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2007-02-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-11 08:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here is the proper link.

Posted by ryuge 2007-02-11 08:22|| 2007-02-11 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 M. Zuhdi Jasser is the chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He is a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander.

Whew! And in the Dallas News, no less. Good for the retired Lt. Commander. He's saying things that need to be said.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-11 08:42|| 2007-02-11 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Link fixed.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-11 09:33|| 2007-02-11 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Every time CAIR opens its yap, it should have something like the following statement read to it:

"For an organization like CAIR to have any credibility, it must strongly condemn, and not just by equivocated and mumbled partial agreement, but in its own words, and loudly, those who it claims to represent who are repulsive, primitive, misogynistic, cruel, tyrannical and uncivilized. both as individuals and as groups.

"In fact, it must be at the very forefront of the condemnation of the vile and barbaric practices of the minority of people they claim to represent before it can, with any credibility, speak out against real or imagined slights against the majority of those it claims to represent, most of whom are indeed respectable, and behave appropriately around others.

"If CAIR fails to distinguish in its own people between the honorable and the dishonorable, between the criminal and the civil, between the righteous and the riotous, between the civil and the vandal, between the ignorant and the learned, and between the warlike and the peaceful; then by what right do they demand that all of these people be treated with fairness and honesty by others?

"If CAIR cannot distinguish between good and evil, and defends the unjust and the just alike as equals, then CAIR creates the very bigotry that they rail against. If you lie down with pigs, then you rise up covered in pig filth."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-11 09:42|| 2007-02-11 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Jasser is a fairly lonely voice out there. What about more Muslims coming forward and denouncing the jihadists?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-11 10:12|| 2007-02-11 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 What about more Muslims coming forward and denouncing the jihadists?

What about more Catholics coming forward and denouncing Mother Teresa?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-11 13:08|| 2007-02-11 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 What about more Catholics coming forward and denouncing Mother Teresa?

Mother Teresa is beheading infidels and blowing up pizza parlors now? What is this world comming to?!

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-11 13:58|| 2007-02-11 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Jihad is as much part of Islam as compassion is of Christianity, SteveS.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-11 14:09|| 2007-02-11 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm waiting for:

"He's not a Muslim!"
"He's stoking flames of hatred agains Muslims!"

etc. . .

Posted by PlanetDan 2007-02-11 14:11|| 2007-02-11 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Ya know... every time I fly and have to go through all those irritating security stuff...

Its really time that we either don't permit muslims to fly or make them fly and special planes at special remote sections of airports.

Every citizen should send CAIR a bill for the time and embarrassment at airports they have experience. Something they would not have had to endure if Islam did not exist.

Posted by 3dc 2007-02-11 14:54|| 2007-02-11 14:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Gromgoru,

Christopher Hitchens did!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-11 19:13|| 2007-02-11 19:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Doesn't quite count, Eric Jablow. I'm pretty sure Mr. Hitchens is an atheist.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-11 19:15|| 2007-02-11 19:15|| Front Page Top

#13 I stand corrected, TW.

I think we can use first names here, by the way.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-11 20:11|| 2007-02-11 20:11|| Front Page Top

#14 With pleasure, Eric, now that you've said. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-11 20:24|| 2007-02-11 20:24|| Front Page Top

#15 TW,

I use that name because it is, well, my name. No problem.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-11 22:11|| 2007-02-11 22:11|| Front Page Top

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