Posted on 10/10/2009 12:42:19 PM PDT by Amerisrael
Any Islamists who may have watched a Glenn Beck interview with Chuck Norris, must have taken delight from Beck pointing the soles of his shoes at Norris:
As they also took delight from Obama doing the same to PM Netanyahu:
The incident occurrs at about 4:33 minutes into the video. Caution Mr. Beck, Norris sleeps with a night-light. Not because he's afraid of the dark, but because the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris. As well as jihadists!
As an article at Weasel Zippers points out, among Islamists there is no greater insult than pointing the soles of one's shoes at someone. Obama certainly knew this. Did Glenn Beck?
In fact, most Americans are very familiar with this Islamist practice of insult, after watching scores of Iraqis show their contempt for Saddam Hussein by banging the soles of their shoes on his statue, pulled down with the help of U.S. troops.
Norris has been to Iraq a couple of times visiting with our troops.
In watching the Beck/Norris interview one cannot but be cognizant of the fact that Beck certainly knew of Chuck Norris's fervent support for Huckabee during the Republican primary.
And in that regard, of the anger displayed by both Romney and Beck over Huck's "after-the-interview" question to a reporter: "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers"?
Beck was ever afterwards extremely anti-Huckabee. Like Islamists who become enraged when the validity of Islam is questioned, criticised, or truthful analysis into the Koran or Muhammad are conducted. Look at how they hate Robert Spencer and Bridgett Gabriel.
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Guilty as charged. No, I did not read it all.
Huckabee campaigned for POTUS as a holier-than-thou prepared to tell you what to eat (notice his expanded girth today), and how much executives should earn, among other liberal platforms. He was selling you snake oil just like Obama.
Your religious bigotry reveals that James Carville is likely correct--the Democrats will rule for generations now.
Glenn Beck has done far more for the conservative cause than your religious prejudice and whining.
It is not religious prejudice. That’s what many liberal Afro-Americans claim when you take issue with Obama because of his foreign policy appeasement, or his pushing for marxist nationalization of healthcare. “Your racist”.
Or the Islamists who are angry when the Koran or islam is challenged. “Your racist”. An “Islamophobe”.
There way of diverting attention from the truth.
And perhaps your way?
It is not religious prejudice. That’s what many liberal Afro-Americans claim when you take issue with Obama because of his foreign policy appeasement, or his pushing for marxist nationalization of healthcare. “Your racist”.
Or the Islamists who are angry when the Koran or islam is challenged. “Your racist”. An “Islamophobe”.
Their way of diverting attention from the truth.
And perhaps your way?
The truth that the President of the United States should tell you what to eat and how much money you should earn as Huckabee campaigned? What are you talking about?
I thought they were illustrating each other's, uhhh, size.
**“Your racist”.
Or the Islamists who are angry when the Koran or islam is challenged. “Your racist”. An “Islamophobe”.**
I BELIEVE the KORAN is arabic Porn and ISLAM is a TERRORIST CULT...
Islamophobe, maybe... you effers will NOT challenge MY right to worship as I choose... WE had ONE CRUSADE of this ... YOU WANT ANOTHER??
I’ll take my free speech.. if they don’t like it... I’ll just buy more AMMO ... no problem
My belief about Mormonism is that it is an authoritarian cult that controls the lives of it's adherents. It is a very weird faith obvious built on the lies of a violent scoundrel, Joseph Smith. Those who accept it don't have the religious rigor to question it's precepts, but they are very willing to accept the worldly benefits it offers. As much as I dislike McCain, I would choose him any day over Romney the grinning game show host.
Your desciption of Reagan and Lincoln is dishonest. They both openly spoke the name of Jesus as Savior. Most of the others (Nixon, Kennedy) did not live or govern within the denominational strictures imposed by their faiths.
I hope you respect my freedom of speech as I express my beliefs. It sounds like you don't.
Someone gets a big 0 for reading comprehension. Weasel Zippers did not point that out because it isn't true. It's a general insult throughout Asia. It has nothing to do with a specific religion.
The ultimate Islamic insult is a gesture with the left hand. The right hand is used for eating, the left hand is used for cleaning the place where the sun don't shine after one has done one's business.
Aiming the soles of your feet at anyone in Asia is an insult.
You sound like The Ugly American. It's not a Muslim sign of disrespect, it's a general Asian thing. "A little kindness goes a long ways".
How would you feel if we were talking to face to face and when you were in the middle of a sentence, I just turned around and started walking away? That's about the same in terms of politeness.
Hey, at least you got one thing right there. On the video both Norris and Beck eat M & Ms picked up with their left hands and a Muslim would never do that.
I am sick and tired of always being expexted to care how someone else wants to misinterpret normal American behavior. Why do we always have to be the “culturally sensitive” ones? It’s a two way street. Crossing your legs on top of a desk is a normal American male sign of casual relaxation and comfort.
Or rather it should be a two way street. It isn’t. Until it is, I frankly don’t care how someone from some other culture wants to misinterpret my behavior. Now, if they reciprocate, that’s a different matter.
In short, I won’t show submission. Mutual respect? OK. If that makes me an ugly American, so be it.
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Oh, and to be clear, the rules when I visit another culture are to conform to their norms. Apparently, we Americans aren’t afforded that same respect at home. To H#ll with that!
That's up to you. It would still behoove you to understand just what it means when a Muslim (or someone raised as a Muslim as in the case of His Awesomeness) gestures his left hand at you (or vice versa).
Most people of the world, particularly in Asia and including the Middle East perceive the soles of another's feet pointed in one's direction to be a deadly insult.
From the article linked to at Weasel Zippers:
“Aluf Benn, a commentator for the Israeli Haaretz newspaper weighed in: “As an enthusiast of Muslim culture, Obama surely knows there is no greater insult in the Middle East than pointing the soles of one’s shoes at another person.”
Your splitting hair.
To me, Mormonism is a cult and an insult to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in that they use His name, but make for themselves a false Gospel. Because of this, although I appreciate Beck's willingness to take on the leftist establishment, I cannot trust him.
My belief about Mormonism is that it is an authoritarian cult that controls the lives of it's adherents. It is a very weird faith obvious built on the lies of a violent scoundrel, Joseph Smith. Those who accept it don't have the religious rigor to question it's precepts, but they are very willing to accept the worldly benefits it offers. As much as I dislike McCain, I would choose him any day over Romney the grinning game show host.
Your desciption of Reagan and Lincoln is dishonest. They both openly spoke the name of Jesus as Savior. Most of the others (Nixon, Kennedy) did not live or govern within the denominational strictures imposed by their faiths.
I hope you respect my freedom of speech as I express my beliefs. It sounds like you don't.
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