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Title: 40 Religious Leaders Denounce Sarah Palin and Fox’s Hate Speech
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Politicususa
URL Source: http://www.politicususa.com/en/palin-hate-speech
Published: Aug 13, 2010
Author: Politicususa
Post Date: 2010-08-13 20:28:56 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 48833
Comments: 73
Forty different Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars came together to release a statement condemning the hate language of Fox News, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich as it relates to the so called Ground Zero mosque, “Fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric only undermine treasured values at the heart of diverse faith traditions and our nation’s highest ideals.” The statement released by Faith In The Public Life condemned the religious bigotry of Gingrich, Palin, and Fox News, “As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious freedom and inter-religious cooperation, we are deeply troubled by the xenophobia and religious bigotry that has characterized some of the opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque near where the World Trade Center towers once stood.” It continued, “Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, is the most recent prominent opponent to cast this debate in a way that demonizes all Muslims and exploits fear to divide Americans.”It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way,” Gingrich said in a statement. Sarah Palin called plans for the center a “provocation.” Fox News has aired a steady stream of irresponsible commentary and biased coverage that reduces what should be a civil debate into starkly combative terms.” Rev. Peg Chemberlin, President of the National Council of Churches said, “We are deeply saddened by those who denigrate a religion which in so many ways is a religion of compassion and peace by associating all Muslims with violent extremism. That’s like equating all Christians to Timothy McVeigh’s actions. This center will reflect not only the best of Islam, but the enduring hope that Christians, Jews and Muslims can together find common ground in addressing the most urgent challenges of our time.” Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby said, “It’s simply wrong for Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin to malign all Muslims by comparing this cultural center and mosque with a radical ideology that led to the horrific attacks of 9-11. We fail to honor those killed by terrorists when we betray the bedrock principle of religious freedom that has guided our democracy for centuries.” The statement concluded by calling for an end to the fear mongering and hate filled rhetoric, “Mr. Gingrich, Ms. Palin and other prominent voices privileged to have the ear of the media would make a more lasting contribution to our nation if they stopped issuing inflammatory statements and instead helped inspire a civil dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims committed to a future guided by the principles of compassion, justice and peace. Fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric only undermine treasured values at the heart of diverse faith traditions and our nation’s highest ideals.” I wish more people of all faiths would stand up and denounce the divisive hate filled tactics employed on a daily basis by Gingrich, Palin, and Fox News. Gingrich and Palin are trying to create a wave of hate to ride to the presidency, and Fox News has found that peddling paranoia and hate is very, very profitable. Playing upon religious tensions is bad enough, but to intentionally create disunity for political gain, with no regard for the consequences to our nation is almost criminal. The politics of division and hate are the tactics that political movements always resort to when they are out of ideas and they possess no other means to motivate and inspire their supporters. Palin and Gingrich’s willingness to take us down this path is a reflective of their own personal ambitions combined with a complete lack of interest in actually solving our nation’s problems. A plea to our lesser emotions is easy, and sometimes effective, but by doing so, both Palin and Gingrich are demonstrating why neither one of them will ever be capable of inspiring the birth of a better America.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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Let me know when "Faith In the Public Life" advocates building a church or synagogue in downtown Riyadh or Terhan, and then denouces Saudi Arabia and Iran for being intolerant. Thanks.
Yeah, cause we ain't gotta do it until they do.
Let me know when "Faith In the Public Life" advocates building a church or synagogue in downtown Riyadh or Terhan, and then denouces Saudi Arabia and Iran for being intolerant. Yeah, cause we ain't gotta do it until they do. I suppose there's a point in there . . . somewhere?
The point is allowing a Muslim community center to be built two blocks away from the WTC is about who we are and what we believe concerning religious freedom, not about who Muslims in Tehran are.
No... That's the way this false premise has been framed. If this Mosque is allowed to stick it's finger in America's eye and become its symbol of dominance, I can assure you the Muzzies may as well be detonating a nuke in NYC because they know EXACTLY what this will lead to... IT will be blown up to smithereens in no time, and then the tit-for-tat clusterf*** will be on.
Hey lucysmom, I'd like to hear your take on where our Founding Fathers stood on Islam...with what little they had to go on, just where do you think they would stand on this issue?
Hey lucysmom, I'd like to hear your take on where our Founding Fathers stood on Islam...with what little they had to go on, just where do you think they would stand on this issue? Read Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli. Our early government didn't have a beef with muslims.
#58. To: Rhino (#57)
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Thank you Rhino, I knew about this peace treaty, but I'm fishing.... What did these men know, and think about ISLAM...because there is something these men had, and used, that we don't have today. thanks!
Stuff your treaty; Here's the ENTIRE story: When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States. Congress appointed a special commission consisting of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, to oversee the negotiations. Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the Mediterranean, the new America government tried to appease the Muslim slavers by agreeing to pay tribute and ransoms in order to retrieve seized American ships and buy the freedom of enslaved sailors. Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to get American commerce in the Mediterranean moving again. Jefferson was opposed. He believed there would be no end to the demands for tribute and wanted matters settled "through the medium of war." He proposed a league of trading nations to force an end to Muslim piracy. In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain. The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress' vote to appease. During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise." For the following 15 years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to 20 percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800. Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he dispatched a group of frigates to defend American interests in the Mediterranean, and informed Congress. Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute," Jefferson pressed the issue by deploying American Marines and many of America's best warships to the Muslim Barbary Coast. The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS Chesapeake, USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid all saw action. In 1805, American Marines marched across the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all American slaves. During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States, crumbling as a result of intense American naval bombardment and on shore raids by Marines, finally officially agreed to abandon slavery and piracy. Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine Hymn, with the line, "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea." It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the total defeat of all the Muslim slave trading pirates. Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to put and end to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about Jefferson. He was a "visionary" wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their own Muslim book of jihad. http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
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#5. To: Ignore Amos (#1)
Let me know when "Faith In the Public Life" advocates building a church or synagogue in downtown Riyadh or Terhan, and then denouces Saudi Arabia and Iran for being intolerant.
#7. To: lucysmom (#5)
#8. To: Ignore Amos (#7)
I suppose there's a point in there . . . somewhere?
#26. To: lucysmom, Ignore Amos, parrot with speed dial, all (#8)
The point is allowing a Muslim community center to be built two blocks away from the WTC is about who we are and what we believe concerning religious freedom, not about who Muslims in Tehran are.
#56. To: Liberator, lucysmom (#26)
lucysmom: "The point is allowing a Muslim community center to be built two blocks away from the WTC is about who we are and what we believe concerning religious freedom, not about who Muslims in Tehran are."
#57. To: Murron (#56)
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#68. To: Rhino, Murron, lucysmom, Muzzie-loving Traitors and Enablers (#57)
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