BUSH HOSTED RAMADAN DINNER AAT WHITE HOUSE (Mired in controversy)

Yahoo ^ | 10/28/2003 | Staff

[PBRSTREETGANG]

You're right .. and if I recall the WH does this type of thing for many other different religions.

"He organized the first White House Iftar after bin Laden and al-Qaeda launched the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington."

Interesting incentive for those other "different" religions who don't yet have a dinner at the White House.

[a_Turk]

>> Your country is "Secular" because your Military makes it so.

Every man in Turkey is in the military. That makes my military my country and my country my military.

>> When your country is secular by choice and not force let me know.

Nobody is forced to vote for the 80,000 elected offices in Turkey, but they do..

So simply put, you are full of, hmmm, rubbish...

[truthandlife]

I know everyone is saying that GW Bush is a slam dunk for '04 but I am beginning to think otherwise. He is turning off his base. His base that was very supportive of him in 2000 are going to be luke warm to cold for him. He cannot afford for this to happen.

Rove and company are clueless and Bush should start asking God for wisdom instead of his so-called advisors.

[Redleg Duke]

Thank God GW is the president and not you!

[GraniteStateConservative]

No president running for re-election since the NH primary has become a significant political event (post-WW2 in other words) has ever lost re-election when they faced no serious opposition in the NH primary. The deadline is next month to be on the ballot. And, the best way to stop a president is to mount a challenge in the president's party's presidential primary in NH-- every time they've lost the general. We'll all know if Bush is a lock by then.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I assume the Ramadan dinner was also held last year.

[freedomson]

Fancy silverware and plates c'mon.

Traditionaly the celebrants squat down in a filthy hovel wearing feces splattered nightshirts and flipflops with pure hate pounding in their heads and eat with their dirt covered fingers.

[JesseHousman]

One FReeper responded thusly:

I have just signed into law, legislation that would outlaw Mecca for ever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."

Within an hour or so after the 9/11 mass murders in NYC the US should have bombed Saudi oilfields into oblivion. Recognizing and punishing our hateful enemies is the best defence possible. Everything else is just political correctness gone crazy.

Your comment:

Holding all Muslims accountable for the acts of a distorted sect is every bit as ignorant as hloding All Pro Life people responsible for Clinic Bombers and murderers. is a very poor example of what we're talking about here. Some time American do-gooder, PC advocates are going to have to come to grips with the fact that this is indeed a holy war.

Read Spanish history. Muslims make very cruel conquerors and slave owners.

[a_Turk]

Bush is a good man.

[Redleg Duke]

I would humbly suggest that there is an example of cluelessness staring out at you from your bathroom mirror.

[Dane]

I know everyone is saying that GW Bush is a slam dunk for '04 but I am beginning to think otherwise. He is turning off his base

JMO, but he is turning off truthandlife, who gets all hot and bothered that Bush sits down to talk some muslim clerics and not blame all of muslims for the actions of the radical muslims.

I guess to you after World War II all Lutheran Germans were nazis and all Japanese Shinto's were kamikazies.

[rintense]

I posted this on another thread, but thought I would repost it.

President Bush simply can not say that the war on terror is Christianity vs. Islam. He simply can't. One, it isn't wholely true. It's the entire world vs. Islam. And if you look closely at what Bush, Blair, and other world leaders have said, you don't need to nit-pick through the words: the war on terror IS against Islam. To specifically call out a religion would not only isolate the United States, but many of our allies as well. As much as we hate it, myself included, there is no way the President of the United States- no matter who it is, will ever specifically say a war is against a religion. Let the actions speak louder than the words.

BTW, as the leader of the free world, do you really think President Bush would ever say what you want him to say? Realistically? I'd bet a dime to donuts that privately, Bush the *man* can't stand Islam. But you'll never hear Bush the *President* say it.

To me, when the President says militant Islam, it is still Islam. And you can bet that's why most Moslems can't stand Bush now. Because they know that he is targeting their religion, whether he's targeting them as peaceful followers or not. Detante is a clever game of what is said and what isn't said. And to me, what isn't said is far more powerful than stating the obvious.

[justshe]

Now don't go getting all logical here. You MUST allow your emotions to rule over your brain! /sarcasm

[JesseHousman]

My hope at this point is that a good "True Conservative" 3rd party candidate pops up(and I don't mean Libertarian)...

This has been my dream for a long time.

A legitimate and conservative 3rd party would syphon votes and forever dilute the power of these two parties.

[JustAnAmerican]

Unlike some, I do keep abreast of history. If every "Man in Turkey", was in the Military then I guess your Military coup to oust elected officials when they became too radical, was really to overthrow non-Turks? History, it's what the world is made of and something you can't avoid.

[FITZ]

Islam isn't a Turkish religion --- it is an Arab religion founded by Mohammed --- and it was imposed on Turkey. You face the death penalty if you ever choose to freely convert to another religion. Turkey and Persia had better cultures and better religions before they were conquered by the Arabs.

[Dane]

This has been my dream for a long time.

A legitimate and conservative 3rd party would syphon votes and forever dilute the power of these two parties

Oh you mean like 0.03% Pat or 0.01% Howard.

[hobbes1]

Muslims make very cruel conquerors and slave owners

Actually, that could be said of every NON Western "Civilzation"....Are then Hutus of Rwanda muslims? Was Genghis Khan?????? Are the madmen of the Congo?

Secondly, how do you know the traits you are ascribing are more Muslim, than Arab? There is a Difference...

[Consort]

Wishful thinking is a bitch.