Posted on 06/16/2011 8:06:10 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to 'Christian Militants' in U.S. Thursday, June 16, 2011 By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Texas) likened "Christian militants" to Islamic radicals in a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, suggesting they posed a comparable threat to the rule of law in the United States.
At the same hearing, a witness told the committee that the conversion of U.S. prison inmates to radical Islam is an “evolving threat” to national security.
Michael Downing, the head of counter-terrorism and special operations at the Los Angeles Police Department, was one of three witnesses who testified at the hearing on Muslim radicalization called by Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican.
But Democrats on the committee condemned the proceedings as “racist” because of its focus on Muslims. They said the hearing should focus on broader issues, including gangs, unfair sentencing practices that target young black men, and other extremists, including white supremacists.
King rebuffed those criticisms, telling Democrats that they controlled the Homeland Security Committee for four years, yet they did not call one hearing on any of the issues they claimed should be part of Wednesday’s hearing.
“Suddenly this issue emerges when we start talking about Muslim radicalization,” King said. “The purpose of this committee is to combat Islamic terrorism because that is the terrorist threat to this country,” King said.
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"I believe that if I hear one more black politician hollering about how the United States is no damn good, and nobody in it is any damn good, and everyone discriminates against blacks, and denies them opportunity, and represses them, and doesn't do everything they want, and expects them to behave, I'm going to start bellowing."
I before e except after C.
This is what passes for intelligence on the Left.
Pinhead!....
That is similar to likening Jackson-Lee’s brain power to that of Albert Einstein.
“The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.” Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order…”
If that’s truly the case, why isn’t she saying that Islamic terrorist are like Christian terrorists?
"Did the Mars Pathfinder probe take a picture of that flag Neil Armstrong planted on Mars in 1969?" - Sheila Jackson-Lee
She makes me ashamed to be a Texan!
She must be talking about the Rev “God D*mm America” Wright, since he hates the country as much as the islamic radicals.
Why? She was neither born, nor raised here. She's a carpetbagger.
One thing I really hopes happens is her district and it will be redistricted then and only then will she be out..and maybe we would not have to look at her ugly face again..
The only people dumber than Sheila Jackass Lee are the morons who vote for her. I wonder what most of them have in common...?
SJL can’t do that. Even a transplanted Texan sees that. Besides, I’ll trade the two critters from my last home city environs – Waxman and Waters – any day for ONE SJL. SJL is more stupid than evil; it’s a close call, but still more stupid.
I mean we HAVE to have her here in Houston. She provides no end of entertainment when Michael Berry lites into the congressWOMON. This is going to be a fun week for local talk.
The NappyOne
Every time she opens her mouth nothing ut stupid comes out.
She should know by now that nobody cares what the stupid person says or does.
In her case it confirms that in some people stupid goes all the way to the bone.
Liberal White Guilt
She lives here, represents a portion of our citizens, and is part of the Texas delegation.
Where?
This is the kind of thing that Leftist tenured professors dream up. people in the real world should put down the pipe and realize that the Islamic radicals are the real threat and start profiling *gasp*
It works in Israel, it'll work here.
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