Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?

Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
November 19, 2009 by Ari Shapiro of NPR

(County Executive Steve) Levy has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration, but he rejects efforts to connect those policy positions with acts of violence against Hispanics.

“It’s a real disservice to try to say these things only happen in those areas where there might be a debate over the issue of illegal immigration,” says Levy. “It’s dangerous, because it gives the impression that if you don’t have a debate over illegal immigration, Latinos are safe. That’s not necessarily true.”

Levy points out that even cities that welcome illegal immigrants struggle with crimes of racial hatred.

But Phil Ramos, who represents eastern Long Island in the New York State Assembly, says Levy does not appreciate that his words have violent consequences.

“If you say the word ‘illegal’ enough times as buzzwords in your speeches, these people cease to be human beings,” says Ramos. “And that’s what leads a group of six or seven young men to hunt an Ecuadorean man on the street like an animal, and just stab him and kill him.”

With all due respect to Mr. Ramos, you do not appreciate that your own words have violent consequences. You presume the use of the term “illegal” had anything what so ever to do with this egregious crime. When has racism ever needed political justification to act out violently? This rhetoric gives cover to racism by equating it with a legitimate desire to protect this nation from foreign threats. To suggest anyone using the term “illegal” to describe immigrants who thwarted our nation’s immigration laws (which certainly need an overhaul) should automatically be considered just as dangerous as this group of murderers breads enmity and further distrust among a population, which supposedly leads to violence. The Fort Hood massacre is a recent example of people too afraid of being called racist to deal with a legitimate threat, and that threat took the lives of 13 people.

There are LEGAL immigrants who also oppose illegal immigration. Many, many legal immigrants are outraged that they are often placed in a monolithic “immigration” category, especially when they subjected themselves to the horrors of incompetent bureaucracy and waste in the inner workings of the American immigration system. These outraged naturalized citizens appreciate the difference between legal and illegal. They followed the rules. If we disregard the necessity for this distinction why even bother with immigration laws? Oh, maybe because immigration laws help prevent a nuclear-armed terrorist from gaining free access to our homeland. That is now the most important reason for having and properly enforcing immigration laws. Unfortunately, this news report smacks of a willingness to politicize the issue at the expense of those who value the rule of law and any attempt to protect the United States from genuine threats. The desire for everyone to be equally subject to the law has nothing to do with this overtly racist murder. We are a nation of immigrants but we are also supposed to be a nation of laws. And we live in a world of weapons of mass destruction. We still need to be careful.

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Farrakhan Blames Bush for Fort Hood

Obama Supporter & Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan Blames Bush for Fort Hood
November 18, 2009 by Gateway Pundit

** Here is the video.

This was a new low for even the anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
Louis Farrakhan blamed George Bush for the Fort Hood massacre.
He also spread hateful anti-American propaganda during his recent interview on Aljazeera.

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Hasan wanted patients to face war crimes charges

Fort Hood captain: Hasan wanted patients to face war crimes charges
November 17, 2009 by BROOKS EGERTON (hat tip to Bob Parks)

Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him, a captain who served on the base said Monday.

Other psychiatrists complained to superiors that Hasan’s actions violated doctor-patient confidentiality, Capt. Shannon Meehan told The Dallas Morning News.

One day after the Nov. 5 attack that killed 13 and wounded 29, a Fort Hood official said she had never received complaints about Hasan’s job performance. Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of clinical services at the base’s Darnall Army Medical Center, also said he was a “hardworking, dedicated young man who gave great care to his patients.”

Fort Hood officials did not respond to interview requests late Monday. They have declined in recent days to say anything about the major, citing the ongoing investigation.

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In US military Christian Chaplain Dismissed, Muslim Chaplain Promoted

Fort Hood Fallout, Does Islam Own the US Military? Christian Chaplain Dismissed; Muslim Chaplain Promoted
November 12, 2009 by VotingFemale Speaks

The US Department of Defense is on the ‘defense’… on the heels of what has been revealed about what the DoD knew about the Fort Hood Assassin Hasan and when they knew it and why did they make the decisions they made which allowed this Assassin to progress to the point of shooting down forty-three (43) human beings, killing thirteen (13) of them all the while shouting the Islamic Battle Cry ‘Allah Akbar!’ as he pulled the trigger again and again and again?

Some events of the past…

Chaplain Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt has been court-martialed and dismissed from the U.S. Navy. His crime? Praying in Jesus’ name in uniform outside a chapel. You read it right. After 15 1/2 years of exemplary service, Lt. Klingenschmitt is being drummed out of the Navy.

Now, compare what the Navy has done to Lt. Klingenschmitt to this report from WorldNetDaily. “[T]he Pentagon recently promoted a Wahhabi-trained Muslim chaplain who catered to al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo and fought to establish the first Mosque in Marine Corps history.”

According to WND, “Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England personally promoted Navy chaplain Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam from lieutenant to lieutenant commander. Saifulislam also received a Joint Service Commendation Medal at the Pentagon ceremony held on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Pentagon officials say the ceremony was unprecedented. ‘It’s unusual for a deputy secretary to personally promote an officer of that rank,’ said one official who wished to go unnamed. ‘No one has known of such a high-level dignitary doing that.’”

Furthermore, the WND report stated, “England also earlier this year personally dedicated a new Islamic center at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va., on the advice of Saifulislam . . .”

Now get this: “The Muslim chaplain, who is stationed at Quantico, recited verses from the Quran in Arabic and English at the summer dedication ceremony, which included representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, several leaders of which have been convicted on terrorism-related charges.”

Yet, it gets worse. According to the WND report, “Saifulislam, which is Arabic for ‘Sword of Islam,’ received his religious training at a radical Islamic school raided by federal agents after 9/11.” Terror expert Paul Sperry said, “The Pentagon is giving him a permanent, taxpayer-supported platform from which to convert grunts to Islam.” He also said, “With the Quantico mosque, the Pentagon is facilitating the study of the holy text the enemy uses, heretically or not, as their manual of warfare.”

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Imam Who Defended WTC Bombers Attended Ft. Hood Summit

Radical Imam Who Defended WTC Bombers Attended Summit This Week on Ft. Hood Massacre
November 12, 2009 by Gateway Pundit

A radical New York Imam who defended the World Trade Center bombers attended a summit yesterday in New York City on the Fort Hood shootings.
The New York Post reported, via Ace of Spades:

A controversial imam who was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was among a group of Muslim leaders invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall.

Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters, called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists,” and said he hopes all Americans eventually become Muslim.

He was among religious and civic leaders who met with Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to discuss the deadly Fort Hood shooting spree.

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NYT Defends Muslims After Ft. Hood, Attacked Mormons for Prop 8

NYT Defends Muslims After Ft. Hood, Attacked Mormons for Prop 8
November 12, 2009 by Candance Moore

Since Friday’s massacre at Fort Hood, NewsBusters has been covering the efforts of several news outlets, including the New York Times, to warn of Muslim persecution in America.

This is quite a departure from the treatment offered other religious groups by the Times, particularly the paper’s disgraceful coverage of Mormon persecution at the hands of rabid protestors in California.

Back on November 4, 2008, when gay marriage was outlawed for the second time by popular vote in the Golden State, angry protestors stormed the streets. Word quickly spread that Mormons had played a big role in getting the ban to pass prompting gay activists to attack Mormon citizens in fits of rage.

Unlike now, the Times wasn’t worried about protecting a religious group from an angry backlash. Quite the contrary, when rumors of the Mormon influence on the proposition grew, the Times was more than willing to actively build the case against them.

On November 15 of that year, the paper used prominent space on its front page to print a hit piece titled “Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage.” In the middle of a literal culture war on the streets of California, the Times thought it wise to convince gays and lesbians angered by the proposition’s passage that Mormons were single-handedly responsible:

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More blaming the victims, victimizing the killer

THE PITCHFORK BRIGADE
November 11, 2009 by Brian Maloney

Libtalker Montel Williams Warns Of Extreme Reaction To Fort Hood Shootings

Are Americans ready to declare war against all Muslims living in the US based on the shooting spree at Fort Hood? While that may seem preposterous to most of us, to the some on the left, it’s a likely scenario.

Profiler: Fort Hood suspect a loner
November 12, 2009 by Drew Griffin, Elaine Quijano, Carol Cratty and Brian Todd

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) — People who knew and studied Maj. Nidal Hasan say he was a loner who had no luck finding a wife, and a criminal profiler said the Fort Hood shooting suspect fits the profile of a mass murderer better than that of a terrorist.

Another federal source familiar with the investigation said Hasan’s actions give no indication he was following the guidance in al Qaeda’s terrorist handbook in the weeks before Thursday’s attack.

That handbook directs jihadists to conceal their religion, mask their beliefs and blend in. Instead, Hasan frequently appeared in public in traditional Muslim clothing and prayed daily at the local mosque, making no attempt to hide his religion or conservative beliefs, the source said.

Myopic liberals can’t help but think anything evil MUST be conservative

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FT HOOD and Victimizing the Shooter

FT HOOD and Victimizing the Shooter
November 11, 2009 by The Western Center for Journalism

In modern America, the guilty are sanctified, while the innocent never stop paying – including with their lives, as they did at Fort Hood.

Before shooting up a medical facility on that Army base, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar.”

While Hasan gave a shout-out to Allah before shooting, President Obama gave a shout-out to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow” before getting around to mentioning the massacre on the day it happened.

President Obama’s response to abortionist George Tiller was “I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller.”

President Obama’s response to the slaughter of 13 Americans by a Muslim at a U.S. military installation was to instruct Americans not to “jump to any conclusions.”

There was a risk that right-wingers’s would start playing the old “Blame The Perpetrator” game.

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November 11, 2009 by Gateway Pundit

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CNN Misquotes Ft. Hood Private to Cast Doubt on Cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’

CNN Misquotes Ft. Hood Private to Cast Doubt on Cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’
November 10, 2009 by Lachlan Markay

CNN misquoted a soldier at Fort Hood who was wounded in last week’s shooting to suggest that the soldier’s recollection that Major Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” before firing was in doubt. Many in the media have been doing their best to downplay evidence suggesting Hasan was acting in accordance with radical Muslim beliefs.

“I was sitting in about the second row back when the assailant stood up and yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Arabic and he opened fire,” Pvt. Joseph Foster recalled yesterday on CNN’s “American Morning” (Video below the fold – h/t Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit).

Anchor John Roberts commended Foster on his quick reaction to the situation.

So you were acting like a soldier. You were acting heroically. We should point out that you’re with the 20th Engineer Battalion and despite your best efforts and I guess the efforts of your comrades, as well, four members of the battalion were killed, 10 others were injured. And you were shot in the hip and you didn’t realize it at the time?

To which Foster replied with all of the modesty one might expect from a 21-year-old Army private: “I had realized it at first, but with that much adrenaline, you tend to forget things.” It should go without saying that Foster was noting that with his adrenaline pumping, he did not immediately realize that he had been shot.

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But CNN, in its written report on the interview, quoted him completely out of context in an effort to dismiss his claim that Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar”. “Foster, 21, said he wasn’t clear about whether the gunman said those exact words, noting that ‘with that much adrenaline, you tend to forget things,’ ” CNN reported.

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President reserves judgement for Fort Hood assassin, but not for Cambridge Cop

Dobbs Excoriates Obama for Double Standard: Compares President’s Post-Cambridge to Post-Fort Hood Remarks
November 11, 2009 by Jeff Poor

Some of the mainstream media intelligentsia following the Fort Hood, Texas massacre have cautioned people to reserve judgment about the suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan and have bypassed many key details in order to live up to what could be construed as a politically correct standard. CNN’s Lou Dobbs isn’t one of them.

Dobbs, on his Nov. 10 radio program, didn’t reserve judgment and criticized President Barack Obama for telling people to do so in a speech following the tragic event. Dobbs played a clip from the speech Obama gave last week in which he warned, “We don’t know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

“Isn’t that remarkable, telling the American people not to jump to any conclusions?” Dobbs said. “Not to speculate, not to be curious about what is happening to our men and women, who should be the center of all of our attention and concern and care. Let’s compare that statement by our president to what he said at the end of a press conference about health care shortly after the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, his good friend.”

The president had no problem going along with the suggestion the Cambridge Cops were racist.

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