"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of The (Republican) Party say, that it is permitted to be said, such things as, "Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim". Well the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian, he's always been a Christian.
So Colin Powell is "troubled" that such things being said like "Obama is a Muslim"? How about Colin being "troubled" by what such groups as the Islamic Thinkers Society and CAIR say what they say? And what with this talk of being "permitted"? Is not free speech halal enough for us unbelievers? From what I can remember free speech is a fundamental right in the USA and enshrined in the American Constitution. Would he like to adopt the consitution of India that forbids most open and critical public debate about what Islam is and what it's followers believe in? He also forgot that there is still that option of informing the uninformed that Obama is not a Muslim. How about it? He has freedom of speech also.
Oh . . . . I'm about give my opinion about Obama "always" being a "Christian". How the hell can somebody have "always" been a Christian? You might get away with that over at dailykos with the ignorant quasi-socialists there but isn't that a bit like how some Muslims claim that they have "always" been Muslim? Do you have any idea about how Christian proselytizing works and that not many Christians who know what they stand for would ever claim to have "always been Christian"? This is an ignorant statement on your part but I won't expect you to own up to it since you have a track record of not owning up to other things. And let's not forget about that so-called Reverend Wright. Maybe you can tell us that he's "always been a Christian" too.
But the really right answer is "What if he is?
No. That's prevarication assuming that Muslims and their ideology is just something to shrug one's shoulders about.
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no.
The answer is yes. All one has to do is look at how Muslims (and their lobby organizations) behave in countries where their presence encroaches upon the rights of non-Muslims. They have attained some success in the USA by establishing Muslim-majority neighborhoods. They have infiltrated and co-opted American counterculture and places of higher education and have done this successfully.
What hasn't been fully divulged yet is the amount of crimes against women and children that Muslims have committed in the USA in the past three decades as well as the intimidation tactics they have orchestrated on many campuses. Much of US crime statistics doesn't take that into account and if it was publicized the usual cries of "hate" and whatnot would spill forth from the mouths of Islamic apologists.
That's not America.
Oh yes it is. People have said things that are inaccurate and downright slanderous in America since it's inception and that doesn't make America an exception in that regard. Not by a long shot.
Is there something wrong with some seven year old Muslim American kid believing that he or she can be president?
There is a lot wrong with some seven year old Muslim kid thinking that he can become president of the USA. First of all someone or somebody's have been selling him porkies and misinforming him about what Islam is really about. Second of all this seven year old kid is way too young to understand the realities of American society much less the rest of the world's non-Muslim populations. Many of whom have suffered and continue to suffer under Islamic domination.
Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be assosciated with terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
Wrong Colin. In the USA people have freedom of speech and that includes the right to freely express one's own opinions. No matter how daft they may be. Whether you (or anybody else) likes it or not this is how democracy is. It's messy. It brings out the full range of emotions in people and America (as well as other democracies) no matter how limited they are "doing it" the way it should be done and yes, other folks do have the very same right to challenge such sentiments so make use of it and don't tell us how things "should or should not be done".
I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone, and it gave his awards, purple heart, bronze star, showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death, he was twenty years old, and at the very top of the headstrone, it didn't have a Christian Cross, it didn't have a Star of David, it had a Crescent and a Star of the Islamic faith, and his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American, he was born in New Jersey, he was fourteen years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could go serve his country and he gave his life.
And by fighting for a infidel country he has violated the dictates of Islam. He was probably like that seven year old kid you mentioned earlier and he's not alone. I know an ex-Muslim guy who once believed that he could do the same thing and still remain Muslim. Then he realized that he wasn't a Muslim once he got educated about what Islam is about and what it requires. For all we know Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was headed in the same direction.
]Now we have got to stop polarizing ourselves in this way. And John McCain is non-discrimanatory as anyone I know, but I am troubled about the fact that within The (Republican) Party we have these kinds of expressions."
If anyone examines your political career, knows a thing or two about American politics and the Republican Party and then reads this they know full well that you are lying and faking your being "troubled". Colin, there's a lot of things that have happened to the Republican Party that you should have been "troubled" about since you were a seven year old kid but if you had said anything about how Christian fundamentalists had burrowed into the party in the 1980's you would have started a bit of "polarizing" yourself and we can't have that now can we?
Ameen Colin Powell.
Actually, it should be Ahem Colin Powell
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