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Ron Paul: ‘This Is All About Hate and Islamophobia’ (RINO Barf Alert)
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Posted on 08/23/2010 3:28:07 PM PDT by mnehring

Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) has issued a lengthy statement condemning “neo-conservative” opposition to the Park51 project. “This is all about hate and Islamaphobia,” said Paul:

It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”

The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars.

Paul seems to flirt with the Imam Rauf line that American foreign policy in the Middle East invited the September 11 attacks:

If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) is breaking ranks with Harry Reid and supporting the Park51 project:

“The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has given his assent to this center and I support his decision,” Durbin said Sunday. “The politicians like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin who try to divide America with fear and hate over this issue betray the diversity which makes our nation great and the Constitution which they profess to honor.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: groundzeromosque; islam; liebertarians; neocon; paul; rand; randpaul; ronpaul; ronpaul4911mosque; ronpaul4rauf; ronpaulvsisrael; wot
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To: samtheman

What you said.


61 posted on 08/23/2010 4:53:32 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: mnehring

Ron Paul is the best at being theoretically right for all the wrong reasons. If Islam was a religion and not a political ideology like Nazism, he may have a point, but Ron misreads religion as the cause, as have many others. He also does have serious issues with Jews. His religion is a classic REPLACEMENT Theology. This combination is what colors his view.

He is correct that these issues are distracting us from the terrible and horrific and imminent collapse of the economy. He is dead wrong that these issues can be ignored or are intentionally distracting us by some sort of cabal.

The real issue is this: America will be destroyed much sooner by our debt, than we will be by the demographics of Muslims. His is the focus on the very very short term at the expense of the long term. We MUST address the economic truths he espouses. Or we will not have to worry about Islam. But, we MUST address ... no, address is not strong enough... we must ERADICATE the threat of Islam worldwide or all our economic prosperity will not matter.

Ron Paul is 50% perfect. And 50% DISASTER. Let’s not allow our reactions to his abject failure on Islam to poison us against his nearly flawless economic positions.


62 posted on 08/23/2010 4:55:00 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)
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To: Mr. Silverback

The local Paulians seem to have gone into hiding.

I don’t blame them.

Poor Paul, he’s so far right, he’s left.


63 posted on 08/23/2010 4:57:39 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: mnehring

Bye Bye Ron


64 posted on 08/23/2010 5:04:41 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

There’s no “ding” here. I don’t care if RP gets hit by a bus tonight but educate yourself on the law.(RLUIPA).
I see his point as a critical reader of the law. He’s just too dumb to keep his mouth shut.

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?q=rluipa&ei=CwpzTNCDBKDIMojzxRI&ved=0CAoQFjAB&hl=en&source=m&rd=1&u=http://www.rluipa.com/index.php/article/398.html


65 posted on 08/23/2010 5:06:31 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: samtheman

Yeah, you’re right, but it won’t. I still say that Paul is a fruitcake, 1st degree, or is self-medicating or both.


66 posted on 08/23/2010 5:10:46 PM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: goseminoles

OK, what part of the RLUIPA is being violated? Where is the substantial burden?


67 posted on 08/23/2010 5:22:34 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: mnehring
Ron Paul never misses and opportunity to alienate conservatives. He insists on making himself irrelevant.
68 posted on 08/23/2010 5:29:23 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: LS

I don’t like either, but as for now, Paul can at least speak in semi-coherent sentences although his anti-Semitism is starting to become overt. I think Roberts stopped speaking even semi-coherently a long time ago.


69 posted on 08/23/2010 5:30:04 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

I agree. PCR is to the point of drooling.


70 posted on 08/23/2010 5:35:20 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

“(1) EQUAL TERMS- No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation in a manner that treats a religious assembly or institution on less than equal terms with a nonreligious assembly or institution. (2) NONDISCRIMINATION- No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation that discriminates against any assembly or institution on the basis of religion or religious denomination.”

Don’t get me wrong, I emotionally oppose this mosque to the fullest. But we conservatives can’t play both sides of the fence. Thats what liberals do. If I apply conservative values of property rights, I have to be conservative based on the letter of the law. I hope the place burns down.
My intent is to support RP’s interpretation of what’s true. And he’s spot on.


71 posted on 08/23/2010 5:39:09 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

Except you left out the part about the state department funding the fundraising trip for this mosque. How does that square with Reverend Ron and his Church of Constitutional Purity?

Don’t freaking BS, ok? It’s not a mosque, it’s not religion... it’s a victory flag planted right where they smacked us all down.


72 posted on 08/23/2010 5:41:28 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

I don’t disagree. Scientology isn’t a religion either. But this great country of ours has repeatedly upheld their right to build. It sucks. I hope one brick doesn’t get make it there. If it does, I hope it doesn’t make it a foot tall.


73 posted on 08/23/2010 5:47:00 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

How are they violating that section? Were religious buildings at that site before? Are other churches being built there, but not the mosque?


74 posted on 08/23/2010 5:47:32 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: mnehring

Ron Paul will be as much to blame for the coming storm as obama.


75 posted on 08/23/2010 5:48:34 PM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I’m not sure how to answer your question and whether or not that is a prerequisite under that section. I’m not a Mark Levin. I’m just some jerk with a blackberry phone.


76 posted on 08/23/2010 5:51:52 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: mnehring

Ron PAul has it wrong. I don’t hate muslims. I hate their religion just as I hate bolshevism, fascism and whatever ism you like that destroys freedom. I have no wish to deprive anyone of the right to worship as they choose but the right to worship does include the right to threaten our way of life. It’s a hard choice but I would defer to the survival of our way of life even it if means a minority that would remove our freedoms no longer has the opportunity to impose their will on us.


77 posted on 08/23/2010 5:53:25 PM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

“How are they violating that section? Were religious buildings at that site before? Are other churches being built there, but not the mosque?”

If that’s your interpretation could be propose the building of a christian place of worship to at least tie this up in court to at least prolong this building of the mosque? On your side guy..


78 posted on 08/23/2010 5:55:08 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: mnehring

Uh.. Ron my man I must respectfully part ways with you on this.
Appreciate your stand on the Fed but I believe you are mistaken
on this.


79 posted on 08/23/2010 5:56:14 PM PDT by Redhd2
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To: samtheman
Well said, and worth repeating:

This should make every Ron Paul supporter in FR hang his/her head in shame.

80 posted on 08/23/2010 6:05:20 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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