It’s really impossible to overstate how little Cruz cares for the truth, or how dangerous he might have been in this election if someone more clownish but only just his equal in being a cruel, reckless liar had not come along.
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“Here’s a mosque that had gender apartheid as a policy within its mosque. It had a sermon which was a screed against homosexuals a year prior, that our Muslim reform movement publicized and said, ‘Look at it. Why is he going to this mosque?’” Jasser said. “It appeared to be a bigotry of low expectations that somehow we don’t hold Muslims accountable to the same values we do everybody else in the West and in this country.”
It’s just like that Jesus fecker, who was always palling around with whores and criminals. The enemy is in our midst!
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“Here’s a mosque that had gender apartheid as a policy within its mosque. It had a sermon which was a screed against homosexuals a year prior, that our Muslim reform movement publicized and said, ‘Look at it. Why is he going to this mosque?’” Jasser said. “It appeared to be a bigotry of low expectations that somehow we don’t hold Muslims accountable to the same values we do everybody else in the West and in this country.”
Oh, and I just love how Cruz and his buddies are using us gays as a kind of reverse wedge issue. “Look at those bad, awful Muslims – they hate teh gays!” … all the while attending church in some Dominionist “house of worship” where the preacher decries that death is God’s punishment for same-sex relations. Seriously? Fuck you, Ted Cruz.
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This. And they’re the same people who cite St Paul as their excuse for not allowing female priests, and declare that that man must be head of the household. Why don’t we hold self-styled christians accountable to the same values…
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…but neo republi …er… I mean Nazi are having violent rallies and? nothing.
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It just looks like amateur hour because they don’t have the star power of collaborators like Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney. OTOH they do have Ted Nugent and Gary Busey …
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Looks like another footnote for the 2016 RNC autopsy.
Seriously, how do actual politicians not realize that primarily Catholic Latinos and primarily Muslim Middle Easterners have the potential to be pulled into your socially conservative tent??? Using them to rev up your base with your fear mongering about terrorists and furriners’ is ultimately demographic suicide for your party.
So, thanks for energizing new Democratic voters. Appreciate the GOTV effort on our behalf.
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There goes Joseph Welsh’s voice in my head again.
“No sense of decency,” indeed…
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Lemme adjust this quote to reflect other religious discrimination in the U.S. that doesn’t get the committee’s attention:
“Here’s a Orthodox synagogue that had gender apartheid as a policy within its synagogue. There’s a Baptist church that had a sermon which was a screed against homosexuals a year prior, that our Christian reform movement publicized and said, ‘Look at it. Why is he going to this church?’” Jasser said. “It appeared to be a bigotry of low expectations that somehow we don’t hold Christians accountable to the same values we do everybody else in the West and in this country.”
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Exactly. I recall it well. My high school Latin teacher, a PhD and classics scholar could not work for 6 yrs. His crime?
Getting subpoenaed to a HUAC hearing. i don’t think he actually ended up testifying.
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Exactly. Granted, I’m not Muslim and my understanding of Islam is limited, but don’t many–if not nearly all–mosques have separate worshiping areas for males and females? I mean, WTF is he bitching about? Hard-line Christianity dictates men rule the roost at home and in the Church, so there is very little room for them to be using this as a wedge as well. These men really think they have balls for trying this tactic – but any thinking human being can see right through their fucking white sheets.
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Good thing Cruz’s Catholic Church doesn’t practice gender apartheid.
Oh, wait.
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This will play to the base, and rightwing nuts on Facebook and the internet will play this over and over again.
Fodder for the fools.
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Joe McCarthy redux
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well this is Ted’s hearing so in essence, for this thankfully brief moment in time, they are somewhat the same.
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Only stupid people do not learn from past mistakes. This sounds like something out of a McCarthy hearing.
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““Here’s a mosque that had gender apartheid as a policy within its mosque. It had a sermon which was a screed against homosexuals a year prior, that our Muslim reform movement publicized and said, ‘Look at it. Why is he going to this mosque?’” Jasser said. “It appeared to be a bigotry of low expectations that somehow we don’t hold Muslims accountable to the same values we do everybody else in the West and in this country.””
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHA!!! We do??? We hold everyone else accountable? And yet Trump is about to be the GOP/Teatroll nominee for POTUS? Backed by the a growing surge of white supremacy, nativisti/nationalist groups and running about calling himself a “born-again Christian” to pander to the people and groups that want to institutionalize Christian dogma and value judgments into our laws in order to discriminate against women, minorities and the LGBT community? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! WTF PLANET IS THIS NINCOMPOOP FROM?
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Not to mention using US tax dollars to spread their fundamentalist seudo christianity and push Uganda’s legislature towards capital punishment for homosexuality. When Right Wing demagogues are bemoaning some imagined affront to gay and women’s rights, its time to arch your eyebrow.
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“See! The Democrats are the REAL racists/homophobes/sexists/whatever!”
Yep.
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I actually heard a non-moronic explanation as to why women pray in the back at mosques:
They don’t want the men to be looking at their butts when they are prostrate in prayer.
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