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Jawa Report Notes Geert Wilders' 'Fascist Tendencies'

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Charles5/01/2009 4:45:23 pm PDT

re: #441 stuiec

This is getting a little ridiculous. There may be a few mosques in the US that are preaching hatred and jihad (but if so, where?), but the bigger problem by far is the hysterical over-reaction epitomized by people like Pamela Geller, who literally see jihadists lurking in every single mosque.

My point is that there are already laws and agencies in place to deal with any real incitement. And as far as I can tell, they’ve been doing a damn good job of it. There’s been no repeat of 9/11, and all of the cases you’re citing were either lone wolves, or plots that never came close to being executed.

To jump from the situation we’re in now to “we’ve got to ban the Koran and make Islam illegal” is silly, self-defeating, unnecessary, and un-American. The people who are advocating this stuff are marginalizing themselves and making themselves look like kooks — because they are kooks.