President To Nominate Muslim As UN Ambasador

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[jamese777]

PRESIDENT BUSH WILL NOMINATE ZALMAY KHALILZAD -- AN AFGHAN MUSLIM CURRENTLY SERVING AS AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ -- AS THE NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., ABC NEWS IS REPORTING... DEVELOPING...

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

According to Wikipedia, it depends on which census or source is used. The national census supposedly had about 60% Christian, while the CIA Factbook had Muslims with a plurality of 45% to 50%.

[Politicalities]

There is this little detail that, according to the holy book of Islam, infidels are to be converted, enslaved or killed.

Yes, and then there's that teensy-weensy little bit about, according to the holy book of Christianity, the appropriate price to collect when selling one's daughter into slavery.

the Bible commands exactly opposite, making Christians who kill for inconsistent with the commandments of their God.

Have you read Romans 1 lately? From about, say, 1:28-1:32? There's a laundry list of crimes for which people "deserve death", including hatred of God and disobedience of parents.

Don't you think anyone who claims to be of Islam is at least suspect?

Would you trust a Christian doctor? One who believed in James 5:14-15, say? Tell me, do you accept 1 Timothy 11-12? What about the similar injunction in 1 Corinthians?

Christians are capable of sin, right? It's possible that a Christian might do you wrong, right? If a Christian wronged you, would you consider suing him? If so, why don't you accept 1 Corinthians 6?

Every religion is full of questionable precepts. I do not assume that all adherents of a religion adhere to all of these precepts.

[lormand]

I hope "Larry Everest" is right, whoever he is.

[zimdog]

Hispañola's population was wiped out due to European disease and enslavement;

And why were they enslaved?

don't blame Roman Catholicism, and especially Christianity for that one.

I don't. I'm just saying that the Spanish conquest of the Hispañola was carried out in the name of spreading Christianity and it resulted in the extermination of the island's native population.

Maybe some Islamic tendencies rubbed off on them.

Or maybe it was the anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish blood zeal of the (Christian) Reconquista that rubbed off on the conquistadores.

Back to the main topic, not all Muslims are any more of a threat to this country than any other American. The September 11th people were neither Americans nor immigrants, but rather people who overstayed their visas.

Yes.

[pissant]

As usual

[You Dirty Rats]

Have you ever played golf with a Muslim? Had dinner with a Muslim? Done business with a Muslim? Visited a Muslim country?

I am done all of the above, and with people that were not obviously Muslim. Most people in the modern world do not wear their religion on their sleeve or shove it down everyone else's throat.

You are ascribing the actions of a few thousand famous Islamic terrorists to 1.2 billion people. That's pure religious bigotry. Perhaps if you got out more you might not prejudge people that you don't even know.

[RockinRight]

You're correct.

However, modern Christianity, as a whole, has proven they are civilized.

Modern Islam, AS A WHOLE, has not.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

And is Israel the United States? (rhetorical).

He's the nominee for American ambassador to the UN.

[zimdog]

Like in Lebanon, religious demographics is a politically contentious issue for Ethiopia's northern-dominated (and thus Christian-dominated) government. I'll take the CIA's numbers, they don't have a dog in that fight.

[RockinRight]

Have you ever played golf with a Muslim? No, I'm not a golfer.

Had dinner with a Muslim? Yes, several times. Dated a girl in college whose roommate was Muslim. She was cool but her parents were pretty nuts (not terrorists, mind you, but nuts)

Done business with a Muslim? Yes.

Visited a Muslim country? No, but I've never left North America.

[zimdog]

Intimidation is not terrorism. And even at its most violent, the Klan has never approached the levels that Islamist terrorists regularly live and breathe.

Remember when the Blackwater contractors were murdered, burned and strung from a bridge? Didn't that look just a little like a Klan lynching to you?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Rampant? Although they have killed many, the number of incidents is relatively few, especially considering this is a global thing. In the United States, the only one to come to fruition was September 11th.

Racist intimidation (at least) is far more prevalent.

[La Enchiladita]

The UN is well known for hating Israel, as you say, proposing and passing one resolution after another condemning them.

This appointment looks to me as though we are becoming more like the rest of the UN.

Winning the hearts and minds of the Middle East, sans Israel.

[trisham]

I've been guilty of posting without reading article several times today.

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You're part of a grand tradition here on FR. :)

[ShandaLear]

Are Muslims exempt from serving in government roles? Just want to know if this is some kind of new litmus test I don't know about.

[backtothestreets]

"Sorry, I just don't trust any Muslims until I'm proven wrong."

I'm with you. I never expect a Muslim to win my trust as every Muslim is a member of a "religion" that preaches and practices hatred against non-Muslims. A person can be a good American or good Muslim, but not both.

I grow more suspicious of President Bush by the day as he moves forward with his policies allowing Muslims to colonize our nation, secures tens of millions of dollars from Muslim nations for his future presidential library, encourages restraints upon our entire society when it is only the Muslims that have planned and delivered acts of mass terrorism upon our nation during his administration, and hosts annual Ramadan celebrations in our White House.

Is President Bush a Muslim pawn? By his own words, he is either with us, or against us.

[ClearBlueSky]

I loved Ronaldus Maximus. I think he was the greatest president I will ever know and I count seeing him at the Republican convention in N.O. as an inestimable honor- BUT-
when it came to trusting this( or any other) Muslim( however far he did) then yes, he was wrong.
He wasn't infallible or perfect- neither is W.
Trusting Muslims is suicide-politically and personally.

So I guess I don't have to be 'outed' as anti-Muslim. It's a no-brainer; belonging to aa death cult that wants the world to submit or die cancels out EVERY other aspect of individual personality, in my opinion.
There were no 'good Nazis'.
There are no 'good Muslims'.

[visualops]

Cool

[oneamericanvoice]

Thank you for posting this man's background. Hopefully, people on this thread will read who leapt to "betrayal", will read this and realize what a stroke of genius this seems to be. The Democrats can't turn him down. I can hardly wait to see the fall out.

[You Dirty Rats]

I do not assume that all adherents of a religion adhere to all of these precepts.

The other problem is that amateur Islamic scholars here like to read the Koran and then assume all 1.2 Billion Muslims follow every word literally. In reality, Islam is at least as fragmented as Christianity -- perhaps even more so. To assume that every Muslim, or even a majority, are potential killers and enslavers is totally pathetic.

It is naive to think that Islam does not spawn some followers who are dangerous radicals who commit terrible crimes. It is also naive not to have a heightened scrutiny of young Islamic men from certain countries due to the past 30-year history of terrorism. But is is equally naive to think that the terrorists represent any more than a small minority of Muslims.

Osama bin Laden wants America to think all Muslims are like him. George W. Bush disagrees. It is truly sad and disgraceful to see so many posters agreeing with bin Laden on this issue instead of with the President.