Posted on 05/23/2010 1:45:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Governor Deval Patrick told more than 1,100 Muslims at a Roxbury mosque yesterday that he knew many have encountered discrimination and racial profiling since Sept. 11 and that he would do everything in his power to combat those problems.
Speaking at what Muslim activists described as the first such forum with a Massachusetts governor, the 53-year-old Democrat pledged to take seven steps to help Muslims in the state.
The measures ranged from urging businesses and governments to allow Muslims to take time off to attend Friday afternoon prayers to publicly denouncing discrimination and racial profiling against believers of Islam.
Although he responded “yes’’ when asked pointedly whether he was committed to each measure requested, Patrick sometimes broadened his pledges to recognize that other religious and ethnic groups deserved the same protections and accommodations.
“Yours is a peaceful faith, and I know that, and I know you are worried [about whether] others know that,’’ Patrick said after several Muslims joined him on the platform at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center to recount stories of epithets hurled at them on Boston streets and FBI agents visiting their houses.
“I know that people have been afraid and angry, and sometimes that fear and anger is randomly directed at you,’’ he said.
The audience, which comprised Muslims from across the state, including many women who wore hijab head coverings and men who wore kufi caps, frequently interrupted Patrick with cheers and chants of “Allahu Akbar!’’ which means “God is great!’’
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IMO 95% are radical and the 5% that are probably agnostic are what you would call moderate.
Patrick is an idiot and completely delusional.
I'm sure that will resonate with New Yorkers.
Religion of peace, my ass.
Did he at least bring back a signed paper promising peace inour time?
“Yours is a peaceful faith, and I know that, and I know you are worried [about whether] others know that,’’
And I really *am* a salamander.
No...seriously...I am and I’m very worried about whether others actually know that.
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This statement is moronic. Patrick is an intelligent, crafty, charming political operator who will beat the pants off of RINO's who pussyfoot around compromising conservative values. Massachusetts may be a hard state for conservatives, but it will vote a conservative who doesn't mince words. We voted Reagan in both 1980 and 1984 elections. He attract hordes of union construction workers in this state with his message.
Massachusetts has to deal with, both, Patrick and Obama, but I do hope that Patrick is defeated this November!
If by peace he means evil, oppressive and totalitarian, then yes, Islam is peaceful.
That's the same thing they yelled before beheading Nick Berg. The video (with audio) is available if Deval Patrick wants to see how peaceful they are. Even this legally blind fool won't mistake the cries of pain that persisted over the minute his head was sawed off with a dull knife. Jackass.
“Allahu Akbar!’’ is a Muslim war cry.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
For my money George Orwell was one smart dude, to have predicted as much as he did.
I fear you're right. The same can be said of RINOs in any race. The American people have had it up to their eyeballs with PC nonsense and they're looking for candidates who aren't afraid to call things as they really are.
The difference is that if you had a radical Christian group that took out 3000 muslims (at mecca, for instance.the big black rock), then the world press would be going bananas...but islamists are given a ride...Eventually, even these ignorant asses will figure it out... Christianity and Judaism are not compatible with radical islam. Get over it...
If war is what they want, then war is what they get...see you in the afterlife, pukes.
He is not an idiot and is not delusional.
He is just another politician who wants to keep his job and hopes that the Muslims will vote for him. That his children may be forced to convert is of no concern to him — he couldn’t care less.
Notice how, throughout the discussions on how we should vote in 2010, not one ‘conservative’ politician has brought up the very real danger of muslim encroachments on our society. NOT ONE.
I stand behind my comment and would like to add that like California, the voters in Massachusetts are stupid too!
Pandering , traitorous son of a bitch. Power is more important than doing the right thing to these people.
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