Excerpt: "By branding Islam as a violent religion, Walsh incites a familiar fear-mongering tactic that lawmakers like Michele Bachmann have been widely condemned for."
Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh incites fear-mongering tactics against American-Muslim communities. (photo: AP)
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: Muslims Are 'Trying to Kill Americans Every Week'
14 August 12
n Friday night, there were two pellet-gun shots on a mosque in the Chicago suburb Morton Grove. No one was injured, and 51-year-old David Conrad has been charged for shooting on the outer wall of the building as people prayed inside.
This was just days after Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) delivered a town hall speech on the "real threat" of radical Muslims in the U.S. "trying to kill Americans every week." Walsh made these comments just 15 miles from Morton Grove mosque:
"One thing I'm sure of is that there are people in this country - there is a radical strain of Islam in this country - it's not just over there - trying to kill Americans every week. It is a real threat, and it is a threat that is much more at home now than it was after 9/11," Walsh said.
Walsh went on to claim that radical Islam had found its way into the Chicago suburbs, including some that he represents.
"It's here. It's in Elk Grove. It's in Addison. It's in Elgin. It's here," he said.
In the same speech, Walsh said he is "looking for some godly men and women in the Senate, in the Congress, who will stand in the face of the danger of Islam in America without political correctness," according to Salon.
By branding Islam as a violent religion, Walsh incites a familiar fear-mongering tactic that lawmakers like Michele Bachmann have been widely condemned for. Yet acts of violence against American-Muslim communities are nothing new; for example, the FBI is currently investigating a suspicious fire that recently destroyed a Missouri mosque.
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So funny that a Teabaggers' recent poster associates Obama to Hitler and Lenin and "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive", for conservative voters are exactly that: fearful and naive...not to forget highly gullible!
Tom there is not FEMA concentration camps thats all Fox news lies. I think I am more afraid that you actually believe the propaganda you are spouting...this is proof Fox news lies work. People really do believe the lies.
This Nation was founded on treating and accepting all races, RELIGIONS, creeds, in oder to form a more perfect union of these United States.
The fear that Mr. Walsh is spreading; Is anti-american, and prays upon those americans that are under educated and naive.
Fear and Division are not Democatic traits, they are Facist and Radical.
We the people have to speak out and remove those in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, that espouse these ideas, that are the real threat to America !!!
Is there such a thing as "State Sponsored Terrorism"?
And if you grant the NRA their mantra that "guns don't kill people, people do," then the next question is what they propose in order to prevent people who want to kill other people from getting the weaponry to do so.
It is purposeful digs to further divide all Americans and encourage violence. Many citizens have caught on to all techniques such as this, but not enough, and the crazed types don't pay attention.
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy. It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Hermann Goering Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg trials after WW II
Control through fear.
Where have you been hanging out? Name the Dems who opposed AfPAK, Libya and other Obama excursions. For that matter, where were they during the Iraq War runup? Your partisanship is blinding you.
A significant number of Pubs, particularly in the House opposed Obama on both Libya and Syria. So much so that Boehner was busy as hell behind the scenes trying to keep them in line.
Kind of like Reid, Pelosi and Steny Hoyer did with the folks you mention.
The fix is in and LOTE suits the fixers just fine, they win either way.
He and we are all protected by our benevolent Empire in DC.
Our leader has promised that he will assassinate any citizen found (oops, strike that, suspicion is justification enough, although he promises, heh-heh, to first run it by a panel of advisors) to be a danger to our post-constituti onal way of life.
Due process? Takes too long...some of these lawyer types don't work for the empire you know; besides, one can't worry about constitutional freedoms, due process, etc when there are bad people out there.
After all, as long as we elect good people who care about us, why would we even need an anachronism like the Constitution anyway? The king would never execute anyone unfairly, only those that truly deserve it.
That it has been a windfall of profits for the MIC is mere coincidence. "Terrorists, Inc." are very good for business and certain politicians and their threat cannot be understated nor matter how feeble.
As for [the un-real] Joe Walsh, there's just something so . . . violently nauseating . . . about being lectured about morality and "godliness" and courage (quote, "godly men and women . . . who will stand in the face of the danger") by a guy who won't even support his own children.
Why Fox news and the 24 hour lies and spin they are pumping as news and the truth...of course!
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