Monday, November 14, 2011
Hicks From the Sticks Rep. Womick: 'I Don't Trust One Muslim in Our Military.'
Posted by Jonathan Meador on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Carrying the great American tradition of baseless xenophobia to new lows is Tennessee state Rep. Rick Womick, who had these kind words for Think Progress at Friday's "Preserving Freedom Conference" — on Veterans' Day, no less:
Personally, I don't trust one Muslim in our military, because they're commanded to lie to us through the term called taqiyya. And if they truly are a devout Muslim and follow the Koran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they're commanded to kill me.
Womick is far from the first person to advocate purging Muslims from the U.S. military: Two years ago, the American Family Association's "Director of Issue Analysis" Bryan Fischer capitalized on the tragic shooting at Fort Hood to proclaim:
[T]he more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security. Devout Muslims, who accept the teachings of the Prophet as divinely inspired, believe it is their duty to kill infidels. Yesterday's massacre is living proof. And yesterday's incident is not the first fragging incident involving a Muslim taking out his fellow U.S. soldiers.
Most recently, GOP Presidential candidate (and allegeged serial harasser) Herman "9-9-9" Cain has warned that Islamic law will eventually corrupt our judicial system, and he invites you to call him crazy for it.
While Tennessee is certainly no stranger to uneducated and politically motivated attacks on Muslims by fundamentalist Christians, Womick's comments most certainly put him in the running for a big fat Boner Award all his own.
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1.2 to 1.57 billion Muslims all trying to kill us. Really. Muhammad Ali...is trying to kill us. You have to ignore a world of evidence to conclude that all Muslims are radical. Sadly, that's all to easy for the FOX News crowd who strive to be deluded.
I suggest this twerp find a Muslim soldier in our armed forces (that shouldn't be hard to do) and tell hi/her this garbage to his/her face. This is the same type of bigotry that was used against Japanese-Americans in WWII, and we now acknowledge it was a huge mistake and waste of resources to round them up and incarcerate them, especially given that many of them served in our armed forces, with distinction. Ever heard of the 442 Regimental Combat Team? Most decorated unit of the war. More bigotry from right wingers.
I think he is just trying to use the truth of islam as a basis for his decision. I think this video sums up how he could come to such a decision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3jkn0b6BQ…
Which part of Womick's statement is untrue? I'm not asking what you think of his opinion but about which part is factually untrue?
Ignorant (and/or evil) people used to spew incendiary crap about the Jews, too. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I've posted this link elsewhere, but I believe it is important. This is Major Nidal Hasan's powerpoint presentation on why Muslims in the military would have problems fighting in Muslim countries. His point was that they would be under severe psychological strain and he gave several examples - a soldier attacking his own unit (while they slept), espionage, desertion and so forth. Obviously no one took his presentation seriously.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…
