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Don't prejudge Muslims (BARF ALERT)
Chicago Sun-Times letter to the editor ^
| 8/03/05
| M. Ali Khan
Posted on 08/03/2005 10:46:00 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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"The Not in the Name of Islam campaign is being sponsored principally by Muslim Americans who immigrated to this country beginning in the '60s when Robert Kennedy declared that America's fight against racism included opening our shores to people of color."
I don't think Muslims are automatically "people of color" and I know that Robert Kennedy had some bad first-hand experience with a Muslim. And I don't believe that the OKC bombing was done in the name of Christianity.
To: Chi-townChief
McVeigh was a Christian? I thought he was an atheist. I guess this reporter doesn't feel facts are important.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:47:10 AM PDT
by
VegasCowboy
("...he wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.")
To: Chi-townChief
I'll bet a dollar that M. Ali Khan has a chemistry set in his basement.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:48:14 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Chi-townChief
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:48:35 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
To: VegasCowboy
While I applaud the national ''Not in the Name of Islam'' campaign condemning terrorismIt's SO national that I've never heard of it. But, just like democRATS, I guess they haven't gotten their message out.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:48:43 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Chi-townChief
You penned it right "BARF" cause I'm gagging now.
To: Chi-townChief
you can't condemn Christianity just because a few Christians committed the Oklahoma City bombing terrorismAnd which Christians were "they".
What a d!ck....
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:50:03 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(Go Manitowoc Bandits!)
To: Chi-townChief
They have felt the full brunt of the war on terrorism.... I'd say that people in the twin towers and Pentagon and airplanes on 9/11 felt the "full brunt" of the war on terrorism -- not whining, sniveling people like Mr. Khan.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:51:38 AM PDT
by
68skylark
To: Chi-townChief
"Neither Christians nor Jews feel compelled to take out newspaper ads declaring their faith's innocence whenever acts of violence and extremism are carried out by individuals or groups who share their religion."
Psst...I bet they would in a MUSLIM country....
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:52:16 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: Chi-townChief
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:53:28 AM PDT
by
standing united
(82nd ABN 1/508th BN Bco 1st Sqd. Alpha Fireteam Leader: "fury from the sky" 8-Duce on the Loose!!)
To: Chi-townChief
Profile by statistics and if the results are that 99% of terrorists bombings are carried out by Muslims then they should be singled out and stop wasting time searching little old ladies in wheelchairs and six year olds holding a stuffed animal.
We should be allowed to rule out the obvious in our search for those who wish to due us harm in great numbers.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:53:51 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
To: VegasCowboy; Chi-townChief
For what it's worth, McVeigh was a member of the Christian Identity movement. He had ties to Elohim City (the associated neo-nazi compound, in Oklahoma, I believe).
If you don't know what the Christian Identity movement is, consider yourself lucky. Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely-affiliated groups and churches with a racist, perverted Christian theology: Aryan blood purity, British Israelism and militant white supremacist spliced with a very unChristian Christianity, all hastily slapped together into one delightfully offensive package.
At best they are white separatists. At worst, they are rabid neonazis, who venerate Hitler, hate Jews and Catholics and blacks and HIspanics and (list goes on and on). etc. etc.
They are not Christian. Unless you believe that purging all non Aryan peoples from the earth or deporting them is a critical tenet of Christianity, that only Aryan Anglo-Saxons can be true Christians, etc. etc.. Which I doubt many true Christians do. ;)
To: VegasCowboy
McVey was an apostate Catholic. He refused all ministration from priests until the last night. Don't know how that last encounter turned out.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:59:19 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
(chirho)
To: Chi-townChief
READ THEIR BOOK, READ THEIR BOOK, READ THEIR BOOK
then you will know that the writer and his assertions are a POS
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:59:28 AM PDT
by
kublia khan
(absolute war brings total victory)
To: Chi-townChief
Thus, the Not in the Name of Islam campaign is really a plea. It's asking America to have the good and common sense not to judge an entire religion by the acts of a few. It's asking America in advance not to lose its cool if another terrorist attack should strike this nation -- as we shamefully did in locking down Japanese Americans in World War II. It's asking that religious prejudice not be in the name of protecting America. If internment is necessary after another attack, so be it. We should have the complete freedom to respond as necessary should another attack occur
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:59:47 AM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: VegasCowboy
Actually even IF McVeigh claimed to be a Christian it wouldn't change a thing. After all McVeigh did not bomb the building in the name of Christ. However Islamic terrorism always claims to commit their vile acts in the name of Islam. Hence the author cannot try to place a link between Christianity and Islam.
And let me explain further. If a Muslim robs me I wouldn't call him an 'Islamic robber.' I'd just call him a robber. HOWEVER if he robbed me, and said he did so in the Name of Islam, then he would automatically be an Islamic robber. Same thing if a Southern Baptist robbed me. IF he just robbed me I would term him simply as a thug. However if he robbed me based on his religions beliefs, then I can correctly call him a Christian thug or a Southern Baptist highwayman, or a Bible Bandit!
All terrorism committed by muslims is done in the name of Islam, hence it is in essence Islamic Terrorism.
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posted on
08/03/2005 10:59:52 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: standing united
TOTALY BLOODY RIGHT, IT IS ONLY THE LOONEY LEFT WHO WOULD WANT TO CARRY ON TALKING AS MORE OF US DIE
To: Chi-townChief
The OKC bombing was against the most basic tenets of Christianity. 9/11 was in accord with the most basic tenets of Islam.
"Prohet make war on the unbelievers and hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home, and evil fate." Sura 9:73.
"Believers, make war with the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous." Sura 9:123.
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posted on
08/03/2005 11:00:26 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
To: spetznaz
Oh, and CAIR can take that to the bank!
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posted on
08/03/2005 11:01:07 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Chi-townChief
you can't condemn Christianity just because a few Christians committed the Oklahoma City bombing terrorism. HUH!
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posted on
08/03/2005 11:06:20 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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