NY Rep. (and Guiliani adviser) Peter King: Too Many Mosques in America

[marmar]

And too many assholes in the Republican Party. :argh:



from AP, via HuffPost:



Giuliani Adviser Criticized for Remark

DEVLIN BARRETT | September 20, 2007 06:32 PM EST |



WASHINGTON — A homeland security adviser to Rudy Giuliani came under fire Thursday for claiming there were "too many mosques" in the United States _ and defended himself by saying his point was that not enough Muslim leaders cooperate with law enforcement.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and the top GOP member on the panel, said his comments to the Politico Web site were taken out of context. Democrats said Giuliani should drop him as a campaign adviser.

"I stand by everything I said other than the fact that the Politico totally took it out of context," King said Thursday.

In the Politico interview, King said: "Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully, we should be finding out how we can infiltrate, we should be much more aggressive in law enforcement."

After King complained, Politico posted video of the entire interview.

Giuliani, speaking to reporters Thursday in Northern Virginia, chuckled at the suggestion he dump King as an adviser.

"I've known Pete for 41 years, so I'm not about to do that," Giuliani said. "I know exactly what Pete meant. I knew before I even heard the clarification. What he means was that there are mosques in which violence is preached. I know that from my own investigations of Islamic terrorism. I also know that there are many mosques in which it isn't."

As for any political fallout, King told The Associated Press: "Rudy can take care of himself. He's a tough guy, but I would think that campaigns would respect someone like myself who says things that might be politically incorrect but are accurate in that too many Muslim leaders in this country do not denounce extremism." ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070920/giuliani-adviser-mosques/

[spanone]

1. king is a bat-shit crazy wing-nut.....

[ccpup]

2. I trust that ghouliani

will also help Law Enforcement take care of those many Christian churches where violence is preached as well?

Hey, was that a tumbleweed that just rolled by?