Herman Cain: Muslims have no place in US government
So we’ve got two probable candidates for the GOP presidential nominees who claim Georgia as their base. One is Newt Gingrich.
This is the other one.
For those who can’t view the video, Herman Cain is asked whether he would be willing to appoint a Muslim as a Cabinet officer or judge.
“No. I will not,” he said. “And here’s why: There’s this creeping attempt — there’s this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.” According to Cain, many American Muslims “are trying to force their Sharia law onto the rest of us.”
That’s just stupid. As in not very bright. By comparison, the Sharia conspiracy crowd makes the birthers look downright sane and reasonable. It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, among the GOP mainstream steps up to repudiate such nonsense. After all, the Constitution explicitly rules out such nonsense, stating point blank that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
I guess Herman Cain doesn’t believe in the Constitution.
Oh, and by the way?
In a speech to Texas evangelicals, Gingrich also took up the theme over the weekend, warning that unless America is saved, his grandchildren “will live in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”
“a secular atheist country … dominated by radical Islamists?” Wow. That would be some trick.
It’s the kind of rhetorical collision that happens when you’re merely listing scare words needed to scare your audience and not even attempting to communicate cogent thought.
– Jay Bookman
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Finn McCool
March 28th, 2011
1:44 pm
These are the folks wanting to KILL Americans – why would anyone want them in the White House?????
No jew has ever killed an american? No christian has ever killed an American?
Justin Case
March 28th, 2011
1:44 pm
The joke is in the White House! Herman is the man to replace the joke!
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
“It appears that Jay Bookman is a RACIST. What’s the matter, Jay? You don’t like BLACK people?”
And what does the color of his sking have to do with the stupidity of what he said?
Darko
March 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
Sharia law probably would require Tucker to wear a Burka so there is some good to it. And Bookman would likely be an infidel under sharia.
Sun Devil Dave -
March 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
And for the record, I agree with you on one part – Muslims have NO part in our government!!!!!
The End Days
March 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
Ever heard of Al Sharpton? I beleive he may be aligned with the Democrat party. He is pretty dumb:
“White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” — Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in “Democrats Do the Dumbest Things
jm
March 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
Mick’s refrain: tax the rich more, they don’t pay enough already.
Mick
March 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
I sure would like to know how obama has usurped our constitution? Any takers out there?
HDB
March 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
WOW
March 28th, 2011
1:35 pm
Let’s review….
1) “MLK was a registered Republican.” MLK was transitioning into the Democratic Party when he was assassinated. Don’t forget..it was Democrats that integrated the Armed Forces (HST)…led the push for integration (FDR)…signed the Civil Rights Act (LBJ)…and freed MLK from the Birmingham Jail (JFK/RFK) with the Midwestern and Northern GOP! Southern and Western GOP’ers along invited Southern Democrats to joing the party…and they brought their racist platform with them. Note the Southern Strategy, “states’ rights”…..
2) “Please explain why black people vote Democrat…’
Prior to 1964, the GOP would garner the preponderance of the Republican vote due to the loyalty generated by being the
party of Lincoln”; since 1964, when the Sourthern Democrats migrated to the GOP and formed a coalition with Southern and Western Republicans, they pushed forth a racist agenda that still permeates the party! Note Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan…”Southern Strategy”, SB 1070, lack of enforcement of discrimination statutes……
Republicans have done everything to alienate black people from voting for them…note how Colin Powell was treated at the GOP convention; he was literallt BOOED off the stage! Anyone who doesn’t kowtow to GOP orthodoxy, i.e., conservative, discriminatory practices, gets shunned by the party! Note how Michael Steele was treated as Chairman…..
The evidence speaks volumes……..
Finn McCool
March 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
Germans killed how many Americans in WW2 but they are welcome here?
Radical islamists killed 3,000 on a single day but “ohhhhh, the Boogey man!”
Barak
March 28th, 2011
1:48 pm
Thank goodness for Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich….Man I am beginning to really like these two…
Del
March 28th, 2011
1:48 pm
Ragnar, I’m not a lawyer but doesn’t that Tampa ruling set precedent that legitimizes Sharia law into our legal system?
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
1:48 pm
“I sure would like to know how obama has usurped our constitution?”
The same way good ole Gingrich is going to see his secular atheistic society run by radical Muslims?
Good Grief
March 28th, 2011
1:48 pm
AmVet – Are we really going to do this again? It seems like every time you and I have any back-and-forth on these blogs, it’s necessary that any comment to you be spelled out letter for letter because you seem to lack the ability to infer things from others posts. I asked if the GOP should ignore white candidates in order to put minority candidates into elected office, regardless of qualifications. You responded with a comment about migrating coconuts.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
March 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
@Finn McCool
Yes, I haven’t seen any Christian or Jew trying to blow up a plane or strap on a vest full of explosives because they think this is what they think religion told them to do… If you don’t understand that there are extremist Muslims in the world that wish to harm Americans there really isn’t any reason to comment further…
Of course it’s not “all” Muslims, everyone knows that, but if you can’t recognize that there is a faction of Muslims who wish harm on American you must be smokin some good stuff…
Mick
March 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
**Mick’s refrain: tax the rich more, they don’t pay enough already.**
You are absolutely correct sir. Too bad you weren’t around in the fifties and sixties when taxation was more even handed, unions were solid and america was great. It all changed beginning in 1980…
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
Finn….The jewish and christian faith do not teach to kill Muslims. However read the Koran and tell me what it says?
The End Days
March 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
And let us not too soon forget the departed Democrat statesman, Robert Byrd:
“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
– Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.
joe
March 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
Herman 2012…the Anti-Obama. Elect him then!!!
jasper
March 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
This thread’s tired Jay. How about something on Obama kicking off his campaign with the unveiling of the MLK statue, fanning the flames of racism into a cause celebre and exploiting it for a second term attempt. My guess is 3 day love fest on the mall, Al, Jesse, Maya, and the gang, Bruce, Bob D, Little Stevie Wonder, all stern faced in mock righteous indignation, 24 hour news coverage, some DNC paid actors to portray skinheads trying to crash the party but thwarted by a human chain of mixed races singing We shall overcome. Then the Obama speech, not just a speech but the zenith of humankind and the spoken word, a moment that will be portrayed that the earth stood still, crime stopped, rust slept, and the angels sighed. Unemployement be damned.
chuck
March 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
wow leftwing management. That is STUNNING ANALYSIS of what Jefferson said.I loved the way you explained it…using practically the same words Jefferson used but changing leg to arm. IMPRESSIVE.
Figures
March 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
A Presidential candidate admitting that he would knowingly violate the Constitution.
Talk about posturing to your knuckle-dragging constituents.
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
Mick…..hmmmm what else can you take from teh 60’s? Segregation was strong, gays were limited to virtually no rights, abortion was murder……hmmmm you are right I kind of liked those days.
The End Days
March 28th, 2011
1:51 pm
So many Democrats, so much hate, all the while pointing the finger at conservatives. Shameful!!
“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They’d rather take pictures with black children than feed them.” — Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager for the 2000 election
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
1:51 pm
For all you brain dead liberals saying that Herman Cain, or any conservative, doesn’t understand the Constitution…
He didn’t say Muslims shoould not be allowed by law to hold cabinet positions…he said that he personally would not appoint one.
Reading comprehension people…seriously…
Barak
March 28th, 2011
1:52 pm
No Democrat is fit for politics….all they do is pander to the parasites of our country….those on government assistance..
World B. Free
March 28th, 2011
1:52 pm
George W,
Nice to see you embracing the GOP Platform: Xenophobia Now, Xenophobia Forever. Very christian of you.
Good Grief
March 28th, 2011
1:52 pm
“Ragnar, I’m not a lawyer but doesn’t that Tampa ruling set precedent that legitimizes Sharia law into our legal system?”
____
Sorry, Ragnar, thought I’d jump in on this one.
No, it does not legitimize Sharia as a legal system in our country. The judge is merely enforcing the dictates of the contract, which required an Imam and Sharia Law in mediation. It would be like a contract requiring Levitical law during mediation. If the contract was legally established, then the judge would have to uphold it. It’s not asking for anything outrageous, like the sacrifice of heifers or anything. The mosque members in Florida are trying to settle a debate over funds from an eminent domain settlement.
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
1:52 pm
” However read the Koran and tell me what it says?”
“Let There Be no Compulsion in Religion”
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
1:53 pm
“A Presidential candidate admitting that he would knowingly violate the Constitution.”
See above…it’s not a violation of the Constitution to choose to to appont Muslims to your cabinet.
Looks like YOU ARE the knuckle-dragger…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 28th, 2011
1:53 pm
Some people manage to demonstrate why they are not presidential material early on in the campaign…..why at one time they werer worried about them “Catholics” and for some, them “Jews” and them “Irish”……
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:53 pm
Harry….thank you sir….great post.
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
Doggone….keep reading fool…..if you can.
Barak
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
Harry Callahan….no sir….looks like you are an IDIOT….
Mick
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
georg
Notice how I was referring to taxes and unions not divisive social issues but if that is what floats your boat….
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
As long as we’re quoting Jefferson…
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
World…..I was being sarcastic…….clown!
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
1:55 pm
Barak
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
“Harry Callahan….no sir….looks like you are an IDIOT….”
I can find my birth certificate…you?
Granny Godzilla
March 28th, 2011
1:55 pm
“Yes, I haven’t seen any Christian or Jew trying to blow up a plane or strap on a vest full of explosives because they think this is what they think religion told them to do”
actually they prefer a simpler target, like a Federal Building,
or a black chusrch filled with little girls, or an MLK parade….oh and they run away after and hide rather than give their life for their cause…even as terrorists radical righties are chickenhawks
chuck
March 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
Jay, the chance that either of these could become the nominee is so remote that the whole article is rendered moot. I like Herman Cain, but he isn’t electable. I don’t like Gingrich, in spite of the fact that he is brilliant at times, and I won’t be voting for him. He killed his chance of gaining the nomination when he blamed his infidelity on PATRIOTISM!!!!
AmVet
March 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
I asked if the GOP should ignore white candidates in order to put minority candidates into elected office, regardless of qualifications.
Not true. You asked if that is what I said. Obviously I said NOTHING whatsoever even remotely close to that.
I’m sorry you don’t like it when I don’t play your logical fallacy game. Your out of left field question has ZERO to do with me or my post.
And is just a spin-a-rama distraction from the potential underlying reasons.
That no Republican here will touch with a 3.084 meter pole.
Not to worry, Big Tent boys.
With your present day attitudes, in another 80 years you’ll probably elect another handful of non-whites…
(But NO Moolsims!)
Joe the Plumber Too
March 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
White man slams oblowhard = must be a racist. Black man slams oblowhard = must be an Uncle Tom. White man slams Herman Cain = Herman Cain had it coming. Black man slams Herman Cain = Well he shouldn’t have left his people and gone over to whitey. Amazing, you bedwetters are the biggest bunch of racists out there.
SheeshLouse
March 28th, 2011
1:56 pm
Yeah Poison…be true to your name and “educate” me on how this was a tribute to my people. Yes, no better way to portray an image and make it a historical symbol based on its deliberate distortion. The physical representation is all that needs to be seen to know what it was really all about. I guess then you are saying that Whites are pretty twisted then, if they felt it reasonable to portray an image such as that and try to legimize it with some cockamamie “folk tale”?? Next you’ll try to tell me how revered the “house negro” was. “Enlighten” me O wise one!!! We all need a laugh.
poison pen
March 28th, 2011
1:57 pm
Doggone & Ragnar, I suggest you look at New Jersey, Tampa, and Oaklahoma Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrangs. They all either have tried using Sharia Law or supported it.
Please do your homework, I’m tired of doing it for you. As I stated earlier their should be only one law in this country, if people don’t like it they shoud get the hell out.
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
1:57 pm
More Jefferson…
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
Chief
March 28th, 2011
1:58 pm
I’m still chuckling over how WOW had his rear end handed to him by Paul over that link that WOW himself posted (but obviously didn’t really read). Good times.
@@
March 28th, 2011
1:58 pm
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. The media elites (left) sold Obama as the first African American President, giving little or no thought to whether he was qualified to lead. Even those within his own party touted him as a clean-cut, African American with articulate speech when he chose to use it. They claimed that he could serve as a positive role model.
To whom? All the other blacks who aren’t up to par? Don’t make the grade? Leave something to be desired?
Subversive racism, plain and simple. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
Barak
March 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
OMG the Fascist, Marxist Obama-loving Granny is back……YEAH!!!
George W
March 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
Granny…..Awwwe poor little girls…..someone please get me a tissue!
WOODSTOCK MIKE
March 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
@Granny
If you are implying that Christians and Jews kill in the name of religion the way that Muslims do I feel very sorry for you. I had some level of respect for you but now I truly realize your twisted way of thinking…
Tom
March 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
Steven Weinberg: “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
poison pen
March 28th, 2011
1:59 pm
Sheesh, You are the one who used the term Lawn Jockey, not me, I simply asked if you knew what it meant. Get the very large chip off your shoulder it’s draging you down.
Del
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
Harry C, you need to understand that Obama isn’t doing so well lately being exposed once again for his most recent leadership inadequacy in the Libyan civil war and Democrats imploding in the budget battles, so throwing a little red meat for his lib followers to chew on by attempting to bash Herman Cain is only a means for diversion.
The End Days
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
Democrat=Bigot
Bigot–noun
a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
Anyone really surprised to see Granny posting overt hatred of Christians?
Quick question for you, GG…Barack claims to be Christian. You hate him too?
WOW
March 28th, 2011
2:01 pm
“actually they prefer a simpler target, like a Federal Building,
or a black chusrch filled with little girls, or an MLK parade….oh and they run away after and hide rather than give their life for their cause…even as terrorists radical righties are chickenhawks”
Yet you can’t prove that they were right wingers. Remember Granny, Democrats ran the south in the 1960’s.
“The evidence speaks volumes……..”
What evidence, HDB? Copying and pasting stuff from BET isn’t exactly stellar detective work there.
“However read the Koran and tell me what it says?”
The koran calls Jews apes and pigs.
“Harry Callahan….no sir….looks like you are an IDIOT….”
tick…tick….tick…..
“With your present day attitudes, in another 80 years you’ll probably elect another handful of non-whites…”
Gotta love racism from the resident race baiter.
Barak
March 28th, 2011
2:01 pm
You are right Harry…..I don’t have a USA birth certificate, but I RUN this darn country…..and I have an Obama-loving media who won’t let these “radical” right wingers find out the real truth about me…..
George W
March 28th, 2011
2:02 pm
Woodstock….stay longer you will see more shocking comments from the left.
sleestak
March 28th, 2011
2:02 pm
Mr Cain is correct and I’m glad he said it. The reason bookman is so upset about it is. MR Cain is attacking his neo- nazi allies.
Sun Devil Dave -
March 28th, 2011
2:02 pm
Granny – run by Payless and invest in some shoes. And while you’re at it, spit out your snuff, take a bath and join the real world. The Oklahoma and Alabama bombings were carried out by people with a gripe against the government – not by true Christians. Those maniac’s proclaimed Christiananity however they did NOT kill in the name of Christ, however, Muslims will cut off your head for being WHITE! But look on the bright side, if Sharia is implemented, you’ll be covering your face in public, hiding those empty spaces where teeth once stood.
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
2:03 pm
A little more Jefferson, since the libs love hime so much…
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
TaxPayer
March 28th, 2011
2:03 pm
You Republicans need to embrace your future leaders such as Cain and Gingrich and Palin and Barbour and Bachmann and… They’re all yours. They define who you are. And eventually you guys are gonna have to decide which one you want as your presidential candidate. I’m voting for Obama but I still need to decide which one of those Republicans to vote for in the primary. It’s so hard to pick.
Granny Godzilla
March 28th, 2011
2:03 pm
WOODSTOCK MIKE
Fell sorry for me? Good, my feet hurt and I can’t get my roux brown enough.
That said I feel sorry for you too – if you think some of our fellow “Christians” don’t kill and bomb because of their twisted version of truth, you are either ignorant of the facts or okee dokee with evil.
And I think it happens to be the second choice.
Paul
March 28th, 2011
2:03 pm
Del
“but doesn’t that Tampa ruling set precedent that legitimizes Sharia law into our legal system?”
It appears Ragnar has left so please let me attempt an answer.
Both parties in the case drew up a contract that said if there was a dispute a Muslim authority would settle the dispute according to Muslim principles. This is no different that a Christian church and a person signing a contract that says if there’s a problem they’d arbitrate before a Christian council using New Testament principles.
There was a dispute, one of the parties filed for a hearing in US court. The judge said “hold on, there. You guys signed a contract that said if you have a problem, you’re going to take it to a certain Muslim guy who’s going to use Sharia, which you both agreed to. Now get this out of my court and go back and settle it as you’d previously agreed.”
Does not at all bring Sharia into our legal system. If anything, it makes the separation stronger because the case was tossed from the court back to their own system.
Joe the Plumber Too
March 28th, 2011
2:04 pm
amvet (not) re: your 12:28, I have saved your little statement “OMG, 2012 is gonna be yet another humiliating debacle for the cons.” I can’t wait for the first blog next November when oblowhard is told he’s evicted and has 60 days to pack his gladrags and get out of White House, I want to remind you and all the other bedwetters how wrong you were. Mickey Mouse could beat little barry-boy if there was an R next to his name. I seem to remember all you crystal ball libs laughing through Sept. and Oct. of last year saying there was no way you would lose the Congress. You were wrong then and you’ll be wrong next year, oblowhard is one and out, he has lost support here, there and everywhere. Life is good.
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
2:04 pm
“II suggest you look at New Jersey, Tampa, and Oaklahoma Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrangs. They all either have tried using Sharia Law or supported it”
Got anything like…OH maybe…a link or two that supports your contention? You see, I know it’s petty of us…but we’re disinclined to take YOUR word as the definitive interpretation without FACTS to back it up.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
March 28th, 2011
2:04 pm
@Granny
When was the last time a Christian or Jew blew something up in the name of religion??
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
2:05 pm
More Jeferson…
“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
Harry Callahan
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
A little Jefferson always works…
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ”
– Thomas Jefferson
Barak
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Granny…..we ALL know you are wrong on most issues….but its okay honey…..we still love ya….You still have time to embrace facts over feelings and become a conservative…
itpdude
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Ha ha ha, and Newt is the “intellectual” in this crowd!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Other than for legal matters in whcih Sharia law may be appropriate (such as perhaps a Terry Schivo type case involving someone of the islamic faith or a matter involving death), Sharia law cannot and will not replace the US Constitution, federal law or state law. Sure anyone can make an argument that religion may be a defense to a crime, but absent special circumstances, its absurd. Anyone contending otherwise lacks actual evidence.
Keith
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
Jay Bookman:
In fact, Muslims are using arbitration agreements within the boilerplate of their contracts so that Sharia can be impossed on the unsuspecting signatories of the contract. That is how Sharia can be impossed on Americans.
Paul
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
Woodstock
“When was the last time a Christian or Jew blew something up in the name of religion??”
Last bombing run by the Israeli Air Force?
@@
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
I’m all for law enforcement’s surveillance of white supremacist/neo-nazis/skinheads. Won’t see me stepping in between them and law enforcement’s efforts even though their numbers are small.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
A couple of points:
1) I would disagree with Mr. Cain that “Muslims” have no place in U.S. government. However, it depends on “what kind of Muslim” just as it would depend on “what type of Christian”.
A “Christian” who is a member of a ‘white supremist group’ or believes as they do has no place in U.S. government.
A ” Mulsim” who is a member of a ‘Sharia law for our country group’ or believes as they do has no place in U.S. goverment.
I think MUSLIM (emphasis added) Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (who leads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy) expresses it best when he calls on American Muslims to aggressively oppose a “culture of separatism, to disavaow scripture that belittles non-Muslims and women and to renounce a role for ISLAM IN GOVERNMENT” (emphasis added).
2) This is an apt description of the type of Muslim we “don’t” want in our government:
“Islamist is the most apt descriptor for the belief system which holds that Islam is the complete, obligatory guide to human existance, governing all matters political, social, cultural, and religious, from cradle to grave (and of course, beyond).
For the Islamist, democracy is a tool for acquiring power, not a culture of governance.
It is delusional to regard as ‘moderate’ people whose designs are radical. If the threat to freedom is geometrically broader than the threat of mass-murder attacks, it is national suicide for a free, self-determining people to pretend that our problems are limited to Muslim terrorists.”
Andrew McCarthy (Assistant United States Attorney and lead federal prosecutor, first World Trade Center bombing)
Good Grief
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
AmVet – Okay, so your facts that you brought up show that only 4 black men have been elected to GOP House positions in the last 90 years, right? But 96 black Democrats have been elected in that time, right?
So I will ask you straight up: How do you propose the GOP handle this?
Do they ignore majority candidates for the sake of minority candidates? I can see how qualifications mean very little on the Democrat side of the aisle. You guys just ran the least qualified candidate in history for President. Sadly, he won.
Granny Godzilla
March 28th, 2011
2:08 pm
Sun Devil Dave
Of course they are not “true” christians, neither is George W…..
But white Christian males they remain……
Paul
March 28th, 2011
2:08 pm
Woodstock
“When was the last time a Christian or Jew blew something up in the name of religion??”
Bosnian Serbs slaughtering Moslems?
AmVet
March 28th, 2011
2:08 pm
“If you are implying that Christians…kill in the name of religion…”
Not so much nowadays, as we’ve pretty much shut the last of those aholes down:
Beginning after the Civil War, the Protestant-led, white supremacist Ku Klux Klan members in the Southern United States engaged in arson, beatings, cross burning, destruction of property, lynching, murder, rape, tar-and-feathering, and whipping against African Americans, Jews, Catholics and other social or ethnic minorities. The goals of the KKK included from an early time on, an intent to, “reestablish Protestant Christian values in America by any means possible,” and believe that, “Jesus was the first Klansman.” Many modern Klan organizations, such as the Knights Party, USA, continue to focus on the Christian supremacist message, asserting that there is a “war” on to destroy “western Christian civilization.”
But our righteous battle to stomp the p!ss out of Christian terrorism goes on…
poison pen
March 28th, 2011
2:08 pm
Doggone, as I stated, I won’t do your homework. If you want to see the facts just Google it, that way you will see the facts and you won’t have to believe me, but to answer someone without checking it out first is …well is kinda dumb.
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
2:09 pm
“so that Sharia can be impossed on the unsuspecting signatories of the contract”
If the signatories sign a contract without vetting it completely and understanding it…they have no one to thank but THEMSELVES if they are subsequently held to the provisions of that contract.
WOW
March 28th, 2011
2:09 pm
Police Now Enforcing Sharia Law in Michigan
As the video at the link shows, the “disorderly conduct” consisted of the Christians handing out free copies of the Gospel of John to individuals outside of the festival. They were arrested, and at one point were ordered to stop filming the detention.
http://amerpundit.com/2010/06/23/police-now-enforcing-sharia-law-in-michigan/
ty webb
March 28th, 2011
2:09 pm
Amvet,
I never said anything about cheating. I just asked you a question. I actually had more to say, yet in my haste, I hit the submit button. Anyway, this racist “neocon” has to step away for now, toodles.
JF McNamara
March 28th, 2011
2:10 pm
Some days its sad to read these replies. I just find it hard to fathom that some people have the beliefs they do. Different strokes I guess.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 28th, 2011
2:10 pm
When was the last time a Christian or Jew blew something up in the name of religion??”
Dr. Tiller was shot in the name of religion.
Atlanta Olympic bombings
HDB
March 28th, 2011
2:10 pm
The End Days
March 28th, 2011
1:49 pm
For as many conservatives bring forth Robert Byrd and state that they believe in redemption…..it appears that redemption only serves a conservative IF they convert to THEIR orthodoxy!!
Byrd said that he regretted filibustering and voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964[50] and would change it if he had the opportunity. He said joining the KKK was, “the greatest mistake I ever made.”
For the 2003-2004 session, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)[55] rated Byrd 100 percent compliant with the NAACP’s position on the 33 Senate bills they evaluated. 16 other senators received that rating. In June 2005, Byrd proposed an additional $10 million in federal funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., remarking that, “With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently.”
Byrd stated that he was offended by Thomas’ use of the phrase “high-tech lynching of uppity blacks” in his defense and that he was “offended by the injection of racism” into the hearing. He called Thomas’s comments a “diversionary tactic”, and said “I thought we were past that stage.”
Counter that with Ronald Reagan’s support for segregation in Philadelphia, Mississippi: “I believe in states’ rights…. ”
Given the history of Philadelphia, and Reagan’s use of the words “states’ rights,” often interpreted as a desire to return to pre-Civil Rights laws regarding segregation, many of Reagan’s critics felt that he was at least insensitive to the concerns of blacks, or that he even was using this location and these words as a cynical, coded appeal to the white racist vote. Columnist Bob Herbert of The New York Times wrote, “Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair,” and that it “was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you”.[3] Paul Krugman, also of the Times, noted that a Republican national committee member from Mississippi had urged Reagan to speak at the county fair, as it would help win over “George Wallace inclined voters”, and wrote that this was just one of many examples of “Reagan’s tacit race-baiting in the historical record.”
Jesse Helms: He moved to the Republican party in the 1970s. Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post 1960 era, especially in opposition to integration, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Helms tried, with a 16-day filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the Voting Rights Act came up for amendment in 1982, Helms and Thurmond criticised it; writing in the Washington Post several years later, David Broder attributed Helms opposition to the MLK holiday to racism on Helms’s part. In a widely publicized incident, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the time, alleged that Helms offended her by whistling the tune to a racist song.[225][225][226][227] Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, which opponents saw as an overt symbol of racism, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator.[225] Helms turned to Senator Orrin Hatch and said, “Watch me make her cry. I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing Dixie until she cries.” He then proceeded to sing the song about ‘the good life’ during slavery to Moseley Braun. In 1999, Helms attempted to block Moseley Braun’s nomination to be United States Ambassador to New Zealand.
Any questions……………..
Blondie
March 28th, 2011
2:10 pm
I wish Herman, who I normally like, would try to find moderate muslims to work on his team. The ones who hate the extremists and just want to live in a capitalist and safe country. I know several, actually. Lead by example, Herman. That’d be like me saying I’d never hire a catholic to work for me – because of all the horrible things that the Catholic church has done for centuries and because of the child molesting priests. Herman should be trying to reach out to the muslim community and get them on his side – not turn them off from capitalist based policies.
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
“Do they ignore majority candidates for the sake of minority candidates?”
Once again…why not? You do it for MAJORITY candidates, why not for minority as well?
Jimmy62
March 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
You know, Jay, if you ever bothered to point out the ridiculous things left wing politicians do and say, then people might not look at you as a partisan hack. You might even get respect from someone other than far left wingers.
Where’s your columns on how evil Obama is for invading Libya? Or are you somehow convinced that it’s more justified than Bush going to Iraq, even though Bush had 18 UN statements and the support of both Congress, the citizens of the US in polls, and a coalition of countries twice the size of Obama’s?
Cain made a silly statement, but Obama is out there actually murdering Muslims. I’ll take Cain and his talk over Obama and his three wars, none of which he is executing competently. But, being a partisan hack, you just keep attacking the right. We all see the very thin intellectual veneer you cover your extreme partisanship with, and only a very few, very left wing, readers are fooled.
Bob
March 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
Southern Comfort 12:15 “Last Tuesday, Florida Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen defended his decision to uphold a binding arbitration agreement, based upon Sharia Law, between ex-trustees of a local Mosque who claim to have been unfairly removed by the current leadership of that Mosque. The Islamic arbitration ruled in favor of the ex-trustees. The current leadership appealed, which is why the matter ended up before Judge Neilson:
Couldn’t happen here ?
WOW
March 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
“But white Christian males they remain……”
And your evidence please?
“Beginning after the Civil War, the Protestant-led, white supremacist Ku Klux Klan”
Ever notice how AmVet NEVER posts links to his “evidence?” Vet’s plagiarizing.
Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan focused its anger reacted against Radical Republicans and sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
Doggone/GA
March 28th, 2011
2:12 pm
“Doggone, as I stated, I won’t do your homework”
In other words, you have no facts to back up your interpretation.
George W
March 28th, 2011
2:12 pm
Granny…and a black ignorant fool….you remain!
Granny Godzilla
March 28th, 2011
2:12 pm
Barak
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Granny…..we ALL know you are wrong on most issues….but its okay honey…..we still love ya….You still have time to embrace facts over feelings and become a conservative…
embrace facts all the time whether you have the character to admit it or not. Embraced a conservative every know again, but since the GOP fell apart into a few real conservatives and allowing themselves to be pushed around by the radical fringe – can’t be done
with out protection – that kind of evil, selfish, fearful behavior
is a major downer
Sun Devil Dave -
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
To/About: Police Now Enforcing Sharia Law in Michigan
If this is true, then I would have no emotion other than elation about also reading of the beheadings of a policeman in Sharia Michigan.
@@
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
Paul:
Last bombing run by the Israeli Air Force?
Sarcasm, I hope.
More like survival in a hostile environment.
Jimmy62
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
HDB: Guess Obama is racist, since he sent his white caretaker, Rahm Emmanuel, to steal the Chicago mayoral election from Braun.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
@Paul
What a sad argument. Comparing Israel to Muslim terrorists killing innocent people in the name of religion is simply pathetic. Israel has terrorist that come to their country on a reg basis and killing innocent women and children. If that was your wife or child would you still be okay with it??
WOW
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
“Dr. Tiller was shot in the name of religion.”
Dr. Tiller murdered over 2,000 babies. His killer is in jail.
“Atlanta Olympic bombings”
LOL!!!!!!! What was the “religious” killer trying to kill? LOL