Letters to the Editor
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Dear me you sound like Muslim Imams in the Middle east
Who claim everyone is Muslim, every invention is Muslim every everything has its roots in Islam. Ok, go with that.
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@Heathen
From the Oxford English Dictionary (online version):
Semite A person belonging to the race of mankind which includes most of the peoples mentioned in Gen. x. as descended from Shem son of Noah, as the Hebrews, Arabs... .
Semitic b. In linguistic sense: The distinctive epithet of that family of languages of which Hebrew...Arabic...are the principal members.
From the American Heritage Dictionary(2d College Edition):
Semite One of a people of Caucasian stock comprising chiefly of Jews and Arabs...
Semitic 1. Of or relating to the Semites, esp. Jewish or Arabic 2. Of, relating to, or comprising a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Arabic, Hebrew...
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A Larger World
Many thanks to Juan Cole for writing about Senator Obama's links to that little-known place called "the rest of the world" and that neglected era called "human history". Articles with global and historical perspective are refreshing. I hope Barack Obama's "controversial" middle name leads people to learn more about the larger world.
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McCain should be proud to be the son of an Admiral
McCain's father and grandfather each held the rank of Admiral, from the Arabic amir al-ma, "commander (or emir) of the waters" (as the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's, or any other good English dictionary will confirm).
Could McCain be a covert Muslim sleeper operative, too? Boy, this is scary stuff.
Seriously, this is all fluff.... except that you know darn well the dirty tricksters will be falling all over themselves trying to associate Obama's name with Osama Bin-Laden and Saddam Hussein. It's all fluff and nonsense, and that's how elections are decided in the U.S. of A.
Funny how Fox News periodically makes the "mistake" of referring to Obama as Osama... but never mixes up his name with that of Ehud Barak. Why do you suppose that is?
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Even Funnier
is that Saddam was extremely non-religious. For the middle east, the Iraqi state that he presided over was remarkably secular. Clannish yes (Sunnis ran the Gov.), but not a theocracy or religiously supported monarchy like many of its neighbors.
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@maureenodonnell
I'll say it again, hopefully for the last time: Edward I might have been a Plantagenet rather than a Windsor, but if you look at Elizabeth II's genealogy you will find that he is nonetheless among her ancestors, along with hundreds of other royals from all over Europe. Therefore Juan Cole's assertion that she has some Arab heritage via Spain is entirely likely.
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Really?
I have never heard of anybody screaming foul when others call out his full name.
That is like G W Bush saying people who call him bush is calling him a female sex part.
That says something about a person who lacks self confidence and self identity.
He plays to the black voters by calling himself black when he has a white mother... to play the race card so that no one can criticize him or call his voting record a fairy tale because that is a racist comment.
And Americans are falling head over heel to vote for such a fake.
Oh by the way just like the Catholics and Jews, born a Muslim always a Muslim.
I watched his debate with Clinton on economic issues .. he stutters and keep on repeating teh same meaningless line when it comes to the economy ... 'the same old washington way'
I would never buy WMD from cnn or msnbc of huff n puff and will never buy 'Change and hope' from them either.
It says something about Obama when chris Mathews one time said 'i get a thrill up my legs' and now saying 'there is no excitement anymore'
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@lexsali
You ask: [W]hy isn't Obama proud of his middle name?" And claim that "his response [to the question]... was: I'm a Christian just like you, and my middle name is a thing of the past, and I want nothing to do with it."
Yet you provide absolutely no evidence to support your claim that he is "ashamed of his middle name." Was there a point in his life where he styled himself "Barack Hussein Obama"? And then, out of shame, changed to just "Barack Obama"?
And, please, don't compare Obama's alleged "shame" to HRC's proud embrace of her middle name. She styles herself Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now. But there was a time when she was just Hillary Clinton (no, I don't have a source for this claim but her name changes are common knowledge). Was she, for some reason, ashamed of her middle name when she wasn't using it?
I understand that John McCain's middle name is "Sidney." Don't you find it suspicious that he never uses his middle name. Is he ashamed of it? The fact is that Sidney is now primarily a girls name. Maybe he runs from his middle name because he is afraid people will think he is gay? Shame on you John Sidney McCain.
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@DLF
Hay, don;t forget... he has an adopted daughter from ..... Bangladesh! We all know what they gots a lot of in Bangladesh...wink wink..
So now, we can conclude, using right wing conspiracy logic....That John McCain, is smuggling future Islamic fundamentalist terrorists into this country, and training them in his own home. After all, we can conclude that her parents may have been muslim (both of them even! not just a simple "half muslim" like Obama). It is also within the realm of possiablities that at some point she went to school with a student who was muslim or had a muslim teacher...therefor it would qualify as a madrassa. And as there are several large mosques in the Phoenix Metro area, we can only assume that she has been raised around islamic fundamentalism and is a secret islamic fundamentalist (as we covered, both her biological parents may have been muslims, so it is in her genes, she has "muslim blood"...which by the way, is a bad thing).
Now we can sum it up like this:
John McCain, who was brainwashed by the VietCong to hate America, recruited a islamic fundamentalist from Bangladesh, and is training her. She also went to a wahhabi madrassa in Arizona. She will no doubt grow up grow up to be a terrorist/terrorist sympathizer, because of where she was born.
Now he wants to bring her to live in the White House, so she can smuggle secret info back to Bangladesh to help al-quada.....he also refuses to say the pledge of allegiance (trust me on this one).
Hay, I could work for fox news!