Posted on 08/20/2010 3:05:13 PM PDT by mojito
You don't have to be prejudiced against Islam to believe, as many Americans do, that the area around Ground Zero is a sacred place. But sadly, in an election season, such sentiments have been stoked into a political issue. As the debate has grown more heated, Park51, as the proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is called, has become a litmus test for everything from private-property rights to religious tolerance. But it is plain that many of Park51's opponents are motivated by deep-seated Islamophobia.
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Although the American strain of Islamophobia lacks some of the traditional elements of religious persecution — there's no sign that violence against Muslims is on the rise, for instance — there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that hate speech against Muslims and Islam is growing both more widespread and more heated.
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Islamophobia in the U.S. doesn't approach levels seen in other countries where Muslims are in a minority. But to be a Muslim in America now is to endure slings and arrows against your faith — not just in the schoolyard and the office but also outside your place of worship and in the public square, where some of the country's most powerful mainstream religious and political leaders unthinkingly (or worse, deliberately) conflate Islam with terrorism and savagery.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
This is not a multicultural issue....its far greater
Here in this issue, we get to see the power of Sharia. Cash coming in from Iran, Saudiland etc etc even Pakistan.
When the founding fathers thought of America, their little baby, the last thing they wanted was an invasive force to stifle, smother it, and then overwhelm it and kill it.
Most people do not recognize that what happens in a mosque is sedition. Pure and simple. Islam is not just a “religion”, it is a cult. Larger than that though, it is a political system, it is it’s own government, it’s economic system (which includes funding new mosque construction), its judicial...is in its sharia, and its military (jihadis) all rolled into one with one intent ...and that is to rule wherever they take root. It is a invasive, systemic infection looking to take over the host once it has quantum.
This is not just a “religion”, but something that cloaks itself in those terms so it should not be given the same treatment contemplated under the first amendment. The Korans Sharia rules are to consume whatever government there is wherever it goes.
Islam is political, and it’s goal is to supplant and replace. Globally.
When the founding fathers thought of America, their little baby, the last thing they wanted was an invasive force to stifle, smother it, and then overwhelm it and kill it.
The sooner America learns this , the better.
Obama? Obama and Company? Should be tried for treason in this issue for promoting the establishment of a foreign government on our soils. He is doing nothing to protect America as per his oath. Also, as a Muslim, he knows this, he know far better, he knows sharia, but is looking to deceive America.
For all interested...Wanna learn more?
http://thehayride.com/2010/08/louisiana-at-leading-edge-in-fight-against-shariah/#more-5392
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded
Lets keep America, America!
Obama? Obama and Company? Should be tried for treason in this issue for promoting the establishment of a foreign government on our soils. As a Muslim, he knows this, he knows sharia, but is looking to deceive America.
We have one now. We will not later.
I have muslim friends.even they dont want the mosque at ground zero
Does islam have an infidel problem?
Islamaphobic would insinuate a fear of Islam ... I don’t fear them ... I hate them and everything they stand for and wish we were at war with them openly and heavily.
How is that Islamaphobic?
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” - Ann Coulter
We’re they ginning up a little Islamophobia with their cover page of that poor Muslim woman?
Time Magazine reminds me of the person who kills his parents then pleads for leniency because he’s now an orphan!
Islamophobia would be fear of Islam.
I’m not sure it is fear so much as dislike.
Maybe something to do with that whole smiting of infidels and stoning of women thing.
Islam is not just a religion, it is a government of which Iran is the purest example. Islamic law requires Muslims to change the country where they live to Islam. Religious freedom does not grant a religion which is also a government the right to subvert the host nation’s chosen form of government the way Muslims are doing in Lebanon, Europe and America.
And Muslims worldwide have “infideliphobia.” Are we even now?
But what part of the Constitution prohibits the United States government from restricting immigration against a particular religion or race? Why does the Constitution prohibit discrimination, that is unequal protection of the laws, against people who are not citizens, in fact, who are not even here?
If the Constitution is in fact not a suicide pact, why cannot a nation protect itself against perceived threats from a race or a creed by excluding them?
Why is the media devoting so much attention to Obama’s Muslim faith and thereby creating a frenzy ?
So that they can pull the Obama job killing, socialist...agenda failures off their own front pages ?
I suppose it all depends on what the meaning of “Muslim problem” is.
“We’re they ginning up a little Islamophobia with their cover page of that poor Muslim woman?”
(1)Muslim women have to wear the veil.
(2) Islam encourages wife beating.
(3) The woman inherits only half what a man can inherit.
(4)The woman’s testimony is equal only to half of the man’s testimony.
(5)Muslim woman cannot have jobs outside their homes.
(6)Polygamy is strongly recommended.
(7)Men status is higher than that of the women. (Goes into the Eve problem and Christians)
(8) Muslim Women cannot have education.
(9)Women cannot share in the political life in their communities.
(10)Women cannot pray, fast, do Hajj or Ummrah during menstruation.
(11)Women are stoned to death for Adultery.
(12)Muslim women cannot marry Jewish or Christian men.
(13)Muslim women do not have the right to divorce their husbands.
(14)Compensation for the murder of a woman is half the going rate for men.
(15)For a woman to prove rape, four adult males of “impeccable” character must witness the incident.
(16)The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young.
(17)Female circumcision, also called female genital mutilation.
(18) Muslim women are not allowed to drive.
(19) Typically, fathers win custody of boys over the age of six and girls after the onset of puberty.
(20) Women must be segregated form men in public, work and places of worship.
(21) “honor killings” of women: Murders by husbands or male relatives of women suspected of disobedience, usually a sexual indiscretion or marriage against the family’s wishes.
(22) “Morality Police” keeps control on the behaviour of women.
(23) Women cannot travel freely except in the company of a male relative, “mahram.”
The answer is no. The correct statement is:
Islam has a problem with anything and anyone not islamic!
It is intolerable, abusive, oppressive and just downright bad.
Perfect executive summary.
I wish these idiots would actually learn about something before they talk.
Since Islam was founded it has been nothing but trouble and nothing but in wars.
For crying out loud these people do not even know that islam tried to invade Europe in less than a hundred years after a cave dwelling camel caravan child molesting man invented it.
This is not a religion person it is an ideology looking to impose itself over other people and countries by talk and then force.
Over a 100 verses call for the death to non muslims, they are praying and worshipping to a child molester.
Hell these people do not even know that mohammed was having sex with a little 9 year old girl.
If one supports the rights of women then great but they are stupid and ignorant supporting islam too.
islam looks to take womens rights away and seeing as the far left likes homosexuals then they can kiss goodbye to them as well as homosexuals will be the first to die.
It’s high time that these idiots wake up and study islam as of right now they look stupid fools.
Simply said: Islam is bull Shitte!
please read post 18 too
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