statements on this issue “not accurate” and “ridiculous.”

Let’s start with Cain’s comments in a March 21 article in Christianity Today.

“And based upon the little knowledge that I have of the Muslim religion, you know, they have an objective to convert all infidels or kill them,” Cain said.

On May 26, a blogger for ThinkProgress.org asked Cain: “Would you be comfortable appointing a Muslim either in your Cabinet or as a federal judge?”

“No, I will not,” Cain replied. “And here’s why. There is this creeping attempt, there’s this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government. It does not belong in our government.”

A few days later, Cain went on “Your World With Neil Cavuto” on Fox News.

“A reporter asked me, would I appoint a Muslim to my administration. I did say, ‘No,’” Cain said. “And here’s why. … I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. And many of the Muslims, they’re not totally dedicated to this country.”

Then, in Monday’s CNN debate, moderator John King accurately asked Cain about his statement that he would not appoint a Muslim to his Cabinet.

Cain replied that he never said that — only that he would not be “comfortable” appointing a Muslim to his Cabinet. This contradicted Cain’s statement to Cavuto.

“And I would not be comfortable because you have peaceful Muslims and then you have militant Muslims, those that are trying to kill us,” Cain said during the debate. “And so, when I said I wouldn’t be comfortable, I was thinking about the ones that are trying to kill us, No. 1. Secondly, yes, I do not believe in Sharia law in American courts.”

In my column on the debate, I called this not only “incoherent nonsense” but also “hateful, incoherent nonsense.”

But you want to know what’s worse? As an excellent editorial in The New York Times pointed out Tuesday, “None of the other candidates took [Cain] to task for this. Mitt Romney, a Mormon who has himself been the subject of religious slurs, at least mentioned the nation’s founding principle of religious tolerance and respect but missed an opportunity to include Muslims. Newt Gingrich tumbled over the historical cliff with the idea, announcing some kind of loyalty oath to serve in his administration, similar to that used in dealing with Nazis and Communists.”

I don’t know if Monday’s debate will be quickly forgotten, replaced in our memories by a jumble of other debates, but I am going to remember it as the debate in which the entire Republican field to date refused to speak out for Muslim-Americans. They refused to speak out for the ones fighting for America in our armed forces, for the ones serving in Congress and for the ones living peaceful, productive and, yes, American lives.

The silence of these candidates was an act of cowardice.

Keep in mind these famous words when it comes to failing to speak out for people who are unpopular. They are by Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor, and they are famous enough that even Republican candidates for president should know them. Niemoller was speaking of the courage it took to remain a decent human being in Nazi Germany:

“First they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

“Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

“Then they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Communist.

“Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Niemoller was arrested in 1937 and sent to Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps for “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement.” He was eventually liberated by the Fifth U.S. Army on May 5, 1945. He died in 1984 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Do I regret the remarks I made about Herman Cain? I do not. Anyone who won’t speak out for those unjustly despised is despicable.

You want to live in a country that has a litmus test for Muslims? You want to live in a country that demands loyalty oaths from Muslims?

Fine. Today, it will be the Muslims. Tomorrow, it will be you.

How badly do these candidates want to be president? Badly enough to shred the Constitution to get the job? No job is worth that, not even president.

They should be ashamed of themselves. I certainly am ashamed of them.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

The unlikeliest of sources perhaps seeing the same by Hitler , awakes some past memories , christians are not famous for their hospitality specially the extremist types like in Republican parties

Today its Muslims tomorrow its Jews they don't control the white house for being stupid

 

[Pfpilot]

People generalize too much. Some muslims have become so indoctrinated with this "us against the world" view that hating jews is a great way for them to avoid focusing on their domestic failings. Everyone is human in the end, just like their are jews supporting the actions of the Isrealis, there are muslims supporting what Hamas has done over the years.
It is nice to see, not everyone is blind towards the growing racial profiling towards muslims in America...but not because these people were jews...whatever version of god they choose to believe in is irrelevant if they have the decency to standup for the oppressed, which is never a popular thing to do.

 

[EjazR]

What just baffles me is that Newt Gringrish was one senator who got massive muslim American support in the 1990s. He was the one who arranged for muslims in Capitol Hill to have a place for Friday prayers when he was Speaker in a Republican dominated house. Even a visiting Turkish delegation was shocked at seeing this then because they could not even think of having the same facility in their country as compared to what Newt Gringich had accomodated for in Capitol Hill.


The spirit of accomodation - in this case reserving a room for 15-20 people for an hour on Fridays for private muslim prayers - made him that much more powerful.

Now Gingrich is after the loony right vote and thinks that selling fear and hate is the best way to win an election. I'm sorry to say that this is the most disgusting way to do politics.

 

[indushek]

What just baffles me is that Newt Gringrish was one senator who got massive muslim American support in the 1990s. He was the one who arranged for muslims in Capitol Hill to have a place for Friday prayers when he was Speaker in a Republican dominated house. Even a visiting Turkish delegation was shocked at seeing this then because they could not even think of having the same facility in their country as compared to what Newt Gringich had accomodated for in Capitol Hill.


The spirit of accomodation - in this case reserving a room for 15-20 people for an hour on Fridays for private muslim prayers - made him that much more powerful.

Now Gingrich is after the loony right vote and thinks that selling fear and hate is the best way to win an election. I'm sorry to say that this is the most disgusting way to do politics.

May be he sees change in the wind and wants to sway the way its blowing. Leave aside Politicians even public taken personally will be more even handed than when they talk in public.

If this person was so accomodating there is no other explanation to it other than mass perceptions towards Muslims in West right now. He is playing it safe.

 

[Developereo]

People generalize too much. Some muslims have become so indoctrinated with this "us against the world" view that hating jews is a great way for them to avoid focusing on their domestic failings. Everyone is human in the end, just like their are jews supporting the actions of the Isrealis, there are muslims supporting what Hamas has done over the years.
It is nice to see, not everyone is blind towards the growing racial profiling towards muslims in America...but not because these people were jews...whatever version of god they choose to believe in is irrelevant if they have the decency to standup for the oppressed, which is never a popular thing to do.

There are extremists in all religions. Unfortunately, the peaceful Jews are a shrinking minority because the poison of Zionist fundamentalism has become mainstream in the Jewish community.

As for the religious war between Muslims and Jews, again the initial fault lies with the Zionists: they are the ones who framed the Middle East land conflict as a religious war because it let them hijack Holocaust sympathy and anti-Semitism as defence mechanisms.

What just baffles me is that Newt Gringrish was one senator who got massive muslim American support in the 1990s. He was the one who arranged for muslims in Capitol Hill to have a place for Friday prayers when he was Speaker in a Republican dominated house. Even a visiting Turkish delegation was shocked at seeing this then because they could not even think of having the same facility in their country as compared to what Newt Gringich had accomodated for in Capitol Hill.


The spirit of accomodation - in this case reserving a room for 15-20 people for an hour on Fridays for private muslim prayers - made him that much more powerful.

Now Gingrich is after the loony right vote and thinks that selling fear and hate is the best way to win an election. I'm sorry to say that this is the most disgusting way to do politics.

Ever since 9/11, the US media has equated Muslims with terrorism so that, in effect, any defence of Muslims is portrayed as being soft on terrorism and being unpatriotic.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

...Some muslims have become so indoctrinated with this "us against the world" view that hating jews is a great way for them to avoid focusing on their domestic failings....

Isn't that an oxymoron - the previous ummah could either be in 'the rest of the world' or in the 'domestic' category. Or is it that by domestic you mean 'in "Muslim" countries'?