Posted on 08/16/2010 5:55:43 AM PDT by Palter
Popular antipathy to a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero is so fierce that even President Barack Obama, the nation's Islamophile-in-chief, "clarified" his August 11 statement supporting the plan to say, "I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there." It is not just a mosque, of which there are two in the neighborhood, but a symbol of Islamic presence. The most recent CNN poll shows an overwhelming 70%-29% margin of opposition.
When liberal politicians - like the president and New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg - defend the plan, what they mean is, "We want a big Islamic statement near Ground Zero as a gesture of outreach to the Muslim world." When the political right denounces it, they mean, "Muslim conquerors always build a mosque atop the ruins of the places they conquer, and we're not going to give the rascals the satisfaction." That was predictable.
What is surprising is how passionately Americans oppose the Ground Zero mosque. A revolt is brewing against America's liberal political elite.
It is hard to find consistent polling data about American attitudes towards Islam. The largest polling organizations, Pew and Gallup, draw funding from organizations with a vested interest in promoting a benign view of Islam. Nonetheless, the results are striking: in a Gallup inquiry [1] published in January 2010, Americans had an "unfavorable" view of Islam by a margin of 53%-42%, with 31% holding a strongly negative view. That contrasts with 15% for Judaism and 4% for Christianity.
Similar results emerge from polls of respective support for Israel and the Palestinians.
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This should be the conclusion to the article, minus the word radical. The final paragraph sounds like someone his editor insisted to keep the paper from being bombed.
Islam is a cult of savages.
“A revolt is brewing against America’s liberal political elite.”
No crap.
Couldn’t be because of the terrorism around the world linked to muslims. Or maybe it’s their barbaric way of treating people they don’t like. Or maybe it’s just the fact that they consider us the “great Satan” Nah couldn’t have anything to do with any of that.
I think Obama is a Muslim. But he is also a Marxist. He is trying to blend the two. This will lead to a war between the Marxist Muslims and the ‘fundamentalist’ Muslims.
Because they have been at war with us for over two hundred years?
Take your pick -
And shoving a man in a wheelchair off a ship.
Believing you can cleanse your soul by sacrificing innocents.... believing someones sex determines whether or not they're 'property'...... believing people who are not of your 'religion' are less than human
makes people think of you 'unfavorably'.
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Gee! Whoda thunk?
[rolls eyes]
My point is not nearly as important as the ones you made, to be sure; but muslims generally dislike dogs too. What the hell kind of ‘culture’ disdains dogs???
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient” Rome.
-A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill
SERIOUS QUESTION: WHERE ARE THE GOOD ACTS OF ISLAM? (ie. The equivalent of medical missionaries)
Anyone?
Yes, I believe most translations are pretty accurate...
read some of the more pertinent excerpts and you’ll see why I think even this exchange on the Free Republic on what is Islam scares me to death...this is nothing to mess around with!
I never liked muzzies, but flying loaded airliners into skyscrapers didn’t do anything to endear me to them.
I don’t dislike muslims, I hate Islam as a tool of Satan. Big difference. HUGE difference.
Colonel, USAFR
I remember it like it was yesterday. Innocent Americans died, and Islam celebrated. I also remember the news-bimbo on CNN exclaiming what a coincidence it was when the second plane hit the other tower.
Islam is the epitome of Nazism, wrapped up in the blanket of a false religion. They are NOT a peaceful people. They want to kill us. Why the he%% should we even be entertaining the idea that they sould build a Mosque at ground zero?
islame i get... but buddists?? they seem pretty harmless if a bit kooky...
I once read an editorial in the Asian Times and they were predicting that about 50 years in the future, Europe would be predominately Muslim, headed for a clash with China which would then be predominately Christian.
We don’t like them because they want to subjugate us. I know it’s irrational, but there it is..../sarc
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