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  johnpi 2:21 pm on February 20, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: army (8), fox news (19), muslim soldiers (2), muslims in the military (3), Pat Robertson, translators, US military (60)

  Army finds no evidence of poisoning plot at Fort Jackson.

  A U.S. Army program at the center of a probe into allegations that Muslim translator trainees threatened to poison soldiers at Fort Jackson was moved to a post in Arizona last month.

  Spokeswomen at both Fort Jackson and Fort Huachuca, Ariz., confirmed the program — which trains non-citizen native speakers of languages such as Arabic and Farsi to become soldiers and translators — has been relocated.
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  On Thursday, a report by the evangelist Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network and Fox News stated that five Muslim translators had been arrested at Fort Jackson in December for threatening to poison other soldiers. The Army has not reported making any arrests.

  A statement Friday from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division confirmed an investigation into the allegations has been ongoing “for almost two months.”

  “But … we have not found any credible information to substantiate the allegations,” the statements said.

   

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  aziz 2:02 pm on January 15, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Pat Robertson

  Hey Pat Robertson – what about your own “pact with the devil” ?

   
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  aziz 10:52 am on January 15, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: colonialism (29), Haiti (6), Pat Robertson, racism (201)

  refuting the “devil’s pact” libel against Haiti, which was repeated but not invented by Pat Robertson.

   
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  johnpi 1:46 pm on January 14, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: christian fundamentalists (7), evangelicals (28), Extremism (166), fundamentalism (16), Haiti (6), humiliation (2), muslim fanatics (18), Pat Robertson, right-wing extremists (20), right-wing morons (71), shame (4)

  Here’s the meat of Pat Robertson’s shameful comment about Haiti that you’ve probably already heard so much about:

  “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about. They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘Ok it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

  I took this excerpt from an article titled, ‘Christian fundamentalists bring shame to America,’ which also makes this observation:

  The Muslim world deals with this all the time. With 1.3 billion Muslims in the world over, even if only 3% are radical fundamentalists, their numbers are in the millions and they have come to represent the other 97%.

   
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  buzz 4:36 am on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anti-Muslim fearmongering (41), CAIR (44), Fort Hood attack (59), islamophobia (227), Pat Robertson

   

  CAIR: Va. Gov-Elect Asked to Repudiate Anti-Islam Donor’s Remarks

  One of McDonnell’s top contributors says Muslims should be treated like communists, fascists

  WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on Virginia’s Governor-elect Robert F. McDonnell to publicly repudiate anti-Islam remarks by Pat Robertson, the televangelist and gubernatorial campaign contributor who recently said Islam is “not a religion” and that American Muslims should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party.

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