Apologist

Hmm.

Uhm.

Can I just say one thing?

I'm sort of over the apologist nature of responses to the King hearings.

I'm seeing non-Muslims bust out with the Truth, saying "Uhm, if you're investigating terror, why not investigate ALL the terrorist groups in the country-- not just the Muslim ones?"

But the response I'm getting from Muslims?

"Well, the hearings aren't perfect.... but it is our job to watch out for radicalism."
"Well, they'd be okay if it weren't just anecdotal evidence."
"Well, they'd be alright if it wasn't that guy running them."
"Well, if I had testified, they'd be okay."


Uhm. No.

I have a longer post brewing about justice and not being any one else's keeper (as spoken in the Qur'an) but this entire "If we protest too loudly they might not like us either" response? Nuh uh.

Yes. Ideally, if the "hearings" were conducted with actual data-- there wouldn't be a hearing. You'd know that 85% of potential threats involving Muslims were reported by other Muslims. You'd know that most of the amping up of terrorism in the US in the last 10 years wasn't by Muslims but by other American based anti-American groups.

But acting like a hearing is okay? Acting as though such a hearing is a reasonable response to the Muslim community?

F'real? Ya'll need to get off that stuff.