Honoring Muslim-American soldiers
Monday October 20, 2008
Categories: Islam, Republicans
I wish to associate myself with Ericka Anderson's post. I saw the video today of those that one McCain voting jerk, and the Muslim guy for McCain standing up to them. Good for him. And God bless the sacrifice of...
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We're working on it. One of the primary reasons why I'm voting for Barack Obama this year is because of what Colin Powell called "narrowness" of McCain's campaign (I think it's true of Republicans over the past few years, in fact). I'd be happy to have John McCain as my president, but I'm beginning to hope that the Republicans lose. This isn't out of spite; it's so that they can go back to the drawing board and become more inclusive, more tolerant, more diverse, more accepting of pluralism. Because beyond the pretty crappy politics of Bush over the past eight years, a come-to-Jesus needs to be had with respect to conservative inclusiveness.
Let's see, right now it is Muslims, last year it was Mexicans. I ask all of my Hispanic buddies who they are voting for and why and, of course, they are voting Democratic because the "republicans are racist." That is the message minorities get.
Most Republicans are certainly racist -- but the crazies sure are gravitating toward their ticket this year. What's the Obama variant of Bush Derangement Syndrome? It needs a name -- because it's spreading quickly.
Well, that's encouraging. Thanks for putting up that video.
Just FYI, for accuracy, Colin Powell said the woman in the photo at Cpl. Khan's grave is his mother, not his widow.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/kareem_rashad_sultan_khan.html
Well that is certainly heart-warming.
And of course this is anecdotal - but notice the age differences - the bigots are all much older and the people confronting them are millenials/Xers. I don't think I knew a single outright racist in college, and if its really true that the latest generations are extremely un-racist, then Republican tolerance of the "Obama is a muslim terrorist" crazies is just another nail in the Republican coffin, as far as support from the younger generations.
No Republican condones any of this anti-Muslim stuff. There are crazies in every both campaigns.
BTW, shame on the press for pushing the "Bradley effect" theme and for continuing to push the notion that only racism is keeping the Obama-McCain race close in the polls. It is slur against EVERY single McCain supporter and against EVERY American who entertains any doubts about Obama's readiness or his vision.
Trotsky:
Most Republicans are racist? I guess democrats can vote in huge numbers against Obama in primaries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia because they don't like his politics. But a Republican doing the same is a racist.
Either they're both racist, or you're being blinded by ideology.
Personally, I don't think either group is particularly racist by the definition of forty years ago. The bar seems to get set lower every day, though, and I guess we're all racists now.
I'm sick of it. And if Obama wins, and his supporters keep playing the race card, he could be the second coming of Abraham Lincoln and he'll still be a one-termer. In fact, if his supporters keep it up McCain may yet win.
Reaganite in NYC
No Republican condones any of this anti-Muslim stuff.
No, the Republican candidate for president has no problem with Muslims...just Arabs, who apparently cannot be good family men, but luckily Obama is not one of.
Look, when a group of people use something as a smear, like Obama being a Muslim, or Arab, (and it is the right who invented and push those 'facts', like it or not), than it is a pretty direct implication that actually being that thing is pretty bad.
As Colin Powell pointed out recently.
I think that many, if not most people are somewhat racist, especially in the older generations and in the south (where I live). We have congressmen in my state who call Arabs "towelheads" and who call Obama "uppity." The McCain/Palin campaign is absolutely playing to these folks and hoping that all the racist, toothless rednecks show up at the polls so that West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina go McCain.
RNYC: No Republican condones any of this anti-Muslim stuff.
I wish you were right, RNYC, but I'm afraid you aren't. I run into it here all the time. All. The. Time. You might be shocked by the number of Republicans I talk to who are absolutely convinced that Obama is a closet Muslim, and that people like me who say no he isn't are naive dupes.
You know I'm the last person to downplay the very real threat this country and our civilization faces from radical Islam, but the kind of garbage documented on this video must be denounced. I wish it were rare, but it isn't.
There are racists in every party, and the vast majority of them are not "crazies".
The point of tolerance is not that one (or a group) must change one's beliefs and attitudes. The point is that such beliefs and attitudes are not used to promote discrimination. There's plenty of gray area in there, but I gotta run to a meeting. More later if this tangent has traction.
It was refreshing to see McCain supporters shut down this man, but I think to a great extent the McCain campaign has created the climate that allows this man to have a forum.
The attacks on Obama as a "closet socialist" or open socialist and a friend of terrorists (and by the way, his middle name is Hussein) are coming directly from the McCain campaign.
I think that Colin Powell made the best case for electing Obama not McCain. The Republican Party has narrowed, as was obvious to me when I watched the Republican National Convention, and saw almost exclusively white faces. I see the politics of fear driving the McCain Campaign now, as they throw everything but the kitchen sink at Obama in an attempt to sink his campaign, and I pray that it doesn't work.
In the future, I don't believe the Republican Party will look back at this election as their finest hour.
(Crowds of applauding villagers taking to the streets chanting: "Rod! Rod!")
I first saw the video on samefacts.com (a decent if IMHO often conventional lib/prog website) and it almost brought tears to my eyes. First time in months that there has been anything about the McCain campaign I could be proud of. I know, I know, I'm overreacting to one vivid moment of decency, but still, peradventure ten [righteous] shall be found there [in the GOP].
Great point, Franklin. As always, the devil is in the details. In this case, pinning down "promote" and "discrimination".
Also, the cries of racism on the one hand, and invoking crypto-muslimhood on the other, are often proxies for legitimate points. So people making those charges are just being lazy. Or they think the real points they are trying to make are too complicated for the grubbies and sweaties to understand.
Whatever the motivation, I'm sick of it.
This plus Powell's statement are encouraging. It will be even more believable when Republicans stop using Obama's middle name in such an obviously exaggerated manner.
Steve
Daniel Zubairi, the Muslim guy for McCain was to do an interview on CNN yesterday with Rick Sanchez. The McCain campaign cancelled it at the last minute.
Rod will be calling for Canadian-style HRC's next.
Look, the vast majority of our troops killed are not Muslims, not Jews. They are Christians (at least nominally). That is the way this country was founded and settled. We really don't need more of a religion that every where it establishes a foothold, it causes problems. No doubt the first Muslims into Holland were great guys too. Now look.
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