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2004-12-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-02 8:54:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Here we are, attempting to define ourselves as true Americans while holding onto our Islamic heritage and values...
The very best way of integrating into the United States, yet keeping hold of your "heritage and values" is to embrace an additional value: intolerance. Not intolerance for those outside of your community, but intolerance for those within your community who violate the heritage and values of those outside your community. Insist that it is the duty of those in your community to cooperate fully with the authorities, as much as any outsider would. Demand that abusive individuals in your community be outcast--unnacepted by polite individuals, and turned out. Push your children to be as much like "outsider" children as your religion will permit: especially to learn their language and their culture. Demand less of the greater community and give more to it. Be prepared to discard non-essential cultural practices that are abhorrent to the greater community. Last but not least, keep an open house to those outsider polite people who would be your friends. Polite people in every community make strong allies.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-02 9:49:03 AM|| 2004-12-02 9:49:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ..and at least one Baghdad.

There's a "Bagdad" on the Santa Fe mainline in the CA desert between Ludlow and Cadiz. Does that count?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-02 12:17:54 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:17:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, yes, pita bread and even a Mecca. All that one needs to make their ideals of intolerance and women-as-chattle go with freedom and equality, is a shake and an order of fries.

Posted by 2b 2004-12-02 1:05:52 PM|| 2004-12-02 1:05:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Islam and the Constitution are incompatible. One or the other has to change. I will not accept changes in the Constitution to appease Muslims. Three things:

The right to worship as we please, without strings or limitations.
The right to speak out for or against anything, as long as it's not to incite violence against others.
The equality of rights for men and women.

These are three areas where Islam and American government are in collision. One or the other will have to give way. Our current form of government will only give way over my dead body, and long after I take a large number of its enemies with me.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-12-02 6:08:41 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2004-12-02 6:08:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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