Left Already Enraged at New House Homeland Security Committee Chair

Rep. Mark Green (Republican from Tennessee) has been elected the new Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Even though the new Congress is just getting started, he already has the censorious Left in arms. Newsweek reported Trump appointed Green as Secretary of the Army on Monday, but “he ended up withdrawing his nomination from consideration for the role in 2017 after coming under fire for past comments about members of the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.” It appears Green stated: “If you poll the psychiatrists, they’re going to tell you transgender is a disease.” Horror of horrors! Everyone can see that men who think they’re women and vice versa are as sane and well-adjusted as the day is long. Now it is clear that Green also violated Leftist pieties in another manner: he has a history making. “anti-Muslim comments.”

The HuffPo This Thursday, HuffPo raised the alarm, trying to portray Green, a racist, redneck yahoo, as it did on Thursday. HuffPo claimed Green, who it identified as “a physician, Iraq War veteran and former GOP state senator,” That is exactly the type of person Leftists hate, once said “that Iraqis smelled like ‘curry mixed with sweat.’” Sabina Mohyuddin, American Muslim Advisory Council, fumed: “If you hold stereotypes about communities, how can you effectively move on issues that are really nuanced and require a greater understanding of the issues?”

However, Rachel Del Guidice, Green’s communications director, shot back that “some media outlets cut and spliced” What Green said and added: “Rep. Green has not, and will not ever, force his religion on anyone. He believes that every American has a right to defend their country. Having served three tours of duty overseas during the War on Terror, Rep. Green acted as a steadfast protector of everyone in this nation. Vilifying people of faith because they don’t agree with progressive policies is against America’s founding principles — the very principles he fought to protect.”

The HuffPo, however, wasn’t done. It also claimed that Green “once said he didn’t want students in Tennessee to learn about Islam.” This was brought up at a Tea Party meeting held in 2016. “when an audience member read a passage from a textbook that correctly stated that Muslims believe in all the prophets in the Old and New Testament,” Green responded, “When you start teaching the pillars of Islam … we will not tolerate that in this state.” According to HuffPo Green said that “if students did have to learn about Islam…they should only learn ‘the history of the Ottoman Empire’ and ‘the assault of Islam out into the Levant and North Africa and into Constantinople.’”

What do you see? He’s ignorant as well as racist! According to the HuffPo, Sumayyah Waheed is a Muslim Advocates. “national civil rights group based in Washington, D.C.,” declared: “Rep. Green’s well-documented history of hate speech against Muslims, LGBTQ people, and immigrants made him unfit to be Secretary of the Army, and that history makes him unfit to chair the House Homeland Security Committee. As chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, Mark Green is a threat to Muslims ― especially to those that live at the intersections of the communities he has gleefully attacked for political gain.”

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But the HuffPo, true to form, doesn’t bother to tell you that what Green was actually talking about was his opposition to Islamic proselytizing and indoctrination in public schools, which has been abundantly documented. Green was pushing back against whitewashed version of Islam that is taught in all too many public school textbooks around the country, but of course the HuffPo doesn’t give you even a hint that there was ever a controversy over the way Islam was taught in public school textbooks.

His alleged statement about Iraqis smelling like rotten eggs could be considered offensive. “curry mixed with sweat,” Although it would be a mistake to assume that he is an a “threat to Muslims” This is absurd. It’s certainly impolite, at the very least, to say it, but I’m sure Americans smell like all sorts of strange things to non-Americans, too, and HuffPo is making a big deal out of a pungent quip in order to try to defame and destroy Green.

This is how it works. “Islamophobia” Industry always operates: Quotes without context are given the worst possible spin, there is no explanation or counter, and statements that appear to be true are presented as offensive, not just false. Although these gutter tactics worked well for the Left in past times, people are starting to wake up to the fact that they have been a success. Green may not lose his chairmanship over these remarks; if he doesn’t, that may be an indication that the new House leadership really does have some spine.

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