Gallagher defends calls for "Muslims Only" line

[BurtWorm]

confusing Arabs and Muslims. :eyes:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/18/thinkfast-august-18-2006/

Conservative talk radio host Mike Gallagher defends his call for a “Muslims Only” line at security checkpoints in our airports. “We allow pilots and flight attendants to go to the head of the lines in order to make their flights on time. Let’s extend that same convenience to Muslim passengers. After all, percentage-wise, there are fewer Arabs flying than non-Arabs, right? So it stands to reason that a Muslim-only security line would go quickly, even with highly concentrated security efforts.”

<Gallagher's ranting can be read in full here. Here's a cherce nugget:>

"We should learn a valuable lesson from El Al. Israel isn’t concerned about stepping on toes or ticking off ACLU types. Israel knows that to conquer terrorists, they have to be tough. Racial profiling is a tough tactic that can effectively keep another 9/11 from happening again.

I was furious while reading an editorial written in the Orlando Sentinel by an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. Steven Alvarez writes that it is a little known fact that the TSA aggressively and consistently gives American soldiers walking through America’s airports in full military uniform additional security screenings, forcing our brave fighting men and women to “assume the position” and be subjected to body scans, bag checks, and lengthy delays.

So while TSA screeners are profiling military-clad military personnel and forcing little old ladies to take off their orthopaedic shoes and put them through the x-ray machines (a process that Homeland Security confirmed does NOT detect plastic explosives), they are afraid to target young Arabs who are waiting to get onto a flight.

Something is very wrong with this picture."

[Dogmudgeon]

1. I thought he only bashed watermelons

How the mighty have fallen!

--p!

[arwalden]

20. Oh, You!!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. "Isreal knows how to conquer terrorists?"

Funny, I would have thought the hundreds (thousands?) of bombs which go off there all the time would make that line a laugh.

[baldguy]

3. Isreal knows how to conquer terrorists

They've been doing it for 50 years.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. They have conquered, ummm, how many?

I don't want to fight with you, or this will go to the I/P hole... but seriously, conquer?

They have conquered none. They endure a lot.

[baldguy]

7. Sorry

Maybe I should have included the :sarcasm: tag.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. No, my bad... I misread

I am sorry

[burythehatchet]

8. I believe he was being sarcastic

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. conquering terrorists...

by electing them prime ministers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

[Bassic]

15. Try hundreds of thousands. nt

[CottonBear]

4. Does the idiot realize that not all Muslims are Arabs?

Iranians are not Arabs. Bosnian Muslims (and I know one who lives in the US now) are not Arabs. People from Malaysia are not Arabs. Black American Muslims are not Arabs.

In any case, all one has to do is say one isn't Muslim when questioned.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. and not all Arabs are Muslims either

[MoseyWalker]

11. and not all radio talk show hosts are

neo nazis, though it seems that way.

[CottonBear]

14. That is true too!

However, those sort of facts would confuse this guy's target audience. :(

[Skittles]

10. oh come on, CottonBear

he is a f***ing CONSERVATIVE - ignorance is innate

[CottonBear]

13. I'm glad this cretin is not on the airwaves in my area.

I think Neal Boortz is awful but this Gallahger guy is a mean sprited moran. :grr:

I never cease to be shocked at the ignorance and meaness of so many of my fellow Americans. :(

[MrCoffee]

12. Convenience...that's his defense?

what's the word I'm looking for...oh yeah. PATHETIC.

[mikeytherat]

21. Not just pathetic - pathetic racist

50 years ago, this assclown would have claimed that, "Separate drinking fountains just means that everyone gets to drink quicker!"

mikey_the_rat

[KingFlorez]

17. How could you tell?

Some muslims are black, some are white and some are asian, not all are Arab and not all have surnames that would indicate they are Muslim.

[VOX]

18. Profiling on the basis of religion? Sounds like the terrorists *have* won!

I mean, if "they hate us for our freedom," is our government supposed to take away our freedom?

That is so not the Land of the Free. :grr:

[warrens]

19. Soldiers get attention because it's easy to impersonate them

What at stupid moron. The uniform is a clear problem, because you can buy one at any army/navy store, get a few ribbons and shit, and quickly impersonate a soldier.