Hot Dog! Rep. Tancredo Will NOT Apologize and Do the Dhimmi-Crawl!!!!

The Daily Whine from CAIR (Council on Arab-Islamic Relations) of 19 July 2005 contained some delicious news amongst the usual q'rap. Here is the relevant section of the CAIR email:

TANCREDO: NO APOLOGY - TOP
M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News, 07/19/05
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3937059,00.html

WASHINGTON - The remarks were hypothetical but the outrage was real.

Facing mounting criticism, Rep. Tom Tancredo on Monday refused to apologize for suggesting the United States could target Muslim holy sites if radical Islamic terrorists set off multiple nuclear attacks in American cities.

"It's a tough issue to deal with," Tancredo told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. "Tough things are said. And we should not shy away from saying things that need to be said."

Tancredo is known for his fiery rhetoric on immigration and other issues, but his words are coming under more scrutiny because he has started traveling to test the waters for a possible presidential candidacy in 2008.

A spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Tancredo's remarks irresponsible.

"They do nothing to advance our national security and protect Americans from terrorists," Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which calls itself the largest Islamic civil rights group in the United States, demanded an apology Monday, after the Rocky Mountain News published an account of his Friday interview with WFLA radio in Florida. . .

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper called Tancredo's remarks irresponsible, inflammatory and "unworthy of an elected official."

"These kinds of . . . comments just serve to fuel negative perceptions of the United States in the Muslim world that create a downward spiral of hostility," Hooper said.

"He needs to go far beyond a clarification and apologize, not only to the people of Colorado, but to the American-Muslim community."

Tancredo rejected the idea of apologizing at his news conference, where the controversy overshadowed the topic he wanted to address, his introduction of comprehensive immigration reform legislation. His bill would create a limited guest worker plan for immigrants but only after beefing up border security.

Last week in Iowa, home of the nation's first presidential caucuses, he pressed his immigration reform agenda to members of the Christian Coalition. At each stop, he also spoke briefly about what he sees as a clash of civilizations and war against "radical Islam."

Hooper said it was a "quantum leap" for Tancredo to go a step further and suggest destroying Muslim holy sites that are at the center of a faith for one-fifth of the world's people.

"Unfortunately, there's a veritable cottage industry of anti-Muslim rhetoric now in our society, and it seems to be growing," Hooper said. "I don't know where it's taking us, because if people really do believe we're in conflict with the faith of Islam, what does that mean? What are the implications of that? Unending civilizational and religious war? It's too much to contemplate. . ."

Late Monday, CAIR officials said they were trying to arrange a meeting between Tancredo and Colorado Muslim leaders. Tancredo spokesman Will Adams said he had not received the invitation but that the congressman would be willing to meet with moderate Muslims. (MORE)

SEE ALSO:

ACTION REQUESTED: URGE REPUBLICANS TO REPUDIATE COMMENTS - TOP

Contact state and national Republican Party leaders to ask (politely) that they repudiate Tancredo's inflammatory and irresponsible remarks.

Mr. Bob Martinez
State Chair, Colorado Republican Party
E-mail: BobMartinez@coloGOP.org
Phone: 303-758-3333

Republican National Committee
E-mail: info@gop.com
Phone: 202.863.8500

President George W. Bush
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
Phone: 202-456-1111

COPY TO: cair@cair-net.org, http://tancredo.house.gov/contacttom.asp

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DNC CHAIRMAN STATEMENT ON REP. TANCREDO'S EXTREMIST REMARKS - TOP
CO Congressman Suggests Bombing of Holy Muslim Sites

Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement regarding U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's (R-CO) refusal to apologize for comments suggesting that the United States should bomb Muslim holy sites, including Mecca.

"Tancredo's statements go against the very message America is trying to send to the world, that the war against terrorism is not a war on Islam.

Remarks threatening the destruction of holy sites akin to the Vatican or Jerusalem do nothing to win the hearts and minds of Muslims in the United States and abroad.

Congressman Tancredo certainly owes Muslims around the globe an immediate apology for his offensive remarks. At the same time, he also owes Americans an apology for projecting a message that goes against our values. With these remarks, Tancredo has been utterly careless with his responsibility for shaping our foreign policy. Tancredo's continued refusal to apologize poses a very real danger to our troops. President Bush should strongly condemn Tancredo's statement."

Contact: Karen Finney - 202-863-8148

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TANCREDO WON'T BACK DOWN - TOP
Mike Soraghan and Anne C. Mulkern, Denver Post, 07/19/2005
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_2869419

Washington - Rep. Tom Tancredo refused Monday to back down from his statement Friday suggesting that the United States might respond to a radical Islamic terrorist attack by bombing Muslim holy sites.

Muslim groups earlier Monday called on Tancredo to apologize and said they want to meet with the Colorado Republican.

"I'm not suggesting we do it. I have nothing to apologize for in that respect," Tancredo said. "I'm simply saying to have a good discussion on this issue, a thorough discussion on what is perhaps the most serious kind of possible situation we could face as a civilization, that you cannot simply take things off the table because they are uncomfortable to talk about."

Tancredo, a Littleton Republican, made the statement about bombing Muslim holy sites, including the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, on a Florida talk-radio show. (MORE)

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TANCREDO'S "OFF-CUFF" TALK OFF THE WALL - TOP
Diane Carman, Denver Post, 07/19/2005
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2869468

Colorado U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo was just talking "off-cuff." It was "an extremely hypothetical situation." Everybody knows he's the kind of guy who "thinks out loud."
I was positively dizzy from the spin.

It was as if press secretary Will Adams was channeling Scott McClellan.

"You're talking about bombing Mecca," the WFLA-AM talk-show host in Florida said to Tancredo on Friday. "Yeah," said the Littleton Republican, who's never been accused of sensitivity.

Adams tried to equivocate: There's a "widespread misconception about what he said. Congressman Tancredo is not advocating bombing Mecca or Medina or anybody's holy site."

Next up: a discussion of what the meaning of "yeah" is. (MORE)

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TURKISH OFFICIAL CONDEMNS TANCREDO'S REMARKS - TOP
Associated Press, 7/19/05
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3937678,00.html

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul today condemned comments by Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., that the United States could "take out" Islamic holy sites if there were a nuclear attack on America by Muslim fundamentalists.

Gul, whose nation is officially 99 percent Muslim, commented on the congressman's remarks at a news conference with Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

Gul said that he didn't think the people or the government of the United States shared Tancredo's view. "The United States has a Muslim population," the Anatolia news agency quoted him as saying. . .

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a U.S. group, demanded an apology. Spokesman Ibrahim Hooper called Tancredo's remarks irresponsible, inflammatory and "unworthy of an elected official."

"These kinds of comments just serve to fuel negative perceptions of the United States in the Muslim world that create a downward spiral of hostility," Hooper said. (MORE)

All emphases are mine, and they represent those representing reality, from Rep. Tancredo, and the rest come from assorted Leftist and Islamic sources, truly the opposite of representing reality. Absolutely all are revealing. For one thing, note that Hooper, representing CAIR, and that Turkish foreign minister made remarks reflecting just how fragile this enemy, Islam, really is, and so few seem to catch on. It creates the illusion of strength by trying to terrorize people out of thinking.

Were Muslims to adopt a live-and-let-lie policy toward all other peoples, regardless of whether these others have a religion, or not, this problem with Islam would disappear as soon as the policy was acted upon by Muslims. If Muslims want to carry out the practices of Islam WITHOUT THE INTOLERANCE AND VIOLENCE TOWARD NON-MUSLIMS, then so be it. Who in the hell would care? But, Muslims insist on getting into everyone's faces and having their 7th century CE thinking and acting taken seriously here in the 21st century CE. They are worse than pests. They are pest capable of killing as well as annoying.

We have a nation, nay, a world, filled with the epistemologically and ethically impaired. They have advanced cases of multiculturalism and "political correctness," instead of the reason and moral certainty which ought to fill their 21st century minds. The comments of Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi represent quite well this group of those so handicapped.

Muslim loudmouths, like Hooper of CAIR, reflect the same impairment, but, because of their buying into Islam, they have the Muslim variant of the disease. Hooper speaks to the reality-retarded within and outside Islam when he asks, "... if people really do believe we're in conflict with the faith of Islam, what does that mean?" Buttressing this vacuous question is the infamous statement by the infamous Howard Dean that Rep. Tancredo's remarks go against "the very message America is trying to send to the world, that the war against terrorism is not a war on Islam." Both Hooper and Dean do not want Americans to catch on to the simple fact that we are in a "war with Islam." All of the human ostriches have their heads placed not in sand, but in their nether regions so they can avoid dealing with reality.

NOW HERE ARE MY RECOMMENDATIONS:

1. Go to Representative Tom Tancredo's website (www.tancredo.org/) and blog ( http://tancredo.house.gov/) and start sending him daily emails IN SUPPORT of his incredible MORAL COURAGE. He is one of the few Americans in the House of Representatives. Very actively encourage and support this man.

2. Do the exact opposite of what CAIR asks its Muslim hand puppets to do. Using CAIR's actual recommendations but making appropriate changes (either bold and italicized or ...) :

ACTION REQUESTED: URGE REPUBLICANS TO SUPPORT
TANCREDO'S COMMENTS - TOP

Contact state and national Republican Party leaders to ask
(politely) that they fully publicly fully support
Tancredo's... remarks.

Mr. Bob Martinez State Chair, Colorado Republican PartyE-mail: BobMartinez@coloGOP.org Phone:
303-758-3333

Republican National CommitteeE-mail: info@gop.com Phone: 202.863.8500

President George W. BushE-mail: president@whitehouse.gov Phone:
202-456-1111

AND BY ALL MEANS FOLLOW THIS NEXT CAIR
RECOMMENDATION (entered without change)

COPY TO: cair@cair-net.org, http://tancredo.house.gov/contacttom.asp MAKE SURE BOTH GET YOUR EMAILS.

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I have been shocked at utter q'rap emerging from the Left, the Right, and from generally responsible anti-jihadic website contributors. The fact that there are so many people who think like CAIR on the Right, the Left, and amongst the anti-jihadists, bodes darkly for our immediate future in this war against Islam (yes, that is what it is, and all the b.s. in the world won't change one fact). Does it take another 9-11 or a series of them to get these ostriches to see daylight?

Don't be a DHIMMI. Support Tancredo!