Can a good Muslim be a good American?

A friend who knows | 8/11/2006 | Agent Smith

[wita]

Hey, I got it. Surely then highball should have been able to do the same. I smell an agenda that is decidedly on the far far left. Besides wanting to twist the words of everyone not on his/her wavelength.

[wita]

PS. another of like mind posting just below.

[farmer18th]

The great American Melting pot isn't capable of absorbing radically different elements. You can't mix Sharia into the melting point without breaking the cauldron.

[MrLee]

And that's exactly how they want you to think.

[ZULU]

An accurate and concise answer to a logical question.

But as long as the Saudis have their fingers on the jugular of American energy and thus - indirectly - the American economy - nothing will be done about the obvious elephant in the parlor that everyone in Washington is so assiduously attempting to ignore.

[wita]

You of infinite patience. Surprised it took so long.

[Coldwater Creek]

I have moved on, but I really appreciate your post.

Maria

[farmer18th]

Perhaps we do need an Armageddon of sorts, whereby a few million muslims get vaporized...bringing in the 12th iman.

Whatever we need, we certainly need to know where terrorism draws its strength and energy. We need to know our enemy. Unfortunately for anyone who believes in the notion of "moderate Islam," today's suicide bombers get their spiritual tanks filled at the mosque. As long as we keep ignoring that the problem is Islam, we will lose the war.

[RegulatorCountry]

"f there is a major attack on an American target with casualties in the tens or hundreds of thousands by Islamofacists with a nuclear device, Americans, who are probably the most tolerant people on the face of the earth, are going to change."

Without a doubt. There's also the spectre of Constitutional rights being suspended under martial law, if the attack is severe enough. We're going to have to pay the piper, sooner or later. Sad.

[youthgonewild]

I think it's psychotic to think a Muslim can't be a good American. A lot of people on here exhibit the same irrational hatred as Muslims who are bigoted.

[Realism]

You can't mix Sharia into the melting pot"

Absolutely, Anything that separates and floats to the top should be scraped off and tossed out before it spoils the whole pot. But really out of millions of Muslims in the U.S. how many have actually committed acts of terror? Most know enough not to Sh*t in the bed they sleep in.

[massadvj]

Satanic Verses surely hit a sore spot when it was published.

Yes, I had forgotten about that book. I'll have to read it next. Thanks for the reminder.

It seems there is always a book. Mein Kampff, The Communist Manifesto, and now this. One can understand what drives them by reading their books.

[farmer18th]

I think it's psychotic to think a Muslim can't be a good American. A lot of people on here exhibit the same irrational hatred as Muslims who are bigoted

In war, there are no linked-arm civil rights marches. Show me a soldier who isn't bigoted against his enemy, in the extreme, and I will show you a dead soldier. Wake up.

[DCPatriot]

Amen!

[WashingtonStateRepublican]

"Can a good Muslim be a good American?"

"Of course they can. And millions are."

While they are sleeping, patiently awaiting their turn for jihad

[FBD]

right you are. Turkey is the exception to the rule of Muslims generally hating the Jews.
Thanks

[mjolnir]

There was no "ergo." I was responding to the poster who said the Constitution was "inspired" by God. It wasn't. His name is not even in it.

Actually, technically, His name is in the Constitution, where it says "in the year of our Lord".

Of course, that doesn't mean Madison or Morris were inspired by God to write the Constitution (which is not the same thing as being inspired by the Bible) although they may have been, although it does show that our Founders were not radical secularists of many in the French Revolution "C.E." sort. But influence doesn't have to be as direct as it is in the Declaration to have been significant.

Morris, who authored most of the Constitution, wrote that

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish. The nation is exposed to foreign violence and domestic convulsion. Vicious rulers, chosen by vicious people, turn back the current of corruption to its source. Placed in a situation where they can exercise authority for their own emolument, they betray their trust. They take bribes. They sell statutes and decrees. They sell honor and office. They sell their conscience. They sell their country. . . . But the most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

[farmer18th]

But really out of millions of Muslims in the U.S. how many have actually committed acts of terror? Most know enough not to Sh*t in the bed they sleep in.

I don't think you understand the distinction. We're not arguing about individual bad boys floating up to the top of the melting pot and being scraped off. We're talking about bad ideas. If you are a true communist, for example, you may be a good citizen but you hold that there can only be one party--the party of the proletariat. Muslims in America may observe the law, enjoy the benefits of American order and prosperity quietly, but if they really are Muslims, they cannot deny their holy writ. If they were ever to achieve majority status, they would break the melting pot and you with it.

[DelphiUser]

>>Can you imagine Louis Farakhan's reaction?

Isn't he a muslim? Who cares what he says from Africa.

"No reparations without repatriation!"

[tacticalogic]

What I've been trying to get across to you is that a Christian in a Republic metaphorically brings his Bible into the voting booth and jury room, and protests when he believes that the government is behaving in a morally reprehensible manner. He applies an external, "higher" standard to judge and guide the actions of the government. Or, at least, he should.

Sounds like "divine guidance" to me.