A congressman who speaks his mind
Rep. Tom Tancredo sure stirred up a hornets nest the other day. Hispanic, Islamic groups want Tancredo to quit.
The Hispanics are upset because Tancredo wants to stiffen the border with Mexico and make it harder for illegals to cross.
The Muslims are outraged because he suggested that we nuke Mecca and other Islamic holy cities in retaliation to our cities being nuked by Al Qaeda.
You keep right on trucking Tom. We need more security in the border regions, and we need a clear message to the Islamic community that we will not calmly accept an American Hiroshima.
"What would happen if a prominent Muslim made that statement about Catholic holy places like the Vatican?," Ali asked.
Believe me, if the Muslim extremists thought they could gain anything by nuking the Vatican, they would have done it already.
The threat of nuking Mecca, et. al., is not to deter the extremists, if anything that will do nothing more than strengthen their resolve to carry out their plans. No, it is to provide an incentive to the moderate Islamic community to rein in the extremists.
Do you think we will idly accept the destruction of up to seven cities and the death of about 4 million people? I don't think so. I am quite sure that there is a SSBN in the Indian Ocean right now, tasked with the destruction of Iran, Mecca and several other cities throughout the Middle East. That would be an order not lightly given.
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Right on! "Keep on trucking"--well said! More and more, I am noticing more people defending Tom Tancredo's position.
For whatever reason, Islamists think we can't read, that we can't find out what Islam means, stands for, or what its goals are. For some reason, CAIR et al. seem to believe that we will listen to their smooth taqiyya and kitman, and believe them uncritically!
As an aside, it was a Muslim who tried to assassinate Pope John XXIII, forcing him to travel about in the "Popemobile" for protection. I'm sure you remember that, but it might come in as a handy-dandy retort for those who whine about how we would feel if the Vatican were nuked.
I have only the slightest hope that there are enough Muslims who "compartmentalize" their religion (that is, who choose to reject the more vicious aspects of Islam, and living only by the parts that have nothing to say about killing Infidels etc.) enough to help in this conflict. There are a few--maybe as many as 25%, on a good day.
Given that these more reasonable people are considered heretics by their more pious colleagues, I find myself depending very little for help from any Muslims, and much more on those who are unincumbered by Islam. I find myself depending on people who have pulled back the PC Curtain to see the reality of our circumstances--people like Tom Tancredo.
As retired Navy, I can assure you that your last paragraph is correct.
Posted by: cubed | July 26, 2005 8:08 PM