Monday, March 28, 2011  Peter King, Muslims, Torture, and N.
Ireland   (UPDATE 5/22/14 I finally did a post going into why I
believe it's inacurate to describe the IRA as "terrorists" and
it's here)  I should have done this post about a week ago. I'm
not sure how many people may have already figured this out, but
I would be surprised if it were a large number.  Peter King, a
GOP US Representative from New York, has been a big supporter of
Irish Republicanism and specifically Sinn Fein and NORAID, an
American group suspected in the past of supporting the IRA,
although it might be a lot more accurate to say that they
supported and today support SF. He is very conservative and has
expressed support for the use (in the War on Terror, in Iraq,
and Afghanistan) of interrogation techniques that are torture
(for example, see this and this). He has also spear-headed
congressional hearings on the alleged radicalization of American
Muslims (see this, this and this)  In the 2nd link from the
bottom of the above paragraph