Muslims worshipping on NYC streets doesn't threaten Christians or U.S.

A friend of mine forwarded an email up in arms because Muslim adherents have been worshipping in the streets outside three NYC mosques because there was no room for them inside. I'm responding to that email:

"A Christian Nation"

This isn't a Christian Nation. This is a nation that includes a lot of Christians, but the nation is secular -- the First Amendment guarantees it!

"cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place,"

but such a scene can be any place somebody wants it, and the owner of the property okays it, providing it is not a government-owned place.

"but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday afternoon by worshiping in the streets... "

This would be wrong whether it is done by Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, etc. The police should clear the sidewalks and the streets. It's not safe, and it's interfering with others just trying to get somewhere. Please notice that the reason that the police haven't done this to non-Muslims is that these religions don't have as many adherents! 

"Something is happening in America that is reminiscent of what is happening in Europe. This is Political Correctness gone crazy.  "

And what is "happening" in Europe? Way too vague! 

"With regard to that one [the proposed mosque near Ground Zero], the "Imam" refuses to disclose where the $110 million dollars to build it is coming from and there is a lawsuit filed to force disclosure of that information."

Why should that info be revealed? Does the Catholic or Episcopal churches reveal such? Yes, it's possible that some nefarious radical group is funding it, but why? They use the money they get for weapons, IUDs, etc.! Unless you think that, once the mosque is built, they'll tunnel from it to Ground Zero -- and do what?

"Is there a message here????  Yes, there is, and they are claiming America for Allah.  If we don't wake up soon, we are going to "politically correct" ourselves right out of our own country!"

Let me get this straight. It's okay for Christians to "claim" America for God, but it's not all right for other religions to do so for their god? Even though the First Amendment guarantees freedom of and from religion?

Correcting the scare that Muslims are told to kill all non-believers

December 30, 2009

A friend forwarded to me an email that purported to report a get-together of various religions in which a Muslim imam was forced to acknowledge that all Muslims are required to kill non-believers. Here is my reply:


It really pays to check with Snopes first. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/allah.asp. BTW, it was easy to look up. I just put the name of the man in the search box, and the exact email showed up, with Snopes' explanation of the real situation.

Let's look at the bigger picture. We may disagree with others, but surely you understand that we shouldn't tar all of a certain kind of people as inherently evil because of the actions of a few -- whether they are Muslims, blacks, Democrats -- or Christians or Republicans!

Insights on the fear that Muslims will become the largest group in the world

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November 20, 2009 (just getting this posted)

A friend recently forwarded some information about a video meant to scare people about the Muslims purposely having large families so they become the dominant group in every country. After I watched it, I emailed my friend:

 

The population problem isn't simple. However, some things to consider: the U.S. used to mostly have large families, but doesn't now. Why? The need for more children was (as is still the case in other cultures) for children to help in the fields, and for making sure enough children survived to adulthood to take care of the parents when they could no longer work. The developed countries no longer have that need, and the women have access to birth-control pills and devices. For the same reasons, probably immigrants from the developing countries will have lower birthrates as they assimilate.

 

Moreover, at various times in the U.S., large numbers of citizens have decried people like the Wops (Italians), the Micks (Irish), and so on. Remember the history books talking about signs that said "No dogs and no Jews allowed"? Or "No Wops need apply"? Yet they all assimilated, and are considered normal Americans -- even though they aren't Protestants. Same thing with Muslims.

 

Also, the video urges us to act. What can we do? Allow no immigrants (but the video says we need Latinos to keep up "American" birth rates, and we haven't been able to keep illegals out anyway). Pay "Americans" to have more children, or change the tax structure to favor those with more children, as long as they aren't Muslims? Make contraception illegal? But we already need more money to keep up basic services such as highways, and are facing really big problems of not enough water in the near future. So is the right solution to increase our population by large amounts?

 

Hope you can see, then, that the best solutions are

 

1) to help legal "furriners" to assimilate, and

2) help the "old countries" to improve their economic and political situations so that fewer people feel compelled to move to the developed countries. Because people don't emigrate if they can do well in their own countries.

 

Hope this helps your thinking! 

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