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Change your sig yet, E?Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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Ha! You don't know what I posted and have zero clue as to what principles this country was founded on........keep seeking out answers that only follow the narrative that fits your narrow views, slugger.
I'll keep mocking you with facts
Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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Yes I do...
You don't even understand the separation of Church and State...Comment
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Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
(CNSNews.com) - We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding."
That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar things in the past:
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan. And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy."
In his speech on Wednesday, Obama was making the point that Western nations must show that they "welcome people of all faiths," at a time when "extremists" are saying that Western nations are "hostile to Muslims."
"Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. Generations -- (applause) -- Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and to build up America.
"The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America's first mosque, this was an interesting fact, was in North Dakota." (It was established in 1929).
Both of those milestones happened well after America's founding, however. In fact, the new nation's first dealings with Islam were tense and unpleasant.
According to a Heritage Foundation paper, shortly after America's founding, the United States "was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era," who looted American ships and captured American sailors, holding them for ransom or selling them as slaves.
The paper notes that America's struggle with Muslim pirates from the Barbary States (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776 and continued for roughly four decades.
In his remarks on Wednesday, President Obama said Muslim Americans now serve as police officers, firefighters, soldiers, "and in our intelligence communities and in homeland security."
He said Muslim American heroes are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, "having given their lives in defense of all of us."
"And, of course, that's the story extremists and terrorists don't want the world to know -- Muslims succeeding and thriving in America. Because when that truth is known, it exposes their propaganda as the lie that it is.
"It's also a story that every American must never forget, because it reminds us all that hatred and bigotry and prejudice have no place in our country. It is not just counterproductive. It doesn't just aid terrorists. It's wrong. It's contrary to who we are."
So-called hate crimes against Muslims escalated in this country after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 -- attacks perpetrated by Islamic radicals -- but they have never reached the level of hate crimes against Jews, according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Reporting statistics.
In 2013, for example, 62.4 percent of hate crime victims were attacked because of anti-Jewish bias, while 11.6 percent were victims of anti-Islamic bias.
Compare that with the year before the 2001 terror attacks: In 2000, of the 1,699 victims of anti-religious hate crime, 74.6 percent were victims of an offender's anti-Jewish bias; and only 2.1 percent were victims of an offender's anti-Islamic bias.
President Obama on Wednesday stressed that U.S. is not at war with Islam:"We are at war with people who have perverted Islam," he said.
He also said the West and Islam are not in conflict; and that Islam is not incompatible with modern life, although in the same speech he urged other countries to invest in the education of both males and females -- "because countries will not be truly successful if half their populations, if their girls and their women, are denied opportunity."
In a speech to the same summit on Thursday, Obama noted that many Americans don't personally know a single Muslim, and they form a distorted impression about Islam by what they hear on the news.Comment
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Wow! He's saying the same thing a white President said! What an uppity racist
"We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief." Ronald Reagan Temple Hillel in Valley Stream, NY on October 26, 1984Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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Please enlighten me as to the true meaning of this quote.........I'll let you consult brother Nate, to spin this into a Jew hate
The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion-John AdamsOriginally posted by vandeleurComment
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I understand your hatred of the Jews.............I mean this commie lib pisses me off, too
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Freaking pacifist Jew
Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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The glaring omission here is the answer to the question is none! No outcry if 21 Muslims were killed.CNS
The Islamic State beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians over the weekend, propping the severed heads on the victims’ backs, a barbaric slaughter that led Reverend Franklin Graham to ask, “Can you imagine the outcry if 21 Muslims had been beheaded by Christians?”
“Where is the universal condemnation by Muslim leaders around the world?” he asked.
The brutal killing of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, who had been abducted in Libya by members of the Islamic State, was videotaped and the entire death film was posted online on Sunday, Feb. 15. It is entitled, “A Message Signed With Blood, To The Nation of the Cross.”
In a Facebook post on Feb. 16, Rev. Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said, “The militant Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released a video called A MESSAGE SIGNED WITH BLOOD TO THE NATION OF THE CROSS showing the beheadings of the 21 Egyptian Christians who had been kidnapped in Libya.”
“Can you imagine the outcry if 21 Muslims had been beheaded by Christians?” said Rev. Graham. “Where is the universal condemnation by Muslim leaders around the world?”
“As we mourn with the families of those 21 martyrs, we’d better take this warning seriously as these acts of terror will only spread throughout Europe and the United States,” warned Rev. Graham.
“If this concerns you like it does me, share this,” he said. “The storm is coming.”
21 Egyptian Christians, in orange suits, moments before they were beheaded with knives by members of the Islamic State. (Photo: IS video)
In a statement published in their propaganda magazine, Dabiq, the Islamic State said that in the murder of the 21 Christians it is “important for Muslims everywhere to know that there is no doubt in the great reward to be found on Judgment Day for those who spill the blood of these Coptic crusaders wherever they may be found ....”
The Dabiq article accuses the Copts, an Orthodox Christian minority dating back to the first century church, of being followers of Pope Shenouda III – head of the church from 1971 until his death in 2012 – and of “the taghut [idolator] Sisi,” a reference to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is also reviled by Islamists.
In addition to his work at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin Graham, son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, is president of the international relief group Samaritan’s Purse. Rev. Franklin Graham frequently speaks out against the dangers of radical Islam and sharia (Islamic law).
It's amazing how stupid and blind you have to be to think ISIS isn't killing fellow Muslims and no one here gives a fuck, is the real tragedy!
E and his ilk follow the Nazi propaganda script to a tee!
Demonize the subject and only follow stories that fit that narrative!
Basically herd mentality and devoid of critical thinking skills!
You're devolving, E and easily misled!Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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I'm devolving and misled for posting an article ??
How 'bout you stop worrying about me and go beat on something with sticks ??Comment
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How about answering the question about separation of church and State, slugger!
You can't but it will be fun watching you try to spin it
Originally posted by vandeleurComment
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What question, dunce ??Comment
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