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2006-08-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Muslims: Americans or Alien Infiltrators and Subversives?

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-11 03:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow. I'm still coughing from all the smoke.

I think that the most obvious answer is in the way Muslims are referred to within the article itself: They're not Paki-Americans, or Arab-Americans, or even Middle-Eastern- or Persian-Americans, but Muslim-Americans. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that I absolutely despise the *YOUR SPECIAL IDENTITY GROUP HERE*-American title (just be satisfied with being an American, dammit!), notice that this is the only group which is explicitly identified not with a geographical or national area, but with a religion. Every other faith allows for a man to have multiple loyalties even if the loyalty to God is the most important (and Christianity's own Paul even emphasizes this, I believe - although I haven't read anything by him in a while, so I might be wrong), but Islam doesn't - and it's right there: You're a Muslim first and an American a poor second.

Posted by The Doctor">The Doctor 2006-08-11 16:44|| 2006-08-11 16:44|| Front Page Top

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