I read Michelle Malkin’s book, In Defense of Internment (Regnery) and wrote about it in late 2004, concluding that given what was known (and not known) in the early 1940s, FDR’s internment decision was “correct and sensible.”
Juan Cole of the University of Michigan then seized upon this assessment and distorted it, alleging that I have “fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps.” To this inaccuracy, I immediately replied: “I am not calling for the internment of Muslims. I am calling for an ideological war on radical Islam and the understanding that Islamists are our enemy. I see anti-Islamist Muslims as critical to the war on radical Islam and far from wanting them interned, see their active participation as critical to winning the conflict.”
But the cat was out of the bag. By now, three hundred and fifty websites have repeated the falsehood that I want American Muslims in concentration camps. A cartoon even appeared in Islamist publications that has a caricature of me advocating “Muslim internment camps in the USA (the sooner the better).”
From endorsing concentration camps, it was but a short step to portraying me as an advocate of mass murder. Wahida Valiante of the Canadian Islamic Congress, an Ontario-based group, took this step on April 29, 2005, writing in her organization’s weekly bulletin that I am a follower of Hitler, that I use the tactics of Hitler, and that I want “to ethnically cleanse America of its Muslim presence.”
The CIC issued a retraction and an apology. Pipes believes it’s the first time an Islamist group has ever done so. That may be, but the statement that was originally posted on the June 10th “Friday Bulletin” media release page has since disappeared.
It doesn’t look to me as though they were entirely committed to it.
Via Kathy Shaidle
A marvelous moment on CBC Newsworld just after 1230. The host was interviewing Shahid Malik, a young Labour MP from Yorkshire, about the meeting PM Blair had this morning with Mulim leaders (which Mr Malik had attended). Towards the end of the interview Mr Malik said (as accurately as I could write it down), in response to a question about whether the UK’s actions in Iraq helped prompt the London mass murder:
“We deal with these issues in this country through discourse, debate and democracy. If you don’t believe in that you shouldn’t be in this country.”
The Newsworld host, a bit taken aback, responded: “You seem to be singing from Tony Blair’s songbook.”
Mr Malik: “He’s singing from my songbook.”
God bless Mr Malik. Same old CBC.
Now, will Mr Malik be accused of advocating deportation of British citizens?
Mark
Ottawa
Mr. Harper remains in Washington today for a meeting at the White House between leaders of the International Democrat Union and U.S. President George W. Bush.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446266/posts
Linked to Ottawa Citizen, Canada. Note the respectful tone; or, is it being misread?
Mr. Harper, meet George Bush, POTUS.
GW should invite Harper to his ranch.
That would really stick the knife in Paul considering everyone has been there but Paul.
The number has been reduced from 100,000, as was ballyhooed by the left moonbats, to 25,000; incredible.
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casualties in Iraq over 25,000
CBC News – 56 minutes ago
A new study says more than 25,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the war began more than two years ago. A new report says thousands of Iraqi civilians have died in the two years since the US invasion. (CP file photo). …
25,000 is nothing: The amount of people, Westerners, who will die is in the m[b]illions if we let the followers of mohammed go any further. Blair’s wife defends them as in the high school girl wishing to wear a black muslim uniform. Bush will not call them what they are: islam followers in the worst sense of the word. Our leaders need to wake up to our defense, meaning deport muslims in mass. We do not want to be the US of Islam, thanks but no thanks.
Southernwhiteboy has not met and mixed with North American, both Canadian and U.S. citizens who happen to have Muslim history.
The majority are excellent humane people and we are proud to have them as citizens of North America.
Good thing Southernwhiteboy was not around during the Jonestown massacre. Would he then suggest all white people leave North America?
There are extreme types in every nationality. This just happens to be a time when one group is being whipped up with religious fervor.
So far there is no evidence of any gain from suicide bombing. That will sink in sooner or later and the fad will diminish. Sooner rather than later, I hope. 73s TG
A key point about the London bombers (terrorists). They were British citizens and three were born there. Yet, assuming for the moment that they were reacting against British actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, they acted as Muslims first, seeking revenge for presumed Muslim grievances. They did not act as the British citizens they were, by working within the democratic political structure to try to change the policies they are assumed to have opposed.
In short, they considered themselves Muslims, not Britons. That is what is frightening. No divided loyalty there.
Mark
Ottawa