Posted on 12/11/2015 11:04:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
Muhammad Ali, one of the most famous athletes in American history and a convert to Islam in the 1960s, returned to the public spotlight Wednesday night to say that political leaders had a responsibility to foster understanding about his religion.
His comments came after Donald J. Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, stoked anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States by, among other things, suggesting that foreign Muslims be barred from traveling to the country. Trump has also questioned President Obama's affirmation that Muslim Americans are some of the nation's sports heroes. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hello Katie Rogers and Victor Mather . Trump wanted a ban until we can figure out what in hell is happening.
Teenage daughter comes home three hours late with dented car and Dad says, ‘you’re grounded until we can figure out what’s happened here.
New York Times ( being the eternal teenagers they are) report that Dad is like Hitler and wants to force a teenage daughter NOT to leave the house forever. Not til the parents figure out what’s going on - but FOREVER.
And the pity party based on a lie starts...
You guys wonder why you have so few readers?
And we should care what a person with Parkinson’s disease says about anything because?
Why don’t these converts ever criticize the terrorists?
Ouch, it’s not Alzheimer’s. Usually people don’t start to lose their minds until near the end from Parkinson’s. Even though I still think ali’s a tool regardless.
exactly
Maybe he needs to look at himself and then understand how he was racist towards whites and hated this country.
Don’t give a damn what the mouthy creep says. Never could stand him, even in his “Glory” days. He was a coward and a cheat, a pitiful little ant beside Elvis.
The media always put him on a pedestal because he dodged the draft. Never understood why he was lighting the Olymic torch and such, he's a loser.
Yes! Very True!
There’s a reason Trump is all over the news as a distraction point for what libs/cons/Obama are doing. Never mind what they are doing...it’s Trump that is the racist & bigot!
This is really all about nothing since it’s perfectly Constitutional and been done several times in the past.
Well, I’m listening up. I sure wouldn’t want him to drool on me.
Ali opines on how to make America great again.......
I'm not sure that I have definitely heard a diagnosis of such but it appears to be dementia pugilistica. What used to be called punch drunk - Ali took too many blows to the head.
No, Ali. No one has the responsibility to foster understanding of your religion except you and its other adherents. Convince us that it isn’t an atrocity that brutalizes and dehumanizes.
Seriously, Muhammad Ali? They are now using a man who hasn’t been able to string two sentences or even one together for years? This was my first thought so I went to the NYT article and then to the link there (below) that the slimes used to cobble together an Ali criticism of Trump.
Basically, the statement - no video - goes after jihadists - no mention of Trump.
The slimes padded their propaganda piece with Ali statements from the 60s and threw in Jabbar’s recent statement. Smoothly done but not hard at all to see that there’s not much to the “alleged” statement from Ali.
Cassius Clay did not “say” a single word about Donald Trump because he is currently and permanently incapable of speaking, period. He issued a statement likely written by someone else. His behavior during his salad days was clownish, obnoxious and despicable. That is all.
I’m going to cut Mr Ali a break simply because he probably wears a bracelet engraved with his own street address in case he wanders off.
This speaks of his getting hit in the head too many times.
In 1967 he was convicted of draft evasion (refusal to serve) and sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was free as a bird until 1971 when the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that Ali was a "sincere, religious conscientious objector" and his conviction was reversed.
Just wait till this precedent is employed by future muzzie nationals and immigrants to avoid our military in the event of war.
Leni
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