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Peter King’s Campaign Of Hate

January 26, 2011 By mario piperni

Did the McCarthy era witch hunts teach these people nothing?

Next month, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R-NY) will hold hearings on the domestic threat posed by Muslim Americans. Echoing McCarthyist rhetoric of the 1950s, King recently argued that Muslims aren’t “American” when it comes to war.

This week, King went on the Laura Ingraham Show to discuss his upcoming investigation. The guest host asked King how many American mosques he thought were “infected” by “radical jihad sentiment.” King, who in the past declared that there are “too many mosques in this country” and called Muslims “an enemy living amongst us,” was unabashed in his belief that “over 80 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams”:

In fact…

A two-year study by a group of academics on American Muslims and terrorism concluded that contemporary mosques are actually a deterrent to the spread of militant Islam and terrorism. The study was conducted by professors with Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the University of North Carolina. It disclosed that many mosque leaders had put significant effort into countering extremism by building youth programs, sponsoring antiviolence forums and scrutinizing teachers and texts.

Where else but under the GOP small tent would haters of gays, non-Christians, immigrants, blacks and minorities converge for their perpetual hate-fest activities? There’s simply no other way to view it: there exists an element within the Republican party which fosters hate and divisiveness of the sort displayed by Mr. King.

And where is the leadership within the GOP condemning the words and actions of Peter King – a man who has in effect declared all American Muslims worthy of suspicion as he raises Islamophobic fervor another notch.

Have these people forsaken all sense of decency and honesty in their quest for political gain? Yes, of course they have. It’s what these small-minded bastards do.

Filed Under: Hate Tagged With: bigotry, islam, mosque, Republican Party

Carl Paladino And His Hallowed 9/11 Cloud Dust

September 16, 2010 By mario piperni

The talk has been about Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware but another teabagger-backed nutcase who won on Tuesday was Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for next governor of New York. Paladino was criticized during the primary for having sent out numerous emails to friends and colleagues depicting images of bestiality, hardcore sex and derogatory and racial images of President Obama.

Now, in true Republican fashion, he puts forth his mix of lies, hate and idiocy in an interview with CNN.

“I’m talking about an Imam who made prior statements about bringing in sharia law to America, and having the Muslim community practice under the American constitution their sharia law,” Paladino said. “That’s not kosher for us.”

As for what he would do with the proposed Islamic community center project…

“We will go in there and we will put a restrictive covenant on the property and all of the property in the Ground Zero site.”

Then he defined what he meant by Ground Zero:

“Ground Zero for me is the extended site over which the dust cloud containing human remains traveled,” he went on. “That Ground Zero site will be protected in the memory of those who fell at the World Trade Center, as well as the memory of the thousands and thousands of soldiers — of American and Allied soldiers — that fell in the ensuing wars, and the 150,000 troops we still have over there defending our right to speak like this today.”

Lovely. So a cloud dust would now determine where anything Islamic can be built. The Party of Stupid just got stupider.

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Filed Under: Idiots Tagged With: carl paladion, mosque, political issues, republican idiots

Freedom Tower and The Mosque – A Battle of Titans

September 1, 2010 By mario piperni

Just to give the matter a bit of perspective.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: freedom tower, islam, Islamophobia, mosque, park51, political issues

Conservatives and The Empathy Gene

August 31, 2010 By mario piperni

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch…

Let’s be honest about it, in the First Amendment, religious freedom, religious expression, that really express matters to the Constitution. So, if the Muslims own that property, that private property, and they want to build a mosque there, they should have the right to do so. The only question is are they being insensitive to those who suffered the loss of loved ones? We know there are Muslims killed on 9/11 too and we know it’s a great religion. … But as far as their right to build that mosque, they have that right.

I just think what’s made this country great is we have religious freedom. That’s not the only thing, but it’s one of the most important things in the Constitution. [...]

There’s a question of whether it’s too close to the 9/11 area, but it’s a few blocks away, it isn’t right there. … And there’s a huge, I think, lack of support throughout the country for Islam to build that mosque there, but that should not make a difference if they decide to do it. I’d be the first to stand up for their rights.

I don’t want to be cynical about the Senator’s motivation in saying what he did, but I believe I must. Hatch is a Mormon and has no doubt been victim to religious intolerance many times during his political career. And if so, it had to sensitize him on the entire issue of religious freedom and expression. This is a good thing of course, and I applaud Orrin Hatch for speaking up. But it does lead me to believe that Republicans can only feel empathy when they themselves have personally been affected by the matter at hand. In every other case, (health care and unemployment benefits to name but two), they just don’t give a damn. Understand and responding to suffering and human misery is beyond them unless it ties in directly with their own life experiences.

The empathy gene, for many conservatives, is simply not a part of their DNA.

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Filed Under: conservatives, Islamophobia, Religion Tagged With: mosque, ny, Orrin Hatch, park51, political issues, Religion

Park51 and Bigots In Sheep’s Clothing

August 30, 2010 By mario piperni

If there’s a way to make a dollar from anything, some huckster is going to find it.

A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn’t drawn a peep of protest from those who are outraged by the “ground zero mosque.”

Pastor Bill Keller of Florida said today he will begin preaching Sunday at the Marriott at 85 West Street… A weekly service is planned at the hotel until the $8 million 9/11 Christian Center finds a permanent space. (Fundraising is going well, Keller told Salon today.)

To get a sense of where Keller is coming from, consider his project’s website, which calls Islam a religion of “hate and death” whose adherents will go to hell. It also says: “Islam is a wonderful religion… for PEDOPHILES!”

…Keller has a history of seeking to profit from his various projects (one, called Gold for Souls, involved telling people to simply mail him their gold and jewelry). The 9-11 Christian Center appears to be no different. The project’s website features a prominent link telling viewers to “Earn $$$ – Click Here!” It goes to a letter from Keller offering people a 10 percent referral cut on donations from their friends to the 9/11 Christian Center.

Another example of Christianity being hijacked by con artists praying preying on the weak-minded and hate-filled types out there. Let’s get it straight: No one was upset with an Islamic community center being built in NY until they were told they had cause to be upset by the likes of Pam Geller, Limbaugh, Beck and Fox News. Then every bigoted jackass out there jumped on the idiot bandwagon leaving the door open for opportunists like “Pastor” Bill to fleece money from the sheep.

And watch him get away with it.

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