My boss pointed me to this.

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"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.

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You know, everyday I hear something that makes me wish I wasn't an American. I was going to simply post the comment "O, Canada" and mention that my grandfather was Canadian and could I please be forgiven my current residence based on that?

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