Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to 'Christian Militants' in U.S.

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[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.

[ShadowAce]

"People disagree with it, but here’s an individual attempting to undermine the protections that are given to women,” Jackson Lee continued. “Would you suggest that that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That’s a possibility, is it not?"

What SJL fails to understand that is that protections that are given can be taken.

[PATRIOT1876]

*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!*

Oh yes, I remember being allowed to stay up late at night to watch this historic event. It was right after the civil war ended. Sherman signed the surrender papers at Appomattox a couple of days before Hirohito released war criminal Teddy Roosevelt back to us in exchange for giving him Eastern Europe after the war.

[Dawgreg]

I’m gonna blow chunks! Wonder if Queen Shiela was down for the struggle? Wonder if her arse was hosed, was her ignorant head ever bashed in? I doubt it. She’s a product of a more than willing America to try and right it’s past wrongs so idiots like her can get along in life much better than those even in the early 60’s and bash this county and bytch about how bad blacks have it today. It’s YOUR party that’s responsible for “your people” to be in the shape that some are in today. I’m ashamed to be from Houston just because of this moron-ess but I moved out to the outskirts years ago.

[rangerwife]

The only “Christian” militants I know of are the Westboro Baptist “Church” gang and they’re all democrats! The Rev. Wright was/is quite militant too.

[crosshairs]

White Christian militants, of course.

[itsahoot]

Science. Interesting huh?

[itsahoot]

Uh, they are not white?

[TexasRepublic]

What would SJL know about real Christianity? I’ll bet the only time she goes to church is to rally black voters to re-elect her. To her ilk, churches are nothing but useful tools to herd the sheep to socialism.

[Texas resident]

Sheila’s district is a gerrymandered creation that includes certain hoods of inner city Houston.
And she is NOT a Texan. She is from Queens, New York.

[Gritty]

...she is NOT a Texan. She is from Queens, New York

I thought "carpetbaggers" went out of style around 1874? Silly me!

[LibertyLA]

I saw this article and this illustrates why we should be worried about the patriot act.

In the end we, all of us who believe in freedom in this country will be lumped in with the terrorists. Tea Partiers, 2nd Ammendment types, etc.

I always felt the patriot act was a scam that was put into place to lock us all down - and you can see via this lunatic; Sheila Jackson Lee, and her cohort. Janet Napolitano, we are building a nightmare country run by “Homeland Security” and their TSA thugs.

Definitions of “Terrorism” will be used to lock this country down - and the best thing the bad guys have are conservatives who act as enablers under the banner of patriotism for all these new laws and procedures - we are building our own cage.

[Ditter]

Queen Shelia is in the same mental abilities category as the congressman who commented that “if anymore people go to Puerto Rico ( I think) that the island would tip over”.

Michael Berry on Houston radio is on her case all the time about stupid statements she makes. It is hilarious! I know she must really hate him.