Fox hosts want ’special screenings’ for Muslims in military

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Friday, November 6th, 2009 -- 11:11 am
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malikhasan Fox hosts want special screenings for Muslims in militaryIn the wake of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by a military psychiatrist of Middle Eastern lineage, the hosts at Fox News have begun suggesting that all Muslims in the military should be treated as potential threats.

"Do you think it's time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army officers -- anybody enlisted?" Fox's Brian Kilmeade asked Geraldo Rivera on Friday morning. "Because if I'm going to be deployed in a foxhole, if I'm going to be sticking in an outpost, I got to know the guy next to me is not going to want to kill me."

Rivera pivoted. "But isn't this the headline, Brian, that there are four or five million American Muslims and how scant and few and far between these horrifying incidents are?"

"I've been in Afghanistan with these guys," Rivera continued, "in Iraq with these guys. They are treasured for their bilingualism, their multiculturalism, the fact that they can bridge and understand and translate for us."

Fox's Gretchen Carlson, however, joined the bandwagon. "Our society has become very politically correct," she objected. "Could it be that the military was also exercising political correctness, even though he had a poor performance report and even though he spoke openly about being a radical Muslim and had those supposed postings online?"

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Fox News legal analyst Peter J. Johnson jumped in, asking Rivera, "You won't countenance special screening for Muslims will you?"

"It's a hard step for me to take," Rivera replied. "This is an American born person. This is not a naturalized citizen."

This video is from Fox News' Fox & Friends/em>, broadcast Nov. 6, 2009.



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  • gr0o
    Sure, and while we're at it lets screen for white supremicists, people with gang affiliations, and those with a history of abuse in their family. All of these pose more of a threat to their unit or base than the average soldier of Arabic or Middle Eastern descent.
  • kiboshki
    If they screened for all that, there wouldn't be much military left.
  • gr0o
    Well we'd still have the homosexua...oh, wait.
  • kiboshki
    No worries, though. That's why we pay Blackwater the big bucks!
  • schaf757
    Even if there were not that many left in the military, what ever happened to the concept of a quality fighting force vs. quantity? I say "screen them!" It has nothing to do with what the name or religion is, but motives for being in the military.
  • leekinny
    This happened in '94 at, Fairchild AFB, just to the west of Spokane, WA. 4 people were killed and twenty three were wounded. The mans name was, Dean Mellberg. He was an American airman, a citizen, and I assume must have had some religious, nationality and political identification. Perhaps, the reactionaries would like to go and investigate all those who may have a similar background, too.

    These things are always sad, always ugly, and without rational explanation.
  • leekinny
  • bandit
    So, how do they know if the enlistee Is a muslim? Because they're brown? Because they check a box? There are many white Muslim converts in the military, ya know...
    ... this sort of thing is nothing new, I'm sorry for the families, but things like this have happened throughout history and always will.
  • starvapor
    I knew within a nano-second after I heard the shooter's Muslim name, that FAUX News would ramp up their fear-wagon-wing-nut-loon-squad-clowns and jump this quicker than a fly on shit.
  • DH
    When we start screening anti-abortion Christians then we can start screening Muslims. Can't we all just agree that there are people who do despicable things, and some of those people identify themselves with a religion. I'm an atheist and I don't see everyone who happens to adhere to a religion as a potential terrorist, yet many despicable deeds have been carried out in the name of God.
  • schmice
    So, have the right wingers and FOX blamed Obama directly yet? I'm sure that by this weekend there is going to be a concerted effort to say that Obama is personally responsible because he is a (not so) secret Muslim and wants to bring down the Armed Forces and America itself..
  • jimbo701
    In fact YES!. A story just came out on World Net Daily that Husan was on Obamas transition team! Of course it turns out he was there but only sat in the audience and had ZERO input. That makes Obama guilty, right? right?
  • schmice
    Well, I'm sure they will gloss over the fact that he was just in the audience (maybe) but had ZERO input. The President will be pilloried regardless of the facts.
  • JPMP
    GUILTY, of course. Besides, they BOTH reside on the SAME planet. Isn't THAT enough proof for you !!
  • Mister X
    These Fux morons are f-ing crazy bastards. Each and every person associated with or watches Fux should have a giant "L" tattooed on their foreheads.
  • gustafus
    Hey, If Muslims are profiled for violence -- I think Jews should be profiled for Greed!

    Same logic.

    We want the chosen judged as individuals - even as they tell us Muslims are coming to get us all - in our beds -- after they murder and dismember our kids.

    The double standards are horrific.

    When Bernie Madoff ripped off billions.... along with Goldman Sachs... did cable examine the ethnic propensity of Jews to cheat, lie and steal?

    Did anybody even identify the Columbine Killer as a Jew? Did anybody recommend screening for Jewish youth because of the event?

    Of course not... had any of the news media tied Jewishness to Columbine... they would have been banned from the industry.

    I've decided if we profile Muslims for violence.... Jews must be profiled for theft and GREED.
  • plonialmoni
    Hey, gustafus, you must really hate Jews.

    Is gustafus a German name?

    For what it's worth, neither of the Columbine killers were Jewish, but don't let the facts get in the way of your hatred!
  • tjfxh
    Fascists.
  • Watching the "news" yesterday was sickening. They jumped to "was it a terrorist, radicalized soldier maybe?" in about 10 seconds. I turned it off and hoped they would get some real facts to report; I'm not too encouraged though and the TV's still off.
  • edwards_com
    Keep it off & get some exercise, read a book, help someone, whatever ....you are wiser for it.
  • edwards_com
    I fear Christian Evangelical Reprblicans more than Muslims.
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