Rep. Tancredo: Threaten Muslim Holy Sites to Deter Terror

[Daniel]

Rep. Tancredo: Threaten Muslim Holy Sites to Deter Terror

Before he became a candidate for president, Tom Tancredo was telling Americans that the U.S. should threaten to bomb Mecca if Islamic terrorists successfully detonate a nuclear device in America.

In July of 2005, he said on Fox News, "If this [terror attack] happens, and if, in fact, we can prove that it was perpetrated by some fundamentalist Islamic - 'Islamo-fascist' is really I think what we should call them - then you might think about this as a threat, the retaliation on their holy sites.

"We are talking about a situation where our very lives are at stake, not just the life of the United States, but of Western civilization," he insisted.

A week later, Tancredo told WFLA Florida radio host Pat Campbell:

"You know, there are things that you could threaten to do before [a terror attack] happens ..."

The Colorado Republican then explained: "What if you said something like: If this happens in the United States and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims - you know, you could take out their holy sites."

Asked if he was talking about bombing Mecca, Tancredo replied: "Yeah."

And the congressman and presidential candidate is not backing down from these comments. He told an audience in Iowa today, almost exactly two years later, that as president he would advocate the very same position.

"If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina," the GOP presidential candidate said, according to IowaPolitics.com. "That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do.

"If I am wrong fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent or you will find an attack. There is no other way around it. There have to be negative consequences for the actions they take. That's the most negative I can think of."

He further warned: "The president and this country better figure out exactly what it can do to deter, I underline deter, the next attack.

"Deter, not just respond, deter, or else I assure you we are going to suffer. The extent of which of course I do not know. I know what they are planning and I know what they want. I do not know if they are going to be capable of doing this tomorrow, the next day or a month from now. I know right now at this moment there is nothing that deters them."

Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...821.shtml?s=ic

[Abu Jalfrezi]

What a plod...

Does Allah swt not promise protection of the holy sites? The Dajjal will not be able to enter those places.

[MosDef]

and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims

Maybe they could find another runaway sim card somewhere...

[Daniel]

Tom Tancredo is a fascist creep who is well known for his extreme xenophobia. If the people of Colorado had any honor they'd send this thug into the dustbin of history.

[Daniel]

Tancredo Again Calls for Bombing Mecca, Medina

Kurt Nimmo

After presidential selectee hopeful and neocon psychopath Tom Tancredo once again suggested bombing Mecca and Medina as "the best way he can think of to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on the US," according to the International News, a Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group declared his threat "unworthy of anyone seeking public office in the United States." In fact, as a psychopath, Tancredo has the required skillset for office, although as a one percenter at the bottom of the potential selectee heap he won’t be taking up residency at the White House.

"If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina," Tancredo said at a Family Table restaurant in Osceola, Iowa. "Because that’s the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they otherwise might do," the Denver Post reports.

Tancredo would have us believe "al-Qaeda," the database, has nukes and is itching to use them, and thus we should be ready to bomb and destroy religious sites and kill thousands of people, all of them quite innocent of any crime against Tancredo or the United States. Of course, "al-Qaeda," the legend of scary campfire stories, does not have nukes and will not pull off a terrorist attack, nuclear or otherwise, unless it is politically advantageous for the neocons.

If we are to use Tancredo’s deranged logic, the Iraqis have the right to bomb Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, as the United States in essence has nuked Iraq. According to the World Uranium Weapons Conference held in Hamburg in October 2003, the "amount of DU used in Iraq in 2003 is equivalent to nearly 250,000 Nagasaki bombs," as Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, former Chief of the Naval Staff, India, explained in 2004. As well, the people of Kosovo and Afghanistan have a right to indiscriminately slaughter Americans, following Tancredo’s murderous logic. "A British scientist says the Americans’ use of depleted uranium weapons in the war with Serbia is likely to cause 10,000 extra deaths from cancer," the BBC reported in 1999, after Clinton attacked the former Yugoslavia. "Bulgarian researchers reported finding levels eight times higher than usual within Bulgaria itself, and up to 30 times higher in Yugoslavia."

Leuren Moret, a former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist, writes:

Extensive carpet bombing, grid bombing, and the frequent use of missiles and depleted uranium bullets on buildings in densely populated areas has occurred in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The discovery that bomb craters in Yugoslavia in 1999 were radioactive, and that an unexploded missile in 1999 contained a depleted uranium warhead, implies that the total amount of depleted uranium used since 1991 has been greatly underestimated. Of even greater concern, is that 100 per cent of the depleted uranium in bombs and missiles is aerosolized upon impact and immediately released into the atmosphere. This amount can be as much as 1.5 tons in the large bombs. In bullets and cannon shells, the amount aerosolized is 40-70 per cent, leaving pieces and unexploded shells in the environment, to provide new sources of radioactive dust and contamination of the groundwater from dissolved depleted uranium metal long after the battles are over, as reported in a 2003 report by the UN Environmental Program on Yugoslavia. Considering that the US has admitted using 34 tons of depleted uranium from bullets and cannon shells in Yugoslavia, and the fact that 35,000 NATO bombing missions occurred there in 1999, potentially the amount of depleted uranium contaminating Yugoslavia and transboundary drift into surrounding countries is staggering.

In short, millions of people, poisoned by the cancerous "transboundary drift" of DU, have the right to attack the 6th Congressional District of Colorado, where Tancredo "serves" as a neocon in the United States House of Corporate Whores, er Representatives.

Of course, Tancredo’s hate speech delivered at a Family Table restaurant in Osceola, Iowa, is part and parcel of the ongoing "clash of civilizations" agenda, although, as usual, Democrats and libs are clueless. "We. Are Not. At War. With Islam," writes Bruce Feiler, New York Times-bestselling author, over at the Huffington Post. "Even George Bush has repeatedly stressed this distinction in our struggle with Islamic extremists. So here’s a challenge: How about every Republican candidate for president get asked in the coming days whether he agrees with Tom Tancredo: Should we consider bombing Muslim holy sites in response to an Islamic terrorist’s attack against us?"

Au contraire, Sparky. We. Are. At. War. With Islam, or rather the neocons are at "war" with Islam, although "war" is hardly a sufficient noun, as it is defined as a "state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties," according to the American Heritage Dictionary. Islam and Islamic nations are not at war with Tancredo and his troupe of neocon psychopaths, although the neocons are at "war" with Islam, or more accurately the neocons are killing large numbers of Muslims, either directly in Iraq or elsewhere by proxy, and this is more akin to shooting fish in a barrel than a conventional war.

Libs need to get with it if we are going to stop this homicidal madness. Our "struggle" is not with "Islamic extremists," in large created and unleashed by the CIA, ISI, and a potpourri of associated intelligence agencies and black ops, but rather with our psychotic rulers and their hired guns, determined to make way for a global slave plantation.

In the meantime, as the "election," or decidership selection process dog and pony show, approaches, we can expect more such bloodthirsty proclamations, especially now that Barack Obama has offered himself up as rhetorical springboard, declaring Pakistan must be invaded, that is short of nuking captive populations. The Bilderberger Queen Clinton, on the other hand, has not refused "to rule out the use of nuclear weapons against Osama bin Laden or other terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan," according to the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post. Naturally, all of this is considered normal political discourse, hardly worth excoriation by the corporate media, never mind the flat-out criminal insanity of such a proposal, not long ago considered inconceivable but now a mainstream response to manufactured problems.

Source: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=35050

[Daniel]

'Nobody can strike the Kabba in Mecca'

Associated Press

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi official has condemned a radical US Republican presidential candidate's recent comment that the best way to deter a nuclear terrorist attack on America would be to threaten to retaliate by bombing the Islamic holy sites, Mecca and Medina.

Abdul-Mohsen Al-Sheik, head of Mecca's municipal council, said he was disappointed that the Republican Party did not issue an apology for
Representative Tom Tancredo's remarks.

"Neither ... Tancredo nor anyone else can strike the Kaaba in Mecca," Al-Sheik said in a statement released late Monday. The Kaaba is a cube-shaped stone structure draped in black cloth that Muslims around the world face during daily prayers. Muslims believe Abraham built it.

"If this candidate had a minimum knowledge of history, then this site would be holy for him before it being holy for Muslims because no adherent to heavenly religions doesn't know Abraham and (his son) Ishmael," he added.

Earlier this month, Tancredo told about 30 people at a town hall meeting in the state of Iowa that he believes a nuclear terrorist attack on the US could be imminent and that the US needs to hurry up and think of a way to stop it.

"If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina. Because that's the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they otherwise might do," said the Colorado Republican, whose bid for the White House is considered unlikely to succeed.

Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, are Islam's holiest cities. All able-bodied Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage there at least once in their lives. Islam is the only religion that can be practiced in the kingdom.

The US State Department has distanced itself from Tancredo's comments.

"It is absolutely outrageous and reprehensible for anyone to suggest attacks on holy sites, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Jewish or those of any other religion," deputy spokesman Tom Casey told reporters.

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

[al-omari]

Tom Tancredo is a fascist creep who is well known for his extreme xenophobia. If the people of Colorado had any honor they'd send this thug into the dustbin of history.

This clown is a huge ignoramus who is trying to appeal to the redneck vote with his "bomb Mecca" rantings. He is also one of the leaders of the Minutemen crowd.

http://www.tomtancredo.org/

http://tancredowatch.blogspot.com/