Rep. Virgil Goode and Islamophobia.

Over at Newsmax, there's a story circulating about Republican Rep. Virgil Goode and a letter that he sent to some of his constituency about Islam and Immigration.
excerpt:

In the letter, Goode wrote, "The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."

Goode said the U.S. needs to stop illegal immigration "totally" and reduce legal immigration.

Goode added: "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."

Of course this drew some attention from the people at CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations) again, I'll quote the story:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Goode to apologize.

"Representative Goode's Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office," CAIR's national legislative director, Corey Saylor, said Tuesday night. "There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry."

Bigotry? Intolerance? Listen, Corey Saylor of CAIR...people around these parts (being the Earth)have reason to be "Islamophobic". Kind of like being "Serial Killer-phobic". Sure, there are plenty of good muslim people in the world...Just like there are plenty of good bears in the woods. It just so happens that the only bears you ever hear about are those who like to kill people.
How about the fine people at CAIR denounce the muslim sects and organizations which carry out some of the most horrendous acts of violence against mankind ever seen on the planet, and help come up with a pro-active manner in which to deal with them, then we'll talk of tolerance.

By the way, as far as solutions to terrorism go, I hear Machiavelli had some good plans.

M. Sheldon