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Skriven 2007-10-24 22:16:20 av Daniel Prather (390.pol_inc)
     Kommentar till en text av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: Presidential Candidat
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  Re: Presidential Candidat
  By: TIM RICHARDSON to DAN CEPPA on Fri Oct 26 2007 12:42 am

 > The Democratic leadership might want to have a powwow with their base
 > because I believe their public position is to pretend to oppose Islamic
 > fascism.

Islamic fascism is a bit of an oxymoron.  Islam doesn't really advocate a
strong, central government.  Fascism doesn't really have room for religion.

 > Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and
 > passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their
 > parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

I support all those things, except the latter.  11 years old is usually too
young to receive birth control, but 14 years old is fine by me.  As far as
infidels and the Quran go, I don't have any problem with that.  If you
destroyed somebody's religious texts in an effort to demoralize them while
you're holding them captive, whether it's a Bible, the Quran, the American
flag, etc., I'd agree that it's wrong.

 > College campuses across the nation are installing foot baths to accommodate
 > Muslims' daily bathing ritual, while surgically removing the Ten
 > Commandments from every public space in America. Maybe the Ten Commandments
 > could be printed on towels and kept next to the foot baths.

College campuses can do whatever they like.  Since a foot bath, while part of a
religion's practices, isn't a religious symbol, I don't have a problem with it.
I do support the removal of the Ten Commandments from public property, though.
I wouldn't support sculptures of the Bible of Quran there either.

 > The National Council for Social Studies recommended a lesson plan after
 > 9/11 that included a story titled "My Name Is Osama" about a nasty little
 > white boy, "Todd," who taunts a fine upstanding Iraqi immigrant named
 > "Osama." Go ahead, laugh it up -- we'll see who's laughing when "My Name Is
 > Osama" ends up on ABC's prime-time lineup next year.

This is proof of... what?

 > This story was proposed in response to an event in which Muslims with names
 > like "Osama" committed the most massive hate crime in U.S. history against
 > 3,000 innocent civilians with names like "Todd."

There were people of all ethnicities in the buildings of the World Trade
Center.  I think if anything, the purpose of the lesson is to say that you
shouldn't be prejudiced against people.

The rest of this post/article is just stupid.  So, I'm not going to say
anything else on it.

-- Daniel
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