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A rising tide of Nativism washes over U.S. (911 Mosque and Arizona show we're bigots)
The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 14, 2010 | Tim Rutten

Posted on 08/13/2010 5:28:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Anti-Muslim hysteria and animosity toward undocumented immigrants are grim reminders of the Nativist movement that roiled national and state politics for more than 120 years.

Two millenniums ago, an itinerant young Galilean teacher with a fondness for parables told one of his audiences that no sensible person ever would pour new wine into old wineskins. The skins, after all, would burst, and ruin would follow.

It's an apt metaphor for this increasingly frenzied and foolish moment in our history. Rising tides of anti-Muslim hysteria and animosity toward undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Latinos (the bitter new wine), have conjoined and are forcing us toward an eerie recapitulation of the Nativist movements (the dreary old skin) that roiled our nation's national and state politics for more than 120 years. Ever since 9/11, a sensible rejection of Salafism and other variants of politicized Islamic neo-fundamentalism has been given way in many quarters to a generalized antipathy to Islam itself. Step by step, that prejudice is migrating into the political mainstream, a process that has accelerated with the controversy over a proposed Islamic study center a few blocks from ground zero.

This week, for example, Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis at the American Family Assn., wrote that 1st Amendment guarantees of religious freedom do not apply to Muslims and that no more mosques should be constructed anywhere in America. As he told a reporter for a leading political website (talkingpointsmemo.com), every single mosque is a potential terrorist training center or recruitment center for jihad and thus "you cannot claim 1st Amendment protections if your religious organization is engaged in subversive activities."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arizona; groundzeromosque; illegalaliens; immigration
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Has Tim been living in a cave since the seventies?
1 posted on 08/13/2010 5:28:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We are now known as a nation of Neanderthal racists and bigots... so ok world... we are soooooo bad. Now stay the **** out of our Country!

LLS

2 posted on 08/13/2010 5:30:58 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SO then Mexico is more bigoted because if you are caught
as an undocumented (=illegal) person there you are thrown in prison and then deported.


3 posted on 08/13/2010 5:31:07 PM PDT by Undocumented_capitalist (Pure is the enemy of good...waiting for pure to happen will always end in dispair!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tim Rutten is a treacherous bigot, and should be run out of town ASAP, tar and feathering being option if time would permit!


4 posted on 08/13/2010 5:31:30 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yeah, we’re bad because we love our country and don’t want to see it turned into some third world crap hole by people that have no clue what it means to be an American.


5 posted on 08/13/2010 5:31:39 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too Funny......
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/lou-dobbs-blasts-la-times-media-critic-tim-rutten/13537e548845c6be813613537e548845c6be8136-168043675660?q=Tim%20Rutten&FORM=VIRE1


6 posted on 08/13/2010 5:33:07 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe. After all, his brain has.


7 posted on 08/13/2010 5:34:07 PM PDT by auboy (Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. Samuel Johnson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It doesn’t show we are bigots but illustrates, nay, demonstrates they are invaders.

Otherwise they would be more polite and use index logic, not circular logic.


8 posted on 08/13/2010 5:34:14 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Traditionalist views versus liberal sell out views?
9 posted on 08/13/2010 5:34:47 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This writer is a lame brained pin headed idiot....and a waste of human skin


10 posted on 08/13/2010 5:35:34 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

He is a boil on the the body of life and needs to be lanced.


11 posted on 08/13/2010 5:36:25 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ever since 9/11, a sensible rejection of Salafism and other variants of politicized Islamic neo-fundamentalism has been given way in many quarters to a generalized antipathy to Islam itself.

Yeah, on 9/12/2001 we really were having a national discussion on Salafism and Wahabism compared to other theological schools in the Muslim world. < /sarc>

12 posted on 08/13/2010 5:37:18 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Two millenniums

Well, at least he didn't use an apostrophe. I will give him that.

13 posted on 08/13/2010 5:38:02 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: Marty62

Tim is trying to make a name for himself, little past due don’t ya think tim? We are such a bunch of uncaring, racist bigots so in staying with this tone I would like to add to that fat white old guys with beards.


14 posted on 08/13/2010 5:38:12 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (We are our founding fathers keepers)
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To: goat granny
Now, now. He is a human being and redemption is always possible.

(Unlike Congress. / s )

15 posted on 08/13/2010 5:39:36 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Take your First Amendment religious freedom idea to Saudi Tim

But before that, go live in a Mexican border town for awhile since I’m sure your neighborhoods since childhood have been overwhelmingly lily white

Then get back with us and let us know how’s it going.


16 posted on 08/13/2010 5:39:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Vendome

“He is a boil on the the body of life and needs to be lanced.”

Whenever Tim Rutten speaks, something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.


17 posted on 08/13/2010 5:40:38 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: sionnsar

However, he should have said two MILLENIA, which is the plural of millenium.


18 posted on 08/13/2010 5:41:53 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would be really funny to have somebody look up this idiot’s address and post it on Craigslist in Spanish advertising “free and safe housing for undocumented immigrants, just show up.” Let’s see what he thinks then.


19 posted on 08/13/2010 5:43:46 PM PDT by Clint Williams ( America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Timberly needs to pull her panties out and catch a clue.


20 posted on 08/13/2010 5:44:26 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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