Letters to the Editor
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Deal with the truth
Arne,
Why do you confidently post to say that things aren't true, when anyone can look them up and see that they are?
For example, you posted that it is "horsepucky" that sharia courts were proposed in Ontario.
Um, wrong: http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1569677,00.html.
While it is true that the proposal was defeated, shooter was not wrong in saying that there was an attempt made.
You asked "WTF" does the fact that the owner of Your Black Muslim Bakery apparently murdered an African-American investigative reporter have to do with Islam. You state that the infamous flying imams didn't sue their accusers, and that Congress didn't get involved, when it is easy enough to find out that all of that stuff really did happen.
I mean, do you just answer this stuff off the top of your head or what? I'm genuinely curious.
Mona, the fact that Republicans are manipulating the reality of the genuine threat from Islam is a political truth. I think we don't gain on them by ignoring, minimizing, or apologizing for that threat. I think we do agree on that. I will read with interest Glenn's Army's delight in Rushdie's discomfort; as I said in my response to Aruru, their responses speak volumes against their own case.
And still very few people have taken me up on my question about why the Danish cartoons insulting the vile pedophilic warlord Mohammed were reprinted in so few publications in the States. Perhaps it is because Mona has already put her finger on it - FEAR. Which speaks directly to Glenn's point; Muslims have chilled civil liberties here. Enjoy.
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Why are we talking about Rushdie?
What happened to him is obviously awful, no two ways about it.
And?
There are a lot of Muslim nutjobs out there. What that has to do with Islam being an evil religion and those Muslims taking over America is beyond me.
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Hint to trolls: try reading your own links
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1569677,00.html.
Read the actual article dumbasses. Holy fuck some people are flamingly stupid.
When Canadian Muslims demanded the right to use faith-based tribunals to settle civil disputes, as used by Christians and Jews
That's the fucking BYLINE. Jesus fucking Christ, "get a brain morans" is right.
Rather than allow Muslims to use an officially sanctioned Sharia tribunal to settle civil disputes, the province of Ontario has decided to outlaw all voluntary faith-based arbitrations, including those used by Christians and Jews for more than a decade.
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Since 1991, Ontario has allowed Christians and Jews to turn to faith-based arbitration tribunals in civil disputes, including family law.
The dumb - make it stop please.
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@Shooter -- Are you sure about that?
Radical Islamists will kill you for saying something they dislike, while Republicans and the Religious Right won't.
If my memory serves me correctly Saddam Hussein said some things we didn't like about weapons inspectors and sundry, and as a result we invaded Iraq and killed, tortured, disappeared, raped, murdered, etc. a whole lot of innocent people.
Again, if my memory serves me, the Republicans and the Religious Right played the lead role in that tragedy. Does that qualify as "killing you for saying something they (the Republicans and Religious Right) dislike?"
Besides, we're the US, a nation of peace, a melting pot of diversity. I cannot imagine any Republican or religious leader saying anything that would upset a Muslim enough to want to do us harm. Can you?
I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and non-Muslims, to know that he was a violent man, a man of war. -- Jerry Falwell
Personally, I think responding with violence to speech of any sort puts both parties in the wrong. Words are one thing. Violence is another. Violence is never the appropriate response to insults.
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World famous Islamofascism Navies, Air Forces, and Armies will overwhelm us
Maybe we should stop selling them arms?
I guess they'll also manage to cross Europe & the Atlantic Ocean, unmolested, to launch this attack on the American 'Homeland'?
Does any Arab nation even have a navy that we couldn't sink before they ever left port or an air force that we couldn't shoot out of the sky with our well equipped military?
If conservatives are worried about Islam slowly becoming dominant in the American religious scene, I'd say Mormonism has a much better chance to do so given it's tenuous link to Christianity, the fact that Mormons 'look' American and speak American English. Yet even with these advantages, it has taken Mormonism more than 100 years to reach its current status as a minority religion largely limited to western states.
Am I supposed to worry about Islam taking over American in 300 years? I'd rather have health care and I'd rather have us out of Iraq.
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Margalis
Hi Margalis,
Arne stated that no attempt to allow sharia-based law in Ontario was made, and I linked to a post proving that it was.
I know you think you've somehow disproved that by showing that other faiths were allowed to have their own courts, but.. umm... no. I know you are angry for some reason but in fact the link I published proved Arne wrong, end of story.
Personally I think no faith based courts should have the force of law behind them, so I'm pleased with Ontario's decision.
So... what exactly was your point?
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@Golden Boy
And still very few people have taken me up on my question about why the Danish cartoons insulting the vile pedophilic warlord Mohammed
Do me a favor, please, and stop invoking me or agreeing with anything I say. You are a bigot, and I don't like those. I could launch a lengthy discussion of the actual history of Mohammed, and his marriage to a pre-pubescent girl, which was not unheard of in that culture. Know please that I have a Muslim friend (actually, like me she is an atheist, but her lovely Iraqi-American family are devout Sunnis.) You don't know what you are talking about when it comes to Islam and Muslims per se.
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Uh Oh .... Trouble in Paradise
Chapter nth
In which:
Mona - some of whose best friends are Muslim and who indeed are credits to their race - rebuffs the overtures of Golden Boy who gets a not unpleasant case of the vapors when he thinks about warlords and pedophilia.