I’m Jewish, and I disagree with the Muslim bashing that’s been going on

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I’m Jewish, and I disagree with the Muslim bashing that’s been going on

I’m Jewish by birth, agnostic by choice, and I have a strong interest in Jediism and Greek Mythology.

President Obama recently referred to

“… the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation…”

Well, message boards and article comment sections all over the internet are flying with all sorts of criticism of Obama’s claim. Sadly, many of these people are claiming that Muslims have contributed nothing whatsoever to this great country of ours.

But the fact is that Obama does have a valid point.

The Sears Tower, which was the tallest building in the world for 25 years, was designed by a Muslim guy named Fazlur Khan. Khan was known as the “father of tubular designs for high-rises.” The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named its lifetime achievement award, the Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal, after him.

Ayub Khan Ommaya was a neurosurgeon who invented the Ommaya reservoir, which delivers chemotherapy directly to brain tumors. He was Muslim.

People should be judged as individuals. There are good and evil people in all religions. Some of the professional people that you come across in your day to day life are probably Muslim, and you don’t even know it. Doctors. Lawyers. Bankers. Teachers. Scientists. Entrepreneurs. Muslims are well represented in all of these professions.

Bash Obama all you want. I certainly do. But I bash him as an individual. Bash any individual all you want. But please don’t bash an entire religious population because some of its members are evil.

In July 2010, Charles Bolden, the administrator of NASA, said that Obama had told him that the primary purpose of NASA was “to reach out to the Muslim world.” If Obama really did say that, then he was wrong. The real purpose of NASA is to teach all of humanity about the universe in which we live. So that would be a good reason to bash Obama, if he really did say it.

In September 2012, after four U.S. citizens were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration falsely said that the attack was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video at YouTube. That’s certainly a reason to bash Obama.

In September 2012, the Obama administration phoned YouTube to complain about an anti-Muslim video. That’s certainly a reason to bash Obama. Ben Wizner of the ACLU said that of this, “It does make us nervous when the government throws its weight behind any requests for censorship.” Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said of this, “I am actually kind of distressed by this… Even though there are all these great quotes from inside the White House saying they support free speech….by calling YouTube from the White House, they were sending a message no matter how much they say we don’t want them to take it down, when the White House calls and asks you to review it, it sends a message and has a certain chilling effect.”

In June 2013, Rasmussen conducted a poll to find out what people considered to be the “nation’s top terror threat.” Reporting on the results of the poll, Rasmussen wrote: “Among those who strongly approve of the president, more fear the Tea Party than radical Muslims.” That’s a good reason to bash people who strongly approve of Obama. And it’s a good reason to bash the terrorists who happened to be Muslim. But it’s not a good reason to bash all Muslims, or to claim that they have contributed nothing whatsoever to the building of this country.

I’ll close with this statistic that may surprise a lot of people: in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, nearly 80% of Muslims voted for Bush.

[humblegunner]

Go to h@11, Satin!

I agree, Satin is about a useless gay fabric.

[longfellow]

When the rest of the religion doesn’t speak up they’re siding with the evil.

[servo1969]

My opinion can be summed up with a quote from Pat Condell:

"Why am I anti-Islam? Well, for the simple reason that Islam is anti-me and it’s anti every fundamental value I hold. If I were to accommodate its values in my life, I would have to violate everything that I believe in. I think that’s an unreasonable demand and, as such, it is, of course, typically Islamic.

In general, I don’t like to be anti anything. I prefer to be pro. But there’s nothing in Islam to be pro about. The entire religion is built on a foundation of prejudice, injustice and inhumanity: and I’m anti all of those. People say: “Well, you only focus on the bad things about Islam.” And yes, I have to admit that if you ignore the bad things – the aggressive separatism, supremacism and social intolerance; the relentless special pleading and phony grievance mongering; the psychopathic level of misogyny; the honor killing and genital mutilation (sanctioned by the prophet, incidentally); the rabid gay and Jew hatred; the intimidation and censorship and the constantly present threat of violence over social issues – well then there isn’t much wrong with Islam. It’s perfectly kosher, if you’ll pardon the expression. The trouble is, when you take these things away, there’s nothing left. There is no Islam any more because it is defined by these things and we can see the evidence of this with our own eyes. We can see that, wherever this religion goes in the world, it brings with it guaranteed intolerance, conflict and social division and, if it gets the upper hand, persecution and, ultimately, monstrous cruelty and people always become less free, especially the female ones.

Because I hold these opinions, I’m often falsely accused of hating Muslims when, in fact, -snip- I just don’t like anything about their religion because there’s nothing about it to like. It’s an absolutely outrageous ideology. If you made it up from scratch today, you’d be locked up for your own good. It brings out the very worst in humanity and it gives power and authority to violent, sadistic, savages. It has brought nothing positive to the West for the simple reason that it has nothing positive to bring. Its influence on this Earth has been overwhelmingly negative and we would all be better off without it – including Muslims, especially the female ones.

Any ideology that preaches death to anyone deserves no accommodation at all in a civilized society and no respect at all. It doesn’t even deserve the pretense of respect. Death to apostates, death to blasphemers, death to adulterers, death to homosexuals. Death, death, mutilation and death – as preached in the mosques, for it is written.

And this is the problem. It is written. Any religious scripture can be a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands -snip- and Islamic scripture is particularly dangerous because it’s particularly inflammatory and violent. Hatred of non-Muslims runs through it like a watermark. Read it for yourself and see. Anyone choosing to follow this scripture can take explicit license to be intolerant and violent and to feel virtuous about it. And it really doesn’t help that so many Muslims on this Earth take their scripture far more seriously than any sane person should. In some parts of the world, if you so much as look at the Quran the wrong way, you’re liable to be lynched on the spot (hello again, Pakistan). The idea, that this is just another religion and that all religions are equally bad, is not only laughable it’s actually offensive and it’s insulting to the many victims of Islam . . . and I don’t mean historically but, here and now.

Right now on this Earth people are being persecuted and murdered every day by Muslims and here’s the important bit . . . for purely religious reasons. That is pure evil. And where do you think it comes from? “Do not be friends with unbelievers”; “The vilest of animals are unbelievers”; “Kill unbelievers wherever you find them”; and on and on and on it goes. Yet anyone who finds any of this offensive, well, apparently they have a phobia. That’s right: they’ve got something wrong with them.

So yes, I’m very much anti-Islam, as you can see, in so many ways (I really haven’t got time to list them all here) but I’m especially anti child marriage. Are you anti child marriage? Of course you are. I wish Islam was anti child marriage but it isn’t, so I’m anti-Islam and I’ve been given no choice in the matter because child marriage is inexcusable.

And while we’re on the subject, putting an Islamic headscarf on a little girl is also inexcusable. In doing so, you sexualize that child because the headscarf is all about men and rape. You’re telling her that female hair drives Muslim men insane. It doesn’t bother other men, curiously, just the Muslim ones. And since Muslim men must never be held to account for anything they do to a woman or to a girl (because Allah wouldn’t like it), if they see her hair, they might rape her and, if they do, it will be her fault. That’s what the headscarf is really all about. Putting one on a child is an act of sexual and mental abuse and it ought to be against the law."

[Jimmy Valentine]

Dan from Squirrel Hill has drunk to much Monongahela river water.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I would expect nothing less from a Hellenized Jew!

[servo1969]

Muslim terrorists are snakes and moderate Muslims are the grass.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

“Go to h@11, Satin!”

How dare you say that about my bed sheets!

[NurdlyPeon]

Here is a little something about Muslim contributions:

Jews, Arabs, Nobel Prize

The Global Islamic population is approximately 2,000,000,000 or 33% of the world’s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat: 1990 - Elias James Corey 1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics: (zero)

Physics: (zero)

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: SEVEN

HOWEVER:

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world’s population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pa sternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer

WorldPeace:

1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phil lips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Joseph son 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Mil ton Friedman 1978 - Herb ert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1 990 - Merton Miller 199220- Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Ed elman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Ed ward B. Lewis

TOTAL: 129

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!

The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves upin German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people.

The Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for humankind’ before they demand that humankind respects them!!

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel ‘s part, the following two sentences really say it all:

‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’ -Benjamin Netanyahu

[Boston Blackie]

This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information.

[Thorliveshere]

But all of those advancements he mentions in the article... years and years and years after the formation of the United States and the Constitution-—AND would not have been possible without the ingenuity of American capitalism and advancements. They just worked off of what was already created.

But Obama makes it sound like there’s a muslim name scratched down there under the Bill of Rights.

[556x45]

‘I’m Jewish by birth, agnostic by choice,...’

That says it all. He’s thrown his moral anchor overboard and is adrift.

[P-Marlowe]

People should be judged as individuals.

And groups should be judged as groups. And as a group, Muslims are EVIL!

[miss marmelstein]

I’m Catholic of Jewish descent and I agree with the Muzzie bashing going on.

[Pit1]

I agree with you to the core. Right on!

[miss marmelstein]

Your post is hilarious!

The only point I’d disagree with is that your fantasy guy would try to bargain his way out of being beheaded. I always remember the reporter who got horribly beaten during the Brooklyn pogram of the 1990s who later wrote that he deserved to be beaten because, as a white man, he shouldn’t have been in a black neighborhood. So your guy would probably have said: Go ahead! Hack my head off!

[Solson]

Another idiot who doesn't understand Islam at all. There may very well be "peaceful" Muslims and I believe there are. However, they are not Muslims anymore than a pro-choice abortion supporting Catholic is a Catholic. They are not.

Islam, by its CORE TENETS, cannot allow and will not allow followers of other religions equality. Not religious equality - but equality - life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, the right to exist, etc.

It is the ONLY religion in the world that has that requirement. ISIS isn't an "extreme" part of Islam - it IS Islam. What is happening in Mosul and the rest of the Arab world isn't a "small extreme" part of Islam - it is the manifestation and full realization of Islam!!

I'm tired of everyone trying to make excuses for followers of a religion and acting like they have somehow bastardized the true religion. NO THEY HAVE NOT! This IS TRUE ISLAM! It's also why Pope Urban II initiated the Crusades - to stop Islamists from continuing to massacre and take ownership of Christians.

[GilesB]

Intellectually lazy.
Agnostic by choice - which is to say, I choose to be confused. I understand and respect a person who is actively pursuing truth, but has not yet recognized a trend or reached a conclusion. This person seems to take pride in his lack of clarity, with no apparent desire to find answers.

I suspect the truth is “atheist by choice”, which is more meaningful, but it is completely consistent that a person who does not recognize the moral deficiencies of Islam, would be hesitant to acknowledge his own choice to disbelieve.

One final note - Islam has some huge moral gaps, but honesty must acknowledge some points of moral clarity. However, the moral voids obscure the clarity (paradoxical statement, that) in the larger picture - making the good nothing more than window dressing for public display.

[Netz]

BTW I am a NRA/Israel-Zionist, “peace thru superior fire power” Jew to boot.
This sack of feces would plead, believe me...

[miss marmelstein]

I loved your post - very funny.