No Goode: Congressman's Hateful Comments Demand Response (Liberal attacks on Virgil Goode)

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[weegee]

Mecca is a muslim only city. All muslims pray to Mecca 5 times a day. Jews cannot even enter Saudi Arabia.

Is Italy or The Vatican City so segregated?

Islam puts non-muslims on a lower rung of society's ladder with fewer rights and fewer protections under the law.

Islam itself is bigoted.

[sgtbono2002]

I wonder if any of Farrakhans boys have ever tried to get in?

[donmeaker]

President John Adams didn't take his presidential oath on the Bible.

Just saying. He had a selection of documents, say the Constituition, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, ect. that he used instead.

None of them explicitly permitted lying for personal advantage or the propagation of a false religion, as does the Quran.

[sageb1]

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We do little good here unless we respond.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

The Democratic Party at every political level will disappoint the majority of voters plenty of times prior to the November '08 elections. Right now, I don't see the Democratic Party maintaining their political majorities for too long, but I also don't see the Republican Party even starting to do everything that they truly need to do to greatly improve upon their relationship with the majority of conservative voters throughout the U.S. Many things will depend upon how illegal immigration issues and judicial activism issues are handled at the federal level.

[Non-Sequitur]

Actually the fact that Ellison feels the need to be sworn in on any book is interesting due to the fact that it isn't required or even common as far as I can tell.

The formal swearing-in is done on the floor of the House and none of the members use a Bible or anything else. However, it's not uncommon for members to take the oath again in private with photographers present recording the moment for posterity and the folks back in the district. I assume that's the swearing-in that Ellison will use the Koran in.

[Non-Sequitur]

The issue is that Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode has specifically identified Muslims, their war creed Islam, and their war manual the Koran as such an existential threat.

So if each and every Muslim is our sworn enemy then what the hell are we doing in Iraq?

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Why are the "truly moderate Muslims" throughout the U.S. staying so silent for so long on this issue? The moderate American Muslims could greatly help themselves out on this issue by being fully against all forms of terrorism. An entire religion shouldn't be labeled as evil and the enemy of the entire free world just because the "extremist fringe" practices terrorism.

[elcid1970]

"how long before Ellison demands to be called by his Muslim name?"

Hey wait a sec! I thought those NOI culties didn't have to have Arab Muslim names! You mean, he ran under an `assumed' name?

Hillary Clinton-Rodham-Clinton, anyone?

[Non-Sequitur]

An entire religion shouldn't be labeled as evil and the enemy of the entire free world just because the "extremist fringe" practices terrorism.

The entire religion will be condemned by most people around here regardless of what Ellison or anyone else says.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I know. This has been going on at a greater intensity since 9/11 happened, and there's no end in sight. Religious, racial profiling is absolutely necessary during the continuing War on Terror, but political correctness keeps getting in the way of doing everything necessary to the best of abilities.

[arroyo run]

Sure. And the beautiful thing about it is we're allowed, Virgil Goode included, to treat it as silly, disloyal, or whatever.
We may yet see a day when some district, one that like Ellison's is not representative of the U.S. as a whole, elects someone who takes the oath on something Wiccan, and we'll probably see the same outcry.

[RobRoy]

>>What could be less American? Or less Christian? <<

I don't know about less American, but regarding "Christian": The most religiously intolerant man that ever lived was Jesus the Christ. He said "I am the way, the truth and the live. Nobody comes to the Father but through Me".

[ZULU]

"Had they known he would not of been elected even in this district."

I doubt it.

After the last election I'm convinced most Americans are simply too stupid or apathetic to trust with a Democracy.

[rocksblues]

Your post makes me seriously think that Minnesota residents should be forced to emigrate to Canada!

[Marysecretary]

Her voice would be enough to make me want to get out of any room she's in. Achhh.

[bilhosty]

I would settle for Minneapolis ans St Paul. The Star and sickle today was sold. To an investment group that says they are going to leave it just the way it is. Many of the scumbag papers have the same type of ownership. I wonder why we keep giving them so many tax breaks. They are also the ones that bring in illegal immigrants.

[Princip. Conservative]

"I don't know about less American, but regarding "Christian": The most religiously intolerant man that ever lived was Jesus the Christ. He said "I am the way, the truth and the live. Nobody comes to the Father but through Me"."

AMEN!!