02-20-2008, 11:01 AM
02-20-2008, 04:51 PM
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Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right
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These men are frauds, but this is not the point. They are part of a dark and frightening war by the Christian right against tolerance that, in the moment of another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil, would make it acceptable to target and persecute all Muslims, including the some 6 million Muslims who live in the United States.
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“These three jokers are as much former Islamic terrorists as ‘Star Trek’s’ Capt. James T. Kirk was a real Starship captain,†said Mikey Weinstein
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This creeping Christian chauvinism has infected our political and social discourse.
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These three con artists are not the problem. There is enough scum out there to take their place.
LOL...sounds like Chris Hedges is a very angry man. If anyone knows "hate speech" it is the one who practices it under the guise of acceptability. It isn't possible that Muslim terrorists are criminals and that their hatred for everything western ought to be addressed? I think Chris Hedges drank the kool-aid a long time ago...and appeals to a growing segment of the population who think that because "mommy didn't hug me enough," all kinds of criminal behavior are excusable.
gus
02-20-2008, 06:04 PM
Re: "It leaves us threatened not only by the terrorists who may come from abroad but the ones who are rising from within our midst."
History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdamOzrfZI0
Judge holds reporter in contempt in anthrax case
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008...hrax_N.htm
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History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdamOzrfZI0
Judge holds reporter in contempt in anthrax case
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008...hrax_N.htm
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02-20-2008, 06:32 PM
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These three con artists are not the problem. There is enough scum out there to take their place. Rather, they offer a window into a worldview that is destroying the United States. It has corrupted the Republican Party. It has colored the news media. It has entered into the everyday clichés we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. It is ignorant and racist, but it is also deadly. It grossly perverts the Christian religion. It asks us to kill to purify the Earth. It leaves us threatened not only by the terrorists who may come from abroad but the ones who are rising from within our midst.
Yes...the anthrax culprit is old news. There are terrorists everywhere. No one ever said that Americans were immune. They sure don't have to be Muslims. Heck...I even find those who inspire terror right here on this board.
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The public denigration of Islam, and by implication all religious belief systems outside Christianity, is part of the triumphalism that has distorted the country since the 9/11 attacks. It makes dialogue with those outside our “Christian†culture impossible. It implicitly condemns all who do not think as we think and believe as we believe as, at best, inferior and usually morally depraved. It blinds us to our own failings. It makes self-reflection and self-criticism a form of treason. It reduces the world to a cartoonish vision of us and them, good and evil. It turns us into children with bombs.
I suppose that the man, being an editorial journalist, can take a certain poetic license to be grossly over-dramatic (perhaps some insight into his personal biases). He is obviously anti-Christian; but that's OK. Most of the media is run by the "anti-anythings" because, after so much life disappointment and no God, they have little left to believe in.
gus
02-20-2008, 07:09 PM
Encouragement from the Bible...
Isaiah 25:4...
"They'll see that you take care of the poor, that you take care of poor people in trouble, Provide a warm, dry place in bad weather, provide a cool place when it's hot. Brutal oppressors are like a winter blizzard and vicious foreigners like high noon in the desert. But you, shelter from the storm and shade from the sun, shut the mouths of the big-mouthed bullies."
Praise YHVH. Praise our Lord and Master Jesus.
Isaiah 25:4...
"They'll see that you take care of the poor, that you take care of poor people in trouble, Provide a warm, dry place in bad weather, provide a cool place when it's hot. Brutal oppressors are like a winter blizzard and vicious foreigners like high noon in the desert. But you, shelter from the storm and shade from the sun, shut the mouths of the big-mouthed bullies."
Praise YHVH. Praise our Lord and Master Jesus.