Gawd, just when you think Chertoff can’t get any worse.
“Chertoff: Respect Muslim-Americans (gag alert)”
First with the Mexicans now with the Muslims. Does this man have even ONE patriotic American bone in his skeletal body?
Is this idiot running for office? Why isn’t he in Washington doing his job incompetently from there?
There is nothing strange about respecting the rights of Americans. Chertoff did not say he has a gut feeling that all Moslem Americans are about to launch a terrorist strike. The fuzzy thinking that all Moslems are traitors is ridiculous.
How about this instead? Muslims, quite blowing crap up!
DATELINE: DETROIT, 1942
Making Nazi Germans in America “feel fully included in the work and spirit of America is part of making America a better country,” Chertoff said Tuesday night.
Society has “fought too long and too hard for the rights of women to turn our backs on the rights of German-American Nazis,” he said
OK, I’ll bite. Are we supposed to DISRESPECT Americans if they are Muslim?
What a hot, steaming load of horse manure!
If every Muslim in this country vanished tomorrow the only change would be for the better- and safer!
Everyone should remember- the 9-11 hijackers moved through society, unprofiled and trusted, right up until that day.
Better unfair- and alive, than ‘fair’ and dead.
I could have a lot more respect for them if they joined in more openly with us in standing up to the radical Jihadists hiding in their midsts.
Often times, it seems only some of the Iraqi Muslims are making that stand against them.
Oh, good God above. What a woman Chertoff is.
So it’s all about feeling “fully included,” Michelle?
STFU and STFD and get out of my face.
Every time you see “xxxx-Americans”, as in “Muslim-Americans”, or “Brazilian-Americans”, it’s the menace of multiculturalism, the Trojan horse in America, rearing its ugly head.
Get it straight. We’re Americans, or in my case, Canadians....although I guess we’re technically Americans, too, come to think of it.
he’s preparing the way for the 80,000 iraqis due to arrive in NY shortly
Hey Mikey, you stupid.
Of all say 2500 terrorist attacks in the last year, what would you say, 2489 were committed by Mooselimbs?
I say keep a wary eye on them all and keep your guns loaded by your side.
Chertoff publicly talks about every damn thing except SECURITY. 2-3 weeks ago he was babbling about agriculture and immigration, yesterday his “Gut” was acting up and today he’s telling us how to behave.
This guy is out of control and is a reflection of his boss.
Good job Chertie ! /s
Nothing he said is wrong or even remotely undesirable.
We should respect the civil rights of Muslim Americans. The problem is that the Liberal Left and the NAACP (not mutually exclusive) both use this issue of “respect” and “civil rights” as a means to excuse unlawful and undesirable behavior.
However, in literal terms - respecting any person’s civil rights includes full and aggressive prosecution under the law when such persons violate those laws, or are officially recognized as being suspect of violations. In other words, our “civil rights” include the means for the government to investigate and prosecute, and just because someone is a Muslim or an African American, or both, does not make them exempt from such procedures. Of course, that is a technicality the Left feels free to ignore, except when they want to go after someone.
Oh, and I do recognize that Islam itself is a flawed religion, in which a propensity for violence and anti-social behaviors exists in spades. This, in itself, means that a disproportionate number of Muslim Americans will find themselves under suspicion for terrorist activities or sympathies. The Left would have us believe that terrorism, crime, and other social ills should be and are proportionally distributed over all races and religions, but statistically this doesn’t hold up. Approaching the investigation of crimes, terrorism, etc, using a flawed theory that Christians and Buddhists are just as likely to be terrorists as Muslims are or vice versa, is a dangerous and idealistically blind approach that’ll cause us to stretch resources unnecessarily thin trying to cover persons who are least likely to commit acts of terrorism.
Anyway, Muslim Americans should just get used to being under a microscope. If they think it is unfair, perhaps they should work on modernizing and moderating their extremist religious elements. Mosques with extremist clerics should be shunned, donations to religious organizations that support extremist views should be stopped, and they should assist in the investigations of terrorism among their own kind in an effort to weed out the agitators, and agents of terror. Instead, it seems as if Muslim Americans will boycott a company for what they consider to be lewd or lascivious advertising, but they won’t boycott a mosque whose cleric is proven to have participated in the advocation of and execution of an act of terror that results in the rape or murder of innocents.
I guess, my sympathy toward Muslim Americans is more one of intellectual recognition that we should observe and respect their civil rights, but I am always opposed to special rights for minorities of any flavor, even though I’m technically a minority myself. Being a Muslim American does not entitle them to freedom from suspicion. In fact, it places them smack dab in the middle of a class of people who are automatically suspects. However, their claims that being suspects or suspected is a violation of their civil rights is wrong. As a class, Muslims in America can be classified as “suspect”, but they are still innocent until proven guilty. That is their civil right that we’re protecting, however, they aren’t protected from investigation by their ethnicity or religion, and while it may seem like harassment - as long as all the forms and laws are observed in the due process of the investigation, they have no grounds for complaint.