Congressman disses Muslim politicians: Is he a bigot?

[Andy9o8 3]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/21/ap/politics/mainD8M5B1GG0.shtml

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Congressman Criticized for Muslim Letter (AP) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2006
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer
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(AP) A Republican congressman has told constituents that unless immigration is tightened, "many more Muslims" will be elected and follow the lead of a recently elected lawmaker who plans to use the Quran at his ceremonial swearing-in.

Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., made the comments in a letter sent earlier this month to hundreds of constituents who had written to him about Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress. Goode's letter triggered angry responses from a New Jersey congressman and an Islamic civil rights group.

In the letter, Goode wrote, "The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."

Goode said the U.S. needs to stop illegal immigration "totally" and reduce legal immigration.

Goode added: "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."

Ellison was born in Detroit and converted to Islam in college. He did not return telephone messages left Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., wrote to Goode on Wednesday saying that he was "greatly disappointed and in fact startled" by Goode's letter.

"I take your remarks as personally offensive to the large community of Muslim-Americans I represent in the Eighth District of New Jersey," Pascrell wrote.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Goode to apologize.

"Representative Goode's Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office," CAIR's national legislative director, Corey Saylor, said Tuesday night. "There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry."

Goode spokesman Linwood Duncan said Wednesday that no apology was forthcoming.

"The only statement the congressman has is that he stands by the letter," Duncan said.

The letter was made public by John Cruickshank, the chairman of the Piedmont group of the Sierra Club in central Virginia, who had received it after writing to Goode about environmental issues. Duncan said that Goode's office had sent the letter to Cruickshank by mistake.

[jakee 1,610]

If he believes what he said in the letter then yeah, he's a bigot.

He may have been trying to play the politics of fear, in which case he's just an arsehole.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[rushmc 23]

Just hanging the lable bigot is an attempt to stop open debate. don't you think?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Andy9o8 3]

Nope.

[rushmc 23]

Well we disagree here. Regardless of what you think of the issues of this thread, hanging the lable attempts to silence those you do not agree with.

The sad reality of polical correctness.

No way to talk about the issue if you call those that disagree with you an offensive name

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Andy9o8 3]

You're mischaracterizing the thread. It's a legitimate takeoff on the remarks of people interviewed in the article.

[billvon 3,132]

>hanging the lable attempts to silence those you do not agree with.

Right. Because calling someone a clueless lib is merely an observation, whereas calling someone a bigot is labeling someone.

>No way to talk about the issue if you call those that disagree with you
>an offensive name

C'mon, is this really Mark, or has someone taken over his account?

[downwardspiral 0]

Doesn't Keith Ellison happen to be from a district that happens to contain the muslim heartland of America?


And yes Virgil is a bigot and an idiot. Maybe he comes from a district containing the iodiot heartland of America.

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[DZJ 0]

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Goode added: "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."

I'd be interested to find out what Goode really knows about Muslim values and beliefs.

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Goode to apologize.

I think the Congressman should apologize when CAIR apologizes for supporting and funding al-Qaeda.

mh
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"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

[kallend 2,182]

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Goode to apologize.

I think the Congressman should apologize when CAIR apologizes for supporting and funding al-Qaeda.

mh
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Another believer that one person's bad behavior excuses someone else's bad behavior. I bet your mother didn't teach you that.

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[rushmc 23]

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>hanging the lable attempts to silence those you do not agree with.

Right. Because calling someone a clueless lib is merely an observation, whereas calling someone a bigot is labeling someone.

>No way to talk about the issue if you call those that disagree with you
>an offensive name

C'mon, is this really Mark, or has someone taken over his account?

If clueless lib is used you would be correct. using lib to identifly a part affiliation is different and

no Mar"c" is still here

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln