America has a lot of religious freedom. I have the constitutionally guaranteed right to say that talking snakes are absurd; as is the idea of Mohamed riding up to heaven on his horse launched from a big rock in Jerusalem. But Americans do not have total, absolute, 100% deregulated religious freedom. As an American I cannot form a church which uses the swastika as its main symbol and calls for the murder of all Jews. I can't form a church whose main religious belief is that all black men and dark skinned foreigners should be lynched without trial.
We impose limits on our constitutional freedoms of speech (yelling fire in a crowded theater) and on our religious freedom. Timothy McVeigh was a mass murderer in the Oklahoma City bombing. He was an ignorant sicko political radical, and he also was a Christian. But he did not explode that bomb in the name of Christianity.
All of the men involved in the 911 mass murder were Muslims. The critical difference is that they performed this act of mass murder in the name of the Muslim religion. Female genital mutilation is routinely performed so as to adhere to the Muslim faith. Jews and Israel continue to be targeted for destruction in the name of the Muslim faith. And there is no big opposition inside the Muslim faith saying that these people are murderers.
The continuation of civilized society demands that we have the strength to make intelligent and well informed choices. Building a mosque anywhere in America supports this defective religion. Building a mosque very near to where the world trade center twin towers used to stand is a hard core slap in the face to all peace loving Americans. This has nothing at all to do with Christianity. I am not one bit religious, but I can clearly see that the Muslim religion is openly supporting and causing constant killing and wars. So I oppose the Muslim religion. Not because of some other faith, but because what the Muslims stand for is not compatible with twenty first century America.
The President apparently has no qualms about openly supporting the Muslim faith. Some are saying he has taken a courageous stand. But he sure didn't have any backbone when it came to supporting universal health care. His program was about cost control, not about universal access. He was happy to double to troop levels in Afghanistan. He approved off shore oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas which even Bush-Cheney didn't dare mess with. His economic reforms are so weak and have such little backbone that they are laughable. Almost a Republican wannabe.
I worked in Barrack Hussein Obama's primary and general election campaigns, but now that I realize what he really is, I sure won't be working in his electoral campaigns again. I will continue to vote against the Republicans, but I will certainly not be voting for Mr. Obama.
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