By All Means, Speak Softly

Groups Urge Sensitivity in Hezbollah Probe
Leaders of the country’s Muslim, Middle Eastern and South Asian communities are urging the FBI to use sensitivity if it investigates possible activities by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah on U.S. soil.
Twenty-five groups, including the Islamic Society of North America and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, urged FBI Director Robert Mueller in a letter Wednesday to issue instructions to field offices and agents to avoid unwarranted profiling and respect the legal protections of people they may question.
“We want the FBI, obviously, to protect our nation from those who do us harm, but we want them to focus on actual credible evidence of wrongdoing and not target people based on their ethnicity or religion or based on First Amendment political expression,” said Farhana Khera, head of Muslim Advocates, the lead drafter of the letter. “We want to avert any kind of raw fishing expedition-type initiative.”

…as long as you USE a big, f*ckin’ stick (I mean a BIG one.).
And as long as “sensitivity” doesn’t mean not asking enough of the right questions because you might hurt someone’s feelings or offend their religion of pieces sensibilities.

2 Responses to “By All Means, Speak Softly”

1. DirtCrashr says:

   July 27, 2006 at 11:16 am

   “Raw fishing”…does he mean Sushi? Is he implying that the Japanese, WWII Imperial Army holdouts hiding on an island in the Pacific, are behind all this?

2. tree hugging sister says:

   July 27, 2006 at 11:28 am

   Oh, dear God, don’t bring them into this TOOOOO!!!!!