Influential Donor May Bolt From GOP Over Anti-Muslim Hysteria

Whether it's gay Republicans, Black Republicans, Hispanic Republicans, or Muslim GOP donors.....are they truly too dense to grasp that their party is openly hostile to their ethnicity/lifestyle, and would likely rid them off the Earth if given the chance?

OK, we need to stop the misinformation campaign. It's not a mosque, it's an Islamic community center akin to the YMCA. Why are we framing the debate using the misinformation from the GOP and the TP'ers?

Brian, did you ask her for examples of why she believes Obama's policies have been more anti-Muslim than Bush's policies? Curious about that...

They just needed a target for the Atwater acolytes, after all, there is an upcoming election.

This xenophobia repeats itself over and over and over again in our history, and years later we look back on it in shame and wonder, 'how could those people have been so ridiculous/hateful/ignorant?'

From the Wikipedia entry on anti-German sentiment during WWI:

When the United States entered the war in 1917, some German immigrants, and sometimes even non-German immigrants who were perceived as German (Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss), were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Some German immigrants in the United States were even tried, convicted and imprisoned, on charges of sedition, merely for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort.

City streets in Chicago with German names were changed, with several noted exceptions being Goethe & Schiller in the Gold Coast neighborhood (which remain the same today).
The city of Berlin, Michigan was renamed Marne, though the Berlin Raceway located there retains the original city name.

In New Orleans, Berlin St. was renamed for General Pershing (head of the American Expeditionary Force), sauerkraut came to be called (by some) "liberty cabbage", German measles became "liberty measles", hamburgers became "liberty sandwiches" and Dachshunds became "liberty pups".

In the United States between 1917–18, German-American schools and newspapers by the thousands were forced to permanently close. In cities and towns across the nation, libraries burned their German-language books in public burnings. The officials of German-named towns that had been founded by German-Americans were intimidated by county, state, and federal government officials into anglicizing their names, and into destroying all traces of their German heritage. In cities across the United States, German-sounding street names were banned. Many families with a German-sounding last name changed their surname. The vast majority of German-Americans, however, were loyal to their adopted country and thousands of them served in the United States military.

Newspapers in New York and other places published lists of inhabitants names and addresses, labeled as Enemy Aliens, thereby inviting neighbors to hostile actions.

As the public atmosphere became increasingly hysterical, vigilantes burned "pro-German" books, spied on neighbors, and attacked and murdered immigrants and radicals. Anti-German tension culminated on April 4, 1918, in the brutal lynching of German immigrant Robert Prager, a coal miner living in Collinsville, Illinois, who was accused of making "disloyal remarks".

WWII - lather, rinse, repeat. The Japanese-Americans were actually put in internment camps, something likely not done to the German-Americans during 'The Great War' because they were of European descent rather than the more exotic and foreign-ish Asian descent.

Will we ever learn?

If her son says Obama is more hawkish than Cheney it must be so.

Matt Jones answered the whole question, when he noted that Muslims, just like other rich people, want more money more than anything else. Those, like this woman, who are willing to toss their neighbors under the bus in the process are as despicable or more so than the fundy Repubs. As I post here about once a month, this is probably the worst single legacy of Reagan. Before Reagan the wealthy kept their greed hidden and understood that their greed was not a positive part of their character. But, since Reagan they see nothing wrong with it, and flaunt it. This is also a very major failing of the Christian churches, major enough for me to realize that those institutions are anything but worshipful beyond their worship of money.

Pick any Republican who disagrees with the anti-Islamic center tirades, and you can bet he or she is worrying about losing Hasan family donations. If it wasn't for the money, the Republicans would be in lock-step opposition to this community center. Last I heard, surveyed Manhattanites were in favor of the center. Who cares what anyone in Podunk, Oklahoma thinks about it?

Seeme Hasan is a member of a VERY rich family, with money made from their own HMO. They even provided a building for a business school for a branch of the U. of Colorado.

With that kind of money and with that business orientation it's no wonder they became Republicans. Money, when you have enough of it, and low taxes outweigh any other values, including religion, personal safety and cultural values.

Anti-Muslim probably means social liberalism.

Sounds like this woman is an idiot. Screw her.

Jim Breuer was impersonating Joe Pesci on Stern this morning. His brilliant line related to the Mosque:

"They don't like us gettin' along!"

It's not in corporate or defense contractors to have a peaceful citizenry united against them. Who's flogging this Mosque controversy, and who are THEIR masters?

His policies are perhaps more anti-Muslim

WTF? This woman is bat-shit crazy-stupid.

It is embarrasing how poorly Muslims are being treated. So why is it that one religious group can hate and fear another group so badly? It isn't a new phenomenon. The Romans persecuted the Jews. Christians conducted the Crusades.

So the claim that Muslims are out to destroy Christians is just a continuation of a very old story.

Sean Thibodeau at SusPacks nails it.

http://suspiciouspackaging.blogspot.com/2010/08/religious-intolerance-intolerance-of.html

This all comes down to persecution. One religious group persecuting another and if you don't practice a religion, they all persecute you. Ultimately if you are in a religion it is as if you are in a gang and your allegiance is with that gang and its rules. You must join the “gang” or be persecuted. Once you are a member of a religion (the gang) your allegiance is with that gang and its rules. Worse still, when the rules of the gang contradict the rules of the government - like it does here- you are asked to choose the rules of the gang or else.

I'm curious. What is the significance of the E being red while all other letters are black? And are those steps?

American conservatism = Christian fascism

I guess this Republican does not think Obama is a Muslim.

She says she has only one reason to suspect she'll put a great deal of effort into defeating Barack Obama: His policies are perhaps more anti-Muslim, Hasan says, as Bush's were. "It's like my son says, he's been more hawkish than Dick Cheney."

But she supported Dickie.

I wonder what "Bandar Bush" thinks.

"I don't know if I'll be a Republican a year from now," says Seeme Hasan, who chairs the Hasan Family Foundation in Colorado, and has close ties to the Republican party leadership.

This is the guy who handed out $300,000 for "essay-writing" to a Republican who just happened to be a popular former Congressman who just happened to be thinking about a run for higher office in the future. (Governor of Colorado, as it turned out.)

So happy to hear you won't be a Republican. Please don't start calling yourself a Democrat.

There should be no consideration in leaving the GOP. Ever since Bush left(and yes, I do give him credit for keeping "teh crazee" in check), the right has looked for anything to demonize to divide America even more than what it is right now. Gay marriage, abortion, immigration, the "New Black Panther Party," muslim bigotry; you name it, the right has done it.

The thing about the right is that they're trying to defy conventional political thinking. Usually when a party suffers the loses that they have, they go into the wilderness for a couple years and re-organize the tenets of their party. The Dems have done this, and the Conservatives also did it in the UK(even though it wasn't as effective as they hoped it would be). Hopefully after the election, the right will do what they should have done after the 08 elections.

They could have locked up both the Hispanic and Arab vote, but they rely on fear, racism and xenophobia, which America is slowly moving away from. In essesnce, the GOP are trying to fix a computer with a wrench and hammer, and they refuse to concede that the politics of the "Southern Strategy" no longer apply to the general electorate. Oh well, I'm enjoying the massacre, so hopefully they don't catch on too quickly.

As eschaton says, at some point the political USA must stop living in October 2001.

It's been nearly 9 years. When will we put that behind us?

Why is he over there in the first place?
The Republicans are clearly showing us what their agenda is
going to be. Anti-everybody. Pro southern-white-trash.

The day she leaves they'll call her a terrorist & swear that they have proof that she funds Al Queda.
She's really got no good choice.

Well Done Hasan!
Remember Muslims all over the World are watching these developments.American leadership is getting exposed.The place is not a Mosque its a Community center.By the way since 9/11 Muslims have been pushed back every at every walk of life.

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