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.)
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.
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...
Cockroaches that live here are Americans too. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about them.
“U.S. Muslims are Americans too”
Until there’s a change in the Muslims more favorable to the United States and its culture and laws, calling Muslims “American” is stretching the definition farther than the Pilgrims or I would be willing.
May PISS be upon Mohammads Head
Good ol’ author Hamid Dabashi -— that patriotic fount of American values:
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[Hamid Dabashi:] Columbia University’s Hysterical Professor
by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
December 1, 2004
Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt threatened by a graduate student at his own university, but not me.
The incident began late on Sept. 27, 2004, when Victor Luria, a Ph.D. candidate in genetics and a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, wrote Dabashi an e-mail taking strong exception to what Dabashi had written about the IDF in an article, “For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine,” he published in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram. In response, Luria wrote to Dabashi:
” I have rarely seen such a revolting excerpt of anti-semitism as your article in Al-Ahram. Your article implies no right of Israel to exist. … As an Israeli citizen, I welcome the right of Palestinians to have an independent state and a capital in East Jerusalem. At the same time, you clearly deny (and you are not even a Palestinian) my right to have a country.”
Rather than answer Luria’s critique, Dabashi early on Sept. 28 forwarded his note to several top Columbia officials, including the university’s provost, Alan Brinkley. He also commented on what Luria had written:
“I consider this slanderous harassment a conduct unbecoming of a student of Columbia University towards a member of the faculty whom he has never met or known. I bring this defamatory attack against a Columbia faculty to the judicious attention of your respective offices. Given the military record of this person, I also feel physically threatened. I would be grateful if Columbia Security were also to be informed of this slanderous attack against my character and appropriate measures taken to protect my person from a potential attack by a militant slanderer.”
Dabashi concluded, “For the time being, and in the best interest of our university, I will refrain from contacting the New York Police Department directly.”
Underwhelmed, Brinkley wrote him back the same day,.
Dear Hamid,
“I see nothing threatening in this message, however unfair its conclusions might be. I also see no grounds for alerting security, although you are certainly free to contact them if you feel otherwise.
I very much doubt the New York City police would have any grounds for intervening in this matter.
I’m sorry this attack has occurred, but you are no stranger to controversy and have encountered such ad hominem criticism before. This is one of the unhappy prices of a public life, and I would recommend ignoring Mr. Luria (whom I do not know).
Yours,
Alan
Indeed, Dabashi is “no stranger to controversy” and some of it concerns me. I report his exchange with Luria (which was first reported in the New York Sun) because it helps explain Dabashi’s behavior two year earlier, when he claimed to be threatened by an article Jonathan Schanzer and I co-authored on June 25, 2002.
We mentioned Dabashi as one of six professors in a catalogue of academic radicalism regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. The reference to Dabashi, replicated here in its entirety, merely noted two of his actions:
Columbia University: Hamid Dabashi, a specialist on Iran, compared Israel’s military maneuvers in Jenin (to prevent future suicide bombings) with the Nazi Holocaust. When one student protested his canceling class to attend a rabidly anti-Israel sit-in, he sneeringly replied, “I apologize if canceling our class in solidarity with [Palestinian] victims of a genocide . . . inconvenienced you.”
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See link for more:
http://www.danielpipes.org/2255/hamid-dabashi-columbia-universitys-hysterical-professor
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Dabashi has denounced supporters of Israel’s right to exist as “warmongers” and “Gestapo apparatchiks,” calling the Jewish state a nest of “thuggery,” as well as a “ghastly state of racism and apartheid” which “must be dismantled.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2187
ping to FRED NERKS (and see Post #68 for info on Hamid Dabashi)
“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”
Shoot. We have to do the same thing every time there's a story about a sixth grader who wears a t-shirt to school that says, "Jesus Saves".
U.S. Morlocks are Americans, too.
CNN and PC suck.
What a lying POS!
Yep, they sure are, but if we ran them all out of the country they would no longer be Americans!
Yeah...Sure....
I had some great pork roast in celebration.
It’s up too the Muslim’s to prove their Americans.it’s not up to us.
So far it seems they have been very supportive of our enemies during these recent incidents.