CONGRESSMAN PETER KING: WHAT DID YOU DO TO DESERVE THIS?

…DIDN’T YOU KNOW WHO WERE THE SLA, KKK AND JONESTOWN WERE?

By Mansor Puteh

American Congressman Peter King is both good and bad for America and the Arabs and Muslims in the country and all over the world.

He is definitely not the man of the times, but certainly the man of the second – especially with his second-hand concerns, those which many even in America thought had been dealt with, unless if he thinks America and its allies (or lackeys) had not learnt much yet from 911 and Afghanistan as well as Iraq.

Haven’t all the destruction of these countries and the death of the hundreds of thousands of innocent Arabs and Muslims thought them anything?

So instead of trying to find ways to bridge the gap between the Arabs and Muslims in America and elsewhere with other Americans, he chose to take up much efforts to find faults.

Unfortunately, the faults lie mostly with him. Peter shows more of him and America that no one could see, what he and America do not know of the world around them.

By him taking the issue concerning the Arabs and Muslims in America, he brings out his and America’s unfounded fears, about America which is running in circles.

It is not a political issue, but more of a psychological one. That Peter and America are being hounded by their own policies and attitudes and perceptions.

The Arabs and Muslims in America stand to gain a bit more as Peter, like Geert Wilders and Terry Jones have now become unlikely propagators of Islam in America and elsewhere.

Spewing hatred of Islam is good for Islam as it is bad for the religions they claim to profess and principles they claim to uphold.

‘What did I do to deserve this?’

On the one hand, Peter King and his ilk wants to target Arabs and Muslims for some of America’s recent predicament, but at the same time, they have all neglected to realize that most of the time, America have been dealing with many other Arab and Muslim countries.

Yet, Peter and the others deliberately chose to chastise the few of them for what they are said to be capable of doing that bother them and America endlessly.

They have not shown any gratitude towards the Arabs and Muslims for having created goodwill and for extending their arms to embrace Americanism.

There are also some Americans who do not allow America Muslims to construct an Islamic Center near the Ground Zero; so if the Muslims in the country operate in the periphery, this can cause more consternation to them, especially if they were forced to operate in a clandestine manner instead of openly for everybody to see.

There are many of the Arabs and Muslims who would readily ‘die’ (forgive the pun) if they could get the chance to come to live and work in America and so they could shake off their flowing robes.

And despite all this, there are so many Americans of Arab descent who have become full-fledge Americans who have also contributed much to the development of the country, yet, Peter and his ilk chose to pick on so few to vent his anger towards all Arabs and all Muslims.

Why did Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison have to shed tears at the hearing in Congress?

Did he cry knowing how silly the issue that Peter had brought before Congress is? I want to think so.

Didn’t Peter and his ilk including those in Pentagon or the CIA also want to target the other Americanized-Arabs who are in Hollywood and the other industries for the failings of so few of their brethren?

Didn’t they also realize how the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were once CIA operatives? They were allies of America, who had done the dirty job for them to fight the Soviet Communists at places where they were not willing to sacrifice young American men to lead them to their untimely death.

‘What did I do to deserve this?’

…Americans now do not ask this question which they often asked themselves before. Now they say, ‘what did you do that to me for?’

They do not look within themselves to find out why they have to face some predicament of recent American history, when in the past there was no such thing?

Americans have also failed to look within themselves, the failure of their systems that had caused them to suffer, and in the process lose all sense of the understanding of their own selves.

They now look elsewhere. They do not look at the foreign policies of their own government anymore.

If they do even for a bit, they would find all the answers.

The main problem with Americans and America is with their foreign policy and cowboy attitude, on countries and people which they blame themselves for not being able to allow them to lead a  life of their own choices.

The actions of Peter and his ilk therefore reflect the failure of America to become the beacon of democracy.

They are telling everybody how America is now a dictatorship, the Neo-Communist state that it tried not to be.

That the credibility of its leaders has fallen.

This is shown in the way Peter acts and behaves.

That’s got nothing whatsoever to do with the Arabs and Muslims whose credibility Peter wants to question in the hearing in Congress the longer the American forces stays in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Did American Congressman Peter King and the other Americans of his ilk know who were – the Symbionese Liberation Army or the SLA, Ku Klux Klan or KKK and James Jones?

Peter now wants to do a witch-hunt by targeting Muslims in America whom he alleges are being groomed to become homegrown militants and terrorists. They are not the American Talibans or Al-Qaeda America Inc.

They are his fears.

They are also America’s penchant for looking elsewhere and not inside of their hearts.

This is the new America.

But where is the Old America?

America definitely needs a shake-up. From Terry Jones now Peter King.

But Peter is not a young man; he should know a bit more about American history of the 1960s.

If he is not aware of some of it, he can be taught to understand a bit about the Symbionese Liberation Army or the SLA which was no different than the KKK or Ku Klux Klan.

Or he can check the dated newspapers of America circa September, 1978 on James Jones and his Christian commune called Jamestown, where he led eight hundred Americans to their ultimate salvation by drinking with him poison so they could all rise and go to heaven.

Their dead bodies slumped dead in Jamestown.

KKK is still much alive.

The SLA comprised of some young and energetic and we can say angry Black Americans. They were not called Afro-Americans or later still African-Americans now.

Peter and the other Americans who like to look at the Muslims and find fault with them ought to find out first more on the SLA and KKK to know who these people were.

Only after he had done so, he can then say if what he is doing in Congress is correct, that the SLA could be one of the main reasons why White America’s attitude towards Black America changed drastically for the better.

White America had to quickly accommodate Black American interests.

Hollywood in particular did the same and now we are seeing many Colored Americans who are now involved in the film industry churning not only films but images.

They are the New Images of America, which, forgive the expression, is colored with new vipes and emotions.

In the past Hollywood had to face difficulties to come up with films that had non-Whites in the lead, and those films that dealt with their predicaments.