My boss pointed me to this.
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docwebster"It's an issue of patriotism," Rep. Lois McMahan, a conservative Republican from Gig Harbor, said of her decision to stand in the back of the room.
"The Islamic religion is so . . . part and parcel with the attack on America. I just didn't want to be there, be a part of that," she said. "Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America."
Issue of patriotism? No, you dim-witted hosebag, the issue is your displaying colossal and willful ignorance in the face of a man of peace praying for your benighted soul.
"Spawns the groups that hate America"? I guess it's perfectly okay to spurn an entire religion that you yourself admit isn't made up entirely of the people you rail against. That's perfectly fine, I guess.
I guess it's also perfectly fine to be part of a religion that sought to perform religious genocide (re: the Salem witch trials). I guess it's just dandy to be part of a religion which found it all well and good to do it yet again (re: the Inquisition). I may have my chronology arse backwards, but you get the point.
What's that, I hear you say? Not all Christians were part of those deplorable happenings? Well, your "faith" in whatever flavor was in vogue at the time sure spawned them.
There's a word for dimwits like these: hypocrite.
"The Islamic religion is so . . . part and parcel with the attack on America. I just didn't want to be there, be a part of that," she said. "Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America."
Issue of patriotism? No, you dim-witted hosebag, the issue is your displaying colossal and willful ignorance in the face of a man of peace praying for your benighted soul.
"Spawns the groups that hate America"? I guess it's perfectly okay to spurn an entire religion that you yourself admit isn't made up entirely of the people you rail against. That's perfectly fine, I guess.
I guess it's also perfectly fine to be part of a religion that sought to perform religious genocide (re: the Salem witch trials). I guess it's just dandy to be part of a religion which found it all well and good to do it yet again (re: the Inquisition). I may have my chronology arse backwards, but you get the point.
What's that, I hear you say? Not all Christians were part of those deplorable happenings? Well, your "faith" in whatever flavor was in vogue at the time sure spawned them.
There's a word for dimwits like these: hypocrite.
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Date: 2003-03-04 02:29 pm (UTC)But goddammit! I'm sick of being ashamed of what all these other people do!
Sorry, don't mean to use your comments section to rant. Just ignore me. :)
Hlynna, who is having a Day
to compound the stupidity
Date: 2003-03-04 03:15 pm (UTC)Someone should inform the ignorant female that Mohammed wasn't anyone's God. He was another Prophet of Allah. She might recognize the name of an earlier prophet. I believe he went by the name of Jesus.
Re: to compound the stupidity
Date: 2003-03-05 04:29 am (UTC)mcmahan_lo@leg.wa.gov
This is one point among others that I am making.
Re: to compound the stupidity
Date: 2003-03-05 07:05 am (UTC)Wanna help me find names?
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Date: 2003-03-04 03:32 pm (UTC)To quote Opus: "Ooooo, why, you.....!"
She needs to come to the UW and tell that to the vast Muslim student population . If they don't rip her a new one the Christians here just might.
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Date: 2003-03-05 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-05 03:37 am (UTC)Hey, I'm down with it. I feel the same way about Christianity. It's not the RELIGION I"m opposed to, it's just that it's so part and parcel with racism and oppression, that's all.
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