Good For Goode!
Here’s the link, but rather than expect this to last much longer on the Internet, here also is the full article:
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 20, 2006
“U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. will not apologize to upset Islamic groups for a letter he wrote that decries the migration of Muslims to America, his press aide said today.
“He stands by the letter,” said Linwood Duncan, aide to the 5th District Republican.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) demanded an apology for the letter, which Goode, of Rocky Mount, sent to hundreds of constituents and which the council labeled Islamophobic.
“We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country,” Goode wrote. “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.”
Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, condemned the letter. “Representative Goode’s Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office,” Saylor said. “There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry.”
Duncan said Goode wrote the letter earlier this month in response to hundreds of e-mails he had received from constituents concerned about Muslim Rep.-elect Keith Ellison’s decision to use the Koran in his swearing-in ceremony. After one of the letters miscarried, its contents have been plastered online across the blogosphere.
“I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way,” Goode wrote in the letter’s opening paragraph. “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.”"
That’s one. Now all we need is for all the rest of Congress to take the same stand. It may never happen but this is a start. This man is no bigot, he’s a realist who wants our laws enforced and our integrity protected. CAIR, of course, will use any language to attack those who are trying to fend off any further Islamic invasion. Fortunately, our government recognizes CAIR as having strong terrorist connections and gives them no credence. Now if they’d just arrest and deport them…
December 21st, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Yes real balls at last no more appeasers.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:04 pm
I have a link to this article on my site also. This guy will be deemed the extremist and take a beating for it. We need more of him.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Keith Ellison Is A Disgrace…
Normally one would think that if you were a Congressman elected by the people of a certain state, in this case Minnesota, that you would do what is in the best interest of that state and the people who elected you in the first place and not put your …..
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:27 pm
CAIR is really pulling out all the stops:
“We are deeply troubled by the failure of state and national GOP leaders to clearly distance themselves from Representative Goode’s intolerant remarks,” said CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor. He said Republican leaders in Virginia should have learned a lesson in tolerance from the controversy over Senator George Allen’s “macaca” episode.
Saylor said incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Goode’s remarks “offensive.” New Jersey Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. yesterday urged Goode to reach out to Muslims in Virginia and “to dispel misconceptions instead of promoting them.”
In a statement issued today, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) said: “The seven million Muslim-Americans living in the U.S. are an integral part of American society. Our country is a melting pot of different cultures and beliefs. This diversity is a strength, not a weakness. . .Bringing more Muslim-Americans into the political process is a goal, not something to be avoided.”
No similar statements have come from GOP leaders. CAIR has offered to arrange a meeting between Goode and Virginia Muslims.