I thought he drove a cab. He sure did the last time I was in NYC.
Actually, you're both wrong. He's the center for the world-champion San Antonio Spurs!
Posted on 10/23/2005 6:55:51 AM PDT by truthandlife
Why doesn't he go to the Church of Satan then? They also have beliefs in a Diety.
For the most part Christians seem to have matured over the decades. Yet we still need the occasional reminder.
Sometimes, when some imam somewhere, or some muktar counsels the death of infidels, I wonder to myself how many Muslims would need to be counseled with extreme prejudice before the idea of a jihad would lose its appeal. When France completes the transition to a muslin country you will have one that is a nuclear power. So the question has meaning.
Maybe avian flu will render the problem moot.
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Amen!
Many Bushbots have been arguing that his (Bush's) calling Islam "the religion of peace" and his slowness in identifying the enemy as something other the WOT is a clever strategy. But, his performance and language at this event completely dispel any conclusion other than "he still doesn't get it."
Anyone who has read the Koran and the Bible can tell that the muslim Allah and Jehovah are not only not the same person...they are antithetical to each other.
This report of the President's comments is very bad news, indeed.
Actually, the Church of Satan expressly doesn not believe in a deity. Of course, there are perhaps fewer than a couple hundred LaVeyan Satanists still walking around these days.
But they do serve well as straw men worldwide.
part correct, while they claim Abraham is their father, they deny that Isaac and Jacob are part of the promised line of the Messiah. They believe Ishmael is that line, and that is in direct contradiction to the Bible.
They also deny Jesus died on the Cross and they also deny he was resurrected alive 3 days later.
There is no way Allah is a Biblical faith under any circumstance.
Reads as though Bush places more faith in Masonic thinking than in thinking in faith through Christ.
Better than a gerbil in San Francisco.
straw men hell, I just want equal representation.
I think he understands that we are at war, and it's actually you who looks foolish.
You get to sit and rant, he has a harder job than you. He actually has to achieve diplomatic relationships with these people.
Do you disagree with that statement?
We are at war with terrorism. If we are really at war with all of Islam, may the real God please stand up, because it will ~NEVER~ end. It'd be irresponsible for any president to declare such a war, or refuse to work toward some kind of lasting relationship with reasonable forces within Islam.
I have no love for Muslims. But I have no respect for fundamentalists of any stripe who condemn everybody else. I'd love it if, as it turns out, you're all wrong. That'd be funny as heck.
Even the President has admitted that isn't true. In his last speech he said we were at war with "radical islam, islamofascism, etc."
If you read the Koran and the Hadiths, you will see that together they comprise a kind of "Mein Kampf." Like Nazism, Islam is unified by an undercurrent of anger and hatred, which is why it often expresses itself in destruction.
If our leaders in this War don't understand who the enemy is, how can we hope for victory.
The goal of Islam is the establishment of a world caliphate in which the only permitted religion is Islam.
There are many fine moderate muslims in the world. But it is the hardliners that rule Islam...and they are only doing what Allah commands. And Allah has commanded that everyone either converts to Islam, is subjugated as a dhimmi...or dies.
I understand the forces at work here, and so, thankfully, does our president.
I hope you are right about the President. This speech raises some serious doubts, however.
I am not one to criticize the President. But if, out of a desire to be magnanimous or noble, he misunderstands the inherent evil in Islam, the consequences could be huge.
And he has certainly sent some mixed signals regarding this matter.
President Bush did not mis-speak, and he did not equate God and Allah. That sentenced was prefaced "According to the teachings of Islam . . ." That is absolutely a true statement of Islamic teachings. Bush said that Islam traces it's beginnings back to Abraham. Also true.
Bush didn't say that he, personally, believed any of it, or that Islamic teachings were true. The guy who wrote this piece needs to learn to listen carefully. Bush spoke no falsehood or blasphemy here.
I thought he drove a cab. He sure did the last time I was in NYC.
Actually, you're both wrong. He's the center for the world-champion San Antonio Spurs!
I was going to say he might have a newspaper booth at the Minneapolis airport...
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