They don't want the US governemt looking too closely at mosques and Islamic groups to find terrorist connections -- but they do want a full investigation of a video of a Marine singing a repulsive song.

A Marine seen in an Internet video singing about killing members

Cpl. Joshua Belile, 23, apologized and said the song was not tied in any way to allegations that Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha last year.

"It's a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny, based off a catchy line of a movie," he said in Wednesday's Daily News of Jacksonville.

In the four-minute video called "Hadji Girl," a singer who appears to be a Marine tells a cheering audience about gunning down members of an Iraqi woman's family after they confront him with automatic weapons.

Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marine spokeswoman, said Wednesday the Marine Corps was looking into the matter. "The video, which was posted anonymously, is clearly inappropriate and contrary to the high standards expected of all Marines," she said in a statement.

Clearly, the song is in poor taste. Arguably, it merits some sort of disciplinary action. But it is not that big a deal -- such musical forays against the enemy have been a part of militry culture probably since at least the time of the Babylonian Empire. The spreading of the song on the internet is unfortunate, but hardly an attrocity that needs serious investigation.

But you wouldn't know that from the response of thes folks.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate a music video posted on the Internet that seems to show U.S. Marines cheering a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians.

CAIR said the four-minute video, called "hadji girl," purports to be a "marine in iraq singing a song about hadji." (A "Hajji" is a person who has made the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but the term has often been used as a pejorative by U.S. troops in Iraq.) The song, posted online in March, tells of a U.S. Marine's encounter with an Iraqi woman. It has been viewed by almost 50,000 people.

Those priorities sem pretty clear -- don't investigate Muslims for terrorism, investigate mean and insensitive words against us.

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