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Veterans for Park 51

Karen — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:41:18 +0000

Though I’m a veteran I’ve stayed clear of organizations for veterans as they tend to be far more to the right than I’m comfortable with.

I’ve heard of one group that requires vets to swear allegiance to the Christian god as a part joining it. So, imagine my surprise at finding out that a group of veterans released a letter, with over 14K signatures, in support of Park 51.

An excerpt:

Our duty to protect the Constitution didn’t end when our service did. It’s up to us to stand up for the right for all Americans to enjoy the Constitutional freedoms that so many around the world don’t have. So, we are standing up for you.

Secondly, allowing the Community Center to move forward will deal a blow to the propaganda of al Qaeda and Islamist extremists, who recruit on the talking point that the United States is in a war against Islam. Of course, we’re not. But, if those forces of intolerance win, it will certainly appear that we are in a war against one religion – Islam.

The whole letter can be read at the VoteVets site here. You have to scroll down the page, past the press release to get to it as there’s no direct link to it.

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PSA: Restore a Quran Day

Karen — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:33:21 +0000

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation plans to fight fire with Qurans come this weekend. For every Quran that Terry Jones and his followers burn, the MRFF will donate a Quran to the Afghan Army as a gesture of goodwill.

This ad will be running on Friday in the Gainesville Sun this Friday:

I don’t much care for the “un-American” part as it is a bald faced statement of faith that contradicts American history (a banned book may as well have been burned), but the rest seems alright.

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Jesus Loves Me. Hates You.

Karen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:31 +0000

Live performance of the song Jesus Loves Me, But He Can’t Stand You (lyrics or song)by the Austin Lounge Lizards at the Armadillo Xmas Bazaar back in 2008:

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Is he winking?

Karen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:11:35 +0000

Neat photo of an Golden Eye Gecko that I found on Flickr:

Golden Eye gecko, originally uploaded by B?n.

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Vatican gets it’s anti-Muslim hate on

Karen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:30:04 +0000

This anti-Muslim crap is getting nasty. Now the Vatican has decided to get explicitly racist about Muslims with a Vatican official complaining about the lack of births amongst native Christian Europeans.

According to Father Gheddo, Christians are going to loose Europe to Muslims because the Muslim immigrants are allegedly having more children than native Christians are:

The challenge must be taken seriously,” said Father Gheddo, of the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.

“Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year because of abortion and broken families – while among the more than 200,000 legal immigrants a year in Italy, more than half are Muslims and Muslim families, which have a much higher level of growth.”

He said: “Newspapers and television programmes never speak of this. However, an answer must be given above all in the religious and cultural fields and in the area of identity.”

The reason they don’t speak of it is because it’s straight up racism. This is on top of anti-Muslim male bashing by Cardinal Policarpo last year and a call by Cardinal Biffi to turn away Muslim immigrants in favour of Catholics.

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Terry Jones: Burnt in effigy

Karen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:30:26 +0000

The pastor behind the Quran burning that’s to take place this Saturday, despite warnings that it would put soldiers in danger, was burnt in effigy at a protest in Kabul:

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Take it Easy – The Eagles

Karen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:15:09 +0000

From the Hell Froze Over tour, the Eagles performing Take It Easy:

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Divided We Will Fall

Karen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:09 +0000

With all the hate being expressed towards Muslim-Americans and so many otherwise rational people joining in, it seems more important than ever to remind people that hatemongers only serve themselves: (via Park51):

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How Prayer Works

Karen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:39:51 +0000

Confused about how prayer works? Perhaps this comic by CEJ can help you out:

The whole comic can be seen here.

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Quran burning endangers soldiers

Karen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:14:36 +0000

Petraeus points out the obvious:

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration “could cause significant problems” for American troops overseas.

“It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort in Afghanistan,” Gen. David Petraeus said in a statement issued Monday.

The Taliban is already using the opposition to Park 51 for recruitment. I’ve no doubt they’d use pictures of burning Qurans for the same purposes.