"Militant Terrorist Takeover" Rant

How does someone expect to win a seat in the Senate when they accuse people of things that are not true. Recently, Las Vegas U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a crowd of supporters that the country needs to address a "militant terrorist situation" that has allowed Islamic religious law to take hold in some American cities. I find this accusation to be outrageous because how does she know for sure that there is a situation. This accusation reminds me of the Red Scare, where people accused hundreds of other people of being communist, even though most were not.

However, i feel she was egged on into saying this when she was asked about how she felt about Muslims angling to take over the country. What happen was that a man was heard, on a recording by Mesquite Local News, asking Angle "I keep hearing about Muslims wanting to take over the United States... on a TV program just last night, I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan and the residents of the city, they want them out. They want them out. So, I want to hear your thoughts about that." Angle responds by saying "we're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which i believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it."

I don't find anything Angel said, except for the "Militant Terrorist Situation" thing, to be wrong; i say the man that asked her the question was hoping she would say something to make herself look bad. I don't feel she was completely informed on this incident, i think she just went off of what the man said to her and answered the question from the little information she knew. Although, she could have just said she doesn't know enough about this topic to make a thorough accusation, which still would of looked bad because she should know whats going on around the United States, but i would of found that answer much more desirable than the other.

However, i think she didn't need to go as far as comparing 9/11 to the Nazi Holocaust. Yeah i found 9/11 to be very tragic and horrible, it is nothing compared to what happened during the Nazi Holocaust. She said that the community center that Muslims want to build near ground zero, which i find not such a good thing, is just like when a Catholic church was wanted to be built over where Auschwitz, and old concentration camp during the Nazi Holocaust. I didn't understand this comparison and felt it was unneeded. I had some remorse for Angle because i felt that she was poorly informed, but her outrageous comments were uncalled for and made her look like a bad representation for Nevada's seat in the Senate.

This was just a very bad statement, that she must live with, which may result in her losing the race for senate. I feel that spokesman Kelly Steele puts this whole situation into a good statement "The fact that Sharron Angle believes American cities have been taken over by militant terrorist organizations that are ruling our citizens under Sharia law shows a terrifying lack of connection with reality and a willingness to subscribe to conspiracy theories that demonstrates she's far too extreme and dangerous to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate."