(Goode being the Repug U.S. House Rep from Virginia who attacked Dem Rep Keith Ellison of Minnesota because he is a Muslim.)So, our Homeland Security Secretary tells us that European Muslims could be the next group to attack this country because they’re treated like “second-class citizens” in Europe?
Apparently, Mike (“City Of Louisiana”) Chertoff didn’t get the memo; the whole “fear and smear” thing is sooo pre-November 2006, if you know what I mean.
Having not lived in Europe, I can’t address the issue of how Muslims are treated in those countries, but wouldn’t it stand to reason then that if they felt oppressed to the point where they would carry out more and more acts of violence, they would do so in Europe since they’re getting oppressed not here, but there?
Nothing like singling out a particular group of people for some “off the cuff” xenophobia, is there? And I have a feeling African Americans would take particular offense to Chertoff’s assumption that all people that “came in as a colonial legacy” would automatically be predisposed to acts of violence.
Also, I found this quote from Chertoff to be somewhat amusing…
"Our Muslim population is better educated and economically better off than the average American," Chertoff told the paper.Sometimes Chertoff’s remarks are so absurd as to defy any intelligent analysis, and I think this is one of those times.
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