Saying you refuse to have a president whose name is Obama or whose middle name is Hussain is RACIST. Because if we were to change Barack Obama’s name to something …oh let’s say WHITE, let’s give him Dan Johnson for example there would be no way you could hide behind the “Muslim excuse” to excuse the racism that you are really hiding. I would assume in most of America it is not acceptable to call someone the “N” word or to use race as an excuse to exclude a person from a job, education, rights and so forth. But because a bunch of “radical Muslim terrorist” did something despicable all of the sudden every Muslim is a terrorist. Apparently it is okay to show hatred towards Muslims but not hatred towards other races or religions. I thought we were over this a long time ago. The Islam-o-phobia in this country is disgusting and goes against everything this country is supposed to stand for. We stand for freedom of religion…not picking and choosing which Christian sect you would like to follow but any religion or no religion at all. Putting up a sign that says “Obama supporters can’t park here” is RACIST. So enjoy the clip…
P.S. I wish there was a word to describe this hatred for Islam so if know of that word please let me know.
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I live near here. I LIVE near here.
I really want to go and plaster the whole damn place with Obama signs.
There was a video up at Pandagon the other day of a (crazy) religious woman who cited one reason for not voting for Obama as that she couldn't get her head around the idea of "President Obama." It's so, so racist. Good point about using Islamophobia to mask anti-black racism.
("Islamophobia" is indeed the correct word.)
Damn, I really have to give my Islamophobia series at my own blog a poke.
UN-freaking believable. Just when I think I can't be any more disgusted by McCain supporters. I'm totally fed up with this anti-islam crap. I'm glad Powell addressed it. Why must we assume all muslims are terrorists?
On my campus last week, some Robert Spencer was here to talk about how Christianity is a peaceful religion and why Islam is not, as a part of "Stop the jihad on campus week" How are the muslim students on campus supposed to feel seeing that, particularly when a speaker is lined up to decry their entire faith system. Such crap.
There aren't words to express my anger over this rising tide of islamophobia. Wouldn't our lives be better spent DOING things rather than hating people.