Will the Mooslim boogeyman trope EVER die?
There are bad Muslims.
There are bad Jews,
There are bad Christians,
etc. etc. etc.
Just like all white men are not total raging assholes just because Trump is.
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Thatâs how I read it. They were attempting to defang the Republican hate fest they knew was coming by giving the man the opportunity to go on record at the outset that neither he nor his religion taught his children to hate. It is deeply unfortunate that such an opening gambit was necessary, but it was definitely necessary.
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It is deeply unfortunate that such an opening gambit was necessary, but it was definitely necessary.
No, it definitely wasnât. All it does is normalize the idea that Muslims are required to denounce hate. Was every other witness asked if they denounced the evil deeds of anyone who happens to be in their race/religion/gender?
The idea that Muslims are required to hate Jews or anyone else is a bigoted stereotype that should be mocked; not appeased. Anyone who believes this nonsense will only attack him for lying because theyâre trained to hate Muslims. Thatâs what people need to be questioning, not forcing Muslims to denounce hatred for the umpteenth time.
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So during the same hearing this happened. I think I love Rep. Ted Lieu, can we get more of him, please?
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Sounds to me like Shelia Jackson Lee pitched hmi some softballs to allow him to state, clearly, that Islam does not preach hatred of Muslims. She did not accuse him of fostering hate. The Republicans, on the other hand, were pure Islamaphobia.
Canât TPM tell the difference?
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You know whatâs better than having Muslims defend their faith against bigotry? If everyone else did it instead. Seriously, if I was a Democrat wanting to ask about this stuff, Iâd call a smart priest or theologian and ask them about Muslims. Asking a Muslim to defend their own faith is pointless and wrong.
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White Jesus is not a nice man
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Seems he struck a nerve hahaha. Gotta love Ted Lieu.
And her response is classic. Thatâs her grift and sheâs stickinâ to it. Itâs just absolutely hilarious that she and Captain Zionism donât recognize that the tokenism underlying their invitations was a bunch of white nationalists being cynically anti-semitic and racist.
Also classic is the answer Lieu played there. It fits right in with the people like Clarence Thomas and her. Sheâs so steeped in the sophistry and doublethink. She thinks it proves her to have âfigured it all outâ and helped her gain the singular enlightenment that the rest of âher peopleâ havenât been able to achieve as they live and struggle and naively fall prey to the oppressive propaganda, mind-control and indoctrination of the Dems/liberalsâŚall of which she has magically risen above due to her unique snowflakey genius. But you watch her struggle to engage in the sophistâs rationalization about Hitler and nationalism and her answer, like so many of their answers, is sort of one-trick-pony jumping through its one hoop, engaging the semantic game thrusters to forcefully redefine what Hitler did not as nationalism, but globalism, so âhaha youâre the Hitler-nazis, not usâ. Itâs like the âoh, but what if I claim everything is oppositeâ game is a faux-intellectualism trick they learned in 2nd grade that got them accolades from their teachers.when they were 7. âOh, sheâs so precocious and questions everything!!!â And itâs the one trick they have in their bag as adults. âNuh uh, so-and-so is the REAL such-and-such!!! Tad dah!!! Iâm so fucking brilliant!!! I said it was opposite!!! Isnât that astute and clever and make-you-thinky???â Captain BrainpillsâŚwhatshisfaceâŚBen whateverâŚdoes it too.
Makes me wish I could draw so I could provide a picture of dude in Klan regalia carrying a tiki torch asking some black person âWhat if YOU are the REAL racist? Eh? Ever think of that?â
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Germany Christians supported Hitler and the Nazi party in approximately the same proportion as all Germans. In 1939 it is said 90% of Germans supported Hitler and the Nazi party.
Does that mean that Christians are by definition Nazis? Does it mean that Christians are viriulent anti Semites. No. It means that religion does not determine ones politics. Rather it means that organized religions adopt themselves to and find agreement with the predominant political reality of any particular time and place.
In political and cultural contexts religion is eminently malleable to the whims of the prevailing political and cultural reality of the place and time.
For the most part religion becomes manifest of a culture, not a driver of a culture.
Are all Muslims probable ISIS supporters? No. ISIS sprang from the hell that was Iraq and its war and civil war where brutal murder and random death were routine, while an absolute dearth of civil culture created a generation of lost and rootless poor and uneducated people willing to enlist in a crazy cause.
If only someone in the hearing today would have brought up that Christians supported the complete removal of Jews from Germany. Many were perfectly in agreement with the killing of Jews and many Christians enthusiastically participated in the Holocaust. To not have done so was a stupendous failure on their part.
Not that this would win the day. The most radical Conservative Israelis and there are ever more of them, increasingly express hatred for the assimilated Jews of Europe of the Pre WWII era. In some circles expressing support of their elimination by the Naziâs and bemoan they didnât finish the job.
Christian Zionists here, which essentially are all Republicans, at least rhetorically. do not consider American Jews who do not support them as real Jews at all. To a large degree the most virulent Jew Hating fascist and Nazi sympathizers of the American right would be quite content if Jews retreated to their âhomelandâ Israel. They just want Jews gone from here.
Nazi theoreticians, including prominent theologians considered moving Jews to a homeland, Palestine to be specific but considered it impractical.
Which brings us around to how Israel has become the perfect example of a fascist state. A state whose existence is justified by the merging of the land, the soil, and the blood of the people. So history has come full circle. The fascists are winning.
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âYou and I are survivors,â Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA)
This is what we need more of in Congress- people who can relate, who an turn their grief into action and still be a compassionate human.
Rep McBath certainly knows how it feels to have your loved oneâs reputation smeared. People tried to claim her son was a shotgun welding gangbanger who deserved to be killed in an argument over loud music.
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Yes, he should have said âfather.â
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There it is
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I respect Ted Lieu more and more each time he hits the news!
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He and Schiff are all-stars.
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Just donât run for POTUS yet!
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Mort Klein would do well to read the Quran. It instructs Muslims to respect âpeople of the Bookâ
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As a species, weâre a failure.
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OT, but I just read that article about Bibi sending poll watchers with hidden cameras to Arab-heavy polling stations and while the lawyer defending this lawless act clearly means something else in the context of them borrowing the GOPâs voter fraud delusion games as their justification, the following clearly has other meanings you can ascribe to itâŚwhat a fucking mouthfulâŚ
"The problem is with those people in the Arab sector. The cameras were intended to preserve the purity of the vote.â
Indeed, mofo. We know EXACTLY what you mean.
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Yes, but he wasnât there to defend his religion, he was there to testify about hate crimes and white nationalism. To me it was a story that even Democrats would consider him responsible for doing both, as Muslims constantly are expected to do. Note that not only did they ask him about his religion, they also did not ask him about his children, the reason he was there.
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Iâd love for someone to ask Mort Klein about the Old Testament or whether the tenets of Zionism are still infused with socialism.
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