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Faith 
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Message 76 of 165 (554167)
04-06-2010 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 70 by Theodoric
04-06-2010 4:27 PM


Re: WOW!!!
1) I was explaining the thinking behind the sign to show that it isn't racist.
2) There is plenty of evidence that he grew up in a Muslim community and practiced Islam as a child.
3) HOW MUCH of a Muslim isn't the point; the point is that he denies ANY Muslim background at all, but there's plenty of evidence for it.
4) How it affects his thinking now I have no idea. I was just translating the sign for the racial accusers here.

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Theodoric
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Message 77 of 165 (554169)
04-06-2010 6:30 PM
Reply to: Message 76 by Faith
04-06-2010 6:04 PM


Re: WOW!!!
and practiced Islam as a child.
Evidence please.
the point is that he denies ANY Muslim background at all
Do you mean he has denied his father, who was an atheist? Please provide evidence to back this assertion. How you will support this should be interesting.
I was explaining the thinking behind the sign to show that it isn't racist.
So there was no prejudice or bias in the sign? Wow!!

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DC85
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Message 78 of 165 (554170)
04-06-2010 6:31 PM
Reply to: Message 76 by Faith
04-06-2010 6:04 PM


Re: WOW!!!
I was explaining the thinking behind the sign to show that it isn't racist.
however many seem to imply hate toward Muslims
There is plenty of evidence that he grew up in a Muslim community and practiced Islam as a child.
This somehow makes him one now and not a Christian? I would like to see this proof you speak of...
the point is that he denies ANY Muslim background at all,
I wasn't aware he had... he simply said he was Christian....
Edited by DC85, : No reason given.

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Faith 
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Message 79 of 165 (554171)
04-06-2010 6:49 PM
Reply to: Message 68 by mick
04-06-2010 4:12 PM


Re: some pics the media didn't show you
Look at the pictures. That's no "thousand-strong." You've bought the media bias I'm talking about.

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Faith 
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Message 80 of 165 (554180)
04-06-2010 7:22 PM
Reply to: Message 77 by Theodoric
04-06-2010 6:30 PM


Re: WOW!!!
Obama isn't a practicing Muslim but he did grow up with a lot of Muslim influence in his family and he did go to a Muslim school for a while as a child. That's no problem in itself except that he has seemed to want to deny ANY such Muslim background at all in some contexts. But then you can find him talking about it on some You Tube videos if you go look, not that he IS a Muslim but that he certainly had a Muslim family and experience in a Muslim community in Kenya. You can also find him speaking Arabic and quoting Muslim sayings with obvious personal experience of their milieu.
Daniel Pipes, a columnist I suppose is hated here, has a column in which he documents Obama's Muslim connections:
Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood :: Daniel Pipes
I don't know about bias in the sign. Who cares if there is? There's plenty of that to go around everywhere and certainly right here. I was only saying I don't see anything RACIST in the sign.
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nwr
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Message 81 of 165 (554183)
04-06-2010 7:34 PM
Reply to: Message 80 by Faith
04-06-2010 7:22 PM


Re: WOW!!!
Faith writes:
Obama isn't a practicing Muslim but he did grow up with a lot of Muslim influence in his family and he did go to a Muslim school for a while as a child.
That's public knowledge. As far as I know, he has never denied that.
Faith writes:
That's no problem in itself except that he has seemed to want to deny ANY such Muslim background at all in some contexts.
Do you have any links to this supposed denial?

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DevilsAdvocate
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Message 82 of 165 (554184)
04-06-2010 7:39 PM
Reply to: Message 76 by Faith
04-06-2010 6:04 PM


Re: WOW!!!
2) There is plenty of evidence that he grew up in a Muslim community and practiced Islam as a child.
3) HOW MUCH of a Muslim isn't the point; the point is that he denies ANY Muslim background at all, but there's plenty of evidence for it.
I have traveled to Muslim countries, have lived in one specifically for a little bit of time, and have a Muslim friend. I also have a Jewish brother-in-law, another friend who is Catholic, one Wiccan, a Jehova Witness uncle, my brother's girlfriend is Christian Science, brother is fundamental Christian, my wife and her family are Independent Baptist background, my grandfather was an Indepdent Christian Church minister, my parents are now atheists and I am an agnostic.
So according to your convaluted logic I am a Islamic, Jewish, Catholic, Wicca, Christian Science, born-again fundamental Christian, agnostic atheist because of my family history, background, affiliations and experiences.
That was fun
Edited by DevilsAdvocate, : No reason given.

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mick
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Message 83 of 165 (554193)
04-06-2010 8:24 PM
Reply to: Message 79 by Faith
04-06-2010 6:49 PM


Re: some pics the media didn't show you
erm, no. I happen to live in the real world, not in the fantasy world constructed and maintained by Glenn Beck.

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Faith 
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Message 84 of 165 (554194)
04-06-2010 8:26 PM
Reply to: Message 83 by mick
04-06-2010 8:24 PM


Re: some pics the media didn't show you
The pictures were not constructed by Glenn Beck.

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DC85
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Message 85 of 165 (554198)
04-06-2010 8:56 PM
Reply to: Message 80 by Faith
04-06-2010 7:22 PM


Re: WOW!!!
Obama isn't a practicing Muslim but he did grow up with a lot of Muslim influence in his family and he did go to a Muslim school for a while as a child
We knew this and was well known during the campaign.... Only Fundamentalist Christian conservatives freaked out .... sounds like bigotry to me...
That's no problem in itself except that he has seemed to want to deny ANY such Muslim background at all in some contexts.
when did he do this? Why did it matter? he is a Christian....
that he certainly had a Muslim family and experience in a Muslim community in Kenya. You can also find him speaking Arabic and quoting Muslim sayings with obvious personal experience of their milieu.
What is the point? he is a Christian....

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mick
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Message 86 of 165 (554200)
04-06-2010 9:00 PM
Reply to: Message 84 by Faith
04-06-2010 8:26 PM


Re: some pics the media didn't show you
Faith, for all I know your handful of KKK-loving freaks may be the political wave of the future. All I'm saying is that people outside the US (and within it, though for some reason they're too afraid to say it) look at them and see a laughable bunch of retards who are - frankly - scary in their ignorance of both science and history. They are barely aware of the policital context of their own actions, ascribing "socialism" to a moderately right wing president. All I can say is, I hope they don't make life too miserable for the normal human beings living elsewhere in the United States, who by all accounts are pleasant people. The fact that these people who think that political activism involves putting a big teabag on top of their heads are constantly in the news, is depressing.
I know these people are in financial straights and it is my character to support them - but they will have to get rid of the pantomime and stop behaving like sheep to corporate america before I can do it.

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DevilsAdvocate
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Message 87 of 165 (554201)
04-06-2010 9:06 PM


that he certainly had a Muslim family and experience in a Muslim community in Kenya. You can also find him speaking Arabic and quoting Muslim sayings with obvious personal experience of their milieu.
There are a lot of us military folks that have learned Arabic, does that make us Muslims?
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. - Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

  
mick
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Message 88 of 165 (554202)
04-06-2010 9:09 PM
Reply to: Message 85 by DC85
04-06-2010 8:56 PM


Re: WOW!!!
Re my message to faith above, the quoted material in this message is a perfect illustration of the mental subnormality of which I speak. I personally think Obama is a complete dick. As a politican he is a failure, unable to get anything he wants without incredibly costly buyouts of the corporate right. My opinion is not dependent upon his birth certificate nor his religion. But these right wing zealots- who might well have fair and sensible complaints to make- abandon rational discourse in favour of an endless and pointless discussion of Muslimhood

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DC85
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Message 89 of 165 (554208)
04-06-2010 9:39 PM
Reply to: Message 88 by mick
04-06-2010 9:09 PM


Re: WOW!!!
As a politican he is a failure, unable to get anything he wants without incredibly costly buyouts of the corporate right.
I agree to an extent. I do however think any politician that doesn't conform and cater to the corporate machine at least in some way won't last long. They own the government They have since the 1970's.... I hate to say it but small steps are the only way to fight.

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bluescat48
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Message 90 of 165 (554235)
04-07-2010 12:54 AM
Reply to: Message 85 by DC85
04-06-2010 8:56 PM


Re: WOW!!!
Faith writes:
that he certainly had a Muslim family and experience in a Muslim community in Kenya. You can also find him speaking Arabic and quoting Muslim sayings with obvious personal experience of their milieu.
DC85 writes:
What is the point? he is a Christian....
What I would like to know is what is the difference whether he was Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Shintoist, Jewish, Confucianist, Taoist or Atheist? What has a person's religious beliefs to do with his capabilities to govern? Anymore than what would be the difference whether a candidate was male or female; whether the candidate was heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual; whether the candidate was white, black or anything else? What has any of this got to do with issues? People should vote on issues not the person.
Edited by bluescat48, : sp

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