Timothy McVeigh was Muslim Terrorist, Argues US Senator
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Rumors that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was Muslim have been gaining traction on the Internet after Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe (R), the same man who remains openly suspicious President Obama may be a native Kenyan citizen, said he agreed there is a strong probability McVeigh had been "another Muslim terrorist all along," before the senator insisted, in abrupt and non sequitur fashion, "They hate us for our freedoms!"
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McVeigh's religion was first called into question in a December 27th editorial in the Beaumont Enterprise by Travis Hudson. A Beaumont, Tex., resident and Kroger supermarket cashier, Hudson announced what he termed "an open and shut case" about McVeigh's spiritual beliefs.
"Realistically and indubitably, the man was a Muslim," Hudson wrote of McVeigh, who was executed on June 11, 2001 after being convicted of the 11 counts on his federal indictment including the "use of a weapon of mass destruction."
"Blew up a whole damn building, killed more Americans than 9/11. What else could he be?" continued the factually dubious column. The previously understood lifelong Christian killed a total of 168 people in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. It was the deadliest act of terrorism in United States history until 2001, when more than 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks.
"I know what the Jewish media expects us to believe about al-McVeigh, and him supposedly being Christian like us," Hudson later said with a chuckle when interviewed on KFDM-TV Channel 6, the CBS affiliate in Beaumont, "but tell me, what Christian would do that? It's not credible. You know a thousand American kids younger than 5 died that day in Oklahoma?"
Official government figures indicate six children under the age of 6 perished in the bombing.
Hudson noted that not only were all of the 9/11 terrorists "nutty Islamists," but so was al Qaeda member Richard Reid, better known as the December 2001 shoe bomber; and Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber of Christmas Day, 2009.
"Once is chance, twice is coincidence and the third time is a pattern," Hudson proudly declared. "You don't need to pass the fourth grade, and I did not, to know when to go for the two-point conversion."
Sen. Inhofe backed up Hudson's controversial claims, extending federal government credit to the notion.
"Nobody denies that McVeigh was a mass murdering terrorist. You do the math. No red-blooded American can deny Muslims are the ones who do that," Inhofe said. "Ronald Reagan defeated communism!" he continued.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced "what is nothing more than another unfounded piece of Internet fiction." American Civil Liberties Union representatives were asked for a reaction to Hudson's original claims, and the impact on Muslims in this country, but a spokesperson said the organization declined to dignify him with a response. Public reception to the ACLU's refusal to acknowledge the issue was swift and decisive. Among startling new poll results, 98% of white men in Beaumont (municipal slogan: "If the United States gets an enema, the tube is inserted here") and surrounding southeastern Texas replied they were now either "positive" or "pretty sure" that McVeigh was Muslim.
A 16-year Senate veteran, Jim Inhofe is the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. He responded to concerns citing the complete lack of evidence even suggesting McVeigh to have been Muslim, with some saying McVeigh had never personally known anybody of the Islamic faith.
"You stand before me with your facts and figures, claiming there is no chance this terrorist, this suicide bomber, might not be an Islamist?" Inhofe replied, incorrectly labeling McVeigh, who was executed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, a suicide bomber.
"Was he Muslim? Let me answer your question with another question: Does the Pope shit in the woods?" The senator added, "9/11!" and "Did you know we're such a dim nation that many people would probably read this entire satire without realizing it was a joke?!"
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Originally posted to IansInsights on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 04:24 PM PST.
