Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

The West's relationship with much of the Muslim world is inflamed right now. Why choose to pour salt in this open wound, rather than ask ourselves what we can do to build bridges of understanding?


Let's see 911, Ft. Hood, Boston Marathon. Who's pouring salt on what open wound?

1 posted on 01/11/2015 8:36:33 AM PST by artichokegrower
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
To: artichokegrower

I have come to the realization that Moderate Muslims are the cause of the terrorists. When I see newspapers trying to defend moderates, I ask myself where did the terrorists come from? And why aren’t there Moderate Muslims speaking loudly, and clearly, and publicly that these terrorists are horrible savages.

The reality is that these savages grow up in moderate mosques that quietly condone eye for and eye. They quietly preach terror. And when the terrorists attack, they are quiet, except to say, don’t blame us.

And that’s our mistake. We should be blaming all Muslims that don’t stand on the front lines against terrorism. We should demand it of them before we write articles protecting them.

The truth is that after these Moderate Muslims create their little war machines. They are afraid of them too. They know if they stand up against the radicals they may be harmed. So they would rather sit back and watch the war, hoping neither side notices them.

But we should blame all of them until they publicly, loudly, clearly, speak out against the radicals and All they stand for.


31 posted on 01/11/2015 8:54:58 AM PST by poinq
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Two words for the authors:

Heckler’s Veto

They can look it up.


32 posted on 01/11/2015 8:55:03 AM PST by Dana1960
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends








PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY!

33 posted on 01/11/2015 8:55:52 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
How about a mass ass-kissing of the Muzzie population in San Jose ?
34 posted on 01/11/2015 8:57:29 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

This kind of crap is why I cancelled my subscription to the Mercury news 25 years ago. Havent even spent a quarter for a daily issue since.


38 posted on 01/11/2015 8:59:30 AM PST by uncitizen (2015 Here we come!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

The libs have been shoveling depraved filth in the culture for decades, attacking everything honorable and decent, and always rushing to use the freedom-of-speech banner like they were some kind of righteous warriors.

But, NOW, when muzzies are targeted, they talk about ‘tempering’ speech. What loathesome, cowardly scum these libs are.


39 posted on 01/11/2015 8:59:39 AM PST by greene66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Left wing trash! I doubt they’re thinking this way when they’re criticizing Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in their articles and op-ed pieces.


42 posted on 01/11/2015 9:01:15 AM PST by dowcaet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

ALL the terrorists fires are from Islamic terrorists.

Why cannot we IDENTIFY the arsonists who lit the fire?


43 posted on 01/11/2015 9:01:49 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
The West's relationship with much of the Muslim world is inflamed right now. Why choose to pour salt in this open wound, rather than ask ourselves what we can do to build bridges of understanding?

The muslims have been inflamed and butt hurt since the 7th century when it was created by the Al Capone and Adolph Hitler of his day. We don't have a problem, it's the muslims that have a problem. What these leftists don't seem to get is that there will never be a bridge of understanding because muslims aren't understanding and don't want a bridge, they want to remain separate from the rest of the world. Muslims are nothing more than seventh century savages. They aren't just stuck on stupid, they're stuck on seventh century stupid.

44 posted on 01/11/2015 9:02:06 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Fire in a crowded theater. They love that analogy. But look at the case that it was first used in as a concept. Schenck v. United States.

A guy sent out flyers opposing Wilsons draft for WWI and called it a monstrous wrong. They said speaking against the draft was like yelling fire in a crowded theater.
The attack on free speech was more important to America than anything whatsoever having to do with WWI.

SO no thank you, I will not temper my free speech.


45 posted on 01/11/2015 9:02:15 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Then they should watch what they say about “teabaggers.”


46 posted on 01/11/2015 9:02:34 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Translation: we support free speech as long as it doesn’t require, you know, any actual courage.

Never forget this about liberals: they are fundamentally cowards. That’s why they get so faux-outraged about metaphorical issues. They know it won’t come to blows.

In the present case, we are dealing with monsters who destroy and kill merely because they are offended. People like that need to be offended mercilessly.


47 posted on 01/11/2015 9:09:00 AM PST by Boundless (Survive Obamacare by not needing it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
Muslims can't, and won't, coexist with anyone else who isn't a muslim.

There is no such thing a “moderate” or a “tolerate” muslim.

Islam is not a religion. It is a plan, just like communism, socialism, or an oligarchy.

And just like the above mentioned, islam is just another form of SLAVERY, preying on and subjugating the weak minded and uninformed.

48 posted on 01/11/2015 9:09:16 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
Clearly these acts of violence are unjustified and not representative of the Muslim faith. But...

Lots of "buts" and "howevers" in these "blame the victim" pieces this morning.

50 posted on 01/11/2015 9:10:53 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Bullcrap. You can’t have it both ways and the problem here is THEY don’t understand OUR view of personal freedom. If they don’t agree with it they should stay in their poverty ridden, disease infected, primitive Islamic paradises and not come here so they won’t be “offended”. I for one, intend to “offend” them as much as possible and suggest any sane westerners do so also.


53 posted on 01/11/2015 9:16:05 AM PST by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

“The West’s relationship with much of the Muslim world is inflamed right now.”

Nope. The muslims are attacking the West and everyone else, so it is they who have an inflamed relationship.


54 posted on 01/11/2015 9:16:53 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
Responsibility is a Christian trait.

"A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct."

"Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. This failure to fully transmit value norms to subsequent generations represents another failing of the greatest generation."

- Walter E. Williams, Nov. 21, 2007


55 posted on 01/11/2015 9:17:10 AM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

What do you expect frrom a Leftist rag in CA?


56 posted on 01/11/2015 9:17:24 AM PST by txrefugee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower

Oh yeah, cuz the Western media have demonstrated such “responsibility” with their fictionalized, dramatized, sanitized, plagiarized, advocacy journalism.


59 posted on 01/11/2015 9:20:17 AM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: artichokegrower
The West's relationship with much of the Muslim world is inflamed right now.

By the way, it is the muslime world's relationship with the West that is inflamed, not vice versa.

60 posted on 01/11/2015 9:21:35 AM PST by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson