_Huffington Post_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/mike-pompeo-islamic-leaders_n_3427494.html?ut m_hp_ref=politics) : Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) said Islamic leaders in America are "_potentially complicit_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-mike-pompeo-us-islamic-leaders-are-p otentially-complicit-in-terrorist-acts/) " in terrorist acts when they don't speak out against them. Pompeo -- who cited the _Fort Hood shooting_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/nidal-hassan-fort- hood_n_3420415.html) and the _foiled Times Square bomb plot_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/t imes-square-bomb-scare_n_856248.html?utm_hp_ref=times-square-bomb) , among other incidents -- made the remarks in a speech on the House floor Tuesday. "Instead of responding, silence has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in these acts, and more importantly still, in those that may well follow," Pompeo _said_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-mike-pompeo-us-islamic-leaders -are-potentially-complicit-in-terrorist-acts/) . "Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period." Pompeo isn't the first lawmaker to make statements condemning the Muslim community on terrorism. Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) _tweeted that Muslims "honor killings_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/allen-west-muslims_n_3422471.html) , beheadings, suicide bombings" on Monday while condemning a _column written by comedian Bill Cosby_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4603896/www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bill_cosby_plague_called_apathy_tbvG iDoQUJe3g9eav1R5wK/2) . Cosby's comments : I’m a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them. They make sense, especially with their children. There is no other group like the Black Muslims, who put so much effort into teaching children the right things, they don’t smoke, they don’ t drink or overindulge in alcohol, they protect their women, they command respect. And what do these other people do? They complain about them, they criticize them. We’d be a better world if we emulated them. We don’t have to become black Muslims, but we can embrace the things that work. ----------------------- Unsaid in all of this is so much that it is very difficult to know where to begin. Suffice it to say that there are other things that Muslims teach their children, at least they do if they literate in the Koran. Such as anti-Semitic values, such as regarding Christians as inferiors, such as regarding women as having half the value of men, and on and on and on. Including regarding slavery as sanctioned by God. BR
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