Posted on 11/19/2007 6:00:13 AM PST by tlb
After the Republican debate on Tuesday evening in Dearborn, Mich., a reporter from the Arab-American News asked Ron Paul what he thought of the term “Islamic fascism.”
“It’s a false term to make people think we’re fighting Hitler,” Paul responded. “It’s war propaganda designed to generate fear so that the war has to be spread.”
The call has gone out to all the Muslim Americans to hurry up and register to vote Republican so that they can vote in the Republican Primary to support Ron Paul, the anti-interventionist, non-isolationist candidate for President of the United States. Muslims are opening their wallets and joining teaparty07.com as well.
An anonymous Ron Paul supporter posted the following message on the internet: “Muslims and Americans have an unique window of opportunity for the 2008 election. There is a candidate running as a Republican that would work to completely cut off the funding to Israel, remove ALL US troops from Arab lands, and repeal the Patriot Act. He’s a Republican with Libertarian views named Ron Paul. Ron Paul’s policies ranging from monetary to foreign are top notch. Till now Muslims and Americans have not had an American Presidential candidate that really suited their best interests. This election is unique in that we have a man running as a Republican that speaks the truth…We know the current policies in the Middle East are failing, not only making it less safe in the world but hurting and killing innocent Muslims, which our media callously calls collateral damage. It is our duty as Muslims to follow the truth regardless of how futile it may seem. Ron Paul is the only candidate that does not seem to be swayed by the influential lobbies that the other candidates are catering to.”
Ron Paul stood up in Congress in 2006 and opposed a resolution that sided with Israel in the Lebanon-Israel conflict. He stated the following.
Ron Paul: “Mr. Speaker, I follow a policy in foreign affairs called non-interventionism. I do not believe we are making the United States more secure when we involve ourselves in conflicts overseas. The Constitution really doesn’t authorize us to be the policemen of the world, much less to favor one side over another in foreign conflicts. It is very clear, reading this resolution objectively, that all the terrorists are on one side and all the victims and the innocents are on the other side. I find this unfair, particularly considering the significantly higher number of civilian casualties among Lebanese civilians. I would rather advocate neutrality rather than picking sides, which is what this resolution does.”
Ron Paul has also sponsored a bill to overturn the Patriot Act. He is one of the few members of Congress from either of the major houses that is speaking rationally about these issues. How can we get everyone, and I mean everyone, to join the Ron Paul Republican voter sign-up campaign?
There is general frustration with politicians these days, and the unwillingness to believe that supporting a particular candidate will make a difference. But whether Ron Paul wins or loses, ronpaul.meetup.com is a great way to meet your neighbors who are against the war and organize the community on a grassroots level. If something like Katrina ever happened to us, knowing our neighbors could mean the difference between life and death to our families.
The common thread I’ve been reading lately about leftists and Jews is that they are having trouble getting more than a dozen people to come to their stuff (whether anti-Zionist or Zionist). The anti-Israel movement is not moving forward, because “protest Zionist imperialism” is just not a catchy slogan. By contrast, there are over 400 RP activists against war taxes in Boston alone. Every day the list of passionate anti-war activists grows. Very few of them agree with every single RP position, they just want to get the Lobby out of the way and pull the troops out of Iraq.
One reason it’s working is because of the software. They made the ronpaul.meetup.com site almost like a dating site, where you can make friends with people in or near your zip code. They made it very easy to get together with new people to join the activism. You can’t beat technology, may as well use it.
In the event that RP actually won the election and got the Hamas treatment, his supporters are fully in support of the Right to Bear Arms. It would be interesting to see what followed.
If anti-war protesters want to continue to focus on the genocidal machinations of the global zionist-imperialist military, industrial, financial, political, neoliberal, media complex, they have to be willing to meet with anyone any time to hear what ideas people have to address this, which is our primary responsibility - even if they are Republicans.
If you ever saw Ron Paul in an interview it cannot be said that he avoids discussing vital issues. He is someone who is willing to make a statement and stick by it even when no one agrees with him. I don’t “believe” in electoral politics but it’s not that much sweat off my brow to go and vote to end war.
I think the fact that NO pro-Israel group will let Ron Paul speak at their convention, not even peace Zionists, is evidence enough that he is the only person to put in charge as commander-in-chief. And, even if he loses, making all these contacts with local anti-interventionists is priceless. If you want to expand the peace movement so that it overlaps with the freedom movement like ripples in a pond, you just have to respect the fact that people might agree with you, but for different reasons.
Ron Paul is a disgrace and a coward.
Lyndon LaRouche is filing an injunction against the Paul campaign for alienation of affection.
Heck, my father would vote for Ron Paul, but he’ll never be able to because he would never register Republican.
He’s a died in the wool Democrat and in these parts its a closed primary.
He’s been hung up on anti-war since Vietnam.
He watched Uncle Walter call retreat on TV in 1968.
I trust Hillary’s judgment more than I trust Ron Paul’s. This guy is a whacko who will say anything.
Interesting article.
I would note that the appeal is far broader than merely to Arab Muslims. The large majority of Arabs in this country are Christians, generally refugees from oppressive or economic basketcase Islamic countries.
So the campaign and the grassroots are appealing to Arab Americans with some success. They are also appealing to Muslims in America, most of which are not Arab.
I think it’s important to delineate the actual numbers and which groups we’re discussing and the backgrounds of each group.
Ron Paul’s base is the oddest assortment of weirdos from every political stripe imaginable. I imagine Ron Paul meetups have got to be like the bar scene in Star Wars: the far right, the far left, peaceniks, klan members, jihadists, random Texas constituents, objectivists and pot smokers.
that was my consensus too.
the paulists are not calling c-span claiming they are “undecided” between paul and huckabee.
I think we have had more FOREIGN (and thus illegal) moneys than in any other time. Our politicians are being out bought by foreigners instead of being bought by americans.
I'm putting up GODZILLA for President. He could steal around 25% of Ron Paul supporters.
Ron Paul is infinitely better than your guy Rudy.
Godzilla is over 35 but is not a native-born citizen.
We can’t be taken in with such shabby tricks. Admittedly, if Godzilla would restrict himself to wreaking havoc and destruction in Washington, D.C. he would have some appeal. But RP supporters are essentially a peace movement, not that much into mass destruction by radioactive Japanese mutant monsters.
I guess they can't figure out how to spell anti-Semite
Rudy does not want to surrender to al Qaeda that killed 3000 of our innocent civilians and wants to behead us all for being Americans. Ron Paul wants desperately to surrender to them and sees them not as a threat, much like those who thought Hitler was not a threat to the world.
...broad coalition of criminally insane Nazis, Muslims and Communists. Despicable. You and the other Co-Paulists sure have a lot of gall.
If the threat to us is so great, why is our leader leaving the borders open? (Which gives those Islamofascists who want to behead us a way to get in through the backdoor) Logically, either the threat is not so great, or Bush doesn’t seem to care much about national security. Which is it?
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