It was perhaps inevitable, from the moment it was revealed that Thursday’s Fort Hood shooting suspect was a Muslim, that it would spawn a new cottage industry of scaremongering about Muslims in the US. Yet indeed, the official “concern” about Muslims has come fast and furious, and is far from restricted to the US.
Senator Joe Lieberman was following reports that he had expressed strong reservations about wars against Muslim nations, and quick to label Major Hasan “an Islamist extremist”called for an investigation of the military for failing to “discipline” him over his beliefs.
Australian MP Fred Nile declared that the incident in America “may warrant a ban on dedicated Muslims joining the armed forces,” insisting their religious convictions might some day override their “loyalty to the Crown.” Ironically Nile, a Protestant reverand, did not appear to have any concern that the religious convictions of Christians might likewise run afoul of calls to obey the national government.
Finally, and only tangentially related because he is using railing against Muslims every chance he gets, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman took the opportunity to send a “formal warning” to every nation in Europe that Muslims in their nations were secretly engaged in a plot to damage their relations with Israel.
well by this logic announce to every muslim country to be aware that all American in your country should be seen as immediate threats at treated as such.
and being an atheist i call on all governments the world over to remove all members of all religions from all positions of state
Well said! As the Israelis are caught syping in the US — causing many deaths to our intelligence operatives — perhaps such an edict should apply to Israelis as well. Although we too have members of Congress aiding and abetting Israel's spying, i.e., Jane Harman.
It is a volunteer Army, so volunteers should be allowed to leave at any time no questions asked. Then we will avoid these kind of internal blowback incidents. We can also avoid draconian laws from Lieberman who wants the military to discipline soldiers for their “beliefs”. Why discipline them? Just let them leave the military if they do not agree with the mission. This would also be more democratic for an organization whose mission is to implement democracy by force.
"Our" Congress is Israel occupied territory (TM Pat Buchanan), and has gotten the US to be Israel's mercenaries for three wars with a forth to come.
So let's ban anyone with the potential to get dual citizenship from serving in any aspect of our government or military.
Lieberman, Harman, Waxman, Schiff, Berman, Sherman, Israel, Feinstein, et al, and ad nauseaum, need to be run out of DC on a special rendition flight straight to Iran, and, after they get their guts tortured out and forced to eat what's left, dump them in Tel Aviv where they belong.
LIEberman just wants to continue using American Christian soldiers to fight Israel's wars. By distracting Christians from the real threat to this country's national interests, LIEberman and his ilk succeed in sending more Christian American soldiers to do Israel's bidding.
How similar are the two Liberman. Joe from US and Avigdor from Israel. Are they brothers?
They are blood brothers
So when is Joe Loserman going to take an American loyalty oath ?? They should hook him up to a 10K volt polygraph while they are at it too. Coward.
Lets not forget he was almost vice president…