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Sharia as the new red menace? (Barf)
washingtonpost.com ^ | Sept. 21, 2010 | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 09/21/2010 12:26:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 09/21/2010 12:26:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey, Eugene, you had better start paying attention.

Did you know mohammad owned slaves and sold slaves? Black slaves? Did you know mohammad called blacks “raisin heads” and “pug-nosed slaves”?

Did you know sharia law is already creeping into judicial decisions in the U.S.? No? Well, just google and find out.

Eugene, it is very irresponsible of you to write something of which you know so little about, don’t you think?


2 posted on 09/21/2010 12:29:11 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Uh, Eugene, been to England lately?


3 posted on 09/21/2010 12:29:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Reminds me of days when I thought McCarthy did quit too soon...

Wut?

Just sayin...Still a lot of commies...

I imagine if he was alive today, the man would feel vindicated.

And Sharia is no Potemkin’s village of a threat...Fortunately, the tree of liberty’s roots run deep in this country and its hard to see this weevil as credible, long-term existential threat.

That said, I never did care for weevils. Even the lesser ones.

As long as we are vigilant...we can end this rot and blight.


4 posted on 09/21/2010 12:31:48 PM PDT by WAW (Which enumerated power?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Actually, it's a green menace...


5 posted on 09/21/2010 12:32:26 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Eugene at the Washington compost may naysay all he wants, but the fact is that true beievers in Islam want to advance Sharia Law and make it the law of the land wherever they live. Sharia Law is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as religion Anyone preaching it should lose any pretense of religious protection and be treated for the enemy they are.


6 posted on 09/21/2010 12:32:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

sharia = sand law


7 posted on 09/21/2010 12:33:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Eugene Robinson: Just another out-of-touch member of the ruling elite.
8 posted on 09/21/2010 12:34:04 PM PDT by mojito
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The wash post is officially on the side of the headchoppers. They had a chance to align themselves with the people who want to protect our fading civilization, and they chose the people who slice Jewish necks.


9 posted on 09/21/2010 12:34:28 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Red Menace was genuine. Not overstated. Name the falsely accused Communists.

The Soviet loving Communists stateside saw nothing “wrong” with being a Communist in allegiance to a foreign power seeking to subvert the Constitution and thwart American policy. In wartime, that sedition is treasonous.

The so-called anti-war movement in the 1960s was decided PRO-North Vietnamese Communist military. Jane Fonda, The Weather Underground, they all pledged their support and engaged in naked treason.

Militant Islam is also a reality.

The new “witchhunt” is the demonization of the Tea Party as “violent” “racists”.


10 posted on 09/21/2010 12:34:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Robinson and his ilk are the red menace. Islam has made an unholy alliance with the Left to destroy the West. Satan and Lucifer are on the loose.


11 posted on 09/21/2010 12:34:49 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

what a good little useful idiot.

12 posted on 09/21/2010 12:35:54 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess “theocracy” offends liberals only when it has a red neck.


13 posted on 09/21/2010 12:37:03 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-Ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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Gene, you think the red menace was all made up? Read up on the Verona papers. In the meantime, check out what’s happening in England and tell me that Sharia law can never take hold here...


14 posted on 09/21/2010 12:37:08 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Eugene Robinson. That byline tells me what the column will say. In this case, that Newt Gingrich (and conservatives) are just political iterations of Chicken Little, worrying about something that could never really happen. Like legalized gay marriage and homosexuality being taught to elementary school children by mandate or the near-abolition of Jesus in Christmas displays or the free election of a Marxist as U.S. president. That kind of crazy stuff. In short: nothing to see here folks. Just move along.

Sorry Gene, we've wised up and are fed up. Sharia law is real as is the intent of assertive Muslims to see it implemented here. Snide wisecracks won't alter reality and the reality is that we have a big problem with Muslims that seem to want to impose their barbaric, 6th century 'law' on Americans. That will not happen.

Keep smirking, Gene. You'll be without a column or a newspaper to put it in soon enough as Obama crashes the economy while you applaud. Idiot.

15 posted on 09/21/2010 12:37:21 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Dr. Seuss editorial cartoon before we entered "the last good war".


16 posted on 09/21/2010 12:38:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s funny how the media tries to make us think that sharia law is some new and fresh idea from the enlightened middle east, and us rubes in flyover country will warm up to it once we shed our prejudices and embrace ancient bedouin tribal law as superior to that crap written down by dead old white guys.


17 posted on 09/21/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Robinson is as clueless as Kristof. From yesterday’s “Best of the Web”:

Kristof draws a false and offensive equivalence between Islamic extremists and American “extremists.” The latter, when something in the newspaper offends them, complain in a “courteous and polite” fashion, according to the Portland editor. The former, as in the case of cartoonist Molly Norris, issue religious edicts threatening death. (President Obama, champion of the First Amendment for Muslims, remains conspicuously silent about Norris’s plight.)

We agree with Kristof that the Portland publisher’s apology was a pathetic overreaction. But no one is in hiding as a result of the complaining Mainers—not the publisher, not the reporter who wrote the story, not the Muslim leader who was profiled in the Sept. 11 piece and “said that as an American Muslim, he has a sense of belonging that eclipses the hostility of the Rev. Terry Jones, the pastor in Florida who threatened to burn copies of the Quran,” according to the Press Herald.

The important thing to understand here is that Islamic affirmative action only incidentally concerns Islam or Muslims. It is really about the moral exhibitionism of liberal elitists like Kristof, who love trumpeting their enlightenment and open-mindedness and sneering at the sensibilities of ordinary Americans. It never occurs to them that in doing so, it is they who are acting like bigots.

Like moral idiots, too. Consider this passage from Kristof’s column:

“Radicals tend to empower radicals, creating a gulf of mutual misunderstanding and anger. Many Americans believe that Osama bin Laden is representative of Muslims, and many Afghans believe that the Rev. Terry Jones (who talked about burning Korans) is representative of Christians.”

How balanced, how even-handed. Kristof condemns extremists on both sides! Except that “their” extremist is a mass murderer, while “ours” merely talked about engaging in offensive symbolic speech. Kristof doesn’t note that Jones’s Koran-burning plan was condemned by almost all Americans, or that whatever harm it did could have been ameliorated had the media—including Kristof’s paper—refrained from publicizing it.

In another attempt at balance, Kristof acknowledges a string of Islamic outrages: “theocratic mullahs oppressing people in Iran; girls kept out of school in Afghanistan in the name of religion; girls subjected to genital mutilation in Africa in the name of Islam; warlords in Yemen and Sudan who wield AK-47s and claim to be doing God’s bidding.” He does not list any comparable actions by American “extremists,” because there aren’t any.

Kristof concludes:

“But I’ve also seen the exact opposite: Muslim aid workers in Afghanistan who risk their lives to educate girls; a Pakistani imam who shelters rape victims; Muslim leaders who campaign against female genital mutilation and note that it is not really an Islamic practice; Pakistani Muslims who stand up for oppressed Christians and Hindus; and above all, the innumerable Muslim aid workers in Congo, Darfur, Bangladesh and so many other parts of the world who are inspired by the Koran to risk their lives to help others. Those Muslims have helped keep me alive, and they set a standard of compassion, peacefulness and altruism that we should all emulate.”

“I’m sickened when I hear such gentle souls lumped in with Qaeda terrorists, and when I hear the faith they hold sacred excoriated and mocked. To them and to others smeared, I apologize.”

Fair enough. But what about gentle American souls—the kind of people who take offense at the idea of building a fancy “Islamic center” adjacent to the cite of an Islamic supremacist atrocity, or who complain politely to a newspaper that offends their sensitivities? In slandering them as bigots, nuts and extremists, Kristof lumps them in with al Qaeda. He owes Americans, not Muslims, an apology.


18 posted on 09/21/2010 12:39:49 PM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
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To: Jim Scott
political iterations of Chicken Little, worrying about something that could never really happen.

Oh, like Al Gore's paranoid "disaster story" known as "Global Climate Change".


Al Gore's photoshopped book photo.

19 posted on 09/21/2010 12:41:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

Media Shenanigans


20 posted on 09/21/2010 12:42:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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