Did you know that Americans don't want to "live next door to a Muslim", or that Americans want all Muslims to "carry special identification", or that it is but "Ignorance" that is seen as a "Key Problem" to these foolish American's "hatred" and misperceptions?
Reuters knew, if you didn't. And they are happy to let us all know about it, too.
It all stems from a Radio host misusing his audience to make a point that Americans are no different than the Germans who turned a blind eye to Hitler's "Final Solution" against Jews during WWII.
A DC radio host announced that he thought that Muslims should be forced to have a crescent moon tattooed on them to readily identify them akin to the way Nazi Germany forced Jews to wear the yellow "Juden" star.
He then took phone calls -- no doubt specially screened just to "prove" his point -- to find, lo and behold, everyone in his audience were racists who wanted Muslims marked in such a way.
Naturally, he was not seriously proposing to do what he presented and it was all a hoax to prove that America was filled with Muslim haters. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said", he went on to scold his listeners.
"Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous."
Neat little package he created there, eh?
But, Reuters didn't stop with just this story to "prove" that we are all Nazi-like, Muslim haters. They had "studies" and CAIR interviews, too.
Those in agreement are not a fringe minority: A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification.
Roughly a quarter of those polled said they would not want to live next door to a Muslim and a third thought that Muslims in the United States sympathized with al Qaeda, the extremist group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
And who carried out that poll? Why the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) did, naturally.
CAIR claims to have "found that for one in three Americans, the word Islam triggers negative connotations such as "war," "hatred" and "terrorist." The war in Iraq has contributed to such perceptions."
I wonder what the words "9/11" and "Suicide Bomber" triggers? I wonder why THOSE weren't included in the "study"? Is it because such words afford Americans a REASON to suspect Muslims? You know, the same Muslims responsible for such acts of terror?
But, I guess we wouldn't want to add that to the story. After all, it would tend to mitigate our obvious Goose Stepping tendency! So, we have a radio host who created a premise to get a predetermined end, and a CAIR "poll" to do the same, and we call that proof that we are all just Nazis in bluejeans?
Wunderbar!
Next Rueters brings up the self-manufactured "Clerics removal from a place" story to further prove we are all intolerant and helpfully informs us that the only reason we might be so evil as Americans is because "Ignorance Seen as Key Problem".
So, if we are all Goose-stepping, Nazi-like, Muslim haters, there MUST be an awful lot of Americans attacking and mistreating Muslims all across the nation, right? I mean, if there is so much hate around, we certainly couldn't expect nothing to be happening because of all that racism... right?
Well, not so much.
There are no hard figures on how many Muslims have been subject to harassment or prejudice...
What? How can there be racism everywhere yet no racist actions taken against the target of that purported racism?
Seems rather hard to believe that racism is so prevalent if we can't even see a statistical example of the result of racism.
Anyway, the most amusing part of this story is its ending. There we see a sigh of relief in the fact that Keith Ellison (D, MN) won election to a Minnesota House Seat. Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress whose victory could "signal to people who are not Muslims that Muslims have a lot to offer to the United States and the improvement of our country."
And Rueters highlights that Ellison "did not stress his religion during his campaign for a Minnesota seat". No wonder. He isn't a real Muslim, but a member of the racist "Nation of Islam" run by the "Reverend" Louie Farrakhan, a group few Muslims anywhere would claim as an Islamic organization. It's no wonder he ran away from that identification!
In any case, it is a good thing that Reuters is there to tell us how rotten we lowly Americans are and how innocent Muslims are.
What would we do without them?
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Well, when we were attacked
December 3, 2006 - 10:22 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWell, when we were attacked on 9-11 I was ignorant about muslims and islam. I actually thought these were people following a religion. So I went and got some education and found islam is a cult, not unlike the Jim Jones or Charles Manson cults. What a wake up that was! Call me an 'Ugly American (circa 1960)' if you want, but I am not the one preaching murder.
DSG
Muslims
December 3, 2006 - 10:46 ET by iveseenitallReuters is correct. We just don't "understand" why people murder innocents. We just don't "understand" homicide bombings. It's deliberate on our part. How dare we note give in to screwed up liberal thought processes!
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Gee, why wouldn't you want to
December 4, 2006 - 02:46 ET by mattmGee, why wouldn't you want to live next door to someone who teaches their kids to hate Jews, Christians and any other non-muslim, and who uses them as human bombs and blow up buildings and hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings, and send poison through the mail, and threaten to kill anyone who badmouths their so-called religion? Just ask Israel what kind of neighbors Muslims are.
Writing from Minneapolis, the
December 3, 2006 - 11:07 ET by MNDougWriting from Minneapolis, the schizophrenic community where one ultra-liberal congressional district votes Muslims into office while the normal populace removes their Imams from airplanes...
If you haven't read it, read the "Faking Imams" story at: http://pajamasmedia....
It comes complete with a copy of the police report showing that these peaceful imams were cursing America and supporting Saddam (all in Arabic but overhead by Arabic-speaking passengers); sitting in groups of two at the front, middle and rear of the airplane (like 9-11) and asking for seat belt extensions when none of them were overweight (seat belt extensions make good weapons). Many think this could have been a dry run to test security.
And now there is a push for special "Muslim prayer rooms" in airports... yeah, and as a Catholic I want a private "Rosary Room"... and I'm sure Jews need a special room too. Sheesh. And none of us could use the same room together, I'm sure.
The first Muslim takeover of the civilized world was accomplished via the sword. Perhaps this time we'll just GIVE you everything out of "pc guilt"!
Hey there Mr. Muslim... learn to get along in other societies, will ya?
This just in...MOST MUSLIMS
December 3, 2006 - 11:14 ET by Jack BauerThis just in...
MOST MUSLIMS TOTALLY IGNORANT ABOUT AMERICA
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I would love to be the fly on
December 3, 2006 - 11:33 ET by USA4freedomI would love to be the fly on the cabin wall if the Reuters writer or the DC radio host sitting next to a Muslim when he stands up and starts yelling “Allahu Akbar”. Then we see just who is the racist is. When I think it was ABC, put Muslims up in the stands at a NASCAR race to watch the fans give them a hard time, the result: nothing. I agree with iveseenitall I don’t understand, but its amazing that the death of 3000 of our fellow citizens will have the affect of: Muslins = terror. Let me mention here is just a “small”.. difference between us and the Nazis: the Jews were not trying to find a NUKE TO BLOW UP OUR CITIES. A small percentile of Muslims ARE. Reuters, pull you head out of the sand or your ass.
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Muslim appeasement shown by t
December 3, 2006 - 12:05 ET by pocomocoMuslim appeasement shown by the MSM is done in the hope that they will be the last ones beheaded.
You know, these Muslim terror
December 3, 2006 - 12:50 ET by SvenYou know, these Muslim terrorists must be laughing their A$$es off at us (and other Wester countries). I can almost hear them saying: "It can't be this easy...?"
Take a look at England and France. They are the verge of losing their culture to these Muslim extremists! If I'm not mistaken, England now has made a provision that Muslims can use their Sharia Law with regards to Muslims in that country! What! How long before these tolerant Muslims demand that Brits and others fall under this same law?
I hate to say this, but I think it's going to take another attack by these terrorists before this country wakes up and realizes who the REAL enemy is!
Some libs might start to ca
December 3, 2006 - 13:02 ET by lnthompSome libs might start to catch on when homosexuals in Europe start falling prey to the "religion of peace".
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I admit I am pretty ignorant
December 3, 2006 - 13:04 ET by aeroI admit I am pretty ignorant about Muslims. But, guess what? The only ones trying to inform us about their beliefs are the extremists--and they're "informing" us by killing Americans. The so-called moderates aren't speaking out to dispel our ignorance. If they don't like the average American's negative perception of Islam, they should be shouting from the rooftops that the extremists do not represent their beliefs. But they don't, which reinforces the perception that Islam is what the extremists say it is. So-called moderate Muslims seem to support the extremists through their silence and inaction. Small surprise that a large number of Americans distrust them then.
BTW, I am aware that all Muslims are not terrorists or terrorist sympathizers. But how can the average American be blamed for wondering, when most "moderate" Muslims won't make an effort to denounce the extremists?
Allah forbid....but not America
December 3, 2006 - 14:30 ET by acumenAllah forbid CAIR would ask Americans in their prejudiced poll if they think immigrants to the US should attempt to assimilate with their host culture as a sign of respect.
As far as Ellison goes, what a relief it must be for him that he won't have to take his oath of office on the Bible. Even though this has never been a problem for Jews, secularists, Mormons, or even pedaphiles, this AMERICAN tradition seems just too racist for CAIR's poster boy Ellison. An appease....er, agreement was reached where Ellison will not have to put his hand on the Bible to take the oath. Exactly how allowing Ellison what no other member of Congress has ever done fits in with CAIR's vision of a racist America remains a mystery. I presume the Muslim rationale is something like Allah forbid.....but not America.
Nice - America gets a twofer with Ellison - The first Muslim elected to Congress and the first member of Congress to take the oath of office with no hand on the Bible. Not bad accomdations coming from such a racist country. But the real winner here is Islamic uniculturalism. What's next for America? Radio City Christmas Spectacular replaced by a Ramadan spectacle at Radio City Music Hall featuring the Burqettes? I don't even want to contemplate what future 4th of July firework celebrations will be like.....
On Islam
December 3, 2006 - 15:01 ET by UnsaneI have read quite a bit about Islam and will admit it CAN be a nice, quiet, peaceful religion...if the extremists would actually follow their own guidance (the Koran). Or, if the ordinary, everyday Muslims would rise up and shut up their extremist followers.
For instance: earlier this year, Muslim populations thought it would be a great idea to protest the exercise of freedom of speech by torching and vandalizing some embassies of the offending countries (Denmark, etc.). Amazingly, I can't remember embassies of Muslim nations being torched after 11 September 2001, or after other acts of terrorism.
Oh, and possibly they can stop blaming everything and everyone else for the failings of their civilization (i.e., Israel, the Jews, etc.). Just a few thoughts.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy." -Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)
"Or, if the ordinary, everyd
December 3, 2006 - 16:00 ET by tumbler"Or, if the ordinary, everyday Muslims would rise up and shut up their extremist followers."
There are no ordinary everyday Muslims.
Not every muslim household cuts off a daughters' clitoris, or disowns her if she's a rape victim, or splashes acid in the faces of any young lady seen without a veil on the street. But it's not extraordinary. In many countries it's the norm to commit those atrocities; even if we should leave out their commitment to Jihad. Even without the killings and Jew-hatred. Even without the carbombs and suicide bombings. A religion in which that conduct is acceptable is never ordinary or everyday, extremism only means it's gone global.
I sincerely believe that all the "soft" Islam seen here in America, apparently harmless and willing to co-exist in "peace" is simply silence. It's Poker; the opponent hides his cards and we're seeing Poker-faces. Not peaceful everyday people. If we could read minds it would shock us. That's my opinion.
I think that many (NOT ALL) o
December 3, 2006 - 22:00 ET by UnsaneI think that many (NOT ALL) of the Muslims that got here from the dar al-Islam want to get away from the crap that goes on in the respective countries that you highlight. And true, it is out there, no doubt.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy." -Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)
Careful tumbler, careful. A
December 4, 2006 - 07:10 ET by The Real TonyCareful tumbler, careful. Any minute now, we'll have some liberal on here dredging up the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.
Fight Terrorism at home - defeat a liberal!
Oh no. Not the Spanish Inqu
December 4, 2006 - 07:13 ET by Jack BauerOh no. Not the Spanish Inquisition!!!
Yes, yes, bring on the comfy sofa.
Apologies to non-fans of Monty Python.
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don't get me started
December 4, 2006 - 12:04 ET by tumblerYo, don't get me started on the Spanish Inquisition.
I'm hispanic, after all. I'll take on whoever disses Franco, Isabel la Catolica, the tablao Flamenco or Guardia Civil. Inquistions are easy to explain.
I had to feel some shame when the Spanish withdrew from Bush's coalition, frankly. The railway bombings took place on the eve of their elections and everybody voted against the conservative party to install a Frenchie Quiche-eater, Rodriguez Zapatero. Hardly the matador poster boy. In Torquemada's day he would've been shishka bobbed, not elected. Some updates, Pals;
This group who took over after the Muslims attacked Atocha is out of the same mold as the commies who got their asses kicked in their 30's civil war. There are a large number of communists around there to this day. The ones whose families didn't escape to Mexico and Cuba. That'll also tell you where the Mexican socialists originated.
mecca
December 3, 2006 - 16:44 ET by CatherwoodI have no problem with muslims. They should all live in Mecca where we could keep an eye on them and take them all out with one blast if we had to.
Yeah, just like the Jews.
December 3, 2006 - 22:57 ET by BlameTheMediaYeah, just like the Jews. Putting them all in camps made it easy to exterminate them.
Good thinking Catherwood! Let's tatoo them and start shipping them off.
Speaking of that...
December 4, 2006 - 04:02 ET by UnsaneDid you know that the #1 hit song in the Arab world in 2001 was "Akrah Israel"?
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy." -Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)
no trouble
December 4, 2006 - 18:55 ET by CatherwoodI wouldn't waste the ink.
Maybe I'll do a radio show from Berkeley CA
December 3, 2006 - 17:29 ET by Carl KolchakMaybe I' ll do a radio show from Berekely, CA, Eugene, OR or Boudler, CO and pretend that I think communism is awesome and that everyone should study Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot etc. And I will make statements like maybe we should use forced labor camps like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Mao used. That's free labor for the communists, when they all talk about how much they are for the working person. Maybe I'll talk about how it's ok to kill all the wealthy peasants like Stalin did with the kulaks in the Soviet Union. I think 2 million kulaks died. Also maybe I'll talk about forced collectivization and what a swell idea that is and how well that results in the peasants daily life. Also maybe I could talk about how it would be good to kill all the people who can think for themselves and start over a new society, and those who aren't killed can be forced to go grow rice like Pol Pot did. Or maybe I could talk about how killing prisoners is awful, except in the case of Che, because left wingers like to wear Che shirts and talk about how much they care about prison abuse, but don't seem to care that Che killed his prisoners. I'm pretty confident hardcore left wingers would call in and tell me how great my ideas were.
"There's blood in the street it's up to my ankles" 'Peace Frog'
Carl, and don't forget to m
December 3, 2006 - 17:36 ET by John in CACarl, and don't forget to mention that they would no longer have to worry about what career or profession they would like to engage in. The communist government will make those difficult decisions for them based on exhibited ability and participation in the Party and adherence to it's tenets. And also, they'll get the conscripted military service they so desire - you know, to spread the misery around equally.
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Headline: Journalists Just
December 3, 2006 - 17:30 ET by John in CAHeadline: Journalists Just Ignorant About Christians
Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!
Which Imam is going to be f
December 3, 2006 - 17:43 ET by lnthompWhich Imam is going to be first to issue a call for the death of Barack Obama for leaving the Islamic fold?
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Muslims
December 3, 2006 - 20:01 ET by grampusIslam is a counterfeit religion - a pretender to the throne. That millions embrace and worship it changes this fact not one whit. That a significant element can conveniently point to its teachings as license to commit barbaric and inhuman atrocities only furthers its illegitimacy.
Ask a member why their religion is so violent and they'll deny it (despite the wealth of evidence), saying "Those who commit those acts do so not in the name of Islam". Ask them why they allow terrorists to act in the name of Islam and they'll say "Each has the right to celebrate Islam in their own way". Islam will never undergo a reformation like other mature religions have, and consequently will remain a plague on mankind as long as any "worship" it.
Muhammad , founder of Islam, was a warlord. He disliked the fact that Arabs worshiped 360 gods, one for each day of the year. He studied with Christians and Jews to determine their basis for a one true God. After this, he announced that he had been visited by the angel Gabriel and it was revealed to him that he was to establish the one true religion.
His fundamental teachings were: there is one God; people must in all things submit to Him; in this world nations have been amply punished for rejecting God's prophets, and heaven and hell are waiting for the present generation; the world will come to an end with a great judgment. Of course, all of these originate in the Jewish Torah, Talmud and the New Testament...his “visions” were the same as the passages from these sources.
Like any enabler to an addict or obsessive compulsive, America's radical left likes to paint Islam in shades of moral equivalence. Being cowards by nature they believe that if you make nice, and negotiate from a point of weakness, they can make themselves an unattractive target to Islam - they are, of course, wrong.
grampus..Thank you for that i
December 3, 2006 - 20:11 ET by bigtimergrampus..
Thank you for that informative post.
For me the last paragraph you wrote says it all...especially where we are right now with this religious war...this is very serious and to me the leftists are hiding their heads, kind of like what a small child does when he covers his eyes and thinks you can't see him...
"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland
grampus...Amen!If Muslims are
December 3, 2006 - 20:57 ET by Clear thinkergrampus...
Amen!
If Muslims are so worried about being seen as the religion of hatred and violence, why is it that their leaders do NOT stand up and scream at their flock to STOP?
This lack of leadership (the moral kind) tells me they support what is happening around the world.
grampus...I aggree 110% with
December 4, 2006 - 02:13 ET by ww thumpergrampus...I aggree 110% with what you wrote, and your absolutely right. I have studied about Islam for a very long time , all you said is correct. Like I have said ... .....Political correctness when dealing with Islam will kill america....ww .....
give me that old time religion
December 3, 2006 - 20:45 ET by RackieI believe that BHO (barbecue be upon him) is a Zen Baptist.
MSM and Islam
December 3, 2006 - 20:12 ET by pocomoco"Reuters: Americans Just 'Ignorant' About Muslims"
The one thing that Reuters and other MSM have not told us, is why they have this love affair with Islam. We read daily, in one form or another, that: Islam good, other religions bad. But why?
Some possible reasons:
Access: They are taking the CNN/Turner approach of 20 years ago when they dealt with Saddam Hussein. Make no derogatory remarks, and you have free-run of the place.
Fear: (Winston Churchill said it best) You appease the lion in the hope you will be the last one eaten.
Hatred of America: More and more this seems to be their reasoning.
Quite frankly, the MSM are as ignorant as the rest of America, unless they all have PHDs in the religion of Islam, which is highly unlikely.
So Reuters and MSM, which is it?? Inquiring minds want to know!