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The Queer Muhammad: an experiment in tolerance
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/mikeadams/2006/02/13/186126.html ^ | Mike S. Adams

Posted on 02/13/2006 12:08:41 AM PST by mal

Dear (NEA Chairman) Dana Gioia:

I write to you today, not with a request, but with a demand. I’ve been sitting back patiently while the NEA has been promoting anti-Christian “art” for a number of years. In fact, one could say that I have been supporting it, too, given that my tax dollars have been spent on this garbage. And maybe I’ve been supporting it in another way by refusing to write you to express my frustration. That is, until now.

In the spirit of the “separation of church and state,” my demand is that you commission a painting – fully funded with tax dollars – that has one intention and one intention only: To offend Muslims everywhere

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KEYWORDS: art; cartoonjihad; nea; politicalcorrectness; queermohammad; queermohammed; tolerance
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To: son of caesar
Off with you. You come to an intellectual battle unarmed. Your one issue mental limitation makes you no better than the PETA people you despise.
21 posted on 02/13/2006 12:49:53 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

well, now that you mention it, i do despise some peta people. mind you, not all of them, only some. regardless, you are boring me now, since you cannot post anything remotely connected to what was being discussed. have a great day.


22 posted on 02/13/2006 12:54:25 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: mal

“Queer Muhammad”

That is funny stuff right there.


23 posted on 02/13/2006 12:57:28 AM PST by moehoward
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To: decal
I have no idea what the Mohammedan position is on evolution/creationism/ID;

Check out Harun Yahya

Teaching evolution is illegal in Saudi Arabia.

From Why Does the Muslim World Lag in Science?

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, was translated in Arabic journals by 1876, though not in book form until 1918. Throughout this period, Muslim intellectuals presented minimal resistance to the diffusion of Western scientific ideas. For example, the major opposition to Darwinian ideas of evolution came not from Muslim scholars but from Eastern-rite Christians.

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In most Muslim countries, including Iran, a tacit agreement therefore exists between scientists and theologians not to debate issues that could harm both sides. That Islamic leaders seldom rail against the tenets of science means that scientific doctrines and concepts are mostly free from religious challenge. The teachings of Darwin on evolution, for example, are allowed everywhere but Saudi Arabia.

24 posted on 02/13/2006 1:02:11 AM PST by Virginia-American
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To: son of caesar
I am just pointing out the fact that even though we vote for the same people (presidentially - lesser of two evils - damn it we need another Reagan!! [he actually SPENT the commies into bankruptcy, and I hate gov spending... but I still love him]) you have no understanding of what conservatism means.

Religiously linking evo as you call them or Darwinists as you call them to Islamofachiste is just plain idiotic. By forcing religion into something political by nature, you violate both the letter of and intent of the the our constitution.

In your idiotic initial post you threw the best minds in conservative thought to the curb because they are not in your "Sect"

You are playing their game. You are a weakness, a waif, an intellectually stunted light weight.
25 posted on 02/13/2006 1:04:14 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Hexenhammer

Go for it, guy/gal! Seems to have as much artistic merit as either of the other two "projects" mentioned. Actually, it sounds quite "interesting" and "effective" aren't those words currently "en vogue" in the art world?


26 posted on 02/13/2006 1:06:50 AM PST by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

ok, now im really lauging out loud. i had no idea that my opinions were that important to you. seriously, take a deep breath and calm down. and leave peta out of it, unless you bring in the tree people for corroborating testimony.


27 posted on 02/13/2006 1:07:35 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: son of caesar

All I can say is I blame your cali edjumication.


28 posted on 02/13/2006 1:10:27 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

uh, not born or educated in california, sorry. now, lets discuss something logical and related to the issue we are discussing. since you are so vociferously defending darwinism, im going to think you are a darwinist. now, can you please tell me why and based on what line of thought was it wrong for nazis to kill jews?


29 posted on 02/13/2006 1:15:07 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: son of caesar

Guess I will have to chime in here.

Equating atheist with the islamonazi's ruins what would otherwise have been an excellent article.

The islamonazi's are determined that theirs is the only acceptable religious belief! They have no qualms at forcing that religion on everyone else, by any and all possible means. A trait you seem to share.
Your overbearing vitriolic insistence that "Christianity" is the only true religion, and the most important philosophy responsible for American progress, puts YOU much closer to the islamonazi's than any atheist!

Genuine atheist have no reason to care who or what faith you believe in, until you try to impose your faith on them, so very much like the islamonazi's!

You insist on imposing your zealous faith in place of actual, verifiable, facts.

FYI, it is our unique constitution and bill of rights, the "Great Experiment", that made America what it is today, not any one brand of religion or it's absence.

A pox on ALL zealots!


30 posted on 02/13/2006 1:16:00 AM PST by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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To: mal

Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, these movements keep screaming that nuclear weapons have made war too horrible to contemplate, that armed force and violence should be abolished as a means of settling disputes among nations, and that war should be outlawed in the name of humanity. Yet these same peace movements do not oppose dictatorships, the political views of their members range through all shades of the statist spectrum, from "welfare statism" to socialism to communism. This means that these peace movements are opposed to the use of coercion by one nation against another, but not by the government of a nation against its own citizens, it means that they are opposed to the use of force and violence against armed adversaries but not against the disarmed.

--Ayn Rand June 24, 1962


31 posted on 02/13/2006 1:16:11 AM PST by mal
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To: Notwithstanding

wow, excellent article!!!


32 posted on 02/13/2006 1:22:06 AM PST by SoothSayerONETIME
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To: Richard-SIA

you read things in my post that i never said, but so be it. lets get to facts then. america is based on judeo christianity, that is a fact. americans purport to be very relgious people, that is a fact. islam is a relgion, that is a fact. these two are clashing and no matter what is said otherwise, that is a fact. as our cic said, you are either with us or against us, that is another fact. i never said everyone has to believe as i do, that is a fact. darwinists and athiests by OMISSION are helping islam against the basic building blocks of the usa, imo, that is a fact. get it? oh, and the founding fathers rightly seperated church and state, another fact. athiests want to ban relgion, another fact. here is the last fact for the readers out there. i am not saying any group i mentioned is monolithic, there are individuals who think differently. is that clear?


33 posted on 02/13/2006 1:25:53 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: mal

The Muslims do like young boys.
Sickos.

34 posted on 02/13/2006 1:32:18 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: son of caesar
Oh great... lets use it as a model for society. The point of Civilization is transcending evolution. For humanity we must transcend these things as a species. The eat or be eaten.  In a Darwinian sense there was no point at all to Nazis killing the "Joooos who always take the blame"

The Nazi Jew killing was anti Darwinian.   They would have won if they had the bomb and they not lost them to us, the melting pot.  We don't play the race religion or social status game that had developed to the same degree.

To say that is the way it has worked from the time of a nit on a gnats ass is not an excuse for us.  We know better.   Markets have allowed us to "evolve" with wealth being one of the the new survival of the fittest measures.  

 

 

35 posted on 02/13/2006 1:36:22 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: son of caesar
not being offended enough to riot over cartoons is a western value. just because we think this way does not mean others think that way...

Um, that is kind of the point here. You are apparently so focused on fruit analogies that it flew right over your head.

36 posted on 02/13/2006 1:38:05 AM PST by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: bluefish

what seems to be hanging from the fruit trees right in frong of everyone, yet is always being denied is that different cultures look at things differently.


37 posted on 02/13/2006 1:42:34 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: decal
And one doesn't understand why Darwinists should be "posterized," so to speak - have they been on the side of the terrorists, too?

A little defensive are we? You missed the point entirely. Darwinists mock Christianity. Muslims get offended when Islam is mocked. Mock Islam, pin it on the Darwinists, and fun for all ensues! As a proponent of mocking religion, you should have no problem with the plan. Of course, as the piece implies, you will quickly side with Christians once the Muslims turn on you. You might even think twice about mocking those Christians once they become your brothers in arms.

The big point here: Not all religions are equal.

38 posted on 02/13/2006 1:43:45 AM PST by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: son of caesar

What is a frong? Some sort of thong they put on you when you are mentally limited?


39 posted on 02/13/2006 1:43:57 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

whether you wish to deny it or not, religion has been the major influence on all national models. come on, surely you know this? name me one civilization that did not have religion? just one?


40 posted on 02/13/2006 1:44:34 AM PST by son of caesar
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