The Regressive Left and Islam -- What is happening here?

[Valerie]

A British soldier who had his leg blown off by a bomb while serving in Iraq has taken the internet by storm after his Facebook post attacking Islamophobia went viral.


"Yes. A Muslim man blew me up, and I lost my leg," he wrote. "A Muslim man also lost his arm that day wearing a British Uniform.

"A Muslim medic was in the helicopter that took me from the field. A Muslim surgeon performed the surgery that saved my life.

"A Muslim Nurse was part of the team that helped me when I returned to the UK.

"A Muslim Healthcare Assistant was part of the team that sorted out my day to day needs in rehabilitation when I was learning to walk.

"A Muslim taxi driver gave me a free ride the first time I went for a beer with my Dad after I came home.

"A Muslim doctor offered my Dad comfort and advice in a pub, when he didn't know how to deal with my medicines and side effects."

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"Blaming all Muslims for the actions of groups like Daeshe and the Taliban, is like blaming all Christians for the actions of the KKK or Westboro Baptist Church," he added.

"Get a grip of your lives, hug your family and get back to work."



Amputee soldier's Muslim Facebook post goes viral - CNN.com

 

[Mac1958]

Valerie's tolerance for Islam is truly heart-warming.

And to show her consistency and absolute lack of hypocrisy, she's now going to direct us to posts in which she tossed out similar personal insults and name-calling at guno in one of this thousands of "I hate Christians" threads.

Boy, this should be great.
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[Valerie]

dim wit hypotwit is the new ideal of regressive rightwing "Christian" family values

 

[Mac1958]

Does anyone think Valerie realizes she's providing a non-stop string of examples of my point?

 

[Valerie]

 

[Valerie]

 

[Mac1958]

Valerie, do you realize what you're doing?

Has someone hacked your account?
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[Valerie]

what is happening here?

these issues are obviously just too confusing for wacky mac...

and pointing and wagging fingers is so much easier than thinking.

 

[Mac1958]

yikes

 

[Valerie]

poor persecuted Christians can't change the constitution wa wa wa MUSLIMS!

 

[Papageorgio]

wacky mac and his sackless pack of apes are expert at going bananas.

that's what is happening here...



Hillary Clinton explained on Sunday that she won't use the term "radical Islam" because it "sounds like we are declaring war against a religion."

"It doesn't do justice to the vast number of Muslims in our country and around the world who are peaceful people," Clinton said.

"No. 2, it helps to create this clash of civilizations that is actually a recruiting tool for ISIS and other radical jihadists who use this as a way of saying, 'We are in a war against the West -- you must join us,'" she said.

Hillary Clinton explains why she won't say 'radical Islam' - CNNPolitics.com

If it was just Islam, you might have a point for Clinton, but not the others of the Regressive Left. The calling of names to minimize the oppositions argument is another way to close down debate.

It isn't just about it is an attitude. Look at Global Warming, now called Climate Change, there is to be no debate about it. Same with gay marriage, you have to be for it, no room to discuss it. Same with the restroom laws, same with BLM. Discussion has always been a strong point with liberals. Not anymore. My views are my views and I also respect the right of others to have a different view, it doesn't mean one is evil, crazy, a bigot or a racist, it means they have a different view. It is called tolerance and the left used to embrace it. Now, they ridicule it.

 

[Papageorgio]

dim wit hypotwit is the new ideal of regressive rightwing "Christian" family values

I agree with you, she was paid to do a job, however she has a right to protest, something the left was all about. It helped bring discussion, now the left demands everyone comply to their point of view. Joe Biden was a great example of the Progressive left.

These posts are proving Mac correct. Can you bring a counterpoint to the discussion or just nonsense to minimize the opposition?

 

[Papageorgio]

A British soldier who had his leg blown off by a bomb while serving in Iraq has taken the internet by storm after his Facebook post attacking Islamophobia went viral.


"Yes. A Muslim man blew me up, and I lost my leg," he wrote. "A Muslim man also lost his arm that day wearing a British Uniform.

"A Muslim medic was in the helicopter that took me from the field. A Muslim surgeon performed the surgery that saved my life.

"A Muslim Nurse was part of the team that helped me when I returned to the UK.

"A Muslim Healthcare Assistant was part of the team that sorted out my day to day needs in rehabilitation when I was learning to walk.

"A Muslim taxi driver gave me a free ride the first time I went for a beer with my Dad after I came home.

"A Muslim doctor offered my Dad comfort and advice in a pub, when he didn't know how to deal with my medicines and side effects."

...



"Blaming all Muslims for the actions of groups like Daeshe and the Taliban, is like blaming all Christians for the actions of the KKK or Westboro Baptist Church," he added.

"Get a grip of your lives, hug your family and get back to work."



Amputee soldier's Muslim Facebook post goes viral - CNN.com

That isn't what anyone on this thread is doing, we are pointing out a change in liberals and their mindset. They used to be about debate and discussion, you don't seem to want that, you want to label and silence the opposition.

 

[Valerie]

the op weeps over leftists bending over backwards for muslims. because pity the Christians.

his op states he isn't looking for debate or discussion, only to put down responders as fitting his bias.

the op wishes to label responders as he and his apologists continue to do on every page...

 

[Valerie]

boo hoo hoo "The Left" doesn't like Christians...


These are not hypothetical examples. At the National Women’s Law Center, we have heard from women whose employers object to covering birth control. They share frustration that, despite having health insurance, they don’t have coverage of health care that is central to their lives. They don’t understand why their employers’ religious beliefs trump their need for basic health care. They tell us the costs imposed on them mean they have to forgo the birth control method they prefer and that was recommended by their health care provider. Many of these women serve communities in need, and yet their own needs are not being met. They also tell us they are afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.


When employers leave women with lesser, more difficult and more costly options for birth control access, it threatens their well-being and ability to plan their futures. Birth control is basic health care for women. Our teachers, nursing assistants, janitors and professors deserve insurance coverage of birth control no matter where they work.


No More Barriers to Birth Control

 

[Valerie]

If the harm that Senate Republicans are inflicting on the nation by refusing to consider filling the Supreme Court vacancy were not already self-evident, a case that the remaining eight justices are hearing on Wednesday drives the point home.

The case, Zubik v. Burwell, is a consolidation of seven lawsuits involving women’s access to birth control under the Affordable Care Act. It is the fourth time in four years that the justices have taken up a challenge to the law.

As in several other important cases this term, the court could split 4-to-4, meaning that a crucial legal issue affecting large numbers of people will remain unresolved for at least another year. Because lower federal appeals courts have disagreed in their rulings, a tie vote means the same federal law will affect people differently, depending on where they live.

The question in the Zubik case is a simple one: Do religious objectors get to disobey the laws they dislike, even when that places burdens on others?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/opinion/religion-and-birth-control-at-the-supreme-court.html?_r=0

 

[Valerie]

The Christian Right emerged from school desegregation—and forged a movement around taxes and religious freedom. In 1978, the Internal Revenue Service sought to revoke tax exemptions for schools formed as white-flight havens from the public schools. The backlash was overwhelming. The IRS received more than a quarter of a million letters against the proposed rules. Congressional hearings reframed the issue from an attack on segregation to an attack on religion by meddlesome bureaucrats. As Newt Gingrich, then a freshman representative, explained, “The IRS should collect taxes—not enforce social policy.”

Early in 1979, Jerry Falwell formed Moral Majority, the premier organization for the new Christian Right. Falwell ran a segregated academy that would almost certainly have run afoul of the IRS guidelines. In 1967, the same year the local public schools desegregated, Lynchburg Christian Academy opened its doors. As of the fall of 1979, it had an all-white faculty, and only five African-Americans among the 1,147 students.

In August 1979, Congress inserted riders into the appropriations bill for the Treasury Department to prevent the IRS from implementing the proposed regulations. A fight over desegregation had galvanized white evangelicals to oppose meddlesome bureaucrats, and the movement was born.

It made abortion a partisan issue. The Christian Right made opposition to abortion—which until the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973 had been a Catholic issue—into an evangelical and Republican cause. Until the mid-1980s, Republicans in the electorate favored fewer restrictions on abortion than did Democrats; in Congress, partisan divides between pro-choice and pro-life votes grew threefold in the two decades after Roe.

The Christian Right found in abortion an issue to bind evangelicals together with conservative Catholics under the Republican banner. Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Heritage Foundation and a deacon in the Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite church, first grasped that a new conservative majority to supplant the teetering New Deal coalition would need white evangelicals—and that opposition to abortion could unite conservative Christians. So Weyrich recruited leading white evangelical ministers to politics, and even coined the term Moral Majority.

As videos of Planned Parenthood discussing the selling of fetal tissue have become flashpoints to shut down the federal government in October, the Christian Right’s legacy still looms large over American politics.

How The Christian Right Ended Up Transforming American Politics

Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

 

[Valerie]

what in the world is going on here.. bending over backward for muslims, oh my! derrp

 

[Mac1958]

Man o man, this is like a course on how to illustrate an OP.

 

[Papageorgio]

What amazes me is they miss the point entirely, yet at the same time...prove the point.