Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:23:02 PM
Last week's hearings by the House Homeland Security committee on Islamist extremism in the U.S. represented a start, albeit a tenuous one, in showing the ugly threat this phenomenon is to U.S. public safety and security. It also showed the great lengths multicultural demagogues will go to protect their delusional beliefs. The star performer in this regard was Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison who happens to be a Muslim and, along with his coreligionist Indiana Democrat Andre Carson, constitute the congressional jihadi caucus. Ellison launched into the standard leftist rant of racism against Rep. King and other proponents of this hearing. He then proceeded to commit perjury by declaring that a Muslim emergency responder in New York on 9/11 who died while doing his duty had been targeted by a media slur campaign which has been exposed as
false .
In fact, Mohammed Salman Hamdani's meritorious behavior was explicitly honored in the text of the USA Patriot Act. However, the desire to play the racist card was to much for an incorrigible leftist dimwit like Ellison. To make things even worse, Ellison also played the crying diva card by going on a petulant crying jag which ruined the decorum of a committee hearing but made him the front runner for the daytime Emmy's best actress award.
Other leftist twits on the Homeland Security Committee such as ranking member and former committee chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas pontificated on how the committee should examine other purported threats to national security such as white extremism. Well, why didn't they do so when their party controlled that committee between 2007-2010? White extremists are a despicable bunch, but they are absolute amateurs when it comes to terrorism and other political crimes and wouldn't last five minutes in a terrorist training camp. The fact of the matter is that Islamist extremism remains the preeminent threat to the national security of the U.S. and other western democracies. Hopefully, Rep. King's committee will hold future hearings on this topic and feature testimony by expert witnesses such as historian Bernard Lewis, Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, and others who can help educate slow learners on the committee and the American public on the existential threat Islamist extremism poses to our freedoms.