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Dave in NYC, you weren't in Dearborn, MI, which ha...

2008-07-19T12:51:00.000-07:00

Dave in NYC, you weren't in Dearborn, MI, which has the most Muslims in the US, probably. Some largish minority of the Muslims (we also have Christian Arabs in the area and other non-Muslim Arabs and Middle Easterners), it looked to be enough to be around 10%, in Dearborn were celebrating until the tv cameras showed up. Odd, that. Reporting on it disappeared pretty quickly, too. Especially after some thinly veiled threats were made and accusations of racism started to fly.

I have had quite a few Muslim students, (grad and undergrad) and they are mostly pretty ordinary Americans if they've lived here more than 10m years or so.

OTOH, there are a few who are willing to say hair-curling things at the slightest provocation, and those (almost uniformly male) who are non-citizens who are here to attend university openly say things that make it obvious that they intend to impose Islam on *everyone* in the world, by violence if necessary.

You need to get out more.

Well amy procter you have put down a very good and...

2008-07-19T11:17:00.000-07:00

Well amy procter you have put down a very good and well written comment, a comment that even though I like it and agree with it in part...

mr. smarterthanyou brings up some salient points that makes it understandable why: "It's easy to lump all Muslims together because we see violence done in the name of Islam" and doing so isn't far from wrong...

Remember this poll? Poll: 1 in 4 U.S. Young Muslims OK With Homicide Bombings Against Civilians

It sure could make it seem like all muslims were in touch with their inner jihad...

amy further says: "What needs to be done instead is to encourage Muslilm movements against terrorism, such as They Are Not Us and Terrorism Has No Religion, to help Islam to evolve into a religion that can co-exist with the rest of the world"...

Well said!

They danced in Dearborn when the Israeli's showed ...

2008-07-19T11:11:00.000-07:00

They danced in Dearborn when the Israeli's showed their lack of spine in 2006. How is that for "small minority"?

All polls out there show that at least 50% of musl...

2008-07-19T10:52:00.000-07:00

All polls out there show that at least 50% of muslims support killing "infidels", including attacks on civilian targets. That includes those in the UK and here.

His comment was correct, because a good Muslim is a footsoldier in the violence creation of the "Ummah".

The majority of muslims would proabably not support those who wish peace and coexistance.

Also, I don't remember Muslims dancing in the stre...

2008-07-19T10:23:00.000-07:00

Also, I don't remember Muslims dancing in the streets of Kazakhstan, Albania, or Turkey. Do you?

Dave-they may not have danced on your streets--9/1...

2008-07-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

Dave-they may not have danced on your streets--
9/11 2001-restaurants in LA-men of of Islam were laughing and congratulating each other on the success of bringing down the "towers".

Funny, I lived in LA at the time, and I didn't see or hear about this. Do you have any corroboration of this?

Christians are not safe in Iraq - this should tell...

2008-07-19T10:20:00.000-07:00

Christians are not safe in Iraq - this should tell you all something about the situation in Iraq. When Americans leave will Iraq still be a Muslim nation where Christian Iraqis are not safe? The answer is a resounding, "Yes." Truly sad! These are just the facts; we can ignore them, but this reality exists not only in predominately Muslim countries, but in countries where the number of Muslims is ever rising.

Wake up people. Every Muslim I heard or people I ...

2008-07-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

Wake up people. Every Muslim I heard or people I know heard said the Americans deserved 9/ll, so do not kid yourself. There are two kinds of Muslims, practising and non-practising; they are their religion: Islam. Don't ever forget it. Muslims are murdering Christians the world over, and no Christian nation does a thing about it. We are in bed with those who hate us and sooner, than later, we are going to need to change sheets in order to survive.

Dave-they may not have danced on your streets--9/1...

2008-07-19T09:52:00.000-07:00

Dave-they may not have danced on your streets--
9/11 2001-restaurants in LA-men of of Islam were laughing and congratulating each other on the success of bringing down the "towers".
The picture became clearer to me then and has been been getting more and more focused since.

We saw Muslims, everywhere and in every nation dan...

2008-07-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

We saw Muslims, everywhere and in every nation dancing with joy in the streets after 9-11.

I didn't see this in the U.S., and we have a lot of Muslims who live here.

Anyway, it's obvious that this guy made an unfortunate statement. If he corrects himself, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

I'll take Bud Day's comments over PC diatrabe an...

2008-07-19T08:52:00.000-07:00

I'll take Bud Day's comments over PC diatrabe any day.

"Want to know the most fundamental difference betw...

2008-07-19T08:51:00.000-07:00

"Want to know the most fundamental difference between a conservative and a liberal/leftist? A conservative is angry about 9/11/01." - ROTFLMAO! Can I quote you on that?

"but for every act of violence we see there are th...

2008-07-19T08:46:00.000-07:00

"but for every act of violence we see there are thousands of acts of peace and courage by Muslims." - Amy, you're dead wrong on that one, and a prime example of the wishful thinking that clouds the minds of the goo-goo liberals and prevents them from dealing with reality. True, there are peaceful Muslims and even a handful speaking out against the brutality and insanity of the militants, but they are way too few and far between... The biggest problem with Islam isn't that handful are committing terrorist acts, but that MILLIONS of them refuse to take a stand against such behavior. As far as I'm concerned, that makes them as complicit as the Germans in WWII who knew the Nazis was running death camps, but still cooperated in turning in their friends and neighbors to the SS...

Want to know the most fundamental difference betwe...

2008-07-19T08:38:00.000-07:00

Want to know the most fundamental difference between a conservative and a liberal/leftist? A conservative is angry about 9/11/01. A liberal/leftist is angry about the 2000 election. It wasn't a homicidal Islamist who defeated Al Gore after all.

"Bud Day once bailed out of an airplane without a ...

2008-07-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

"Bud Day once bailed out of an airplane without a parachute and lived. I'll go with him."

Nah, go with the lefties, they have everything figured out.

If they could only solve all these problems before they are solved by Conservatives and not a week after, it would be just a skosh better. Just a little.

But they are very smart about a lot of things, they'll tell you.

Bud Day once bailed out of an airplane without a p...

2008-07-19T07:48:00.000-07:00

Bud Day once bailed out of an airplane without a parachute and lived. I'll go with him.

Takekeze,Yeah, it only takes a small percentage to...

2008-07-19T07:04:00.000-07:00

Takekeze,

Yeah, it only takes a small percentage to rule over the masses of most groups. Even our political parties are controlled by orthodoxy on each side. The Democrats chose a candidate from the far left, while Republicans chose a mixed bag, Maverick, kind of middle of the road candidate.

Most people in life, including Americans just want to be left alone and free to not do anything, especially sacrificial acts for others. Our soldiers are truly special and one day it will be realized as a great historical achievement as long as defeatist do not get control in America and try to pull yet another Vietnam.

Thinking bout the Persians of Iran. The vast majority hate their government today, but a revolution would mean lots of deaths and bloodshed. They're not willing to fight for their freedoms yet without outside help. And I'm not sure they could win without external interference. The students are holding more aggressive protest and the government keeps stamping them down. If we had more time without the nuke factor, the Iranian government might fail in the future without a need for external forces to remove their weapons systems. But time is quickly running out for all sides.

It is amazing America claimed Indpendence when it did with such a pitiful militia to start. In fact, it almost was lost if Washington had not finally won a surprise victory on the famous night-crossing of the Delaware. And I doubt it would've succeeded without French and Spanish help.

The Kurds and Shia tried to rise up against Saddam but were wasted by his forces and chemical Ali.

So, its a mixed bag and if the powerful few have all the heavey weaponry, the sheep don't have much choice but to weather the death of dear leaders all.

Clearly that anonymous troll is not one of those w...

2008-07-19T06:46:00.000-07:00

Clearly that anonymous troll is not one of those who honors our troops and their service.

No one has said that he can't question Bud Day or any other war hero (including John McCain) -- and the closest any commenter came was me, arguing that disagreement should be respectful of such an individual if one truly honors the troops.

LOL, I'm not about to try and change Col Bud Day.H...

2008-07-19T06:38:00.000-07:00

LOL, I'm not about to try and change Col Bud Day.

Here is an excellent post about Iraqi graduates and great pics of their joyous families proud of their accomplishments.

ht: Greyhawk...

Inspiration in Tears of Joy

This truly is a great moment in history for Iraq and the Middle East and American needs to continue to stand by the Iraqis as they rebuild their nation. Bush did the right thing standing firm when all around him yelled fire, fire. He made the right changes and got the right leaders in position. Which is no different than many wars where new leaders were pushed to the front.

The liberals are giving the radical Muslim terrori...

2008-07-19T06:36:00.000-07:00

The liberals are giving the radical Muslim terrorists a pass on this one.

It's because some of them don't have white skin. Not having white skin means you get an automatic pass on anything, theft, murder, terrorism, rape, small genocides, any crime short of drilling for oil.

People trying to revise Bud Day are the same who'd...

2008-07-19T04:38:00.000-07:00

People trying to revise Bud Day are the same who'd revise Mark Twain or remove his works from the shelves in favor of a bonfire of PC censorship.

Pseudo-"Proper" People (P3) who refute their elders' wisdom are foolish to require specific gift wrap in order to accept the content of experience that survived great suffering to gain through sacrifice. The only sacrifice these P3 know is the sacrifice of their own integrity in favor of popularity currently promoting PC as the American value structure. All the while, PC is the demise of the American Constitution, the very thing it promotes itself as preserving.

Dear Senator Mc Cain,If you throw this gentleman u...

2008-07-19T04:36:00.000-07:00

Dear Senator Mc Cain,

If you throw this gentleman under the bus for telling the truth, I don't know how you expect to win our hearts. Granted, he may have qualified his statement by stating the obvious...it is not every Muslim but ladies and gentlemen, we have never had a problem with broad brushing Christians now have we? We throw in a little intelligence and rational thinking and we are able to tell the difference between the whackos and the serious. Remember when we could play dodge ball and not fear for our lives? Those balls were dangerous objects and we never knew it until the libs pounded it into our heads. I guess we can say that he was right in what he said but it depends on what your meaning of Muslim is. Yegads this planet does have a fever doesn't it?

God Bless Bud Day!Anyone younger than he is needs ...

2008-07-19T04:23:00.000-07:00

God Bless Bud Day!

Anyone younger than he is needs to appreciate his own phraseology without requiring all of the PC filters that cushion a sterile comfort zone. Don't tell me that Bud Day suffers from elitist phobia, or I'll see through your own phobia.

Any minority who carries a chip on their shoulder to refute the essence of Bud Day's thought was going to vote Democrat to begin with, regardless of a veteran's stance on e pluribus unum loyalty to our Constitution. And yes, I specify Muslims. It is an American tradition for any minority to bind themselves to the Constitution in order to SUPPORT the Constitution. Even during WWII, Japanese Americans enlisted to fight in Europe with great valor. For our contemporary minorities to bind themselves to the Constitution in order to DISSOLVE the Constitution and insulate themselves whilst allowing radical elements within their community/religion to exist untouched is nothing for me to support, rather, is something for me to recognize and counter legitimately.

As for the Democrat Party, oh, I do take my enemy seriously in order to undo their platform and defeat their campaign.

$.02 heads up for good luck

See, the problem is the following:Let's say we hav...

2008-07-19T03:07:00.000-07:00

See, the problem is the following:

Let's say we have 100 muslims and only one of them is a radical who wants to blow up infidels. So far so good, but as it is with the moosels I have one question: why, if only a small majority is radical, doesn't the large, silent majority do something about them? Why are they ALWAYS silent? Why do they NEVER stand up against the radicals and say "piss off" to them?

Qui tacet consentire videtur: "He who keeps silent is assumed to consent" or "silence gives consent".

Kind of funny, no?

We're always, ALWAYS, being told that "no, not all muslims are radicals, not all muslims are terrorists". Well, when are they starting to prove this? If they're not like the radicals, if they don't support them, how's about getting off your bloody ass and fight them?

Until then, I'll consider every muslim to be a possible terrorist until proven otherwise.

And, btw, I think that the number of radicals or those who actually support radical ideas is far higher than a mere 10%

As for the Neo-Commies trying to troll: please, kids, grow up, get a brain and realize how incredibly stupid you are. So, you're bitching and moaning about "hero worshipping". Now, take yourself by the nose and look at your Barrack the Parrot. Any worshipping of COL Day done by the conservatives is NOTHING compared to the pseudo-religious bootlicking done by the Neo-Commies when it comes down to Barrack the Parrot, Adolf Wright and Al Gore. Besides, you don't see McCain supporters making death threats to Fred Thompson supporters, right?

COL Day put his life on the line so that Neo-Commies can spew their ideological garbage. What did Obama do? Sleep in Congress? Or show his remarkable care for the country and the people by NOT voting on anything? Yeah, right. If it comes down to supporters, what did Al Gore do? Fail in politics, and make a stupid movie that is so full of errors that it's not even remotely funny anymore. Hmmm, don't know about you, but I'd rather spend an evening having a drink with COL Day than 5 minutes with Barrack the Parrot or Al Gore.

And while I'm at it: Neo-Commies, stop pretending to be Liberals. You. Are. Not. Liberals.

Being a Liberal means that you are in favor, in strong support of freedom, of liberty. That means: personal freedom, political freedom, freedom of religion AND freedom of economy. Classic Liberals don't want the state to meddle in the economy. They don't want the state to tell them what they're supposed to do, to think, to like.

Taking those facts into account (if you don't believe it, learn Latin and take little look into history, if you have a working brain -that excludes today's Leftists- then you'll realize I'm right), I have to say: Barrack the Parrot is NOT a Liberal. Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Dhimmocrats are NOT Liberals. They don't care about freedom or liberty. They only pretend to care, but when it comes down to the core it shows that they're just lousy Wannabe-Communists. A Liberal in the classic sense believes in freedom and liberty and freedom can't be divided. There is no room for "personal freedom, yes; free economy, no" in the classic sense. Listen to Barrack the Parrot and his goons. Take his wife "taking things away for the greater good", that's NOT Liberal. That's clearly Communist. A classic Liberal would NEVER get such an idea, since it violates... freedom and liberty.

That said, I'm inclined to say that Ronald Reagan was a Liberal, in the classic sense, not in the sense that the Leftists of today believe in (then again, they are not Liberals, thus what would they know?) BTW, in Germany and Austria, classic Liberals are now called "Liberalisten", Liberalists, by the Leftists who claim to be "Liberals" -which they are clearly not.

Want a Socialist wannabe-state? Come to the EU. Latest "brilliant" idea? Raise the taxes on tobacco to make people stop smoking. Mind you, I'm not a smoker (well, I don't smoke cigarettes, but I won't say "no" to a good cigar every now and then), but I don't care whether people smoke or not. If someone wants to, fine, I don't care. If they want to, literally, burn money and tare their lungs, why would I care (no, don't come with "passive smoking", cause that BS doesn't make even the slightest sense, cause according to the EU, passive smoking is even more dangerous than active smoking -doesn't really work out if you know your 2 cents on human anatomy and physiology- and so and so many people per year die of passive smoking (number's higher than those who die of active smoking, which means that the number was pulled out of someone's ass))? But the state, or in this case a wannabe "higher" authority, decides what's good for the citizens. Unacceptable. I'm a Liberal and I say: No fucking way. I decide what's good for me, what I want to do, not the state.

F*ck people...I love me a war hero as much as the ...

2008-07-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

F*ck people...I love me a war hero as much as the next slack-jawed redneck, but since when does being a hero part of the POTUS job description?!?!

Profanity? Check.

Mock-yokelish prose? Check.

Sledgehammer sarcasm substituting for wit? Check.

Brain-dead cliché? Check.

Unintentionally screwed-up grammar? Check.

Excessive punctuation, like you find in a thirteen-year-old girl's diary? Check.

In other words, a typical leftist post. All that's missing is the anti-Semitism.

You guys really need new material.