Why not ask Muslim Americans?

Here’s one way the Bush administration can improve security at home and be more effective in Iraq — work to engage the Muslim American mainstream.
Major U.S. Muslim groups complain that the administration hasn’t done enough to involve them in anti-terrorist work. They’re willing. They just haven’t been asked in a significant way by top leaders.
Former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark recently offered a good idea : President Bush should call for 10,000 Muslim Americans to help counter jihadist threats at home and serve as much-needed interpreters in Iraq. What do we have to lose, except a war?
Posted by Randy Scholfield

7 Comments

  1. dan newland
    Posted September 2, 2005 at 8:01 am | Permalink

    Your asking this from an administration who kicked arabic speaking people out of the military and state department just because they were gay? You people just don’t get it yet. Cheny runs this country via Bush and gathers his political support from moral value scare tactics. You don’t tell the chairman of the board how to run his company – he tells you!

  2. Anon
    Posted September 2, 2005 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

    It’s a great idea but it won’t happen. Have the neocons in power (I think) feel that if you’re arab then you must be part of a sleeper cell or some sort of spy. They also won’t ask for help because “everything is on track.”

    By God we’ve stopped the gays from getting married, started to pack the Supreme Court with ultra right wingers, but we won’t get help with this “war” because if we just say things are fine enough – people might beleive us.

  3. Kevin Allen
    Posted September 2, 2005 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

    This is a bad idea. First of all, all Muslums are aware of their need for a “jehad”. This is the only way that they believe that they will get to heaven. They must have at least 51% of their deeds deamed good when they die to get to heaven, or they can kill themselves while taking out an “infidel”. This act insures them of their sins being forgiven and getting a pass into heaven. Why is it that “we” don’t understand this. The attacks on Sept. 11 was not carried out by a small group of radical muslums. Over 85% of those called muslum live by these very ideas. The real question you must ask is just who are the infidels? I’ll give you a hint, if you live in America and are not a muslum you are.

  4. Tara C
    Posted September 3, 2005 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Kevin, I almost didn’t want to justify your ignorant post with a response, but here it is…Where, exactly, do you get your statistic of 85% of Muslims living the same ideals as the Saudi Arabian 9/11 terrorists? Because it sounds to me that you just pulled a number out of your ass.

  5. Ian Santiago
    Posted September 3, 2005 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    Muslims can not be trusted, the best thing they can do for America is to leave and return to their mid-east pestholes! This is a Nation founded of,by and FOR European Christians!

  6. Sudden Sense
    Posted September 4, 2005 at 3:13 am | Permalink

    Actually it’s Cheney’s gay brother-in-law who runs the country. He had sado-masochistic sex with his domineering sister up until she married Cheney; and now she rules the roost, except her brother still puts fear in her heart; so Cheney listens, by golly.

    And the married Arab gays are still holding all the power in Washington, which is why Cheney never goes there.

    While TaraC was naval-gazing, the entire gay, Wahabi sect was out raping 9-year-olds for fun. Good Kharma or whatever. 80%, 85%, who cares? One well-placed muslim looney and we’re all dead.

    Letting muslims “help” us in the war on terror is like asking inmates to help run the prison, like asking drug addicts to guard pharmacies, like … well, you get the idea.

    Muslims shouldn’t need to be asked to help eliminate terrorists in their midst, for crying out loud. If they had any integrity, they’d do it without our having to make a federal case of it. Anyway, it’s like asking politicians to act on principal instead of pandering for votes. Never happens.

    Actually, it’s worse than that. Muslims are afraid of the radical elements that they harbor, much too afraid to expose them. It’s pernicious. Expect a big bomb. Not necessarily soon, it’s not the Arab way.

  7. Damoon
    Posted September 6, 2005 at 9:39 pm | Permalink

    The one thing I agree with is that there will be another attack. Not soon, but we haven’t seen the last of the terrorism in this country. The idea that we’re fighting them “over there” so we don’t have to fight them here is really simplistic and naive.