Plea for tolerance

Email | 09/18/01 | Mick Andersen

[AFF]

We need to insure that the world understand that we will not tolerate Americans being killed and/or attacked.I fought in Nam and spent my life defending our freedoms.If we go in we make sure all know who carries the bigest stick. We broke the back of the Japan and Germany and we were not worried about woman and children.Why becouse they were killing are woman and children.I will defend any ones right to there religons belief, freedom of speech,right to bear arms, ect. but if there belief say I have to die then all I say is let the last man standing belive what he will.

[FReethesheeples]

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[FReethesheeples]

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[FReethesheeples]

Well put, & Dittos!

I think the adrenaline from the attack has escalated the FR rhetoric in some places/threads.

Some of us, including me, are channeling our anger at a distant enemy,

which is frustratingly elusive,

inappropriately toward each other around TINY, mostly esoteric, doctrinal difficulties or minor semantic or philosophic differences.

In some cases, FReepers who generally agree with each other are engaged in mutual self-immolation

(or "reciprocal immolation":

I think I may have seen, and perhaps been, part of this phenomenon, too.)

Most inapproporate when we need to be "focused on & UNITED against" a REAL & Dangerous enemy.

AMEN.

& Sorry for being a part of it,

(even if I was generally unwisely REACTING to flame-throwers).

FReegards,

(I will also TRY to refrain from wishing some FReepers "Have a Nice Day", shich is my most violent

--- & desperate, last ditch, --

form of counter-attack.)

;^)

[Bella_Bru]

Personaly I don,t give a dam Bella_Bru. If they don't stand up and take care of this, then stand aside or become road kill.

What the hell do SIKHS have to do with terrorism? Are you stupid?

[FITZ]

Trust me, you don't want to be a foriegn-looking in this country right now.

Actually I don't discuss it too much with my kids but they see it at school and they have friends so they can't be completely isolated from reality. I'm not the kind of parent who believes in total isolation and telling fairy tales to my kids.

As far as being foreign looking I don't know exactly what you mean by that, I live in an area with mostly immigrants and they blend in pretty well as far as looks with the native born. But they aren't the kind of foreigners who are dressing in robes so maybe that's what you mean.

What makes me more sad is the Jewish woman I talked with who was telling me about all the security guards they have in the back of the synagogue this week and she got tears in her eyes describing how that looked and felt. Once there was a time where except for a rare exception, people in the USA had freedom of religion and could pray in a synagogue without fears of being targeted for a mass killing, because most people don't think this ended with those 19 dead hijackers. It's bad that they let in all these people who can't accept freedom and peace but are bringing terror to all Americans.

[TBP]

Jim, there are about 20 threads bashing Muslims on the site. Don't you think they violate the no racist posts rule? You should enforce it.

[TBP]

"Attacking a Hindu for the crimes of Islam is tragically wrong."

Frist of all, he's not a Hindu, he's a Sikh. They are different things. But your right. Attacking an innocent Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, or anyone for what happened is wrong.

However, I'm a little troubled by the phrase "the sins of Islam." It's not Islam that atacked us, it's a few cowardly terrorist animals who are distorting the name of Islam.

[luvzhottea]

You are what conservatism is all about!
THANK YOU!

[AFF]

Want some cheese with that wine!

[Bella_Bru]

Where's the whine? Tell me how you can justify killing someone because you are an ignorant piece of trash? Whatever. Have fun in the trailer park.

[thathamiltonwoman]

I think the media is over hyping these incidents. So far Americans for the most part have been extraordinarily controlled. Here in Virginia Muslims are still going about their business unharmed.

[George W. Bush]

I agree. It's time we put away our anger toward all things Arab and concentrate on only our terrorist enemies, not the vast majority of Muslims who are not terrorists.

Today, I was enjoying a spirited RealPlayer debate between an Arab Christian scholar and an Arab Islamic scholar. (I posted a link just prior to finding this thread.) It occurred to me that so many don't even realize how many Arab Christians there are. Nor do they recognize that many, perhaps the majority, of immigrant Arabs came here to be free of the Islamic regimes. And I think of an Afghani man I knew in the Eighties. I didn't like him. But not because he came from Afghanistan. Because he was an IRS accountant. I'm very much equal opportunity in that sort of thing.

Maybe Manny and I could post some of the writing or A/V links for Arab Christians if you don't mind. I think some of our FR folk have forgotten that we Christians have many Arab brethren in this country and abroad. And that there are many Muslims who are not our enemies.

[Samir]

You are such a good man.
You give me much hope for our beloved nation.

[flicker]

Don't bail and leave us to the heat of P.C.itis.

Every Islamic, non citizen should have been expelled September the 12th. They are the sea the Islamic terrorists swim in. There should be civil rights for citizens and human rights for those who are not.

Keep it simple. How many Islamic Terrorists sypathizers have been turned over by Islamic citizens?

How do we know what the motives of the murders were? Most Indian shopkeepers around here are not shot because of their dark skin, but in spite of it!

[Howlin]

Bump for a reminder!

[Jean S]

Bump.