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.

[Uncle Miltie]

You have to SEARCH for a muslim contribution to ANYTHING.

Occasionally, the odd muslim accomplishes something.

But mostly, they murder.

[IronJack]

Dan certainly knows how to drive away readership.

There are things on this earth that are defensible and things that aren’t. Islime is an example of the latter. Those who attempt to defend it, besides being dispatched on a fool’s errand, risk fatal wounds to their credibility.

It is NOT a matter of individuals. It is the very nature of islime to be barbaric, totalitarian, and unthinking. It is the very antithesis of enlightenment. Anyone practicing it must either subdue their humanity or violate its teachings.

[Texas Eagle]

Wow. Two examples.

Hu knew that the "fabric of America" consisted of two loose threads.

[9YearLurker]

If one is one a larger mission to establish Islam, one is permitted to deceive in all ways.

[Netz]

Thank you but it IS true unfortunately...

[nikos1121]

How many Nobel Prize winners are Muslim, besides Yasar Arafat?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have known and worked with Muslims (mainly software engineers from India and Pakistan) who were very decent people, and certainly did not strike me as potential murderers or terrorists. Most just wanted to live their lives. The Pakistanis in particular seemed far more interested in making money than in waging Jihad.

In a sense being born in Pakistan makes you Muslim in the same way that being Irish makes you Catholic. Because everybody else is.

That being said, if even the most conservative estimate of 25% of the world’s billion Muslims being radicalized is true, that’s a HUGE problem! And we cannot have our heads buried in the sand about it.

[dfwgator]

But even with the “moderate” Muslims, when the chips fall, which side will they be on?

[ogen hal]

So-called “good” moozlums make money which they give to support their fellow murderers. At best, they are coconspirator dupes. moozlums should be deported...all moozlums.

[GladesGuru]

First sentence in this excremental article - “I’m Jewish by birth, agnostic by choice, and I have a strong interest in Jediism and Greek Mythology.”

For those unfamiliar with the delusions common amongst Liberal American Jews(most of them if numbers still mean anything), to claim ones theological basis is a movie tells us all we need to know about this nutter's views/values.

He is making another pitiful attempt to defend the “All cultures are equal” commie party line.

Islam is evil, and Churchill described why back in 1899 as follows:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

As for this Libtard Jew's lying attempt to prove Muslims are equally productive as Americans, one need only check the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to Muslims. Mighty few, may I point out. Also four in chemistry and physics, the rest mere politically correct trash fields, as Arafat's Peace Prize illustrates.

Don't forget the fact that Muslims are vastly more numerous than Jews. Then note that Jews won vastly more Nobel Prizes than Muslims and the mental inferiority of Muslims and the total degradation of Muslim cultures becomes clear.

Churchill was right.

Nuke ‘em all, Nuke ‘em Now!

[drpix]

Totally idiotic!

Obama credits Muslims with "...building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.”

How does 1 architect and 1 neurosurgeon amount to "building the very fabric" or "strengthening the core?"

Even stacking up Muslim contributions on a far less grand scale than the "fabric and core," Squirrel-man, and Obama have no argument. The Sears building erected doesn't even balance out the Twin Towers destroyed - nor does one invented medical device make up for the thousand of American deaths and injuries at the hand of Muslims.

[dps.inspect]

I’m a Disciple of Jesus Christ, and I’m pro Israel and am in favor of living in peace. But I know there will be no real peace on this earth until Jesus returns from heaven. I know there is no such thing as all religions “coexist”ing (that bumper stick makes me want to throw up every time I see one), because there is only One True Creator and not all religions acknowledge Him. In fact most all other religions are hostile to the One True Creator, and anything He has put His Name on... that would be Christians and His chosen people Israel.

But, there is only one religion out there lopping off heads, torturing and terrorizing, and I dare you to guess what religious system that is... it ain’t Christianity or Israel. Anyone who proudly calls themselves Muslim, is suspect in my mind. I will trust any Muslim as much as I would the devil to fetch me a glass of ice water on a hot day. So ya, if I meet one on the street (in America), I will exercise the same courtesy as I would anyone else, but I will never trust my back to them... you can never tell when the next Muslim is radicalized, or if he is already but pretending to want to “coexist”... hell, they’re probably the ones who came up with that stupid bumper sticker... stupid Americans.

[greedo]

"The Council on Tall Buildings"


two of their tall buildings are gone

[ameribbean expat]

One of the most important principles of civilized culture is that each group which subscribes to, participates in and benefits from the broader civilization— be it religious, cultural, ethnic— cleans up its own mess before it spills over into the larger populace and causes intracivilization conflicts between subgroups.

Islam fails on that count, and hence it does not have my respect. I think it is a juvenile form of anthropomorphism dreamt up by 14 year old boys trying to figure out how to get laid. The best that can be said about it is that it got the tribes of the Arabian peninsula beyond their various forms of nativist polytheism and into monotheism, at which point you have a basis for the rule of law and the beginning of civilization.

Now let’s look at little Danny from NutChaser Hill’s religious CV: “I’m Jewish by birth, agnostic by choice, and I have a strong interest in Jediism and Greek Mythology.”

Essentially Danny is saying: I was raised monotheistic but I’m not so sure anymore, and to the degree I do entertain metaphysical thoughts I prefer “Jediism” (pantheism) and Greek Mythology (polytheism).

Actually, Danny is a parasite. The benefits to the larger society of monotheism and nontheistic rationalism are well known. Danny embraces neither of these. He’s somewhere back around 4500 years ago, released from the responsibilities that come with being an adult in the modern world.

Entire books rarely impress me, but there are chapters within books that I read and reread. The opening chapters of Camille Paglia’s *Sexual Personae* are worth reading and rereading. And when you’re done, you’ll be able to explain to little Danny from NutChaser Hill that unless he (and a whole lot of other people) get their fecal matter together, Islam is Apollo cleaning up the mess he and his friend Dionysus left after the party.

[reed13k]

I’m ok if someone wants to be muslim - but why do they NEVER speak out against muslim extremism and terrorists? This inability to criticize their own either means they are cowards or agree with the terrorism or both.

[SgtHooper]

Don’t forget O$hithead!

[FR_addict]

The only ones that seem to be moderate are the ones currently in control in Egypt. Of course Obama wants to replace them with the Muslim Brotherhood. The current Egyptian government has no love for Hamas.

I think they are moderate in spite of their religion not because of their religion.

[miss marmelstein]

I would recommend Paglia's new book on art (short and sweet with gorgeous prints and expensive paper)which is as small as a breviary and available on Amazon for just a couple of bucks. She has an hilarious introduction in which she dishes left wingers for their horrible art creations and bashes evangelicals for their ignorant hatred of great art.

What a woman!

[biff]

And I want to ask what kind of world this would be if their prophet had never existed???

Just think, century after century of peace and literally millions and millions of people the world over that would not have been slaughtered like goats.

[biff]

And I want to ask what kind of world this would be if their prophet had never existed???

Just think, century after century of peace and literally millions and millions of people the world over that would not have been slaughtered like goats.