Rep. Peter King (R-NY) continued his quasi-defense of racial profiling today, saying on Today that “100% of the Islamic terrorists who are coming against us are Muslims,” and adding that “if you were going after the Mafia, you’d go into Italian communities.”
King also said that he wished President Obama had put the suspected Flight 253 terrorist before a military tribunal instead of in the criminal justice system.
King began his Today appearance by praising Obama for his remarks yesterday on the attempted bombing of Flight 253.
However, he said, “the administration has made a mistake by treating this terrorist as a common criminal, by putting him into the criminal justice system. I wish they had put him into a military tribunal so we could get as much intelligence and information out of him as we could.”
When asked about using racial profiling to help bolster airline security, King repeated his earlier statement that “the fact of the matter right now is that 100% of the Islamic terrorists who are coming against us are Muslims.”
He continued: “If you were going after the Mafia, you’d go into Italian communities, if you were going after the IRA, you’d go into the Irish community, Irish bars.”
“We’re just living in a politically correct world to say we should be screening a Scandinavian grandmother the same as we do a middle-eastern male,” said King.
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