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Homeland chief warns against anti-Muslim backlash
AP via Google ^ | 11/08/2009 | AP

Posted on 11/08/2009 6:12:58 PM PST by Lacey

Edited on 11/08/2009 6:46:44 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
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Well, she sure has her priorities in order, doesn't she?
1 posted on 11/08/2009 6:12:58 PM PST by Lacey
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To: Lacey

Screw you, lady


2 posted on 11/08/2009 6:15:03 PM PST by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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To: Lacey
What a POS she sure wasted no time saying our returning vets were terrorists, and ppl with gun and religion.. but t his muslim, she has to double check his credentials.. never know could be kin to some one important
3 posted on 11/08/2009 6:15:26 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Lacey

So what is DHS doing to stop Jihad?


4 posted on 11/08/2009 6:16:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Lacey
If it's a question of heading off anti-Muslim sentiment, she's whistling in the dark.
5 posted on 11/08/2009 6:17:39 PM PST by Salman
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To: Paladin2

Ugh, nothing? Might as well be promoting it.


6 posted on 11/08/2009 6:17:54 PM PST by Lacey
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To: Lacey

Napoleontanitobananarama leaves the borders open for illegals; enables domestic muzzie terrorists ...

Well, anything else would have been a surprise, wouldn’t it?


7 posted on 11/08/2009 6:18:11 PM PST by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Lacey

Take a long walk off a short pier, bitch.

How about being concerned with protecting the American people from terrorism and the latest victims here of the “religion of peace”.

PC a**holes.


8 posted on 11/08/2009 6:19:13 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Lacey
It's very simple. There are many Muslims in America who are peaceful and lawabiding and who wouldn't hurt a flea. There are some who are ticking time bombs, ready to kill innocent people for the sake of their religion. Frequently we can't tell which category an individual Muslim belongs to.

From Napolitano's perspective, it's more important not to offend the peaceful Muslims than to protect other Americans from the violent ones.

9 posted on 11/08/2009 6:19:41 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lacey

she should be more concerned with domestic terrorism on the part of muslim community.


10 posted on 11/08/2009 6:19:49 PM PST by television is just wrong (one big ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Lacey

What was this fool doing in Saudi Arabia? Deliver a message of ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’?


11 posted on 11/08/2009 6:23:52 PM PST by RowdyFFC (The opinion of a wise Welshtino woman...)
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To: notaliberal

My thoughts exactly.


12 posted on 11/08/2009 6:24:51 PM PST by Morgana (Sean Hannity to Obama: "HA HA" as in......."nanner nanner boo boo")
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To: Verginius Rufus

>> Frequently we can’t tell which category an individual Muslim belongs to.

It would help immensely if the so-called “peace-loving” Muslims would out the violent ones among them.

Why is it that they never do?

Personally, I don’t believe there ARE any peace loving Muslims. The entire cult breaks down into two groups: the ones that do the killing, and the ones that look the other way.

Piss be upon ALL of them.


13 posted on 11/08/2009 6:25:49 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Paladin2

Appeasing them and requesting that Obama let more brethern in


14 posted on 11/08/2009 6:25:54 PM PST by himno hero
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To: Lacey

We are living in an Ionesco play. The very first official reaction to every atrocity by Muslims is to take action against.....a nonexistent “backlash” against Muslims. Madness.


15 posted on 11/08/2009 6:26:35 PM PST by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: RowdyFFC

is she over there to give more visas to saudi’s I wonder


16 posted on 11/08/2009 6:27:23 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Paladin2
"So what is DHS doing to stop Jihad?"

I don't think that a relevant question in the current administration.

17 posted on 11/08/2009 6:28:07 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (u)
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To: Lacey

I bet if a KKK member did this she wouldn’t be trying to protect the KKK. Or how about a Catholic, would she be trying to protect a Catholic? How about Jews, would she protect Jews?


18 posted on 11/08/2009 6:28:14 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Her job is homeland security. Worrying about whether civil rights might be violated is the problem of DOJ. It would be helpful if the various cabinet officers could each worry about his or her own job and let the others do their jobs. It is a normal formula for organizational efficiency, not that this crowd cares much about that.


19 posted on 11/08/2009 6:28:55 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: denydenydeny

Two choices.

1. The anger and backlash can be exhausted against Hasan.
2. The anger and backlach can be exerted against every Muslim in America.

You do not create peace by denying justice.


20 posted on 11/08/2009 6:28:55 PM PST by BenKenobi
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To: All

You are going to have to defend yourselves.

Our government will not defend us against radical Islam.

Make a list.

Work the list.


21 posted on 11/08/2009 6:30:06 PM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: Lacey

This country desperately needs a severe anti-Muslim backlash.


22 posted on 11/08/2009 6:30:40 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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mouse1 to Dawgreg
Cannot post this enough. I’m sure the %’s are outdated, but it get the message across loud and clear.


As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

Nation % Muslim
United States 1.0%
Australia 1.5%
Italy 1.5%
Norway 1.8%
Canada 1.9%
China 2.0%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Nation % Muslim
Denmark 2.0%
United Kingdom 2.7%
Germany 3.7%
Spain 4.0%
Thailand 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).

Nation % Muslim
Switzerland 4.3%
Philippines 5.0%
Sweden 5.0%
The Netherlands 5.5%
Trinida and Tabago 5.8%
France 8.0%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world. When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Nation % Muslim
Guyana 10.0%
India 13.4%
Israel 16.0%
Kenya 10.0%
Russia 15.0%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Nation % Muslim
Ethiopia 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Nation % Muslim
Bosnia 40.0%
Chad 50.1%
Lebanon 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Nation % Muslim
Albania 70.0%
Malaysia 60.4%
Qatar 77.5%
Sudan 70.0%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Nation % Muslim
Bangladesh 83.0%
Egypt 90.0%
Gaza 98.7%
Indonesia 86.1%
Iran 98.0%
Iraq 97.0%
Jordan 92.0%
Morocco 98.7%
Pakistan 97.0%
Syria 90.0%
Tajikistan 90.0%
Turkey 99.8%
United Arab Emirates 96.0%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: Nation % Muslim
Yemen 99.9%
Afghanistan 100.0%
Saudi Arabia 100.0%
Somalia 100.0%

Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

– Leon Uris, “The Haj” Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threats


23 posted on 11/08/2009 6:32:30 PM PST by mouse1
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To: notaliberal

J.Nap should be watching her back.


24 posted on 11/08/2009 6:32:50 PM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: headstamp 2

Tell us how you really feel——I agree.


25 posted on 11/08/2009 6:34:01 PM PST by okiejag
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To: BenKenobi; denydenydeny

He’s not suggesting denying justince.

He’s just say Napolitano is fighting a backlash that doesn’t exist.

Where is this backlash happening? Nowhere.

BUT LIKE WE TOLD HER months and months ago, the most likely problem, domestically, DOES come from jihadists who are already here or would come if they could.


26 posted on 11/08/2009 6:34:11 PM PST by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Lacey

Obama’s people hate Americans.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230484/posts


27 posted on 11/08/2009 6:34:56 PM PST by RGSpincich
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To: okiejag

“Tell us how you really feel——I agree.”

I’m sorry, it’s tough to keep composure in the face of this PC insanity.


28 posted on 11/08/2009 6:36:05 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Verginius Rufus
Frequently we can't tell which category an individual Muslim belongs to.

And individuals can and do change category as that dedicated doctor or businessman reaches an age where he senses his mortality and turns to his religion. When he decides it is time to become a serious Moslem he changes his category.

29 posted on 11/08/2009 6:36:16 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: manc

Good question. I’m sure that ObaMao is working the Visa’s to the max to get them over here.


30 posted on 11/08/2009 6:36:19 PM PST by RowdyFFC (The opinion of a wise Welshtino woman...)
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To: Lacey

Nothing lasts forever, but I was really hoping I wouldn’t see the American Experiment come to an end in my lifetime. The current administration is anti-American with pro-Islamist sympathies. Millions of Americans share the administration’s poisonous adherence to strict political correctness no matter how self-destructive. The national mindset is sick. I don’t see this changing.


31 posted on 11/08/2009 6:37:44 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: RowdyFFC

The Bible tells us that “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”.

The collective mouth of the Obama administration, and the press that it controls, have from minutes after the shooting, spoken to defend Islam. There is simply no way around it. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not, and still am not a believer that Barack Obama is a Muslim. I think he is, as close as I understand their beliefs, sort of a unitarian. He believes all religions to be “wisdom traditions” but with no real truth to any of them, beyond some general principals for living. But from a belief standpoint, he views religion as an acedemic.

But I do belive that he has a soft spot for Islam. How could he not? His Father was a muslim, he has a muslim name. Remember his line from the campaign, about Muslims feeling more free to talk to a guy with “a name like mine”. I dont think its out of conviction, like his being a “closet Muslim”...but there is a fondness there. If his name were “Ghandi” it would probably be for Hinduism.

Unfortunately, this fondness will, I fear, get many, many Americans killed. I dont wish for this, I wish to God that I am wrong, but I fear we are going to play patty cake with these Islamic bastards up until the point where a mushroom cloud appears over a major city. I hate the prospect, but with Islamofacists trying with all their might and treasure to get one, and an administration that is more concerned with not offending them than fighting them, I fear it is just a matter of time.

If that were to happen, and again I stress that I pray I am wrong about this, but then you will see a real change in American attitudes. Nuclear weapons carry a stigma about them. Even though the damage may be equal to large amounts of conventional weapons, nukes just plain scare people. An attack such as that will cause people to simply not give a damn about being called intolerant. Hopefully, they will get to that point via another route, but to be honest, I dont see it.


32 posted on 11/08/2009 6:38:22 PM PST by SoCalTransplant (Old and Busted: Republican or Democrat? New Hotness: American or World Citizen?)
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To: Lacey
PC Kills.

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

33 posted on 11/08/2009 6:39:09 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lacey; All
Napolitano Apologizes for Offending Veterans After DHS Eyes Them for 'Rightwing Extremism'
34 posted on 11/08/2009 6:40:20 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: mouse1

Your post was eye opening.


35 posted on 11/08/2009 6:40:56 PM PST by bricklayer
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To: Lacey
Ok, I'll simply assume any Muslim male I see is going to open fire at any moment. There, I've moderated my opinion, because Mommy Government told me to.
36 posted on 11/08/2009 6:41:36 PM PST by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: mouse1; MrsLilac

Ping


37 posted on 11/08/2009 6:41:36 PM PST by AZ .44 MAG (I'm Jim Thompson and I say our government is a joke and its current make up is the punch line.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
"Frequently we can't tell which category an individual Muslim belongs to."

It is not necessary to distinguish between moderates and radicals.

Have you ever heard of a radical Islamist becoming a moderate Muslim?

No -- but you will hear of many Muslims becoming more radical with time. It is a one-way street. The basic structure of their "religion" is such that all its driving forces are toward evil.

Read the Koran. Every Muslim is an evil seed that has not yet matured.

38 posted on 11/08/2009 6:43:26 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Paladin2
The Department of Home Land Security should be defunded and disbanded.
They have not protected us from this kind of terrorist act.... and while your defunding the DHS, defund the department of Education while your at it.
39 posted on 11/08/2009 6:48:24 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Lacey

Hey Butch: Why don’t you get off your ass and go after the Muslims who keep perpetrating these attacks? Or at least have the decency to resign.


40 posted on 11/08/2009 6:48:44 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Lacey

“The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment”

Now we can understand why the MSM is tirelessley doing everything they can to defend the Muslims. Casey tonight on CNN referred to Hasan as, “one of our own.” They all have their orders.


41 posted on 11/08/2009 6:48:44 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Verginius Rufus
" From Napolitano's perspective, it's more important not to offend the peaceful Muslims than to protect other Americans from the violent ones. "

But, it's ok in her book to offend Christians and war vets and call right wingers " extremest " and " domestic terrorist " ....
42 posted on 11/08/2009 6:51:21 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Lacey

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck - guess what, Genius Napolitano, you’re probably dealing with a DUCK, and no matter how much you say it might be an eagle, it’s still a freaking duck.


43 posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:10 PM PST by caper gal 1 (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Lacey

The backlash, Ms. Napolitano, is more likely to be directed against you and the administration you work for.

BTW, “Man made disaster” is as good an epithet as any for Janet Napolitano.


44 posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:49 PM PST by Mobties
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To: notaliberal

That’s just what I was thinking and she should quit playing her games with our lives


45 posted on 11/08/2009 6:55:49 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Lacey

How about if these killings took place at an Obama speech that was attended primarily by the [hand-picked] praising Democrats that put him into office, and, in fact, the 13 murdered were “big-shots” from the Democratic Party instead? Would we be hearing differently on this attack?


46 posted on 11/08/2009 7:05:01 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I Thought it Was;
‘Pigs Be Upon Him’.


47 posted on 11/08/2009 7:09:19 PM PST by bravotu (Have a Nice Day !)
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To: Lacey

Has she ever warned against an anti-Christian backlash?


48 posted on 11/08/2009 7:10:44 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nervous Tick
It's a little like the situation FDR faced after Pearl Harbor with respect to Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals living in the US. Some were loyal to the Emperor, some were loyal to the US, and it was hard for outsiders to know which was which. The US government had cracked the Japanese code but didn't want to do anything that would tip off the Japanese government to that fact, so they couldn't reveal any hard evidence against Japanese in the US plotting to help the Japanese war effort.

The later consensus that it was wrong to round up all the Japanese in the western US mainland and put them in camps has no doubt influenced how the US government has treated the danger from Muslims living in the US.

I've only met a few Muslims in person, but among them are three I would say were absolutely opposed to violence.

There are Muslims from former Communist countries who were subjected to so much atheistic propaganda that they have no religious beliefs (like many Orthodox, Catholics, or Protestants in the same countries)...they might be called MINO's (Muslims in name only). I figure they are one group we don't have to worry about.

I agree that there are a lot of Muslims who, while not inclined to do anything violent themselves, secretly sympathize with those that do, and aren't going to turn on the violent ones.

49 posted on 11/08/2009 7:20:17 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lacey

Get your head out of your ass, Napolitano, and protect the U.S. from its enemies. That’s what Homeland Security is supposed to do.

What a bunch of stupid losers these Democrats are.


50 posted on 11/08/2009 7:24:42 PM PST by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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