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Anti-Mosque Movement Draws Support From Controversial European Politician


A mosque in Detroit (protesters decrying a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero in New York inset).

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Pamela Geller, the woman who arguably touched off the weeks-long fight over the Cordoba House, is organizing a September 11 protest to stop the project, and she's invited some of America's most high-profile conservatives to attend. But she's also enlisting the help of one of the most controversial anti-Muslim politicians in Europe.

Joining Geller and Andrew Breitbart, among others, will be Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the controversial anti-Muslim leader of the right wing Freedom Party in the Netherlands.

Wilders has opposed Islam and mosque-building in Holland. In 2008 he told The Guardian, "I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people." His extreme views got him temporarily banned from the United Kingdom

The anti-Cordoba movement has thus far been an American effort, but Geller, a long-time admirer of Wilders, has made it international.

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August 20, 2010 6:19 PM   

With skinhead organisations like the Dutch Freedom Party and the English Defence League now opposing the Cordoba House, the opposition to the building will have a harder time arguing that they are not prejudiced against Muslims. They have to somehow distance themselves from these white supremacists.

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August 20, 2010 8:23 PM    in reply to John Jervis

Skinheads aren't by their very nature racist, or bigoted. Look at SHARP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinheads_Against_Racial_Prejudice

(which, most of the skinheads I know identify with)

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August 20, 2010 10:25 PM    in reply to John Jervis

Funny how conservatives bash Europeans and are constantly telling them to stay out of our affairs, also refuting all foreign influence on the law and freak out when SCOTUS discusses it, but will enlist whatever crackpot that is a racist from ANY European country on this mosque deal.

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August 21, 2010 6:01 PM    in reply to Ray Hicks

Excellent point.

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August 23, 2010 4:36 PM    in reply to Tamim

+1

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August 22, 2010 8:28 AM    in reply to Ray Hicks

Don't you know the rules ?!?!?!?!

You never, ever talk sense in the presence of a Conservative especially about the political position they take!!!

You're only allowed to talk nonsense !!!

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August 20, 2010 6:23 PM   

Q. Is the Cordoba House Project, a mosque with a community center attached, or a community center with a mosque attached?

A. Neither, according to Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque' - 08/16/10. They are prayer rooms. No mosque. Problem solved. End of story.

Presumable, the mosque two blocks uptown that does offer Friday sermons will be the actual mosque for the 51 Park Place Community Center.

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August 23, 2010 9:12 AM    in reply to davidfarrar

Wow, you told the truth for once. Aren't you worried about ruining your reputation?

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August 20, 2010 6:48 PM   

Obama, constitutional scholar and professor, made a great speech the first time he spoke on this issue, until he included the words "in lower Manhattan" at which point it became specific and political, rather than instruction on the application of constitutional principles.

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August 20, 2010 11:54 PM    in reply to Cal Damage

All Christian churches should be moved out of Oklahoma City out of "sensitivity" to the families of the victims of the Murrow Building because the Christian terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, killed hundreds of Americans by blowing it up? Sound reasonable?

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August 21, 2010 10:56 AM    in reply to Cal Damage

He goofed.

So did bureacrats who approved this.

Residents have a right to be concerned, as do other Americans.

Left has it that this is all about application of Constitutional principles, and that's silly. It is not a mere accident that this is a supercharged issue. The mosque should be about reconcilation -- not about who technically is entitled to win a zoning battle or successfully reopen it.

If it is about reconciliation, the promoters will agree to consider another site.

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August 21, 2010 11:11 AM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

A year ago, when the actual vote was going on, this issue of sensitivity was non-existent. The developers even got positive press on Fox News. This flare up is a combination of dedicated hate speech by Gellert and opportunism by a lot of people looking to create a wedge issue.

This should never have been major news. In a couple of years no one in the area will care. This is silly season at its worst.

Maybe - just maybe - the folks who think Islam = 9/11 need some sensitivity training, rather than people trying to convert an abandoned building into a plus for the community.

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August 21, 2010 3:54 PM    in reply to calbearinillinois

This was badly mishandled. 65% of Americans see it that way.

You may well be right that if this goes through, it will be largely forgotten.

There are other interpretations, though, and because you may not agree with them does not mean they have zero legitimacy.

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August 21, 2010 5:53 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

Sorry that poll by Time, or whomever it was was just a sampling of responses they got by land-line phone. First there is the obvious problem with the basic sampling. Truth is that most people who have landlines in any area of the country are likely to be over 35 years of age. The majority of those between 18-34 do not have landline phones. Almost all polling data is still done using landlines which have over the last two decades since the cell phone came to the market been in decline as an individual or families phone service. I have seen very little polling where they have taken this factor into account. Fact: those individuals between the ages of 18-34 have vastly different views on immigration, race, economic equality, etc. Those polled for this number which you reference are merely a sample, a sample which is older, less diverse and more likely to be conservative than those if cell phones were to get the polling data.

Fact: This is not a ground zero
Fact: The local officials have already approved the construction of the community center.
Fact: Our constitution guaranteess equal protection based on race and religion
Fact: The top figure(Rauf) in the organization who spearheaded this project was a qualified representative sent by the previous President Bush administration as an outreach ambassador for the middle east muslim community and its ties to the american muslim community
Fact:We as Americans should accept the legality of the building because it is law and has violated no state/city or federal statute. If you still disagree the you should petition your congressmen/women to work to change the existing law in a way in which you believe would be more equatable for all americans, using the legal system and the government.

Watching this from my view, one would get the impression that the US is a very xenophobic and possibly monotheistic country where only christianity gets equal treatment from the American community. Frankly I find this view disgusting and repugnant. This was not the country I was taught in grade school. This is not the country which my teachers placed on a pedestal above others. This looks like a country divided, fearful and short on ideas. A country where only the most jarring of disasters will actually amount to transformative change and progress. This story is just one of many over the last 3+ years which has revealed the true nature of many americans, the true nature of many of our industries and the true nature of our politics today.

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August 21, 2010 11:22 PM    in reply to JoshQuasimoto

This is *SO BORING*!!!

They should try to reach out and seek dialogue, not enforce the Constitution against community concerns after the 9/11 attack by religious extremists! This isn't an investment house, it is a religious deal supposedly based on reconciliation!

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August 22, 2010 8:23 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

Dude, it is two blocks from the hole in the ground and you won't even be able to see the tower, if it ever gets built, from the community center. Two blocks in New York is like miles in other communities. This is such a bullsh*t "issue," it is not even funny. People should be outraged at the right for doing this.

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August 23, 2010 3:16 AM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

That's exactly why the Bill of Rights exists, actually, so that "community concerns" couldn't override the basic rights of individuals. Arguing that someone shouldn't "enforce the Constitution," a.k.a. exercise their rights as Americans, is to argue that some people don't get rights whenever the majority chooses.

Along those lines, I believe the majority of us would like you to shut the hell up, so please bow to the community and give up your First Amendment rights to make us feel all warm and fuzzy, K?

Of course I'm joking because I'm an American, who believes in American ideals, the very same ideals Washington wrote of when he told the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, that, in this country "(i)t is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights." In other words, you don't get to tell people which rights they get to exercise and which they don't.

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August 23, 2010 7:38 AM    in reply to nitpicker

"That's exactly why the Bill of Rights exists, actually, so that "community concerns" couldn't override the basic rights of individuals. Arguing that someone shouldn't "enforce the Constitution," a.k.a. exercise their rights as Americans, is to argue that some people don't get rights whenever the majority chooses."

As you review the Federalist Papers leading to the adoption of the First Amendment, here's what you won't find:

Assuming that foreign self-appointed leaders of a religion attack a neighborhood twice in 8 years in an acts of war killing 3000 of our citizens, and that a few years later unknown foreigners want to fund a temple of that twice-attacking religion and the local people want to move it at least a short distance away, and what result?

Fuck them. The foreigners win.

That's what you won't find. And you won't find anybody in the world apart from Americans who could claim that such perversity was somehow a reasonable result.

Every Amendment has limitations, every one.

As to your "joke" that I should "shut the hell up" for daring to have a different opinion (the majority opinion actually), it's a real corker. But you don't need another vainglorious appeal to the Constitution over that, just check the terms of use here and finding no violation, it's just a knee-slapper.

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August 21, 2010 1:41 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

So the constitutional right to free exercise of religion is a technicality, Overreach? What other parts of the constitution do you consider irrelevant?

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August 21, 2010 3:50 PM    in reply to acanuck

Oh, this again.

Does it ever occur to you that rending your clothing over the Constitution makes you sound like a teabagger?

If the promoters are sincere, they will at least take into account the concerns of people wounded in a religious fanatic attack that was the worst assault every on U.S. soil, less than 10 years old. If they don't, they're not sincere. Period.

This isn't brain surgery; there are various interests here and when you reduce it to so-you-hate-the-Constitution-do-you? it sounds like junior high.

And yes they can enforce the U.S. Constitution against us. Bully for them.

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August 22, 2010 8:56 AM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

Bull$it! Your demand for reconciliation on the part of those building the Cordoba House is farce!

No one would demanding a damn thing if it were a chrisitan community center being built there instead!

JohnM hits the nail squarely on the head about the Murrow Building and Timothy McVeigh, the christian terrorist, responsible for so many innocent lives lost, including small children and babies.

Ever notice no one has ever thought of demanding christian churches be restricted near all federal buildings nationwide in populated areas with child care facilities. So why now?

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August 22, 2010 1:22 PM    in reply to *

Well, the McVeigh thing is not even distantly analogous.

Supposedly the Government is trying to set up a meeting with this travelling Imam. Maybe we should see if that meeting is convened and what comes of it.

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August 22, 2010 1:24 PM    in reply to *

Christians are not authorized to kill in the name of Jesus by Christian doctrine, unlike Muslims who get Allah's permission to kill the infidels within the doctrine of the Qur'an.

You know nothing of Islam but pretend to be an expert, what a fool you are!

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August 23, 2010 9:46 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Well, try telling that to Eric Rudolph....James Kopp...Paul Hill..and many, many others who twisted the Bible's words and justified in their own minds what they did. That makes them no different than the animals who brought down the WTC.

Religion makes you do the wacky. Including lying(say, didn't one of the Commandments say "you shall not bear false witness"?).

Oh, I forgot.

"Everybody lies."

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August 23, 2010 10:44 AM    in reply to Carl

Bonehead, you said, 'twisted'...you proved my point.

Thank you!

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August 23, 2010 12:31 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You're using the bible to spread hate. Your religion has the highest body count of all!

How many people have been killed by Christians since Biblical times?

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August 23, 2010 12:58 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Percentage wise the Qur'an is twice as violent as the Bible, you don't know what you are talking about!

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August 23, 2010 1:07 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

BWAHAHA! I've read both thank you. Violence is mentioned FAR FAR more often in the bible (be it catholic or protestant version) than in the book Muslims read, ESPECIALLY in the old testament. You know, the place where you guys love to pick and choose. "Gay marriage is wrong!!! but we can eat shellfish... so.. yea" You people are hypocrites!

PS - I DO know what I'm talking about. Comparative religion was part of my double major. I know more about the bible than YOU do. How can I make such a claim? Because I know its history inside and out. I've seen all the errors from the new testament. There are more errors than there are words! Much of it totally undermines your dogma.

So go fiddle with snakes or protest a military funeral with your "brethren" like a good lil xtian.

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August 23, 2010 9:30 AM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

It's not a mosque.

By referring to it incorrectly as a mosque, you are enabling the liars and the haters who are opposing it.

Hospitals have chapels. Would you refer to them as "churches"?

It isn't a mosque.

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August 23, 2010 10:31 AM    in reply to farnsworth

Hey, this is not a snark! I have tried to figure this out and I can't.

"It's not a mosque.

By referring to it incorrectly as a mosque, you are enabling the liars and the haters who are opposing it."

So what is a mosque, sincerely, is there a definition?

"Hospitals have chapels. Would you refer to them as 'churches'?"

In most Christian denominations, a chapel has an altar, a bigger such deal is called a church, and bigger still is a cathedral. So your example is bad since the place in the hospital would be a chapel, which is roughly equivalent to a church. A little church is all.

"It isn't a mosque."

It has a large prayer room (that seems to be what mosques got instead of altars, and it's tricky). I think it's fair to call it a mosque and may be deceptive *not* to call it one. But it's a lot more; it has a swimming pool and more. So I honestly don't know and have no desire to deceive.

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August 23, 2010 12:03 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

Would you refer to a hospital as a church? That is the point.

It would be incorrect to say, "Oh no, I've broken my leg! Quick, get me to a church!" It is equally incorrect to refer to this community center as a mosque. Calling it a "mosque" feeds into the hatred being peddled by these bigots.

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August 23, 2010 12:22 PM    in reply to farnsworth

"Calling it a "mosque" feeds into the hatred being peddled by these bigots. ", the only hatred being peddled will be the doctrine coming out of that "victory mosque".

Who are you to call anyone a 'bigot', you are the King of Bigots the only bigger bigot would be Muhammed Amin al-Husseini but he's dead!

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August 23, 2010 12:25 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

How am I a bigot? What have I ever said that can even remotely be interpreted as bigotry?

You are the one who is slandering every one of the billion-plus Muslims on the planet by saying that being a follower of Islam means, you are evil. That is bigotry.

Liar.

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August 23, 2010 12:29 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

How dare you! They said NOTHING bigoted. You're not only a liar you're also delusional. You're sick.

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August 23, 2010 12:33 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Of course they haven't said anything bigot in public but the mosque is not built yet, is it?

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August 23, 2010 12:36 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You REALLY are thick! I'm referring to farnsworth! I used the pronoun "they" because I don't know if farnsworth is male or female, but I know they (farnsworth) is right and that you are disgusting!

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August 22, 2010 8:42 AM    in reply to Cal Damage

It's been many years ago I sat in an English class, but I seem to remember "in lower Manhattan" would the subject of the discussion...subject being the point of the sentence, in this case, it's the where. So how can one have a discussion if you can't state the subject to be discussed?

And if I'm not mistaken, there has been many people complaining our politicians talk around subjects rather than address them directly. Something about fearing what they say may come back and bite them.

So I find it refreshing to hear a politician willing to stand up and address a problem in a way no one could mistake the intent of what was said. We need more politicians with backbone willing to do and say what is necessary and stand fast against the tide of criticism that surely will be thrown at them for stating the facts everyone wants to keep under the carpet.

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August 21, 2010 7:37 AM   

Can we stop using the lame-ass term 'controversial?' As a proud European I can assure you that there's nothing 'controversial' about Wilders. He is most definitely an extremist bigot, a guy who even Glenn Beck calls a 'fascist.' The fact that the GOP is happy hanging around with him is extremely disturbing - it feeds into a 'clash of civilisations' narrative that Al Qaida and other terrorist organisations are desperate to promote. It encourages terrorism and makes me and my family less safe.

The GOP may be able to ride the hate train back to the White House, but I can assure you that its traditional allies will look extremely askance at working with a President Gingrich or Palin.

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August 22, 2010 8:59 AM    in reply to Daragh

President Gingrich or Palin?

I can see in my mind Embassy row in Washington DC being shutdown as Ambassadors being recalled by their respective governments.

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August 21, 2010 12:46 PM   

Along with Sarah Palin, Miss USA, Howard Dean, Glen Beck, etc. etc. we now have the Dutch and English weighing in on what should go on in New York City. Too many people with their worthless two cents and not enough dialogue with the neighborhood this Community Center is going in. Everyone keeps calling this a Mosque when in fact it is a Community Center. Come on people this is a non-issue that is being blown into another bread and circuses incident.

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August 21, 2010 2:24 PM   

To all those who believe that the Building of the Mosque is right protected by the First Amendment, you possible might want to read it. We are guaranteed religious freedom, not the right to build any ediface or building.

The actual "building" is a NYC and NYS issue. The issue is a National Issue in so far that we were attacked by Islamic Jihadist. It has become an international issue in such that Europe is looking to the US to stop this incursion of Sharia practice in our society, since they collectively dont have the cohones to protect themselves or their culture.

Europeans are just mimicking their behaviour toward Hitler during WWII, sticking their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is happenning. And yes, the Wahabi Muslims are as much a threat to Western Culture and Free

I trust no Muslim who has never voiceferously condemned the attack on 911 or who supports the full practice Sharia Law.

This center, if it is ever built, is not to promote healing or understanding - if it were it wouldn't be restricted to Muslims only.

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August 21, 2010 8:04 PM    in reply to NOBAMA BRIGADE

We were mostly attacked by the citizens of the country ran by the guy our just prior President coyly kissed then pranced up the path with at Camp David because that President set records for vacationing that will never be beat by any living being anywhere.

Frankly, your repeating of the word 'Sharia' borders on a mantra of idiocy. Plug in fundemental Christian Rapturism and it makes the same amount of sense.

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August 22, 2010 9:50 PM    in reply to Richard L. Adlof

You need to take the threat of Islam more seriously...

Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant

Omar M. Ahmad founder of CAIR said:"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" he said. "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America , and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth," he said.


Americans should give a serious thought to brother Mohammed's advice and CAIR's agenda. Bro. Mohammed has already given the list of the excellent benefits.

You will ask, why are then all the muslim countries so corrupted , so poor and so miserable and why are all the good muslims like bro. Mohammed run away from those countries and live with immoral kafirs under immoral laws.

Well the answer is that none of the muslim countries is truly islamic. After the prophet's death everything went haywire. Muslims went for each others throat and started killing one another. Three of the four Khalifas were brutally murdered by other muslims, Ali the fourth caliph , one of the best muslims after Mohammed , and Mohammed beloved son in law ,had a bloody war with the best muslima and Mohammed's beloved wife Ayesha, killing a large percentage of muslims. Ever since muslims have been fighting jihads, some times with other muslims and sometimes with kuffars. That is why they dont progress.

Trick is implementing 100% sharia, and every one following quran and sunna to the word, to get full benefits of Islam. Inshallah we can to do it in USA and make it the first real islamic utopia after the days of Prophet Mohammed.

You need to rethink your belief system before your head is lost to some follower of the religion of peace!

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August 23, 2010 12:33 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Religion of PEACE you say?? Well lets just look at your lovely religion shall we?

How many people have been killed by Christians since Biblical times?

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August 23, 2010 12:35 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Apples and oranges...

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August 23, 2010 12:39 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

HAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

It's YOUR faith so now it's "apples and oranges?" Oh that's rich! You follow a cult who's leader's only claim to fame is being a bloody decoration on a hilltop for three days before being tossed into a tomb! A religion that responsible for some of the worst crimes in human history!

You're pathetic.

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August 23, 2010 5:38 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Your obnoxious and this ease of which you lambaste Christianity but defend Islam makes you dangerous.

I hope you are prison so you don't hurt anyone with your violent nature.

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August 22, 2010 9:12 AM    in reply to NOBAMA BRIGADE

The counter-terrorism contingent in the US have stated that people with your opinion are opening the US for another attack. You are supplying Bin Laden and his cohorts with all the ammunition America is Godless and needs to be taught a lesson. They actually see their ranks being filled with followers ready and willing to do their part to teach America another lesson. Note too our mighty military is getting the snot kicked out of them simply because the war they chose to follow isn't one the US military is capable of fighting. All the money spent on fancy weapons systems, uniforms and technology can't stop a simple suicide bomber or detect IED's. Deadly and effective devices the US has been aware of since the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983. What's more, while the 9/11 attacks were carried out by non-US citizen it is thought with all the anti-islamic rhetoric it may move US islamic citizens to side with their cause. So is a religious civil war raging within the borders of the continental US is your aim?

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August 22, 2010 1:21 PM    in reply to *

Do you listen to the Anjem Choudary vs Tarig Ramadan debate on The Fundamentalists Part 3?


If not listen to Anjem Choudary on sharia law and think again about what I said about Islam and Sharia Law.

If a good Muslim like Anjem Choudary and an infidel like me can agree on Islam/Sharia doctrine, what makes you think I'm wrong about Islam?

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August 22, 2010 9:41 PM    in reply to *

"So is a religious civil war raging within the borders of the continental US is your aim?", no it's the aim of Islamists once their numbers grow. The goal is simple spread Islam by any means necessary!

The question is why to you side with the Islamists?

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August 23, 2010 12:34 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Why do you support a party that spreads hate and is reponsible for some of the worst crimes in our history?

STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA

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August 21, 2010 5:04 PM   

Got jobs? Oh, I see, you're too busy talking religion and the constitution,....and rearranging the deck chairs - self-righteous and stupid at the same time.

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August 22, 2010 10:22 AM   

AFTER 20,000 YEARS OF SO-CALLED PROGRESS THE FACT THAT HUMANS WAR OVER THEIR PROPHETS AMUSES ME. WILL YOU EVEN PAUSE YOUR HOSTILITIES AS I, GALACTUS, TRANSFORM YOUR PLANET INTO A BARREN CINDER TO SATIATE MY COSMIC HUNGER?

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August 22, 2010 1:09 PM    in reply to Galactus

Do you find Sharia Law for Non-Muslims and Christian Persecution amusing also?

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August 22, 2010 12:50 PM   

Is is logical for Muslims to build another mosque near ground zero if the Sept 11 2001 Islamist attacks on the Twin Towers was an act of Islamic Jihad?

Yes, it is!

If a mosque was already built in 1970s just north of 2 blocks Ground Zero then Common sense dictates Muslims have already been worshiping at the mosque so there is no logical reason to built a new mosque unless Andrew McCarthy's assertion in National Review is true that the Ground Zero mosque is part of a "civilisational jihad" against the West. Andrew McCarthy’s logic is more logical than anything coming out of the “Cordoba Initiative” propaganda and progressive lame stream media machines.

Ground Zero is ‘Halo Ground’ to most Americans and the thought of building a mosque so Islamists can celebrate an Islamist attack on U.S. soil makes us all shake our heads with revulsion.

Why must Americans be the tolerant ones?

I’m tired of being tolerant to a religion that would replace our Constitution with Sharia Law given the half the chance, are you?

Muslims are allowed to be intolerant and get away with promoting their religion above the Public wishes because of progressive support. Without progressive support there can be no Islamic encroachment on our republican form of government.

This is another example of how hypocritical progressives are regarding their dogma, they promote and cry out for more ‘democracy’ but when the American People are against their agenda they have no problem with a single progressive Judge overruling the American People’s will.

Progressive support for Islam exposes their ‘Achilles Heel’ on the issue of ‘Democracy’, Islam views democracy as ‘Hypocrisy’ and does not promote Man’s Law over God’s Law. Progressives support Islam to help bring down capitalist nations in order to build global socialistic government.

Progressive sedition against our republican form of government has many faces. The biggest hypocritical act yet to come is when they fight the Labor Unions in New York that refuse to build the “Cordoba Initiative” mosque. Putting Islam ahead of their beloved Labor Unions should be the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ and the American People will see progressivism for what it truly is, SEDITION.


They won't build it! Hardhats vow not to work on controversial mosque near Ground Zero

"I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11," Kaiser said.
The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the "Hard Hat Pledge" on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.
"Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country," said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. "People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there."
"Hopefully, this will be a tool to get them to move it," he said. "I got a problem with this ostentatious building looming over Ground Zero."


The Dutch are just reacting to Islamic encroachment in a far better approach than our useless democratic representatives are here in America are!


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August 22, 2010 12:56 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

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August 23, 2010 9:35 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

It isn't a mosque, you shitstain.

Find another website to spread you hatred and lies, please.

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August 23, 2010 10:43 AM    in reply to farnsworth

Lies, you are the "Prince of Lies", only your father Satan and Muslims are bigger liars than you!

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August 23, 2010 12:08 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You are lying because you think you are a prince?

Or do you think lying will make you a prince?

Wow, you are even more pathetic than I thought!

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August 23, 2010 12:17 PM    in reply to farnsworth

No stupid you are the "Prince of Lies" and you're NOT more stupider than I thought...you are very stupid and a foul mouth empty headed brigand to boot but I knew that already.

Romans:16:20 - And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

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August 23, 2010 12:22 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I haven't told any lies.

When you accuse me of telling lies, your are lying again.

Oh, and I bet SkyDaddy would love the hate you are spreading, if he were real.

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August 23, 2010 12:25 PM    in reply to farnsworth

"I haven't told any lies.", today you may have not told any lies but the day is not over, is it?

Before the day is over you shall tell at least 3 lies!

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August 23, 2010 12:26 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Find one lie I have ever told.

(Hint: you can't)

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August 23, 2010 12:29 PM    in reply to farnsworth

Stupid I said, "Before the day is over you shall tell at least 3 lies!". Can't you read?

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August 23, 2010 12:37 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Making a fool of you is too easy!

OK, here we go! You called me a liar. Prove it! Find one single lie I have ever told.

You cannot say that some as-yet-untold future lie proves I am a liar. Even you can't be stupid enough and deluded enough to believe that proves anything.

Also, you are wrong. I will not tell three lies today. I haven't told three lies this month.

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August 23, 2010 1:07 PM    in reply to farnsworth

"I haven't told three lies this month.", stupid so you admit to telling at least two lies this month what were they?

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August 23, 2010 1:14 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

My eight-year-old nephew can do better than that.

No, that wasn't an admission of any lies. But, with your lack of any ability to think critically, I am not surprised that you think it was.

That was a way to deride your ridiculous assertion that I would "tell three lies today." By showing that it was so far wrong, it didn't even apply if you expanded "today" to "this month."

There, I explained it to you. Did you understand? Didn't think you would.

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August 23, 2010 1:18 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Here's a lie you've been told. Did you know the conversation between your bloody hilltop decoration and Nicodemus never happened? There's no Aramaic word for the idea of being "born again" or "born from above" - the Greek uses one word to describe it and it can mean both. So you little bible has been lying to you all this time. That discussion isn't linguistically possible because it's based upon a Greek term that cannot be translated into a word that can be confused in Aramaic.

OOPS!

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August 23, 2010 1:31 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

I don't believe you!

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August 23, 2010 1:47 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

*snicker* Look it up if you don't believe me. It's very true. You know Greek don't you? Oh wait... you've never learned it have you? Ah so you really don't know how to read the bible then. That figures! Looks like you need to worry more about YOUR own faith than the faith of others.

Go ahead and look into it. I DARE YOU! All biblical scholars all the major universities are aware that such errors exist. I guess you don't because you've not concerned yourself with the originals. Have YOU ever seen them? There are countless numbers of fragments of parchment. Some had to be pieced together with other versions that often contradicted each other. YOUR bible isn't even the copy of the copy of the first manuscripts.

Oh I wish I could see your face when the truth hits you. That's what you get for following a church BLINDLY and rejecting secular scholars simply because they don't SHARE your beliefs.

Glad I was the one who could break the bad news to you!

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August 23, 2010 12:41 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

What's the difference between Jesus and Jesus' picture?

It takes only ONE nail to hang his picture!

... oh you didn't like that joke? Well I've got one about Mary having an abortion instead of having Jesus. Would that one be better?

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August 23, 2010 12:12 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Fairy tales are for children. Grow up!

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August 23, 2010 12:26 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Be more specific and I will grow up...

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August 23, 2010 12:29 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

We all agree, you need to grow up.

You know, you told the truth there, admitting you need to grow up. If you aren't careful, you may tell the truth again today, and ruin your reputation!

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August 23, 2010 12:45 PM    in reply to farnsworth

My 'reputation', that's hilarious coming from a stupid foul mouth empty headed brigand like you!

Look lets be honesty with each other I hate your sinful persona and you hate me...we are not going to have any meaningful discussion as long you continue with your stupid foul mouth empty headed brigandism.

Here are the facts, I not going any where and it seems neither are you so at least we can come to terms and leave out the ad hominem attacks.

Is that FAIR?

If not I can go on ignoring you but I really don't want to because it's fun to engage with such an ideologue so different than myself.

But I can ignore you but that wouldn't be any fun, GET IT!

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August 23, 2010 12:48 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I can't speak for the other person, but no dice. As long as you stay here I'll be trampling on you without pity and a big smile on my face. You have no business being here because you'll accomplish NOTHING here. NOBODY here cares what you say. So only stay if you're interested in abuse. We'll be thrilled to dish it out.

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August 23, 2010 12:53 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

You progressives prove my assertions everyday you contradict yourselves, that's why you would be pinned with direct answers to direct questions. You don't want the truth following you around reminding us all what phonies you are.

So much for taking the higher road and your phony liberal sensibilities on tolerance.


Back to the war.....

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August 23, 2010 12:58 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

WHAT truth have you shown anybody here? You came here to play your games where you try to make Muslims the enemy. People like YOU who want to trample on freedom of religion when it suits you are more of a danger than a community center in New York!

Oh right you said the families don't want it... not all of them have a problem with it, but since YOU do it suddenly is a moral crisis that must be dealt with! YOU didn't come here to talk. You come here to fight. Your avatar proves that. So don't act like you were taking the high road.

You people are disgusting!

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August 23, 2010 1:04 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

The issue is not about freedom of religion, Muslims can worship at the mosque that was already built before the Sept 11 2001 Islamist Attacks on America.

Besides Islam is unconstitutional by it's own doctrine, doesn't that concern you?

Mark:8:18 - Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

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August 23, 2010 1:10 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You make a claim, stating that Islam is unconstitutional. That is a pretty bold claim, one that needs pretty strong evidence to back it up. But do you back it up? No, not at all. All you offer is some non sequitur quote from some completely unrelated source.

Yet you claim you want reasoned debate.

Liar.

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August 23, 2010 1:26 PM    in reply to farnsworth

The Qur'an establishes Sharia Law as it's Judicial System and Sharia Law establishes Islam as the official State religion this goes against our First Amendment's establishment clause of the Constitution...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...

Qur'an 9:29 - Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Muslim:C9B1N33 - "The Prophet said: 'I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and they establish prostration prayer, and pay Zakat. If they do it, their blood and property are protected.'"

Of course there are many more examples of Islam being unconstitutional...

CONSTITUTION & QUR'AN by William J. Federer

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, yet the Quran states in Sura 4:89, "Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them."

In Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari (Vol. 9, Book 84, No. 57), Muhammad said: "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."

Islamic law relegates non-Muslims to "dhimmi" status, where they are not to propagate their customs amongst Muslims and cannot display a Cross or a Star of David.

The First Amendment states Congress shall not abridge "the freedom of speech," yet Islamic law enforces dhimmi status on non-Muslims, prohibiting them from observing their religious practices publicly, raising their voices during prayer or ringing church bells.

The First Amendment states Congress cannot take away "the right of the people to peaceably assemble," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims cannot build any new places of worship or repair any old places Muslims have destroyed; they must allow Muslims to participate in their private meetings; they cannot bring their dead near the graveyards of Muslims or mourn their dead loudly.

The First Amendment states Congress cannot take away the right of the people "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims are not to harbor any hostility toward the Islamic state or give comfort to those who disagree with Islamic government.

All our founders' inspiring, biblical quotes in one place – a must-have for your library. Get Bill Federer's "America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations"

The Second Amendment states, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims cannot possess arms, swords or weapons of any kind.

The Third Amendment states one cannot be forced to "quarter" someone in their house, yet Islamic law states non-Muslims must entertain and feed for three days any Muslim who wants to stay in their home, and for a longer period if the Muslim falls ill – and they cannot prevent Muslim travelers from staying in their places of worship.

The Fourth Amendment guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures," yet Islamic law states if a non-Muslim rides on a horse with a saddle and bridle, the horse can be taken away.

The Fifth Amendment states that "no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime … without due process of law," yet Muhammad said, "No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir (infidel)" (Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, No. 50).

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a "public trial by an impartial jury" and the Seventh Amendment states "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved," yet Islamic law does not give non-Muslims equal legal standing with Muslims, even prohibiting a non-Muslim from testifying in court against a Muslim.

The Eighth Amendment states there shall be no "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," yet the Quran states:

"Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done – a deterrent from Allah" (Sura 5:38).

A raped woman is punished:

"The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication – flog each of them with a hundred stripes" (Sura 24:2).

Women can be beaten:

"If you experience rebellion from the women, you shall first talk to them, then (you may use negative incentives like) deserting them in bed, then you may (as a last alternative) beat them" (Sura 4:34).

Honor killings of wives and daughters who have embarrassed their families have been reported by the United Nations in Muslim populations of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and increasing in Western nations.

The 13th Amendment states there shall be no "slavery or involuntary servitude," yet the Quran accommodates slavery as Muhammad owned slaves.

The 14th Amendment guarantees citizens "equal protection of the laws," yet the Quran does not consider Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims as equal to Muslims before the law.

Referring to Jews as "the People of the Book," Muhammad said: "They are those whom Allah has cursed; who have been under his wrath; some of whom were turned into apes and swine" (Sura 5:60, 7:166, 2:65).

The 15th Amendment guarantees "the right of the citizens … to vote shall not be denied … on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," yet the fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law does not allow voting, as democracy is considered people setting themselves in the place of Allah by making their own laws.

The 16th Amendment has some similarities with Islamic law, as "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived." Muhammad said, "Fight those who believe not in Allah … until they pay the jizya [tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29).

The 18th Amendment has some similarities with Islamic law, as "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors … for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."

The 19th Amendment allows women to vote, yet in strict Islamic countries women cannot vote.

The 21st Amendment allows for the sale of liquor, yet Islamic law prohibits non-Muslims from selling or drinking wine and liquor openly.

To you care to retract your hateful remarks?

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August 23, 2010 1:35 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You are saying Islam, is Congress? What?

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August 23, 2010 1:40 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

HAHAHA! Nope sorry you're not reading the whole text that's for sure. Let me guess you're taking some of those quotes from that "egyptian cleric" right? Hah! Their book is interpreted for each person by their own understanding. No single person can declare dogmatically what is what to the true Muslim. Hence the fact that there are those who will just single out what they want to find; much like you just did.

Try reading the WHOLE thing! It says that Jews and Christians are to be treated with respect and viewed as forerunners of the Muslim faith. They are NOT infidels. Pagans were the infidels. Only after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict did anyone try to play games with such texts.

Now that's just a portion of what you posted. My my my my... Imagine if I pointed out in YOUR book where it said "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" - that's the good old KJ version for the true talibangelical who doesn't want to acknowledge that his people were antisemitic and prone to burn people at the stake.

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August 23, 2010 1:10 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Oh the book of mark... the one where they left out the part about jesus having sex with another man. You know that story? The one that picks up when jesus goes somewhere for no reason in the "edited" version. In the unedited version he shacks up with a guy for the night.

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August 23, 2010 2:15 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

I don't believe you!

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August 23, 2010 2:21 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

LOL! Really? You've never heard of the Secret Gospel of Mark? The Mar Saba letter is new to you is it? Hahahahahahahah!!!!!! Have fun googling those. Every word I tell you is true. There are homo-erotic overtones in that book, which some scholars feel is one reason that it was never included in the "official" cannon. Don't worry though. That particular item will be easy for you to try to rationalize away.

Disbelieve all you want. I'm not lying. LOL!!!

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August 23, 2010 12:50 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Fuck you, you stupid liar! Is that clear enough?

I will not ignore you. You come here and spread your lies and hate and bigotry on this web site where your childish nonsense is not welcome. I am going to call out your lies every time I see them. Every single time.

It is quite pathetic that you want to continue coming here, and say things that are false, and lack intelligence. No one here believes you. No one here has any respect for you. You are accomplishing nothing, except perhaps feeding your tiny little ego.

You deserve nothing but scorn and derision, and I will provide it every time you most more of your vile, mendacious nonsense.

Buck up, loser! You keep asking for it, you are going to keep getting it.

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August 23, 2010 12:54 PM    in reply to farnsworth

farnsworth, after the loser has left wanna do lunch? You seem like the sort of person I could really enjoy talking to. ; )

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August 23, 2010 12:59 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

You live anywhere near Cherry Street? That is what they call old Route 66 where it passes near my house.

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August 23, 2010 1:14 PM    in reply to farnsworth

If it's the cherry street in Wichita Kansas then yes ; ) if not then I'm easily found on facebook for internet coffee

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August 23, 2010 1:18 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Few hundred miles south of Wichita.

I will probably be reactivating my facebook account when opening night gets closer. Community theater needs all the free publicity it can get.

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August 23, 2010 1:23 PM    in reply to farnsworth

cool ^^ I'll be there and here hehe best I give it to you later.. i don't trust the talibangelical being here. So it will be after the smell of fundy is gone before I could give you safer contact info ; )

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August 23, 2010 1:46 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Here is a throwaway email you can use: rasterbeanbottle@gmail.com I will give you a real email when you contact me there.

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August 23, 2010 1:50 PM    in reply to farnsworth

kk email inc ; )

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August 23, 2010 1:11 PM    in reply to farnsworth

"No one here believes you. No one here has any respect for you. ", that's a lie.

MiddleClassBill, the Decider both believe me and respect me. So I caught you in your first lie today!

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August 23, 2010 1:16 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

It isn't a lie. Just because you have the "respect" of other stupid liars doesn't mean you have any respect.

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August 23, 2010 1:29 PM    in reply to farnsworth

"It isn't a lie. Just because you have the "respect" of other stupid liars doesn't mean you have any respect.", now I caught you in your second and third lies...of course you lied!

Thank you for proving that I'm such a great prophet...

...I'm done will you for the day!

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August 23, 2010 1:34 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You are so bad at critical thinking and logic and reasoning, you probably actually do believe that you have caught me in three lies. (It is really zero lies, but if it feeds your tiny ego to think that, knock yourself out.)

Oh, and it isn't an indication of delusion in any way that you think of yourself as a prophet.

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August 23, 2010 2:17 PM    in reply to farnsworth

Liar, you lying are growing and proving what a dirt-bag you truly are!

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August 23, 2010 2:20 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Dirt bag?

Dirt bag?

I thought I was a brigand.

*pouts*

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August 23, 2010 2:23 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

A bag of dirt? Is that the best you've got? HAHAHA! Here's something how about the passover feast. Have you never read the gospels separately to compare the differences? Notice one says the feast OF the passover and the other says the PREPARATION feast. So did jesus travel back in time for a meal a few days before passover? Surely you don't think he died TWICE do you? hahaha!

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August 23, 2010 2:03 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I think you meant done "with." So what you're getting so angry that now it's time to leave? I thought you said you weren't going anywhere! That's no fun. I've not even started on the scholarship that shows where the bible has been intentionally changed so that it makes sense to the scribe copying the text!

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August 23, 2010 1:31 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

So where are these "friends" of yours? They don't seem to be HERE just now. So it looks like you're wrong. What's more, they aren't part of the friends in this part of the web since reich wingers would be the outsiders. Sorry no dice on that one. I can't even say "nice try" because even if they were here that doesn't mean that farnsworth KNEW about them and their "respect" (snicker) for you. A lie is a matter of willful dishonesty.

For example, the John that wrote Revelation wasn't ever mentioned in the bible before - nope not the john that followed jesus around. That book was written long after his lifetime. Funny story how that book got in there too. Of course all those fanciful tales of beasts and war was obviously more exciting than a book where peter pretends to raise someone from the dead just before his murder literally starts flying over Rome. Hahahaha!


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August 23, 2010 1:45 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

"So where are these "friends" of yours? They don't seem to be HERE just now.", no bearing on the fact I foretold farsnworth would tell 3 lies before the day was done and it took only 54 minutes before he proved me right.

You clowns are not worth the time to blow snot but thanks for ruining this thread...at least you did accomplish that for me...ha...ha!

I would like to sick around and spar with you two boneheads but I really have some composting to do!

Oh by the way I told Bwakfat that progressive ad hominem attacks had gone down on me by at least 70%, thanks for bring up the percentage and validating my belief system about progressives....you dopes.

I Hate Democracy

Restore the Republic and the Constitution to its rightful place in Government

CHEERS...

GOOD NIGHT NOW!

p.s. Due to the volume of lying, emotional and hateful remarks by progressives, I will no longer reply to any post filled with personal attacks, vulgar language or obscenities.

If you expect a reply from me act nicely!

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August 23, 2010 2:16 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Nope sorry you're trying to twist things to suit your own needs. Do tell me where I lied to you exactly. I'd be VERY interested to know. I have been abusive with you. That I will admit, and I'll go on being abusive. That's what you came here for: a fight. Nobody comes here saying the crap that you have without looking for a blog feud. I don't care if you respond. You post here you get subjected to the same thing I would experience on your freeper madness blogs.

Although, I'm slightly sad to see you leave. You said you weren't going anywhere! The fact that I told you something that you didn't know and had NO response except "I don't believe you" tells me I got to you. Never fear, what I told you about linguistic impossibility is 100% fact. You may not like it, but it's true. You want some more facts? Here we go...

Mark wasn't written by Mark. John wasn't written by John. The same is true of the other four gospels and the gospels that didn't get accepted into the "official" book. They were written at least a century after the time of bloody one. Need proof? How often do they write in the first person? It would become even more painfully obvious if you could read it in Greek.

In fact there's little evidence that the majority of the apostles could even write since well over 80% of the general population was illiterate. Much of it was passed down in oral tradition. Are you familiar with the child's game telephone? Imagine that played for 100 years.

Guess what. You've been reading a bastard text that doesn't look ANYTHING like the originals, which themselves weren't even written in jesus' lifetime. Inspired word of god? yeah right!

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August 23, 2010 2:27 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You always say you won't reply, but you always reply.

That, unlike anything you think you have on me, is an actual lie.

Oh, and for your composting? All you have to do is talk.

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August 23, 2010 12:43 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You know very well what I mean, talibangelical. While you work on growing up you should raise those IQ points a notch or two. Psychotherapy wouldn't hurt you either.

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August 23, 2010 10:09 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

FFS! Enough of the fear-mongering bigotry!


Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks

It's a sufi Muslim! They're HATED by al Qaeda! It's a mystical faction within the Muslim world. It's not militant! Don't just take my word for it.



Why would al Qaeda attack a holy place at a time of prayer? Because it is a Sufi shrine, part of a sect that al Qaeda despises and regards as a deadly foe in the real battle it is fighting, the battle within Islam.

The Sufis are a sector of Islam originating in South Asia. They're all about mysticism, love, brotherhood and devotion, with very little attention to dogma. They believe in saints, shrines, music, dance, and follow a very liberal interpretation of the Koran.

Sufi poets routinely extol the virtues of wine and song, both forbidden in the purer versions of Islam. Sufism has always believed in tolerance towards other people and religion, and in peace. You can see why al Qaeda views it as its mortal enemy. The more Muslims accept some version of Sufi Islam, the more dangerous for al Qaeda and its extreme jihadist philosophy.


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August 23, 2010 11:16 AM    in reply to Scheherazade

You leave in a fantasy world, 85% of the 1.5 billion Muslim population in the world is Sunni, the rest is Shia and smaller sects. Only 18% of the Muslims are Arab in origin while the language of the Qur'an is Arabic. Sunni Muslims are considered the leaders of the Muslim world and if any Caliphate is restored, its leader will be a Sunni Muslim.

The Shia and the smaller sects are considered blasphemers and to be treated as infidels by the Sunni.

Al Qaeda would have no problem with blowing up a Sufi mosque if Sunni Money was not involved in building the mosque.

But that's not the point, the point is respecting the wishes of the 9/11 families and the Majority of Americans that know this mosque would be a symbol of a Jihadist victory over America. Regardless of what Islamic sect drew up the plans, Sunni money will help build the mosque and Sunni's were the Islamists that destroyed the Twin Towers.


As far as the National Review goes, you must prove the inaccuracy of it's articles before you lambaste it.

The Liberal Progressive Media Machine does not hold a lock on the truth, the sooner you realize that the sooner you will come to your senses.

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August 23, 2010 12:28 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

BTW, that's all a quote from Fareed Zakaria. Yet, that means I'm "leaving" in a fantasy world? I'm guessing you meant "living." You're using religion to justify what you say and do. Looks to me like YOU are the one in a fantasy world. My world is based on truth and facts. I don't need an imaginary friend in the sky to suddenly feel okay, but not only do you NEED such a fictional theme to you also use it to back up your winger lies.

You people disgust me.

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August 23, 2010 12:45 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I respect our laws, and you want to ignore freedom of religion. Show me FACTS that point to Sunni money paying for this! Out of one side of your reich winger mouth you claim to know what I just told you about it being built by Sufis who aren't loved by Sunni, but out of the other side you claim that Sunni will fund it! Give me a break!

The only Sunni funding it also funds your beloved Faux News Channel! News Corp's number-two shareholder funded 'terror mosque' planner

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August 23, 2010 12:48 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Yes, I meant 'living'.

But don't be disgusted, just try to reason with me!

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August 23, 2010 12:50 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

There's no reasoning with you. I know the very sort you are. As for the rest of your pathetic post.

Spare me the "liberal media" line! It is a tired routine that started with Nixon based upon a book written called "The News Twisters." It's thoroughly discredited, but hasn't stopped the idea that somehow the mainstream media is liberal. This is very stupid. The media is interested in one thing: profit. Thus they cover the stories that they think will sell. Sarah Palin gets a good deal of attention because so many people either hate her or love her. If she looks silly it makes no difference because the media wants money. The idea that liberals are running these big media corporations is naive at best.

Screw the National Review. I don't have to prove a d_amn thing, and I don't need to read it. I already know what I'm going to see: more of the same tripe you're peddling here!

I'm tired of you people using 911 to play your games of hatred! You'll win no "converts" here! Go spread your hate to the uneducated who swarm to your pathetic tea parties in droves. Nobody here gives a damn what you have to say!

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August 23, 2010 12:56 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

I'm sure Fox News will withdraw its funding soon, Sunni money will continue to flow into building that victory mosque.

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August 23, 2010 1:02 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

BWAHAHAHA! Oh yes FNC's Saudi share holder's really gonna stop sending them money! Naturally since Faux "News" can do no wrong! Then you just go on with more conjecture and predict the future by saying more Sunni's will fund it despite admitting they HATE Sufi Muslims. Where's the logic in that claim?

Ever heard the phrase "innocent until proven guilty?" I'm sure you have, but you sure as hell don't seem to think it applies to a Sufi Muslim.

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August 23, 2010 10:26 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You're posting a link to the National Review? BWAHAHHA!

National Review


The National Review based in New York City and founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., considered one of the godfathers of American conservatism, is one of the oldest and most influential conservative magazines in the United States. It regularly publishes the work of some of the nation's leading conservatives. National Review Online provides some of the articles from the print publication online as well as original material. In the early 1990s they had, with the Heritage Foundation, a joint venture called 'Town Hall'. This BBS became a forum on Compuserve in 1994 and in June 1995 the web site 'townhall.com' went live. Townhall.com became a project of the Heritage Foundation until it was purchased in 2006 by Salem Communications Corporation. The current director of the National Review is Jeff Sandefer, President of the Texas-based energy investment firm Sandefer Capital.

Wow! What credentials! Sounds like a bastion integrity to me, I tell ya!

GTFO

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August 23, 2010 9:12 AM   

Geller is a cheap little depraved lunatic....she is 'whoring" her Right-wing lunatic hate!! She is not wanted anywhere where decent people live.

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August 23, 2010 10:03 AM   

I knew when I read "controversial European" that it would be Geert Wilders! That guy is total scum. If you do a youtube search for him you'll see some seriously ugly hate!

Geert Wilders

[...]
Wilders has pleaded, for instance, for a hard line against what he called the "street terror" exerted by minorities in Dutch cities.[7][8] His controversial 2008 film about Islam in the Netherlands, Fitna, has received international attention. On 21 January 2009, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ordered his prosecution for what it said was "the incitement to hatred and discrimination".[9] Wilders was also controversially banned from entering the United Kingdom between 12 February 2009 and 13 October 2009, with the Home Office viewing his presence as a "threat to one of the fundamental interests of society".[10] The ban was overturned after Wilders appealed.[11] He visited the UK on 16 October 2009,[12] and again in March 2010, to show his film.
In March 2010, it was announced that a documentary film about Geert Wilders was due to be released in the United States; Wilders himself was writing a book and producing a sequel to his film, both to be released after the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands in June 2010.[13] Wilders' gains toward becoming next Dutch prime minister according to polls in March 2010[14] have triggered concerns of political violence in the Netherlands or against Dutch nationals according to the country’s National Anti-terrorism Coordinator.[15]
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August 23, 2010 12:15 PM   

I hope something I posted three times doesn't clear to become a wall of unwanted text. If so blame the hater who came here to try to sell us all on the reich wing's lies.

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August 23, 2010 2:11 PM   

Once again, just for the two stupid boneheads that can't admit when they have been outplayed here is why Islam is unconstitutional and why both of you are Islamic Apologists..

The Qur'an establishes Sharia Law as it's Judicial System and Sharia Law establishes Islam as the official State religion this goes against our First Amendment's establishment clause in the Constitution...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...

Qur'an 9:29 - Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Muslim:C9B1N33 - "The Prophet said: 'I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and they establish prostration prayer, and pay Zakat. If they do it, their blood and property are protected.'"


Of course there are many more examples of Islam being unconstitutional...

CONSTITUTION & QUR'AN by William J. Federer

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, yet the Quran states in Sura 4:89, "Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them."

In Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari (Vol. 9, Book 84, No. 57), Muhammad said: "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."

Islamic law relegates non-Muslims to "dhimmi" status, where they are not to propagate their customs amongst Muslims and cannot display a Cross or a Star of David.

The First Amendment states Congress shall not abridge "the freedom of speech," yet Islamic law enforces dhimmi status on non-Muslims, prohibiting them from observing their religious practices publicly, raising their voices during prayer or ringing church bells.

The First Amendment states Congress cannot take away "the right of the people to peaceably assemble," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims cannot build any new places of worship or repair any old places Muslims have destroyed; they must allow Muslims to participate in their private meetings; they cannot bring their dead near the graveyards of Muslims or mourn their dead loudly.

The First Amendment states Congress cannot take away the right of the people "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims are not to harbor any hostility toward the Islamic state or give comfort to those who disagree with Islamic government.

All our founders' inspiring, biblical quotes in one place – a must-have for your library. Get Bill Federer's "America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations"

The Second Amendment states, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," yet Islamic law states non-Muslims cannot possess arms, swords or weapons of any kind.

The Third Amendment states one cannot be forced to "quarter" someone in their house, yet Islamic law states non-Muslims must entertain and feed for three days any Muslim who wants to stay in their home, and for a longer period if the Muslim falls ill – and they cannot prevent Muslim travelers from staying in their places of worship.

The Fourth Amendment guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures," yet Islamic law states if a non-Muslim rides on a horse with a saddle and bridle, the horse can be taken away.

The Fifth Amendment states that "no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime … without due process of law," yet Muhammad said, "No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir (infidel)" (Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, No. 50).

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a "public trial by an impartial jury" and the Seventh Amendment states "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved," yet Islamic law does not give non-Muslims equal legal standing with Muslims, even prohibiting a non-Muslim from testifying in court against a Muslim.

The Eighth Amendment states there shall be no "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," yet the Quran states:

"Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done – a deterrent from Allah" (Sura 5:38).

A raped woman is punished: "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication – flog each of them with a hundred stripes" (Sura 24:2).

Women can be beaten: "If you experience rebellion from the women, you shall first talk to them, then (you may use negative incentives like) deserting them in bed, then you may (as a last alternative) beat them" (Sura 4:34).

Honor killings of wives and daughters who have embarrassed their families have been reported by the United Nations in Muslim populations of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and increasing in Western nations.

The 13th Amendment states there shall be no "slavery or involuntary servitude," yet the Quran accommodates slavery as Muhammad owned slaves.

The 14th Amendment guarantees citizens "equal protection of the laws," yet the Quran does not consider Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims as equal to Muslims before the law.

Referring to Jews as "the People of the Book," Muhammad said: "They are those whom Allah has cursed; who have been under his wrath; some of whom were turned into apes and swine" (Sura 5:60, 7:166, 2:65).

The 15th Amendment guarantees "the right of the citizens … to vote shall not be denied … on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," yet the fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law does not allow voting, as democracy is considered people setting themselves in the place of Allah by making their own laws.

The 16th Amendment has some similarities with Islamic law, as "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived." Muhammad said, "Fight those who believe not in Allah … until they pay the jizya [tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29).

The 18th Amendment has some similarities with Islamic law, as "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors … for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."

The 19th Amendment allows women to vote, yet in strict Islamic countries women cannot vote.

The 21st Amendment allows for the sale of liquor, yet Islamic law prohibits non-Muslims from selling or drinking wine and liquor openly.

To those of you including the two boneheads in question have questions about these verses being taken out of context, you should all have a firm foundation on the "Rule of Abrogation"

"None of Our revelations do We abrogate or just cause to he forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things?" --Surah 2: 106

"When We substitute one revelation for another, and Allah knows best what He reveals (in stages), they say, "Thou art but a forger "but most of them understand not. "--Surah 16:101

[2.23] And if you are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it and call on your witnesses besides Allah if you are truthful.

[2.24] But if you do (it) not and never shall you do (it), then be on your guard against the fire of which men and stones are the fuel; it is prepared for the unbelievers.

[15:9] We have sent down the reminder, and we will preserve it


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August 23, 2010 2:53 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I thought you were done for the day! Oh I'm so happy to see you're back! Okay so where was I? Oh yes, you were saying I took that out of context. I didn't claim that was the case; I said you weren't reading the WHOLE thing. Much like you're not reading the WHOLE bible. How do I know this? Because you've shown that you're a protestant by way of your comments and responses - a fundamentalist protestant I'd be willing to bet.

So that means you're not reading all of the old testament. Did you know that in the maccabean books two people find a grave and make a talismanic sigil to place upon it? I'm willing to be you didn't know that part.

Did you know that Adam had a wife BEFORE Eve? I'm guessing you probably have heard about this, but you don't know the whole story behind it. For example did you never wonder where the offspring of Adam and Eve found wives? SURELY they wouldn't have married their own sisters would they?

On a different topic, I think you claimed I've been outplayed. How so? I've been showing you all the holes in your faith, and instead of patching them up you ignore me and hide behind walls of block quotes and middle school insults like "bonehead." Doesn't look like I've been outplayed to me. If I had you wouldn't have cried "I don't wanna play anymore!" What's funny is you keep posting, but I'm not complaining. I've not had this much fun in a good while.

So let's see... more jokes about your religion or will it be more unpleasant truths you're ignorant of because you don't even know your own religion?

Oh by the way, that last line is for tribal governance. It doesn't prove there some dangerous infiltration of our justice system, but while we're using quotes let me show you a few.

"We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power."
--Thomas Paine

"What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."
--Thomas Paine

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
--Thomas Paine

You know who Thomas Paine is don't you? It is OUR history.

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
--James Madison

"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."
--James Madison

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
-- Just guess who wrote that one LOL


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August 23, 2010 2:55 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Prophecies to Identify the Messiah, Which Jesus Does Not Fulfill:

1) Matthew 1:23 says that Jesus (the messiah) would be called Immanuel, which means "God with us." Yet no one, not even his parents, call him Immanuel at any point in the bible.

2) The Messiah must be a physical descendant of David (Romans 1:3 & Acts 2:30). Yet, how could Jesus meet this requirement since his genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 show he descended from David through Joseph, who was not his natural father because of the Virgin Birth. Hence, this prophecy could not have been fulfilled.

3) Isaiah 7:16 seems to say that before Jesus had reached the age of maturity, both of the Jewish countries would be destroyed. Yet there is no mention of this prophecy being fulfilled in the New Testament with the coming of Jesus, hence this is another Messiah prophecy not fulfilled.

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August 23, 2010 3:09 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

How about some good old fashioned biblical atrocities?

God now commands that all women must have health hazardous labors for Eve ate the fruit. In no way shape or form is it just that I must pay for the sins of my ancestors. Genesis 3:16

God caused sibling rivalry by favoring Abel over Cain, with absolutely no attempt at justification. This act of favoritism led to Abel’s death. Genesis 4:3-5

Genesis 7:23 He killed, intentionally, every man, woman, and child on the planet save eight of them.

God commands Hagar go back into servanthood and bear children for her master though she does not want to. Genesis 16:7-9

I figure since you're playing the copy and paste game I might as well too.

Don't worry! I have my own things to share from actual scholarship and not c&p games. Have you ever heard of the Infancy Gospel? It tells the stories of jesus as a child. In one story he kills a playmate who disturbs the water in a stream. If that's god in the flesh it just goes to show how evil he really is.

Here's one that's more substantial. Your bible tells you that Mary and Joseph had to go to Betlaham for a census since Joseph was descended from David, but how would he know that? David lived a thousand years before Joseph! If there were such a census today where would YOU go? Do you know who your ancestors are from a millenium ago?

If there were such a census in the whole Roman empire don't you think there would be some historical and geographical indications of such a HUGE migration of people? It would be impossible to do so without the whole of society falling into chaos.

You know what's even more damning evidence? There is NO record in any such census EVER taking place - EVER! Any census was done with the people WHERE THEY WERE. Seldom did they ever have to travel unless it was to go to the local magistrate who might be in the next town!

Besides, what would be the purpose of such a census??? Why in the world would the Romans care where someone's ancestors came from a thousand years ago??? What good would it do to know that? You know WHY that story is in there? Because it becomes a major selling point for jesus being the messiah in some the early Christian communities who were following other savior cults at that time!

The story of that census is purely a literary invention for the sake of credibility - nothing more!

OOPS!

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August 23, 2010 3:10 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Bethlehem*

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August 23, 2010 3:30 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You're going to keep posting right? I'd rather not have to keep responding to your big wall of block quotes over and over. LOL

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August 23, 2010 4:01 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You know what's funny? We don't observe the book of Leviticus despite having Orthodox Jews in the United States. I guess haters just can't think like that when they've got a predisposed opinion.

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes rightwing truth.

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August 23, 2010 2:30 PM   

So, my pointing out that DugFmJamul doesn't know as much about the bible as he seems to think he does caused him enough fear and concern that he had to run away and hide. THAT is what happens when an evangelical is faced with REAL truth. That's why I don't accept words written on pages blindly. All he could do was curl up in a ball of denial and say "I don't believe you!" He will be quite surprised if he's honest enough to investigate what I've told him because every word was true. However, my guess is he's more interested in demonizing Muslims than he is in searching for answers in his own religion. THAT is the behavior of those afraid of what they will find.

I guess they don't believe that the truth will set them free, but freedom FROM religion is one thing I treasure, and freedom OF religion is one thing our nation believes in.

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August 23, 2010 4:51 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

No I'm just watching a really manic at work, it's thrilling to watch...continue...you are validating my belief system with your every post....bonehead!

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August 23, 2010 5:37 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

I thought you weren't going to reply anymore. Couldn't resist could you? You're too easy! Incidentally, the more frustrated you become the further your grammar declines. That's not even taking into account your poor sentence structure. Don't even get me started on how you're abusing the period in that last post.

You are a scared child. All you could do was cry out "I don't believe you!" I hope you looked into the things I brought up because people like you especially need to learn to actually question what you think you know, but I'm not holding my breath. You're the type that only accepts what he wants to believe and doesn't care what the real truth is. Your god is fake; your party is morally bankrupt; your scared of Muslims; you want everyone to be just as scared as you are. Those are the facts.

The only thing that is mildly shocking to me is that you actually tried to claim you're only here for civil discourse; you're not. Nobody comes to a website like this with an avatar like you're using with pure intent, nor do they come here posting links to right wing websites. Even now you can't resist responding to me despite your vows to ignore posts such as mine. I know why you came here, and I gave you what you wanted and expected to see. So why try to hide it? Why pretend to be the innocent victim of liberal anger? You wanted a fight.

The validation of your belief system has nothing to do with me. You see what you want to see. You always will. You don't care about the families who lost people they loved on 911. Did you ever think that maybe I was one of those who lost a friend? I don't believe for a second that such a thought would occur to you because it wouldn't square with your inherent belief that the majority of Americans are people just like you. I am nothing like you and proud of that fact.

Your obsession with Sharia law tells me all I need to know about you. You believe what your masters tell you whether they speak on Fox News, freerepublic.com or from the pulpit. Your outrage isn't about the people who lost those whom they loved on 911. Your outrage is your reptilian born fear that's been triggered by people you think you understand. You may even be one of those who come to websites like this as part of a group of people who want to further spread a sense of panic in the hopes driving people out of office just because you don't like them. Regardless, you're irrelevant, insignificant and unimportant. You're nothing.

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August 23, 2010 5:31 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

Are you done yet? Good!

Just because you're a master of bloviating Atheist propaganda does not mean you know the Bible or I do not. I'm sure Christopher Eric Hitchens would back me up when I say, "The Qur'an is more violent than the Bible and Islam is not a religion of peace!".

I still have not shown you my two down cards yet while you seem to have put your cards all on the table and have gone all in with a full nutt job house!

The game is not over until Rose O'Donell is singing the blues.


It's quite obvious you hate Christians but do really think the Qur'an is the literal word of GOD and Muslims are more peaceful than Christians? Are you really that obtuse?

Or that Islam is a peaceful religion when I have already schooled you on the Qur'an being twice as violent as the Bible base on pages to violent content and let's not forget the "Rule of Abrogation" which cancels out over 124 peaceful verses in the Qur'an. You ignore this because you were ignorant of this fact until I told you, please don't lie and say you knew about this concept before hand you already proved what a nutt job you are, don't make yourself into a complete liar like your buddy farnsworth.

And lets not forget the issue of Islam being unconstitutional by it's own doctrine, you can't possible say Shaira Law is compatible with our Constitution with a straight face. If you can, I would never would want to be on the same poker table with you!

You have been fun to watch, but the closest we will ever come to agreeing with each other is saying, "You twisted the words around".


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August 23, 2010 5:57 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You spoke too soon. I do not care who would back you up. I'm well educated upon the bible, and I'm far more knowledgeable about it then you will ever be.

You think this is a game? You came here to start arguments with people like me. Nobody forced you to do so. You're not playing a game. You're here to try to stir emotions. I know very well what you are about. I'm not playing cards, but you obviously think you are. You waited until you thought I was gone so that you could seemingly get the last word for your own sense of getting even.

You just claimed I'm spreading "Atheist propaganda." Then you turn around and ask if I "really think the Qur'an is the literal word of GOD." From where I sit the only one that's obtuse is you. So let's clear this up right now. I'm an atheist. I think all religions are silly, and if I were to choose one it would be Buddhism since it's one of the few that haven't committed atrocities in the name some divine being. I don't spread propaganda. I point out inconsistencies in the religions of others because too few people think outside of what their religion tells them. Finally, I don't hate all Christians. I hate you and your brand of Christianity. I won't hesitate for a second to admit that, but I know peaceful Christians, and they don't get the sort of treatment from me that you did because they don't act the way that you do.

You have schooled me on nothing child. You've just copied text from your anti-Muslim websites and acted like they were somehow proof of your claims. You don't even understand what the "Rule of Abrogation" is. You think it's there to create a way of correcting mistakes in previous sections of text. The very fact that you think that tells me you've never actually looked into what Islamics themselves say about it. There are three different types of abrogation that's can take place: abrogation of the recited verse together with the legal ruling, abrogation of the legal ruling without the recited verse, abrogation of the recited (verse) without the legal ruling. Where the ruling is abrogated but not the recitation, the interpretation of such verses may be substituted. Did you know that little one? Let me restate that for you. Substitution may be made, but it is not always made. Do you understand the difference? Do you even know when such a substitution might take place or why? Of course you don't because you had no intention of worrying yourself with such trifle issues since you had what you thought was hard evidence of something that exists only in your mind.

You keep referring to your ultimate fear: Sharia law. Did you even realize that it's never the same for two different factions? Did you know that most progressive Muslim scholars agree that such laws are only to be applied in the absence of state law? I'm certain you didn't know that because that would take the teeth out of your trump card. Are you really so "obtuse?"

Did you have anything else to add little one? Personally I think you should spend time looking into what I told you about your own religion rather than worrying yourself over someone else's. Now what other cards did you want to play? I eagerly await your response.

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August 23, 2010 7:48 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

You waited until you thought I was gone so that you could seemingly get the last word for your own sense of getting even.

No, that was not my game plan I actually enjoyed watching you vent your emotional diatribe against me and Christianity. It reveals what a real sociopath you are.

Did you have anything else to add little one?

I have a feeling you are very close to committing some violent crime against someone with a different view point than you. Someone like you who thinks they can dish out bellicose treatment at will to deserving or not deserving Christians is a sociopath that is a danger to society and should be locked up with other the psychotics but don't turn yourself in until you answer my questions...hurry up before the State sends someone over to your Mother's basement and ties you up with a straight jacket, hauls you off to the State Hospital.

You don't even understand what the "Rule of Abrogation" is. You think it's there to create a way of correcting mistakes in previous sections of text. The very fact that you think that tells me you've never actually looked into what Islamics themselves say about it.

Of course I understand what 'it' is and you don't know what I think so stop saying you do! Psycho!

I was speaking of Rules or Law of Abrogation on TPM on July 28, 2010. You can view it here but I'm sure you will not agree with my explanation, so what if it pisses you off it will make my day...ha...ha!

With all of your bloavating you still avoided the question of the Qur'an being more violent than the Bible and how Islam is unconstitutional.

Now you need to address the fact that Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf in an interview in 2005 validates all I have said about Islam and the Qur'an. "victory mosque", you denied it. I said it and Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf confirms it.

You can't possibly believe Now the Ground Zero mosque should continue after listen to that audio, if you do. You are indeed a traitor to this nation.

"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims," Feisal Abdul Rauf said at a 2005 lecture sponsored by the University of South Australia.

Settle down...take a breath and answer those questions, I'm eagerly awaiting your response.

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August 24, 2010 1:50 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Now you turn to comments like "sociopath." That's very weak. I do understand what you think. It's very obvious. For example, you're now resorting to childish games of trying to pick at me in the hopes of trying to set off more angry dialog. This further proves my point that you came here to argue and not to actually have serious dialog.

Did it ever occur to you that I don't even take you seriously? Why in the world would I give a damn about trying to convince you of anything? You're mind is made up, and you came here to be an evil jackass. It's as simple as that, and you can't deny your motives.

We do have more Muslim blood on our hands than al-Qaeda does. That's just a fact. We've invaded two countries and killed how many thousands? You can't argue with math.

How is the one book more violent than the other? You've not proven it with any hard facts or numbers. Prove it if you expect someone to disprove it.

The Torah is unconstitutional. The Books of the Law contradict our own laws, but somehow that's irrelevant in your mind? Yet, the Jewish religion isn't unconstitutional. Somehow that rule doesn't apply to Muslims? Can you be intellectually honest enough to just take that into account? Is that really beyond your hate-filled heart?

You answer me something for a change. How do you address the faults I pointed out in your religion? If all you can say is "I don't believe you" then I might as well use the same response to anything you say to me.

It's ironic that a "man" who worships a god that tells the Hebrews to go around taking land from tribes that weren't initially aggressive towards them has the nerve to tell me to "[s]ettle down." I'm perfectly calm; you are the one in a panic about our country being taken over by a bunch *gasp* terrorists simply because they are attacking us through the cunning use of a new building! Heh.

A "traitor?" Seriously you're going to use that worn reich winger BS? You guys are the ones who blow up abortion clinics, beg presidents to bomb people for no reason, take guns to rallies, turn Holocaust museums into a shooting gallery, lie to the public about big scary WMD, throw people in prison simply because of suspicion, go on witch hunts just like in the 50s, and now are trying to play the same propaganda games as Adolf Hitler by turning Muslims into America's new "Jewish Question." What is your "final solution" going to be I wonder.

Go ahead let's see you play your little games where you think you've gotten the upper hand by waiting for a few hours in order to try to get the last word in on a website you just had to come to in order pick fights.

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August 24, 2010 2:12 AM    in reply to DugFmJamul

PS - In going back and looking at your other comments I want to point something out to you. Surah 5:73 doesn't say what you claim it says. It doesn't declare those who believe in a trinity "infidels." You're lying.

Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah is the third (person)of the three; and there is no god but the one Allah, and if they desist not from what they say, a painful chastisement shall befall those among them who disbelieve.

Try reading that in the proper way in Surah 5 next time. It simply points out that Muslims are not to believe in the trinity, and they don't just like Jews do not.

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August 24, 2010 3:01 PM    in reply to Scheherazade

5:73 - They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.

Correct Sura 5:73 does not say 'infidel's , it says 'They' and 'They' is a reference to 'Kafirs' infidels or unbelievers.

Are you a liar for not explaining this or did you just overlook the meaning of the word 'They'?

I use "Infidels" to see if anyone actually looks up the actual verse.

Congratulations you are the first, but to say I was lying would be a lie in itself.

You are prone to throw the words 'lie' and 'liar' around without giving it much thought of the actually meaning. You use it as a weapon against anyone that disagrees with you one certain points. This can be a trait of a 'sociopath' so stop this unfavorable character flaw not only is it irritating, it makes you look like a psycho.

"We do have more Muslim blood on our hands than al-Qaeda does. That's just a fact."

No it is not a 'fact', it is not fact Muslims have killed more Muslims than 'we' have ever done.

You can watch Sean Hannity tonight or listen to his Radio program NOW as he will expose this 'fact' of yours as a lie.

"This further proves my point that you came here to argue and not to actually have serious dialog.", not true.

I come here to argue for sure, but I'm willing to have a serious dialog with those I seem worthy.

For you to be worthy you must answer my question about Islam being unconstitutional!

Until you do I may just end our social intercourse right now!

I hate dialoging with boneheads that can't even answer direct questions with honest answers or filibuster with hundreds of questions and expect me to answer all of them. It's not going to happen!


I will sit back and watch your insane rants but if you want to continue to actually converse with me you must answer my question before we go on....understand?

Answer by answering this simple question, "Is Islam unconstitutional?".


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August 24, 2010 3:06 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

Correction: No it is not a 'fact', it is not fact Muslims have killed more Muslims than 'we' have ever done.

Should be: No it is not a 'fact', THE fact IS Muslims have killed more Muslims than 'we' have ever done.

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August 24, 2010 3:19 PM    in reply to DugFmJamul

You won't stop. I know you won't. You can't resist. You came back today. I will not answer your question on principle. If that is your litmus test for one being worthy I would much rather let hate separate us. The monstrous behavior of people such as yourself renders any connections you may have once had to humanity null. People like you are the very image of what you claim to hate. Reich wingers kill, steal, lie, rape, torture, and commit countless other heinous acts, which makes them inhuman. The crimes of your ilk are legion, and thus your claim to humanity is meaningless.

I don't believe for one moment you used that as a test. You looked into it closer to see if there was a flaw, and then came back with an answer in order to try to "win" an argument. YOU were the one accusing people of lies originally, but I've called you a liar since, and I'm calling you one now. You're just as pathetic as you were before.

I have no intention of watching Faux News. I don't give a damn what Hannity says. He's as bad as you, but he's honest enough to confide to his coworkers that "it's just television."

Again, you will not resist responding again. It's in your nature to respond. You couldn't stay away no matter how hard you tried. It's rather telling that you use the words you do to describe our mutual hatred voiced in words, but I'm not surprised. You hurl feeble jabs at me as though they were biting insults. They are as ineffectual as you yourself are.

Until next time...

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