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Christian Terrorist Cell to Burn Qurans
“But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you…”
Somehow, somewhere, the words of Jesus Christ are lost on some Christians; especially the so-called “Christians” who choose to protest against the building of an Islamic community center, and the advocating of the burning of Qurans.
Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” The Rev. Terry Jones, the so-called “leader” of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, certainly falls into that category. Jones somehow equates the words of Christ with the burning of Qurans. His congregation, or Christian terrorist cell, is sponsoring “International Burn a Koran Day,” on Saturday, 9-11-10 to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the terrorists attacks on that day in 2001. What a marvelous way to show the radical followers of Islam that in America we too have our own radical followers; it’s just that ours are “followers” of Christianity.
How do you earn the hearts and minds of an Islamic population in Afghanistan when Americans are advocating the burning of their most sacred book? You can’t. You can’t tell people that you’re offering them something better than what they have when you’re not. How else is any follower of Islam, much less the followers of “radical Islam” supposed to see America except as a land of hate and intolerance?
Rev. Jones is saying this is a message. He’s right. It’s a message of hate, not love. It’s a message of Satan, not Christ. Where, in all the words of Jesus Christ is there any justification for this type of Christianity? There is none.
And concerning the burning of Korans, where are all those great supporters of the troops on the religious right? Where’s Sarah Palin? Where’s Glenn Beck? They are nowhere to be seen, or heard. They are completely silent, and in their silence they are supporting it.
Rev. Jones, the proposed actions of you and your followers remind me of the great line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: what your actions say to me is “that goose stepping morons like yourself, should try reading books (Maybe say, the Bible?) instead of burning them.”
Immigration — Threats Flood Into Arizona Judge’s Office After SB-1070 Ruling?
Within hours of blocking key provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, federal district court judge Susan Bolton received hundreds of threats at her court offices.
U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said the judge has been “inundated” with the threats.
“About 99.9% of the inappropriate comments are people venting. They are exercising their First Amendment rights, and a lot of it is perverted. But it’s that 0.1 percent that goes over the line that we are taking extra seriously.” He added, “It is policy at a juncture like this to increase security at the courthouse.”
The Marshall’s office would not say if any threats were coming from recognized hate groups, or if Bolton had received threats at her home. Nor would they discuss any extra security measures, which U.S. marshals routinely provide federal judges.
“It is policy at a juncture like this to increase security at the courthouse. Beyond that, I cannot discuss security matters,” Gonzales said.
Bolton is not the only official facing hostility following Wednesday’s ruling. On Thursday, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) was forced to close his district office in Yuma, AZ, after “finding a window shattered and a bullet inside.”
In April, on the same day SB-1070 was signed into law, Grijalva — an outspoken opponent of the legislation who had called for boycotting the state — closed two district offices “after a man called the Tucson office twice threatening to ‘come in there and blow everybody’s head off,’ and then go to the U.S.-Mexico border to ‘shoot any Mexicans that try to come across.'”
Local militiamen have organized “combat veterans, with kill records, to camp out and patrol” the U.S.-Mexico border, and Neo-Nazis in Arizona now “patrol the border” aiming to “kill or capture immigrants.” Besides immigration-related violence, “threats of violence against lawmakers” also “spiked in the immediate aftermath of the healthcare reform battle in Congress,” when vandals targeted the offices of pro-reform members and threatened to “assassinate” the lawmakers’ children.
Last year, The Arizona Republic reported that the number of threats nationwide against federal judges and prosecutors, plus jurors and witnesses, more than doubled in the past six years, from 592 to nearly 1,300. Gonzales indicated at the time the federal judges in Arizona get three to four threats a week. One federal prosecutor in Tucson revealed she had round-the-clock protection for 10 days after one threat. Federal judges reported that some threat-makers posted personal information about them on websites.
Gonzales said the increase in threats coincides with more online use and the proliferation of blogs. On Thursday he said his agents were aware of hateful threats made about Bolton online since her ruling against the Arizona law. A quick scan shows numerous sites and discussion forums where Bolton is called traitor or other unprintable names.
“I talk with her every day. She’s tough as nails. She takes this as all part of her job,” Gonzales said.
What a wonderful country we live in where citizens can threaten the life of a federal judge for ruling in favor of the Constitution they claim to love, where Neo-Nazis can “patrol” the state’s border with Mexico, and where “militia” groups can recruit former members of our military with “kill records” to “guard” their state’s border. What a wonderful country indeed. Something tells me there’s a lot more to the right’s desire to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment than just immigrant’s kids.
If Obama Weren’t Black He’d be a Tour Guide in Honolulu?
During his Tuesday radio program, GOPB spokesman, Rush Limbaugh decided there ain’t nothing like some good old fashioned race-baiting claiming that President Obama “wouldn’t have been voted president if he weren’t black.” Never mind the fact that the President was elected by the largest majority since Reagan. So, by this logic Reagan was only elected because he was old?
But wait, that’s not all, if the first comment weren’t bad enough Rush added, “If Obama weren’t black he’d be a tour guide in Honolulu.” Rush, don’t you mean he’d be a tour guide in Kenya?
According to Rush then, Black Americans only succeed in America because of their race. They can’t succeed because they’re qualified. What else has Limbaugh said regarding race? Well let’s have a look. On professional football Limbaugh said, “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons,” Rush claimed.
And of course there’s the famous line that got him fired from ESPN, “I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”
Mr. Limbaugh is a racist. He is not funny. He is not glib. He is a racist.
Just Shoot Em’ in the Head
During a discussion on Fox News about “mirandizing” terrorist suspects, and the treatment of Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners, Glenn Beck, said Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners should be shot in the head.
Beck’s comments on shooting prisoners was a reaction to the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the military leader of the Afghanistan Taliban, and second only to the group’s leader Mullah Omar. Beck said Baradar should be tortured and then shot in the head.
Isn’t this what the Nazis did to POWs and the resistance in countries they invaded and occupied?
Under the Geneva Conventions – of which the United States is a signatory – “Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely”.
Translated, the French term hors de combat means a soldier who is incapable of performing a military function; Baradar was arrested in a slum in the Pakistani city of Karachi. He was not on the battlefield and not engaged in a military function at the time of his capture.
Of course, for Beck – who in spite of what he claims, is not a constitutionalist or patriot — the facts surrounding Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar are irrelevant. He should be tortured and then promptly shot in the head.
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