I've been a Free Republic member since 1999. I admire JRob and what he's done. But Free Republic today is very different from when I joined. Back then, it was about ideas about government reform; about rebellion from the dominant left-wing Presidency and press. Now its devolved into an often demented hate-fest against primarily Muslims. I cannot believe half the conspiracies I hear; rumors that even moderate Arab states (some of which base US troops) are trying to form a caliphate to take on the West. It is not uncommmon at all to hear the sentiment there that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. Now I'm not Muslim, but to hear this invective day in and day out is just sickening. Sadly, JRob has turned his forum over to the wrong crowd -- FreeRepublic hardly will serve as any meaningful community against Obama.
Cal Evans | Homepage | 11.11.08 - 12:15 am | #
The public will take that comment, along with the following claim from the article,
And Free Republic played a key role in driving an anonymous chain e-mail that falsely claimed Obama had concealed ties to radical Islam, according to Danielle Allen, a professor of social science at the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Advanced Study who studied the rumor.
and the opinion they will form of Free Republic is that it's an anti-Muslim hate site.
I don't think anyone here believes that, but I am one of many here who think that the only good Muslim is one who doesn't follow his faith. I had a tagline, "the only good Muslim is not a good Muslim" on that point. Their faith does require following sharia law and extending the land of sharia, or "house of peace" until it covers all the world. Infidels are to be killed to make that happen. If they are Jewish or Christian, they are not killed, but they are to be second class citizens and persecuted until they or their offspring eventually convert.
Maybe the guy who posted this was Jim Baker. There are a group of conservatives who know and love Arabs from their business dealings and cannot seem to differentiate their relationships with individuals or their belief that their liberal Muslim friends represent Islam. The fact is, many of them are following taqqiya, or, if they really are liberal, they are not following the strict tenets of their professed faith. As a result, they may be good people, but their faith will eventually become a problem, if not because they turn on us, because their kids will.
Islam is the problem. So are idiots who don't understand that because they have not studied Islam. They will get us killed.
Methinks Cal Evans is in denial.
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