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King?s extremism should be shut down - Douglas Turner - The Buffalo News

WASHINGTON — Congressman Peter King of Seaford is a product of a traditional Long Island Republican machine. But he apparently loves the take-no-prisoners compulsions of the sudden GOP House majority.

In three weeks he plans to call to order his hearing targeting American members of a religion— Islam. The charge he is making is that too many American Muslims are disloyal, and are consciously or unconsciously shielding or encouraging young members of their small but fast-growing community to embrace terrorism.

Brushing back requests that he inquire into all origins of terrorism, King declared: “I will not allow political correctness to obscure a real and dangerous threat.” This kind of red-blooded branding — which President George W. Bush consistently deflected — recalls two hysterical decisions by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s regime: Turning away 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler aboard the ship St. Louis in 1939, and the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.

King’s narrow format will only “alienate” Muslims here and abroad. It will also encourage the very thing King says he opposes: Radicalization.

Support for the IRA
In the 1980s, King frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with IRA members.
He called the IRA "the legitimate voice of occupied Ireland."[20] A Northern Irish judge ordered King ejected from the former's courtroom, describing him as “an obvious collaborator with the IRA”.

He became involved with NORAID, an organization that the British, Irish and US governments accuse of financing IRA activities and providing them with weapons. He was banned from appearing on British TV for his pro IRA views and refusing to condemn IRA activity in the UK.

He stopped supporting the IRA after being offended by Irish public opposition to the invasion of Iraq, labelling it as begrudgery rather than suspicion of and opposition to the war.

In 2008, King spoke in defense of bail for a fugitive IRA member, Pól Brennan, who had escaped from prison in the UK and been detained in Texas 15 years later. The IRA member, who had broken out of prison during the Maze Prison escape and entered America illegally, was being held without bail after his work permit expired; King said: "My experience dealing with (Irish) republicans is that they don't jump bail in this country. They honor their commitments."

Is there a 'good' kind of terrorism and a 'bad' kind of terrorism, or does whether it is good or bad just depend on a) whether the terrorists are from your own religion / race or b) whether your country is on the sharp end of it?

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Is he any relation to Joseph McCarthy?

[Ash]

Takes one to know one...

[shooz]

Or the blind leading the blind.