Posted on 09/18/2009 2:05:36 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Doesn’t matter. What happens when we let the government start picking and choosing which religions get to advertise? Especially for the next 3 1/2 years or so when we have a person in the White House clearly hostile to conservative Christian values? America is about freedom. If we have to get rid of that to fight them then we’ve already lost, we might manage to avoid becoming Islamic, but we won’t be America anymore.
thanks La Enchiladita.
I just find this funny for some reason...
Notice that no one said they cannot advertise. You extrapolated to that premise. We need, however, to stay informed of what they are doing. Also, if citizens are forced by proximity to view images or sentiments they disagree with on a billboard, they have recourse. I believe there is an individual who fights billboards with Christian messages. Religion on a billboard seems to be very controversial. It is an area in which we DO cherish freedom of choice, to the degree that we do not appreciate a harangue on the subject.
Having said that, this creates more of an alarm because islam is intextricably woven with 9/11 and hundreds of years of terrorism. They only wear “religion” as a disguise. This is the difference.
However, you are right that anyone with the money can advertise on a billboard. And it is also true that citizens have, with various degrees of success, protested controversial messages and images displayed. One thing that goes hand in hand with Liberty is Civility.
No one has said much of anything, other than they’re against it. and they way you’re throwing around “let them” as a challenge it’s pretty clear you want to NOT let them, that would mean they cannot.
There are people (morons) that whine about Christian billboards, there are even people (criminals) that vandalize Christian billboards. It shouldn’t be a controversial topic at all. It’s a billboard, people need to toughen up. And really that goes for ALL billboards. If you don’t like what’s being advertised, whether it’s a religion or a radio show or a slutty clothes manufacturer, unless it’s outright pornographic or uses words on the FCC list people need to remember there is no right not to be offended.
Of course there isn't. Duh.
You manage to steer the conversation in crazy directions. The topic is: islam is the enemy of America. Patriots who love our country do not want islam to spread and take over our society. The billboard is an emblem of their serious aim to do so.
I don't care whether you agree or disagree with that. I just think you are terribly naive and over your head in this discussion.
I’m not steering at all. The topic is: should Islam be allowed to put up billboards. And the answer is: if we value the First Amendment yes. The billboard, just like Christian billboards, is an example of freedom of speech and religion. Doesn’t matter if YOU don’t like the religion, doesn’t even matter if the religion has declared us the enemy (which, truthfully, they have NOT). We have vital principles in this country, things that make this country great, and the Bill of Rights would be high on that list. We aren’t a country like England with an official state religion; we aren’t even a country like Germany that declares some religions too scary to live; we’re America we make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
I find your need to resort to insults highly telling. People who need insults know logic won’t support their argument.
Islam is not a religion. It is a political system.
Sorry but it’s a religion. Of course even if it was a political system that’s STILL covered by the First.
You're making a mistake characterizing Islam as simply a religion. It's a religion, a complete societal blueprint and system of government rolled into one.
Sharia law?. . .
Nah, it would be more fun to put up a sign right by it that says, "Try pork; The other white meat!"
Being a deafie, I saw that commercial the Army was running for the BE STRANGER competition. It took a while to recognize it as BEST RANGER.
We are really paying a price for so stupidly refusing to produce and use our oil the way we should and for years and years of ethanol and now “green economy” (an oxymoron if ever there was one) boondoggles.
Let me point out that you could put a billboard next to it and rearrange the letters add a couple and spell MALAISE.
I’m not categorizing as anything simple. When it comes to our constitutional guarantees all religions are equal, the government doesn’t get to interfere in them. The same freedom that let’s them put up billboards let’s commies sell Che shirts and let’s Dan Brown write diatribes against Catholicism thinly disguised as mediocre suspense novels. Those freedoms also allow us to have this discussion.
And it’s not like Islam is the only religion out there to come up with laws. Every heard of Halakha. Not to mention Medieval Europe when the Catholic set most of the laws. It’s really not that new an idea.
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