They are NOT and NEVER will be welcome at my table, nor my house.
Posted on 11/26/2009 7:51:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New York (CNN) -- The serendipitous occurrence of this year's Thanksgiving holiday on the same evening as the Muslim Eid-ul-Adha is a festive occasion to reflect on the place of Islam in American collective consciousness.
On the same evening that millions of Americans gather around their Thanksgiving dinner to celebrate this most American of holidays, even more millions of Muslims around the globe, including the growing number of American Muslims, will do the same -- celebrating as well one of the most definitive moments of their faith -- Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for his God.
This holiday celebration comes soon after the tragic incident at Fort Hood, when the atrocious act of a mass murderer put Islam and Muslims under some pressure to either denounce or defend their faith.
For more than three decades now, I have taught generations of American students who come to college having scarce read a word about Malcolm X, and yet everything about Martin Luther King Jr.
Until Americans come to terms with the fact that they are deeply indebted to a Muslim revolutionary for the fruits of the civil rights movement they enjoy today, Islam and Muslims will continue to be seen as archetypically alien and an everlasting danger to American lives and liberties.
Americans are Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, and anything else in between -- but Americans are also Muslims, millions of them, and Islam has now become integral to what the distinguished American sociologist Robert Bellah termed our "civil religion."
It is only apt that this particular Thanksgiving, Americans think about Eid-ul-Adha, as precious to Muslim-Americans as the occasion that has gathered us all "at the table." Let's make room for Muslims "at the table" because -- to quote Langston Hughes -- they "too, sing America."
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There are some things we can thank Mohammedans for. One line from the Marine Corps Hymn and .45 ACP to name a couple.
“How can a religion that teaches that it must be spread by the sword can coexist with FREEDOM.”
Right. The very concept of ‘freedom’ is incompatable with Islam as everything which happens, down to the subatomic level, is determined by Allah. There is no such thing in Islam as freedom or free will.
Freedom of religion = national suicide.
Ah yes, a real friggin' icon of virtue there to be taught of in college.
A Texan walks into a bar, orders a beer, and sits between a muslim and an American Indian.
The Indian says, “Once my people were many, now we are few.”
The muslim looks over and says, “Once my people were few, and now we are many.”
The Texan looks at one then the other and says, “That’s cuz we ain’t played Cowboys and Muslims yet.”
Only to the strong minded.
The weak minded will believe anything.
Right. And so are Communists, satanists and serial killers.
That doesn't mean it is a good thing. A great case can be made that it is a bad thing - a really bad thing - for America!
We are headed for a war with islam. they intend to take
over America and obama is right in there with them. do
not be fooled by these haters.
oathkeepers.org
“Prophet Abraham!” Oh please. In the fanciful creation of his sub-human “religion”, Mohammed stole as many names as possible from the bible, hoping that this fraudulent association would lend a sort of realism or credibility to Islam. In actuality this 7th century thug dreamed up a “religion” which would allow him to recruit criminals, murderers and deviants to do his bidding.
Mohammedans cannot be Americans. They do not believe in freedom. Their “religion” is a cult of hate, founded by a goat-humping child molester, to force people to accept what they say. Meanwhile, they destroy a 1500-year old Buddha as a false idol and they worship a stone.
They are either Americans or they’re not.
They may be citizens of this country; but they will never be Americans. I dont give a flip that muslins all over the world celebrate something; they will always be enemies of this country and of Christians. We give thanks to the one true God; they worship a false god.
Conflating two holidays that hae their origins in other parts of the world and celebrate two different Gods isn’t cool.
Okay, so m uslims are Americans and Americans celebrate American Holidays.
Besides, there are more Jews in this country than m uslims and you don’t see them trying to conflate their holidays with Christian Holidays. Not that I would mind as our faith has at it origins, core and precept Jewish tenets.
It is called Thanksgiving for a reason.
Who were the Pilgrims worshiping and hoping to worship in freedom when they arrived in the New World? God.
Who did they have an absolute faith in when seeking this new land? God.
When they landed, in this new world, who did they thank? God.
When they were starving and dying, who did they pray to for mercy, strength and health? God.
When they met Squanto, who did they thank? God.
When two years later, they had more more food than they could store and invited the Indians to celebrate God’s riches, who did they give thanks to? God.
So we are thankful to God for our blessings and giving to our fellow man, to share in the richness of God’s bounty and love.
Thank you God, for everything.
Thank you God for America.
Thank you God for my family.
Thank you God for my friends.
Thank you God for all the things I don’t know to thank you for.
Thank you God for being God.
They are NOT and NEVER will be welcome at my table, nor my house.
There may be American Muslims, but don’t forget America was founded on Christian principles.
Let's make room for Muslims "at the table" because -- to quote Langston Hughes -- they'll "chop your head off and *spit* down your neck if you don't"
Wait.... I'm sorry.... That was in bad taste.
(Bad Condor, bad. No Turkey for you.)
Abraham was not a prophet but Patriarch of the Hebrew nation. Islam also misses the symbolism of Abraham offering Isaac as the Lord God did offer and scarifice His only Son Jesus for the sins of the world. Jesus (Yeshua) also was not a prophet but the messiah sacrificed as the Son of Man.
You bet...And they go on into 'Allah Bless America', and they finish up with the Star Spangled Banner...
No such thing as muzlim-American...
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