Posted on 04/12/2007 11:20:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Last summer, a USA Today/Gallup Poll found that 39 percent of Americans have "at least some feelings of prejudice against Muslims" and 34 percent said Muslims living in the United States were "sympathetic" to al-Qaida.
So, if CAIR says there are 6 million Muslims in the US, we have 2,040,000 self-identified terrorist sympathizers in our midst.
“Muslim leaders blame Islamophobia on voices in the media such as syndicated columnist Ann Coulter and politicians such as Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Virginia, who criticized Ellison’s use of the Quran for taking the oath of office.”
Maybe they should blame CAIR and other Muslim organizations for handing out free Qur’ans. We actually read them and studied Islam just like they wanted us to. Islam is incompatible with our Bill of Rights and with our Constitution.
I remember way back to sophomore psychology class. The professor digressed from a discussion concerning delusional thinking to a tirade against the concept of "the virgin mother of God," and then on to a thirty minute attack upon the Catholic Church. I suspect this sort of thing still occurs frequently. Sensitivity training anyone?
I wouldn’t call it a phobia. More like calling a spade a spade, or coping with the cards we are dealt, otherwise known as “life”.
Also, if all the limp wristed liberals would wise up to the fact that their necks are also on the line, maybe they would stop brown nosing all those fannies waving in the air.
Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself!
Exactly, the ‘phobia’ suffix is a lib tactic, just like homophobia, xenophobia, etc.. if you don’t wish to put your head in the sand or just disagree, then some how your ill and suffering from a phobia.
Sorry, all.
“Islamophobia” = sensible response to a known threat
“All we needed to know about Islam we learned on 9/11.”
AMEN! and again I say, AMEN!!
Hey, I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings towards Islam or Islamic groups such as CAIR etc. To put it bluntly, I am wary. But many individual Muslims I have met are respectable people, and until they do something that turns me against them, I will continue to treat with respect. There is abig Muslim population out where my mom lives in Brooklyn NY (where I grew up, but don’t live now). Don’t you think it crossed my mind how many terrorist cells might exist among them? But, I am not the FBI or Homeland security. Muslims in America have done a terrible job at assauging our fears. Babbling on about Islam being a religion of peace is horse crap. Some dopes even said Islam means peace; no dopey, it means submission..and I graduated Romper Room with honors. All any nitwit has to do is read a little history of the Islamic world and the conclusion one comes to is that all they possess was taken by the sword.
“Muslims need to provide a safe environment for Christians and Jews and all other religions throughout the world”
Be careful what you ask for. Muslims will tell you they provide a very tolerant, safe environment - as long as they are in power.
About damn time.
lol!
“”It is a biology class, for God’s sake. Religion shouldn’t be anywhere close to a biology class.””
For whose sake???
Sometimes you can choke on the irony....
I like to refer to it as islamoawareness
Well, then, let them go back home to Sharia-land.
Actually there are acouple of ways to look at a phobia. One sense is as in ‘hydrophobic’ and ‘hydrophilic’, repelled by or attracted to. I am repelled by islam.
The underlying issue is that more people have read the koran since 2001 and have come to understand that what al Queda's merry band of murderers pulled off on September 11th is completely compatible with their religion... And every few months we receive various reminders (e.g., indiscriminate bombings/shootings in Spain, London, Bali, India, Nigeria, Beslan, Salt Lake City, etcetera, etcetera...).
Its not going to change by burying one's head in the sand. We should love the muslims. They are trapped in darkness -- we should not leave them in darkness, but expose them to the Light.
And yes, that may mean criticizing their 'book' and 'holy' men by stating what their book says and stating how their 'holy' leaders walked...
No one gets cured until they acknowledge there is a problem.
I don't fear Islam, I just don't like it, or anything that it represents.
That’s why I used the term Islamophile. As in “The United Nations suffers from Islamophilia.”
It's always someone else's fault. Never, ever, could it possibly be muslim acts of terrorism here and abroad that make fellow Americans nervous about Islam. Never, ever, could it possibly be that almost every war is muslim against someone, every bombing is muslim against someone, every beheading is muslim, etc., etc. And, where are the loud voices of the so-called moderate muslim condemning the violence? They're complaining about Islamophobia.
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