Laments that Terrorist Jidhadis are ....Muslim

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Wednesday May 05, 2010 @ 09:26 AM EDT
= MSNBC's Contessa Brewer 'Frustrated' That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim
MSNBC host Contessa Brewer appeared on the liberal Stephanie Miller radio show on Tuesday and lamented the fact that the person arrested for the attempted Times Square bombing is a Pakistani American. She complained, "I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country."...
On Hardball: Worried Next Terror Attack Could Strengthen Tea Party Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, brought on two former CIA officials to discuss the latest terror attack, and the MSNBC host agreed with Tyler Drumheller that the most recent attacker was motivated by his house being foreclosed on and also agreed with Robert Baer who feared another attack could lead to "the Tea Party being strengthened," which could lead to "people blaming the White House for a situation it didn't create." Baer also hit Matthews' sweet spot of talking points when he went on to warn that the last successful terror attack "got us into a war in Iraq we didn't need to be in." ****A much more recent "successful terror attack" was Muslim Maj Hasan Nidal at Ft Hood. But then these idiots have selective memories. On the ultra-liberal Bill Maher show this week, Matthews professed not to know that Ted Kennedy had done anything wrong at Chappaquiddick prompting even Bill to think Chris had a screw loose.(Chris who gets a "thrill up his leg" when Obama speaks.)****
MSNBC's Ratigan Worries About 'Racism' Toward Muslims After NYC Bomb Attempt Near the top of Tuesday's Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan fretted over American Muslims being harassed in the wake of the failed Times Square bombing: "how do you deal with these types of crimes without resulting in racism, effectively, towards people of Pakistani or Middle Eastern descent?...is there not a natural backlash to this?"
Misleading NYT Poll Doesn't Stop People from Favoring AZ Immigration Law The New York Times initially spun a 60%-36% pro-enforcement gap as a "slim margin." And the law doesn't give "police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally,” as the misleading poll question claims, but requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.”
Lib Reporters Reminisce About Kent State on Chris Matthews Show
Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, and over the weekend Chris Matthews and his liberal cronies, on his syndicated The Chris Matthews Show, previewed the event as they reminisced about where they were at the time. Their memories reflect how anti-war they were back then and how that moment shaped them into the libs they are today as Matthews revealed the likes of his guests, like Newsweek's Howard Fineman and CNN's Gloria Borger, as students, were "editorializing against the war." ****Ah, the good old days when there were "stimulating" atrocities! Nowadays, atrocities seem to play to the wrong tune.( Perhaps the near-century-old "backlash" against the much-maligned Nazis should be revisited and reversed.) Just as it must be realized that "even paranoids sometimes have real enemies", so too is much "profiling" merely elementary PATTERN RECOGNITION.****//
We May Have a Clue from Jas Taranto
Although a suspect, Faisal Shahzad, is in custody in Saturday's attempted car bombing in midtown Manhattan, the Associated Press reports the case is still shrouded in mystery: "Authorities said they had shed little light on what might have motivated him."
Hmm, this is a head-scratcher all right. One possible clue appears in another AP dispatch: Shahzad's behavior sometimes seemed odd to his neighbors, and he surprised a real estate broker he hardly knew with his outspokenness about President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
"He mentioned that he didn't like Bush policies in Iraq," said Igor Djuric, who represented Shahzad in 2004 when he was buying a home.
Djuric said he couldn't remember the exact words Shahzad used about Bush but "something to the effect of he doesn't know what he's doing and it's the wrong thing that he's doing." "I don't know if he mentioned 9/11," Djuric said, "but something like that, Iraq has nothing to do with anything."//
As we noted Monday, President Obama warned just hours before the bomb attempt that, as yet another AP dispatch put it, "partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democracy, and may incite 'extreme elements' to violence."
It may be Shahzad was influenced by partisan rants such as Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" or a speech on Iraq by a certain Illinois state senator:
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income--to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.
That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
The AP also notes that investigators say Shahzad "traveled to the lawless Waziristan region" of his native Pakistan, where he "learned bomb making at a terrorist training camp." It has been our observation that there is at least a correlation between terrorism emanating from that part of the world and extreme religious views. The authorities may want to look into the possibility of some sort of theological motivation.****C'mon, the Obamaian sayings and policies are becoming absurd in their frantic effort to ignore the correlation of Radical Jihad/ Radical Islam/ Islam with terror attacks on Western Civilization. ****