FOX news always comes up with the doozies. Now, I didn't say they had to be real (as in, factual or accurate) doozies.
From the brilliant! minds at FOX news. Ahem.
The hosts of Fox & Friends are all worked up over a claim in the British press that al Qaeda may be recruiting Caucasian members to infiltrate Western societies.
"Have you heard about this new thing going on in Great Britain," asked host Gretchen Carlson, "[where] Al Qaeda [is] rooting up all these Britons, essentially, 1400 strong, apparently, in a new, what's being called a new 'White al Qaeda Army.' Tougher to detect, potentially ...
They even invited an expert to come on Fox & Friends, the daily chortle fest of redneck fear mongers everywhere. Regular contributor to Fox's Red Eye, (The show that Rachel Marsden used to appear on) Ex CIA agent, and professional counter terrorism "expert " Mike Baker...He co-founded the Security firm, Diligence LLC. (That firm has the prerequisite Bush admin connections.) He now operates Veritas Global, another one of those super secret investigation companies.
As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.
Lord Carlile, the Government's independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms.
Which also included this sane quote too, and was not mentioned by FOX:
But one of Scotland's leading Muslims disputed the claims of radicalisation, saying Islam's strict moral code made it unattractive to many westerners.
Bashir Maan added: "I do not know of any Islamist terror group in Scotland and, considering as a Muslim a person must pray five times daily, abstain from drinking (and] sex outside marriage, adhere to strict dietary and many other rules, it is impossible to convert to Islam a young person brought up in this very liberal society.
"I agree that the security services must be vigilant and keep their eye on everybody, but I think in this case they seem to be over-reacting."
Mike Baker disagreed with the asessment that Al Qaeda would be seeking people in prisons, he went on to say that he thinks the desired Al Qaeda conversions, will be blue eyed, blonde haired people with no previous records.....
"If they can recruit a Scandinavian, that's the holy grail for them." He added, "They need people who can move around freely and do their bidding,"
Heres the tube.
If you cannot stomach Fox, here is the SMURF version. heh.
I have been flippant. But the real point to all of this, is the message emitting from the megaphone of the Bush Administration. Fear. Fear everything. Fear those who may look just like you. Like a good citizen, report anything "suspicious" to the au-thor-i-tays. The enemy is amongst us.
Flippant mode back on:
Ill just add, that I always thought these people looked kinda suspicious....This was a CODE!
