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More idiocy from the Hollywood crowd. Montel thinks anyone trying to link Islam to the Hasan shootings really want Muslims put in FDR style Japanese internment camps.

Television talk show host Montel Williams says he’s worried the “rhetoric” about the Islamic connections of alleged Fort Hood murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could trigger a backlash against Muslims.

”We [America] pulled something like this back in World War II when [President Roosevelt] decided to round up all Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps,” he said on his show yesterday:

In the interview about the Fort Hood shooting last week that left 14 dead, including one unborn baby whose mother was shot and killed, Williams says: “We pulled something like this back in World War II when we decided to round up all Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps. ... The [anti-Muslim] rhetoric ... could get out of hand. What do you think?”

Responding is Frank Farley of Temple University: “I agree totally. ... The possibilities of prejudice and racism and so on are incredible here. We should be treating this as a unique incident and look at the factors involved in this very unique and specific incident and not overgeneralize. Unfortunately, we tend to overgeneralize all the time. The idea that all Muslims are the same is ridiculous.”

Surveillance video of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at a 7-Eleven the morning of the Fort Hood attack

Continued Williams: “Even if it comes out ... that his frame of reference was his religion and that was what was giving him the power within himself to make his stand, that doesn’t mean that the religion is to blame.

So, Hasan connects his Islamic faith to his murders, wears traditional Islamic garb on that day, shouts his loyalty to Allah and yet if anyone makes an Islamic religion connection to the shooting, they are not only wrong, they obviously want all Muslims in Concentration Camps.

Sounds just a tad irrational to me!