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Dear Muslims, let's all agree to reject hatred (Dear Muslims, move the [expletive] Mosque!)
washington post ^ | 9/12/2010 | By Kathleen Parker

Posted on 09/12/2010 8:10:12 AM PDT by tobyhill

Dear Muslim World,

I am writing you today as an American citizen who is deeply embarrassed by current events in my country.

First, let me say that I am not representing anyone. I can't claim to speak for anyone but myself, though I am certain that many others feel as I do.

I want to address the current controversy over the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero and the so-called "pastor" in Florida who had been threatening to burn a Koran.

I'll begin with the easier of the two: Please ignore Pastor Terry Jones. I wish we had. He may live in the United States. He may have a building with a cross on it and call it a church. And he may know 50 or so people who care what he says, but he's nobody. His threat to burn a Koran was a desperate attempt to get attention and nothing more.

Anyone can call himself a pastor, but there's a reason Jones leads such a tiny congregation. We have a long tradition in this country of letting people speak their thoughts in public, but we don't take many of them very seriously. We laugh at characters like Jones but figure it's better to let fools reveal themselves in the light of day than to let them fester in the dark.

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1 posted on 09/12/2010 8:10:15 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

“We have a long tradition in this country of letting people speak their thoughts in public, but we don’t take many of them very seriously. “

Same goes for newspaper columnists


2 posted on 09/12/2010 8:13:01 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: tobyhill
I am writing you today as an American citizen who is deeply embarrassed by current events in my country.

Then leave...Nobody is going to stop You


3 posted on 09/12/2010 8:13:33 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: UB355
Ms. Parker and rational thought remain strangers.
4 posted on 09/12/2010 8:14:51 AM PDT by JPG (How much taxpayer $ did Mookie blow today?)
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To: tobyhill

Dear Muslims In a Terminator Voice “Get Out” and Pay no attention to this Idiot she only speaks for herself and a few That DO not really know what you Savages are up to here WE DO!!


5 posted on 09/12/2010 8:15:24 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: darkwing104

More mush from a scribbling profession self-loather.


6 posted on 09/12/2010 8:15:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: darkwing104

Actually, I am pretty proud of current events. Messy, but FREE!


7 posted on 09/12/2010 8:15:48 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: tobyhill
Kathleen Parker = whore who masquerades as a conservative to get big bucks from the liberal media.
8 posted on 09/12/2010 8:17:02 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: tobyhill

My head hurts even reading her banalities.


9 posted on 09/12/2010 8:17:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: tobyhill

save this link concerning Islam...it was origionally posted last Fall by Freeper Key Largo.

“Taqiyya - How Muslim’s Lie so you Submit”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14137943/Taqiyya-How-Muslims-Lie-so-you-Submit

It is full of useful points to make when writing your local newspaper about their latest pro-Muslim story.


10 posted on 09/12/2010 8:18:51 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: tobyhill

And lets agree not to tolerate hatred in Mecca and build a Christian Church and a Jewish Synagogue there...just to show tolerance.

Why is it that tolerance is demanded only from the Judeo-Christian population, even to the point of putting their lives at risk....but there are no trade offs from Islam?

This just flummoxes me.


11 posted on 09/12/2010 8:20:33 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: tobyhill
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12 posted on 09/12/2010 8:20:37 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: tobyhill
Anyone who believes in God can't also believe that his divine plan included his creation's mutual destruction.

Uh' Miss Parker open your pretty blue eyes and let some of that air out of head for a clear thought to enter.

The god of Islam, allah and his demoniac madman Mo' demands his followers to destroy all non believers in his divine deviant plan

13 posted on 09/12/2010 8:24:27 AM PDT by Popman (Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
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To: patriot08; Chieftain

THAT IS FANTASTIC!!!!


14 posted on 09/12/2010 8:25:56 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( Ok, Joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: tobyhill

When she’s told to “convert or die”, she’ll be putting on that burka in nothing flat.


15 posted on 09/12/2010 8:27:45 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: tobyhill

Kathleen - Quran-following Muslims can’t “reject hatred” of the infidels, remember? Or have you not bothered to investigate their bloody scriptures?


16 posted on 09/12/2010 8:27:50 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: tobyhill
let's all agree to reject hatred

Yeah yeah, Kumba-freaking-ya.

I will always hate those who aim to destroy my country. ....especially those (like Obama and Imam Rauf) who attempt to disguise themselves as "bridge-builders."

17 posted on 09/12/2010 8:28:00 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: tobyhill

She didn’t say anything about moving the mosque, she sounded more like Obama.


18 posted on 09/12/2010 8:29:52 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: tobyhill

Sorry, anyone woman who thinks that Eliot Spitzer is a suitable person to collaborate with is beyond the pale. Disgusting AND stupid.


19 posted on 09/12/2010 8:32:47 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: tobyhill

I’ve about had it with the mosque-koran drama.

With Parker involved, it’s starting to sound like fabricated theater to distract us from real battles like recovering the Constitution.


20 posted on 09/12/2010 8:33:25 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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