MRFF Universally Denounces Rep. Peter King’s Anti-Muslim, McCarthyistic Hearings on Domestic Terrorism

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation universally denounces the horrifying, McCarthyistic hearings currently being held by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. These malicious hearings, allegedly investigating domestic terrorism, are inexcusably racist and denigrating. Rep. King and his reprobate ilk are shaming the United States of America. Since these “hearings” were first announced, MRFF has received a non-stop torrent of calls from its Muslim American United States soldier, sailor, marine, airman, cadet, and midshipmen clients who feel dehumanized, marginalized, comprehensively humiliated, and threatened by these transparently bigoted “hearings.” To date, 259 Muslim American military MRFF clients have stepped forward to ask for our help. They know America’s checkered past – African American slavery, Japanese internment camps during WWII, McCarthy’s black lists during the Cold War – and they are deeply afraid.

MRFF is proud to serve them. Our civil rights advocacy relationship with U.S. Muslim military personnel has been commended and specifically supported/endorsed by the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the entire Muslim community within the Pentagon (where MRFF stopped rabid Islamophobe Franklin Graham from preaching on the evils of Islam at the National Day of Prayer event there), Sheila Musaji, Editor of The American Muslim Magazine, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim American communities such as American Muslims of Puget Sound, and many interfaith organizations. We honor all brave Muslim American armed forces personnel who have given their lives for our country while Rep. King is busy ignominiously hunting down and terrorizing their families. Rep. King’s wretched anti-Muslim campaign is horribly offensive to all our United States servicemen and women who richly deserve our deepest honor and respect for their sacrifice.

MRFF will not allow this vile desecration of the human and civil rights of our Muslim American armed forces clients, nor will we stand by while this disgusting travesty blatantly threatens our national security. Rep. King is conducting a scurrilous witch hunt in the face of Department of Homeland Security findings indicating that white supremacist lone wolves pose the most significant domestic terrorist threat. Instead of mercilessly demonizing the peaceful, innocent American-citizen followers of the world’s second largest religion, perhaps Rep. King would have more success rooting out the very same scourge among his staff and supporters which his hearings are recklessly and inhumanly fostering – intolerance, hatred, bigotry, racism, prejudice and extremism.

Please join us in remembering these U.S Soldiers of the Muslim faith who sacrificed their lives for our country.

U. S. Army Corporal Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq

U.S. Army Specialist Rasheed Sahib
accidentally shot to death by a fellow soldier in Iraq

U.S. Army Major James Ahearn
killed by a bomb in Iraq

U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan
killed as he approached a suicide bomber in Iraq

U.S. Army First Lieutenant Moshin Navqi
killed by a roadside bomb in Afganistan