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originally posted by: queenofswords
Islam is a theocracy rather than a religion. Therein lies the problem.
If you think for one minute that muslims can separate the two, we are in for a long sad demise.
It is a radical combination of Church and State, so what we are witnessing ("thank you", Obama, Pelosi, et al) is a nudge (Nudge Theory) toward something that will transform our nation as we know it.
BHO probably knows exactly what he's doing. I would guess the liberal fanaticism of Pelosi is her excuse. These people try to be so open-minded that they fail to keep their brains intact. They are destroying America one nudge at a time and calling it progress, when really, it's just the opposite.
Imagine a couple of generations from now when the Supreme Court might actually have some of these people sitting on the bench!! You may be dead and gone, but your great grandchildren may be suffering the consequences of it.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: neo96
As far as women's rights goes it more cultural than religious. In some Muslim nations they have the same rights men do in some nations they do not. Hell even here in the states women are not equal to men on average they are paid less than men for doing the same job. So until women are fully equal to men here in the states we shouldn't be complaining about other cultures.
Is that the same media that turns in o Republicanphobes that coined the term the party of no ?
Is that the same media that turns in to Gunphobes every time there is a shooing ?
Is that the same media that turned in to copphobes in Ferguson, and New York.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: alldaylong
originally posted by: infinityorder
a reply to: TrueAmerican
this is a christian nation
Last time i checked The U.S. was a secular nation.
Amen! Amen!
Don't need anyone ramming religion down my throat. Not a Christian or a Muslim. However, if things got totally crazy and out of hand, the Christians and Muslims could take each other down, leaving the rest of us to survive and carry on this great nation.
I once read somewhere that The U.S. was a land for those who where fleeing religious persecution from elsewhere. A land where every religion would be tolerated without fear or favour. Is that correct ?
It used to be! It's becoming a nation of Evangelical Christians trying to grab power though.
It's a bit sad.
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
In this day and age there is no excuse for your total ignorance. Spend twenty minutes reading about the ottoman empire which was the undisputed superpower of the world at that time and see how they separated church and state. See how much more advanced they were than you and your ilk in treating people with different religions.
The Armenian Genocide[7] (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն Hayots Tseghaspanutyun),[8] also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, "Great Crime"),[9] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.[10][11][12] The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.[13][14][15] The majority of Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
originally posted by: TheArrow
Nope.
Your ability to understand my very clear points is a reflection of your abilities, not mine.
Again, you're bringing up Sharia law here, not me.
You're asking questions that I am not going to answer because, frankly, there stupid.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: queenofswords
Care to elucidate? The right most DEFINITELY is the chief exporter in hyperbole politically and stubbornness is a key part of being a conservative (unwilling to change). So where did I go wrong?
It's not like I've seen a single person in this thread back up their fears with valid reasoning to fear the oncoming Muslim bogeyman. Just more fear, hyperbole, and stereotyping. Par the course for the right.
originally posted by: Daedal
Time to raise up the Muslim boogeyman again. I'm not gonna fall for this load of BS, just to fall in line with the advocates of ignorance.
So relax, it's BS.
originally posted by: Dabrazzo
a reply to: TrueAmerican
White House Rejects Petition Asking Government to Declare Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Group
So wait, we have terrorist group now with a political party in Amerika
Well, the White House doesnt seem to think they are so why should you?
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
No, that is what the conversation was about. Tardacus made a long post about how Muslims could slowly gain a foothold in America and slowly overtake it from within.
YOU countered by saying all they'd need is for a President to switch faiths in office.
Then when I told you that was bollocks, you start talking about increasing the MB's power in the Middle East. So what are YOU talking about? Do you even know?
You're smart enough to know that the statement "women get paid less for doing the same job" is an meaningless thesis to prove or disprove.
A strawman that doesn't take into account any other variable other than whether a person has a penis or vagina, and doesn't establish gender as a variable of causation, only correlation.
Second, blatantly discriminatory, biogoted, and misogynistic laws, with corresponding punishments, exist in Islamic countries. Women get stoned for adultery. They are forbidden from driving. They do not have equal rights under the law.
To compare a woman willfully getting paid a salary at a job she CHOOSES to work at to women being abused in Muslim countries is pathetic, most of all, because you're smart enough to know the difference.
originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: Daedal
Time to raise up the Muslim boogeyman again. I'm not gonna fall for this load of BS, just to fall in line with the advocates of ignorance.
So relax, it's BS.
That's my thinking as well. How's the Communist Party(past boogyman) doing?
originally posted by: queenofswords
You have got to be kidding. YOU elucidate. I could start cutting and pasting all the liberal hyperbole to back up what I say and then you will cut and paste rhetoric from a faction of conservatism to back up your claims of hyperbole. You buy into the myth that conservatives are unwilling to change. Maybe some are. But, change does not necessarily have to mean "fundamentally transforming America". The conservatives I hang with are all about change, but productive change within our American laws and system of justice.
If you haven't seen the backup, then you aren't reading nor truly listening to the posters here. But, that's generally what liberals do. They never see beyond the surface because their hair-trigger response to embrace and justify always supercedes the necessity to examine something without using their PC glasses.
Also, I would call it a seriously valid concern based on evidence rather than calling it fear.