Posted on 04/11/2010 8:49:40 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
page 31 of NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OFFICIAL REPORT
They are being guided by their ethnic consideration and objectives.
They are living in the past. If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America? It is because they did away with exclusion.
Shavua Tov.
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Edward Said was a Christian leftist.
Yes, and Christian Marxist terrorists in the region have been ineffective for a few decades, now virtually nonexistant so I suppose they should’t need to be lumped in with the Islamists. But I’d suggest he leaned about the same things about the conflict as he did from friends like Ali Abunimah, or for that matter Rev. Wright or Raila Odinga.
Hey Joe, you still don’t get it — there is no such thing as moderate Islam. It’s ALL extremist depending on the circumstances.
If you mean Lieberman, he's not up for re-election this year. He's up in 2012.
Like on health care, as a good example, when he caved in to the Obama White House. But at least he can say that he supported the non-Obama in the last presidential campaign.
"Donks"? Maybe you have your animals mixed up. We call 'em RATS here.
The problem is *not* dropping the phrase “Islamic extremism” and related phrase. The problem is that the replacement terms are vague, contentless, and hide the religious motivation of our enemies.
It would actually be an improvement to talk about “Salafist extremism” (in the case of Al Qaeda and the Taliban) and “Ta’ajili (or Hastener) extremism” in the case of the Iranian regime and their Shi’ite allies in Hezbullah, since this keeps in focus the religious motivation of our enemies, while providing the rhetorical advantage vis-a-vis our Muslim allies and de facto Muslim allies, of connecting only sects *they* regard as extremist with terrorism.
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Please give the source of the guy throwing the rock; also who is he?
The source?
That would be Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd, a palestinian who was known as Edward Said once here in America.
He's a well known academic, now gone, but a friend of our President, rumored to be a friend from our President's days at Columbia, but no one knows much about our Presidents days at Columbia.
I'm not going to provide sources for the rock throwing incident since there are many, including Wikipedia. Suffice it to say he was throwing rocks at Israelis, IDF personell are Israelis, mostly Jews, within 30 feet to whatever. It was an issue at Columbia, many professors complained, but Columbia determined that rockthrowing was a free speech issue.
This is a well known issue and incident, you'll find tons of stuff on the web about Said, from all points of view, you don't need me to provide it.
I’m not challenging you but when a photograph is posted, I like to know the source. I’m in school and busy writing papers and preparing for finals week so what can I say? I’m trying to stay connected but it’s not easy.
---this isn't the first time the Obama administration has tried to tiptoe around referring to Islam in its security documents and that it's time to "blow the whistle" on the trend.
--prior Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon documents also did not refer to "Islamist extremism." He expressed dismay that the administration's review of the Fort Hood shooting, in which alleged shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan was said to have had contact with a radical cleric beforehand, omitted the term.
---"Unless we're honest about that, we're not going to be able to defeat this enemy," Lieberman told "Fox News Sunday." "It's absolutely Orwellian and counterproductive to the fight that we're fighting."
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