No, Hypocrisy’s name is Richard Allen Smith
We’ve documented in several posts here on TAH how Richard Allen Smith (who is known here as “dicksmith”, because apparently he likes it) thinks that everything affects troops or veterans. That our current energy policy is killing the troops, how opposing the President’s healthcare plan will get the troops killed. That electing someone besides draft dodger Harry Reid to the Senate from Nevada will get the troops killed. How extracting information from our enemies is killing the troops.
Well, finally, dicksmith has found something that won’t kill the troops or veterans; Islamic extremism. In a post on VetsVoice, dicksmith, after a video clip of Jon Stewart performing a variety television skit in regards to Congressman Peter Kings hearings on “The Daily Show”, which plays on the COMEDY Channel, dicksmith writes;
Look, I’m all for investigating radicalization in America. But King’s hearings that singled out Muslims, when nearly twice as many terror plots since 9/11 have been from non-Muslims in America as from Muslim extremists, is blatant bigotry. Peter King should investigate ALL supporters of terrorism, but he won’t.
At the point which he writes “twice as many”, the smithy of dicks links this .pdf of a report from the Muslim Public Affairs Council which lists these terrorist groups which engage in terrorist activities more often than Muslims.
Yes, even Odinists have engaged in more terrorist attacks than Islamists according to MPAC.
In another post by Jon Soltz’ placeholder at VoteVets, Ashwin Madea actually accuses King and his hearings to be a threat to the troops. More so than Islamists, apparently;
Rep. King is doing our troops no favors, as he specifically targets Muslims, and only Muslims, in his hearings on domestic terrorism. A key part of the work of our troops abroad is winning the hearts and minds of the people in any country we operate, and as of right now, most of them are Muslims. When they hear that the American government considers Islam a threat, and is investigating American Muslims, it only bolsters the message of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups that we are in a war with Islam.
Even if you use MPAC’s numbers, Muslims are responsible for fully 1/3 of terrorist attacks in the US. Doesn’t that warrant some kind of inquiry?
When a group of Odinists, wrapped in cow hide, wearing bear boots steal my goats and kick my mud hut to the ground while demanding “What’s in your wallet?”, I’ll start my own investigation, thank you.
Category: Terror War
Gotta argue a few things with you, Jonn. “Yes, even Odinists have engaged in more terrorist attacks than Islamists according to MPAC.” First, can you explain this one to me? Looking at the “study” MPAC cited, I see “Islamic Jihadi Groups (62%)” well above “Odinists (35%)”. Second, I think you may also be misrepresenting the “study” in saying it “lists these terrorist groups which engage in terrorist activities more often than Muslims“. Upon reading over the “study” in question, I’d say MPAC’s characterization in the text you included in the image above is accurate, that the “study” is simply citing LEO opinions on what “extremist” groups b>exist in each state. It doesn’t say a thing about whether these groups actually do anything besides talk. Third, it would be worth noting the utter worthlessness of the “study” and the bias of its source, the University of Maryland’s START group. I keep using sneer quotes on “study” for reasons obvious in the link I gave. It’s a whopping three pages long and consists of unsupported opinions wrapped around the mostly-useless LEO opinion survey results. To quote from the “study”‘s “Project Background” section: “Joseph Simone, lead author on this brief and a graduating undergraduate senior at John Jay College, is a research assistant working on Freilich and Chermak’s START project. Simone was awarded two START undergraduate research fellowships to work with Freilich and Chermak to conduct the research discussed here. Freilich and Chermak’s project is creating the first of its kind national database on the perpetrators, victims, event, and group characteristics of all known crimes committed by supporters of the domestic far-right from 1990-2005.” The punk “author” got two research fellowships to do nothing but send out a survey to various state police agencies (he only got answers from 37 states, too) and produce this pile of crap “study”. As for the mentors, looking around the START web pages makes their goals pretty clear. For example, their crown jewel work, the “Database of US Extremist Crime (1990-2009)”, comes right out in the open: “This project involves (1) systematic collection of open-source data on… Read more »
Even if you take the worst case numbers (those most favorable to Islam from a PR standpoint) then you have 30% of terrorist attacks carried out by a group that comprises less than 1% of the population (7 million Muslims in America, according to CAIR).
Business focus on the 20% of their clients that generate 80% of their business.
Cops focus on the 30% of the population that accounts for 70% of drug related crimes.
60% of all shark attacks in the world are caused by less than 5% of the world’s species of sharks.
This is just commons sense.
Don’t bring common sense into this, Dave. However, I put this “study” in the same category as anything from SPLC or DHS, who has their own “studies” done by SPLC. In order for them to take heat off of the target, they water down the pool with groups by lowering the criteria used to constitute their definition. As TSO has shown, before, when SPLC put the New Black Panther Party in with right wing extremists, and counting every chapter of a single group or organization as a seperate entity in order to increase the count, in order to bolster the numbers to justify their narrative.
Yes, even Odinists have engaged in more terrorist attacks than Islamists according to MPAC.
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I always loved yelling “ODIN!” Now come to find out that I am part of the problem…