Peter King (R-NY) sees 'too many mosques'
By Steve Benen Wednesday Sep 19, 2007 7:21amI often wonder what these guys are thinking -- or whether they're even thinking at all.
New York Rep. Peter King, a prominent House Republican, said there are “too many mosques in this country” in a recent interview with Politico.
“There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam,” King said. “We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.”
He now claims his comments were taken out of context, but there’s a YouTube clip.
The DNC has denounced King for his bizarre remarks: "This type of bigoted language has no place in public discourse, especially from the Republican's top lawmaker on the House Homeland Security Committee," said Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Stacie Paxton.
And let's not forget -- King is listed as Rudy Giuliani's homeland security adviser. Maybe someone can ask him what he thinks about this?
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"Baghdad is like Manhattan" - Peter King (R-NY)
Enough said....
He's always been off the wall. How do these guys get elected?
Wow another Republican biggot, I'm so surprised you don't even know!
you mean this peter king ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dV67u370Pg
Yet another straw on the back of that poor camel we call America... Thanks, Republicans, for ruining my country!
wow! did this guy have parents? i blame them for not teaching this "guy" tolerance. i wonder when he will be busted for having gay sex in public restrooms....
Btw, when will we get back to the good ol days when such a comment would've gotten a prominent lawmaker in deep water?
It just shows you with enough money any dumb shit can be elected to public office in this country. Anyone who would make those kinds of remarks in public is insane, especially an elected official.
In the town where my mother lived there was a neighborhood drunk who rented a house. It wasn't unusual to see him on his porch with a bottle of booze in his hand as he threw up over the porch rail.
Then a very nice car and nice looking couple of men began to visit the drunk on a fairly regular basis. All of a sudden out of the blue the drunk is all cleaned up and running for a local office in an election. He won! They had basically spent money to clean him up, tell him what to say and I'm sure put a little cash in his pocket. Now he represented that part of the city. Thankfully he was a one term wonder but he helped get through some local laws and helped do a little work on land designation for businesses.
Anyone can get elected if the right people are behind them with the right amount of $$
Homeland Security= No Tolerance Zone
I agree with Peter King: there are WAY too many moscas in America.
Apparently, they are being drawn to the stink of shit coming off every Republican in the country.
interesting how peter king never had anything to say about all those ira sympathizers and funders during the 1980s & 90s who lived on long island...
Hello American Muslims -
Remember in 2000 when you voted en masse for Bush and Republicans . . . .
Any of you still thinking that was a great idea?
Why would Politico, a right wing nut job operation take Peter Kings words "out of context". Jesse Jackson is saying that he too was "taken out of context" when he said that Obama is "acting white". Do any of these people even know what "out of context" means anymore? It doesn't fly with me, no matter who said what. You can't take the phrase "acting white" out of context anymore than you can take "too many mosques" out of context. Both of those phrases stand on their own.
It's not the liberal dissenters that are empowering the terrorists.
It's idiots like Peter King, Virgil Goode, and Tom Tancredo who are openly fearful of Islam in any form, radical or not.
Peter King is an Asshole.
End of story.
This is the same Peter King that supported the IRA for 20 years. There are a few too many Catholic churches on Long Island perhaps.
Rudy needs a homeland security advisor?
I guess he wouldn't say there are too many Republicans
So he's thinking there's no difference between your average law-abiding moderate Muslim and a radical fundamentalist Muslim?
What an asshole. But pretty typical shit from the Republican party these days.
I agree! There ARE too many mosquitoes. Why, you can’t even sit out at night and…what?… never mind.
He is right. There are too many Mosques. Too many Churches and Synagogues too.
As far as infiltrating a radical religious group, this guy would fit right in (and get sucked right into it.)
"Let me commend the Police Department for the way they protected us from Civil Rights during the Republican Convention."
Peter King is a moron. Unfortunately, L.I. will elect him until he retires.
imagine what a fit this guy would have if you referred to the Vatican as the hotbed of "radical christianity." Or if any reference to christianity or judaism in this country was prefaced with "radical." his panties would be so twisted he'd cut his legs off.
Wow, that was an instant classic. Is there a Hall of Fame collection of videos at C&L? If so, this clip belongs there.
Here he is last year talking about how the troops are going to be drawn down. He describes a trip he took through Baghdad. He explains that Iraq's entire problem occurs on just a couple of bad roads. The rest of Baghdad is just like Manhattan. He describes the amusement parks and roller coasters.
I think he must be a fan of South Park and the episode, 'The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Wqmsw3I0w
It's just for once his on the record comments match his thoughts. Usually he tries to keep some distance between those two things........this time his self-control slipped a little bit.....this is just Repubs with the masks off.
Weaseldog @ 25:
If I recall correctly, the amusement park was a dirty lot with a bunch of rides that were in severe disrepair.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
Here is a better example:
They got George Bush elected.
There is a comment under the Youtube clip that goes like this : "Look at what is happening in Europe and keep on saying that Islam is a religion which defends true liberal ideas. Sorry for not being PC, but fundamentalists are fundamentalists. And religions from the middle ages should stay there. That goes for the nutbar christians as well. "
I am sorry but as a European (even worse : an "Old Europe-an" ... now wait, even worse : a French), I am so tired of hearing shit like this ... what exactly is happening in Europe that should make it a cautionary tale for the Americans, I really wonder !
I would strongly advise such people to stop watching Fox to shape their views of the world ...
PS : I think I can speak with a modicum of relevance as, although I am as atheist and feminist (not to mention rather loudmouth ..or shall I say "opinionated") kind of woman, I am very happily married with a muslim French-Moroccan who is currently feasting for Ramadan and also happens to have given me my beautiful children whom we try to educate in the religion of TOLERANCE.
That's like saying I see too many churches or temples...good grief charlie brown.
This was King's macacca moment...see to it people of NY, next time, vote him OUT!
Shadowgm @ 27:
Oh, not Peter King Bizzarro World. In the Alternate Peter King Universe, the park is running in top form and happy smiling people are filling the park.
Shadowgm @ 27:
I think that amusement park looked something like this.
No, no moleste mosquito,
The nation it is full of bugs,
The people who eat the bugs
Have power over others for a couple of years,
But then bigger bugs eat them.
Oh wait...that's Stephen King, not Peter King.
Sorry, Pete.
Here's what Peter King saw on his last visit to Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kigv-YkBaoA
La Parisienne @ 29:
It's a scotoma, by definition a blind spot, but sometimes referring to the increased incidence of an object or similar event in the wake of another. A student gets tasered, and suddenly there are more stories about cops tasering people.
In the movie The Abyss, Lindsay (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) sums it up nicely: "Coffee sees Russians because he expects to see Russians. You have to see with better eyes than that."
Blessings to you and your family during Ramadan, LP.
Can any of these Dumb-Ass Reslugs get any more stupid and racist??
Clytemenstra @ 12:
I don't think they want to be reminded.
Neat. I feel the EXACT same way about this creepy cult they call "christianity". Let's put them on the hate group watch list and start investigating their finances.
Blue Buddha @ 33:
Looks familiar, but that's in Alexandria, Egypt, according to the link. There's another park in Baghdad.
Unfortunately, I can't find older pictures ... quite a few 'newer' pictures with the Eau de Petraeus 'thriving marketplace' feel to it.
No electricity, contaminated water, death squads roaming the street, but, hey! You have soccer fields and roller coasters!
Well, I hate to agree but there are too many mosques....and there are too many churches and synagogues. All of these "houses of worship" serve to remind us of mankind's dangerous gullibility and ignorance.
What's truly frightening is the comments posted on Politico -- at least 90% in support of nitwit King. I had no idea there were so many oppressed Christians in this country.
Joementum @ 42:
Not oppressed, "repressed". They merely want to be sure that everyone is as miserable as they are.
If they're so ready for a religious smack down let's mail them to baghdad and let them duke it out to the end and good riddance.
In regards to religion in general:
Everyone wants to talk about 'tolerance' but there's nothing positive about 'tolerating' something.
Basically we're saying that we have to "Put up with" it.
That's fine.
I put up with my neighbors noisy cars.
I put up with my other neighbors noisy dog.
As long as they stay on THEIR side of the fence I can tolerate it.
Now get the religious nuts to do the same and we'll all be better off.
But it never works that way does it?
Why is it they get to do whatever they want under the guise of 'religion' and everyone else is expected to "tolerate" it?
So mosques are a sign of radical islamists?
People who go to mosques are radical islamists?
So muslims are terrorists?
By that logic all churches are a sign of fundamental (abortion clinic bombing) Catholics.
Peter King uses 1920's Eugenics movement talking points but gets "serious" billing on cable news
you mean there are more muslims running loose in america!!! why aren't these people in guantanamo?
Margaret @ 13:
It usually means "You caught me saying something stupid and now I have to come up with a reason for my supporters to say it wasn't stupid."
He should be more concerned about the number of right-wing fundamentalist churches in the country.
>wow! did this guy have parents?
Archie Bunker and Editt' ?
Perhaps Mr. King is jealous as there is no construction boom in synagogues happening here in the USA?
Otay @ 49:
That's his base
You know else has too many mosques? Iraq. We should probably leave immediately.
I don't know there, Mr.King, if a major infiltration and surviellance program is initiated, who knows how many countless champions of christianist ideology might be awakened and converted to Islam? Could be pretty risky....
Idiot.
Jesus weeps.
Mr. Mumbles is on da TV trying his best fire up the dozen cells between his ears.
The man is a bigot and a xenophobe. Surely, by virtue of his being from New York State, where there is ample diversity, he should have gotten over his fear of those who aren't lily-white like him, or those who have a different religion. Guess not, though.
Unfortunately, there are too many folks like him in this country, and that is part of our general problem. People like these vote for whomever makes them most afraid. And the repukes have fear-mongering down to a science (oh wait, they don't believe in science... down to a faith-based art).
xoites defends Constitution @ 21:
Damn straight. Tax 'em, I say. They'd dry up without their government welfare.
okay wow.
i'm from nyc and i now live in buffalo and i've only seen about three mosques in my entire life
that hardly counts as 'too many'
OT, but i'm amazed that bush wants to veto this bill that will give more children healthcare.
like
CHILDREN hello.
do it for the children, at least. i can understand someone being extremely capitalistic and not wanting universal healthcare but i really feel that giving children the best health care and the best education are the least of our worries at least be willing to compromise and having more children covered so they stop passing the hiv around in kindergarten.
just astounding.
Take a good look at any U.S. military base whether in operation or mothballed and one of the odd things that will be noticed amongst the barracks and windowless buildings are the amazingly high numbers of chapels and churches.
So much for seperation of church and state.
It's not that there are too many places of worship, it's that there are too few places of logic, reason and fact.
Take heart folks. King is the only repub left representing Congress from L.I. Not too long ago the opposite was true.
Democrats are making huge inroads on L.I. and in N.Y.S. King is quickly sinking into irrelevancy and needs some kind of publicity to let us know he is still alive. Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all in his mind.
There are too many rascists morons in our government, and they all seem to reside in the GOP.
Personally, I think we have too many Baptist churches in Texas. And since I'm sure some of the Christo-Fascist terrorists who bomb and gun down their opposition are Baptist, what are we going to do about it?
this guy is lucky he comes from a district that is as equally racist as he is.
he is as stupid as he sounds.
pjsmith @ 62:
glad I left NY
the so called "compassionate christian" reich is the most dangerous group of subversives we have in this country. they believe they are the "right thinking" people, except they want to destroy the u.s. constitution. the christian reich is fascist and bigoted.
I find the notion that there are "too many Mosques" to be offensive on many levels. Who is the US Member of Congress to say what "too many" is; and on accusatino alone, he's asserting people who have differen religious beliefs should be targeted for criminal investigation.
America's bad habit is to abuse people abroad without jusified reasons; now the US Member of Congress wants the same targeting we saw against the Japanese. We need evidence, not sweeping indictments of people with different views. Of course, prosecute criminals; but don't accuse people of criminal activity simply because of their views on salvation and the afterlife.
This US government is recycling the Roman Empire's non-sense.
dadams @ 65:
This US government's actions in 2001-2007 appear little different than the abuse the Roman Empire imposed on the religious minorities. What's worse is when a religious argument -- that someone can or cannot achieve salvation along a given path -- is up to the government to decide, regulate, and comment. This is the same intrusion which was a catalyst for Christians to break ranks with the Jews: Salvation is not according to procedure, or laws of religious practice, but by simply a choice in belief.
See "Giuliani Time" documentary for Mr King's describing his friendship and "debates" with the then " ultra-liberal" Rudy Giuliani about the ongoing war on Vietnam. They were both in law school and interning at the same law firm. Wonder if Giuliani was compelled to vote for anti-war hero Sen George McGovern in '72 because of the "betrayal" testimony of Generals Westmoreland and Abrams before Congress? Ask King, certainly he remembers.
What really scared me were the majority of the comments to that story on their site. Hate-mongering, ignorant bigots. And then someone wanted to know why "muslims hate christians". (1) That's a huge generalization, and (2) read some of those posts saying incredibly hateful things about muslims and think about it. People like those posters elect bigots like Peter King and Tom Tancredo (great idea to bomb Mecca, there, idiot), and the Bushies.
bilo taser shot
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If anything there are WAY too many churches. Ever been through the Bible Belt? 1000s of churches everywhere. Where the hell do they get all the people to fill them up?
Shadowgm @ 36:
It is NOT scotoma. It's the invention and propagation of the TASER to police forces.
The coincidence of crying in the bedroom with the birth of a baby is not scotoma. It's INCIDENCE, namely the invention and propagation of a new life. TASERs are being sold in the traincar load, and so naturally their use is increasing. Calling that a coincidence (scotoma) is LYING to yourself.
The bigots are still at the helm.Why are you surprise to hear such comments from an inbred like Peter King?
I see dead political careers.
I find the whole "war on terror" profoundly disturbing. War on terror is a catch-phrase that blames and discriminates against Muslims, people who look like Muslims but aren't (Sikhs), anyone with a turban or beard (veterans or anti-war protester hippie types), anyone brown-skinned (Hispanics and the war on "illegal immigrants" said to be destroying this country, etc.) We have had mass deportations, secret renditions, legalized torture as public policy, built and funded detention centers run by Homeland Security which in Raymondville served food with maggots to detainees. What we need is less fiery rhetoric and more honesty and rationality.
This constant and prolonged despising of the "other" has led to 1 million dead Iraqi civilians. We've had the rape and humiliation of innocent civilian detainees at Abu Ghraib, American contractors have massacred civilian targets and blown up mosques. And all America can seem to do is heap racist and religious invective non-stop against the "bad guys." From Ann Coulter to Bill O'Reilly to Pat Robertson to Congressman King, the American public hears nothing but the demonized qualities of the hated "other." It really is starting to sound a lot like Nazism and the war on Jews.
Maybe we've forgotten, but public personalities like Julius Streicher were hanged at Nuremberg for "crimes against humanity" because of hateful propaganda which scapegoated a vulnerable population. Stereotyping the "enemy" created conditions of public outrage and led to the systematic mass murder of millions. In 60 years have we learned nothing?
I have a novel idea. Let's build some bridges and establish respectful dialogue and relationships of trust and protection of the vulnerable American Muslim communities in the United States instead. Then we can ALL unite on a war against "terror," and stop creating political conditions which terrify and demonize our neighbors. Failing that, can we at least admit that the Catholic priest pedophile abuse scandals have done more harm to America than any Muslim mosque ever has?
I find the whole "war on terror" profoundly disturbing. War on terror is a catch-phrase that blames and discriminates against Muslims, people who look like Muslims but aren't (Sikhs), anyone with a turban or beard (veterans or anti-war protester hippie types), anyone brown-skinned (Hispanics and the war on "illegal immigrants" said to be destroying this country, etc.) We have had mass deportations, secret renditions, legalized torture as public policy, built and funded detention centers run by Homeland Security which in Raymondville served food with maggots to detainees. What we need is less fiery rhetoric and more honesty and rationality.
This constant and prolonged despising of the "other" has led to 1 million dead Iraqi civilians. We've had the rape and humiliation of innocent civilian detainees at Abu Ghraib, American contractors have massacred civilian targets and blown up mosques. And all America can seem to do is heap racist and religious invective non-stop against the "bad guys." From Ann Coulter to Bill O'Reilly to Pat Robertson to Congressman King, the American public hears nothing but the demonized qualities of the hated "other." It really is starting to sound a lot like Nazism and the war on Jews.
Maybe we've forgotten, but public personalities like Julius Streicher were hanged at Nuremberg for "crimes against humanity" because of hateful propaganda which scapegoated a vulnerable population. Stereotyping the "enemy" created conditions of public outrage and led to the systematic mass murder of millions. In 60 years have we learned nothing?
I have a novel idea. Let's build some bridges and establish respectful dialogue and relationships of trust and protection of the vulnerable American Muslim communities in the United States instead. Then we can ALL unite on a war against "terror," and stop creating political conditions which terrify and demonize our neighbors. Failing that, can we at least admit that the Catholic priest pedophile abuse scandals have done more harm to America than any Muslim mosque ever has?
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