Posted on 11/18/2001 2:37:35 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
My Fellow Freeper's,
I can usually stand on my own in an argument based on FACT and not FICTION. If someone wants to poke about stories that are " media made" or " urban legend" , then that is their own deal. I for one like to deal with facts. Common sense. So you would think basing an argument on fact's and not opinion or any of the above things stated above would win the argument hand's down right? Wrong.
This goes beyond ignorance. This is a new breed of ignorance in my "opinion" and I feel that as a Free Republic we should once and for all address this issue that faces our country this very day. Bottom line: Does the majority of the Muslim/ Islamic world want the United States dead? Does the majority hate the United States?
Remember facts are the key here. We can go from the Taliban to Iraq to Syria to the PLO. All have described their hate with no shame or hiding it. They burn our flag and spit on it. They burn dummies of President George W Bush. They declare a Jihad against us. We have students and even everyday citizens doing the same thing here on our own soil. Hating America for every reason on why they are allowed here in the end of it all. Allowed to attend our schools, attend the same stores we shop at, pump the same gas they need to drive the cars or busses made sometimes by the very countries they despise. The same can be said for airplanes, trains, and boats as well.
What is one to do when one is faced with someone saying that you are wrong for thinking that "the majority of Muslims/Arabs hate the U.S. . When you are told that it is more like 1% of them hate us. Well, as you can imagine I disagree and use the FACTS to lay it out. It never seems to get through their skulls though unless they have lost a chunk of their own family and then want to issue a fatwah against us or them or whoever. Who can keep score for who is pissed at who?
So my question is this to all of you reading this. Based on the facts and numbers...do the majority of Muslims/Arabs in this world hate this country? Should we now at this time really take the step towards filtering out this country and pointing out the traitor's and making their lives so miserable on a daily basis that they move to another country?
I say yes.
America...Love It Right Now. Or Get The Hell Out.
MFH
The King of Jordan (now defunctum) imported her from the United States. No kidding.
Her name was Jane Smith or something like that, and she was your basic girl-next-door from Cleveland or some-such.
Definitely not an arab woman.
I get my impressions of Middle Easterners first hand, from my relatives and their friends.
So I ask again. Why do this? Why fixate on the one thing that is guaranteed to cause a fight. Violating people's faith causes a usurpation in fair governance and can negate equal protection under the law. We see this in the Islamic world.
What good can come from it? What are you trying to accomplish? And what unintended consequences can result from it? Beware of what you say when it comes to people's faith, for you may just get the cataclysmic world war - generation over generation - that you so deathly fear.
Fortunately, I think we have our religious nuts hemmed up pretty good, but words mean things and that can change.
Are they now?
Here's a happy thought from Middle East expert Daniel Pipes:
Islamists constitute a small but significant minority of Muslims, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of the
population. Many of them are peaceable in appearance, but they all must be considered
potential killers.
How does 600,000 to 900,000 -- in our country -- potential killers sound?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
Not yet.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
Some people want all people of Islam to answer for the atrocities of a group of maniacs. Should all of us have to answer for the actions of Jim Jones, who twisted Christianity?
I don't claim to know everything. I have to go by my own experience, and my experience with Muslims is that they are not violent and anti-American as a whole.
Her Majesty Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951, to a distinguished Arab-American family. She attended schools in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York City and Concord Academy in Massachusetts, before entering Princeton University in its first co-educational freshman class. After receiving a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University in 1974, Queen Noor participated in several international urban planning and design projects in Australia, Iran, the United States and Jordan. In 1976, she traveled throughout the Arab world to research aviation training facilities for the preparation of a master plan for an Arab Air University to be established in Jordan. Subsequently, she joined Royal Jordanian airline as Director of Planning and Design Projects.
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