Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Important to understand Islam?

A friend sent the following message to me. Take a minute to read it and to watch the short video at the end by newly-elected Congressman Allen West.

"Only two blacks were newly elected to congress this cycle, and both are Republican. Col West is from southern Florida, a bastion of the Democratic Party.  He won in a walk.

"It is worth the viewing.  This new Congressman was an extremely popular commander in Iraq.  He was forced to retire because during an intense combat action a few of his men were captured.  At the same time his men had captured one of the guys who were with the Iraqis who captured his men. 

"Knowing that time was crucial and his interrogators were not getting anywhere with the prisoner COL West took matters into his own hands.  He burst into the room and demanded thru an interpreter that the prisoner tell him where his men were being taken.  The prisoner refused so COL West took out his pistol and placed it into the prisoner's crotch and fired.  Then the COL told the prisoner that the next shot would not miss.  So the prisoner said he would show where the American service members were being taken.  The Americans were rescued.  Some one filed a report on incorrect handling of prisoners.  COL West was forced to retire.  COL West was just elected in November 2010 to Congress from Florida .  During the elections he was part of a panel on how to handle or how to relate to Muslims.  You will see his answer here.

"Here is one of the new congressmen from Florida explaining very definitively in just over a minute the truth about Islam."

I was reminded of the 2010 movie with Samuel L. Jackson called Unthinkable. In it a negotiator doesn't fool around with a terrorist he is interrogating. he gets his attention right away, although in a slightly different way than did Col. West.

2 comments:

Gus said...

Here is the link to the full entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)

Gus said...

Please see the update and correction to the Col. West story, posted 1/26/2011.