Posted on 09/16/2001 3:19:21 PM PDT by zook
Freepers or anyone else who engage in bigoted attacks agains Arab Americans or innocent Muslims in this country are engaging in seditious conduct. By stirring up internal division and animosity they are helping the enemy.
Some of us need to grow up, some need to shut up, and more need to speak up.
So quit posting your daily dose of anti-Jewish junk. That I guess is why you bumped me. So I could remind you.
Is it OK with you if we just hassle those that are illegal, are carrying false documents, have carton cutters and other weapons on them and pilots licenses?
And are you suggesting we stop only Dutch, Orientals and Swedes to try to find them?
Where in my post am I trying to whip up anything? I am not a religious opportunist...I don't even go to church. But the reality is that we are now at war. We have to be careful around every muslim. We don't know which ones are bad. We have to assume all are. It's just like buckling your seatbelt. You never know when you're going to crash, so you wear your belt all the time so you're prepared. By all accounts, some of the terrorists from the other day lived among us and seemed likeable. No one knew their murderous intentions. The muslim you or some other American befriends might be the one planning the next terrorist attack. They'll get no aid and comfort from me.
Not a problem.
In our politically correct country, it may take that long to start it!
I weep for my nation...
Y'know it might just be time for a break for everyone. Reality is just too tough. FACTS are FACTS. We HAD internment camps. THEY WERE NOT RIGHT. BUT, they happened. (by the way, I wasn't alive then, so you can't blame me.) SO ALL KNOW....I am NOT suggesting internment camps, but it seems some here want to make that jump....count me out....
No where in my post do the words "turban" or Middle Eastern" appear. Muslim is a religious definition. Middle Eastern is a geographical definition.
Excellent! We can identify our enemy outside our boarders and we can identify them inside our boarders.
Seriously, good for him! But there needs to be more - a clear, strong message from the moslem power structure. If they can pronounce a death sentence on a novelist, they can do so on Oscuma bint Larden. The fact that they don't - that only isolated individuals do - is suggestive.
BUMP!
Yes, you seem to be.
Don't tell me - He's got the blueist eyes you've ever seen. Sheesh! If I hear anymore about this guy I think I'll puke. Everyone knows that there are black, brown , and white muslims! Its not about the color of their skin - its about where their loyalties lie!
I want you to go to Black's Law Dictionary, look up this term, and copy and paste the CORRECT definition here. What you are calling "sedition" is not sedition. This is not a term to just throw around.
Anyone who introduces the word "racist" is immediately suspect.
A disruptor?
This is a war against terrorism, not against Islam.
Anyone who fans the flames of racial or religious bigotry and hatred at this time is acting as a Tool of Osama bin Laden, and hurting the war effort.
Here is what Vice President Cheney said on the matter this morning -
MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Vice President, how difficult and delicate is it to send this message that we’re going to uproot terrorism and Osama bin Laden and some other cells, but that this is not a war against Islam and not a war against all Arab people?VICE PRES. CHENEY: We have to continually remind folks of that. The president has been very clear, and it would be a huge mistake for we as Americans to assume that this represents some kind of — or should lead us to some kind of condemnation of Islam. It’s clearly not the case. This is a perversion, if you will, of some of these religious beliefs by an extremist group. We have extremists associated with, you know, every imaginable religion in the world. But this is by no means a war against Islam. We’ve got a great many Arab Americans, for example, who are first class, loyal American citizens. We need to make certain that we don’t make the mistake of assuming that everybody who comes from a certain ethnic group or certain religious background is somehow to be blamed for this. Clearly, that’s not the case. They are as appalled by it as we are.
This is no time to be second-guessing our Commander-in-Chief and the Vice President. You are with us - or against us.
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