NY Daily News:
Protesters call Rep. Pete King’s upcoming hearings on Muslim radicalization a witch huntcontinue
BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF, LORE CROGHAN AND RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Proclaiming “Today I am a Muslim too,” about 1,000 protesters gathered Sunday in Times Square to decry Rep. Pete King’s upcoming hearings into homegrown radical Islam.
“Today, they’re targeting Muslims. Tomorrow, it will be Jews. Tomorrow, they’ll close a synagogue,” said Abu Abdullah, 57, a perfumer from Bay Shore, L.I., who stood in the rain at the interfaith rally.
“Peter King is trying to divide us – to make it like shark eat shark,” he said of the Long Island Republican, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee. “It shouldn’t be that way.”
Christians, Jews and Muslims branded the hearings a witch hunt, waved signs and chanted, “Shame, shame Pete King!”
Celebrities from boxing legend Mike Tyson to reality show darling Kim Kardashian added their support online.
“We are bigger than Charlie Sheen – we are the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter,” hip-hop icon Russell Simmons told the rain-drenched crowd.
Magdy Salama, 50, a limo company owner from Astoria, Queens, who held a small American flag on a stick, said he worried his three Muslim kids will grow up facing religious bigotry.
“We’re a free country. There should be freedom of religion,” Salama said.
In an interview with the Daily News, King denied he was on a witch hunt and cited recent homegrown plots to bomb the subways and Times Square, saying the threat of terrorism “is now more from within” than from abroad.
2 comments:
Islam is one of few faiths that also represents a way of life, those things that Islamists do are apt to intersect with the lives of non-Islami¬sts in many ways. Given the current inertia within Islam to spread its faith and way of life, there will doubtlessl¬y be push-back by the Judeochris¬tian majority. The Constituti¬onal system which we live under makes this intersecti¬on inevitable and frequent. The aggressive moves by the Islamists in concert with this "push-back¬" make Rep. Peter King's hearings essential. King is educating the ignorant, left-wing anti-Zioni¬sts. and the innocent, unaware average citizen. Many of the latter unfortunat¬ely bought George Bush's lie that "Islam is a peaceful religion." Many volumes have been written to the contrary.
See no Muslim terrorism.
Hear no Muslim terrorism.
Speak no Muslim terrorism.
But behold the rampaging murderers of the Tea Party.
Liberalism.
It's not just a philosophy.
It's a mental illness.
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