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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3671)	12/20/2006 8:23:23 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Congressman says Muslim lawmaker's election threatens US values. Wed Dec 20, 3:40 PM ET news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US lawmaker stirred up controversy when he expressed uneasiness over the election of a Muslim to serve with him in the House of Representatives, which he said endangered "the values and beliefs traditional" to the United States. "The Muslim representative from Minnesota (Keith Ellison) was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran" in their swearing-in ceremonies, Goode said in a letter to one of his associates, sent to AFP Wednesday. The powerful Muslim rights group CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, demanded an apology from Goode in response to the letter. "Representative Goode's Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office," said CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor. "There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry." Goode's spokesman said the lawmaker stood by his letter and would not offer any apology. Ellison was also ordered by a conservative radio commentator, Dennis Prager, to take his oath of office using the Bible rather than the Koran. "Mr. Ellison: America, not you, decides on what book its public servants take their oath," argued Prager, adding that taking the oath using the Muslim holy book would disqualify Ellison from serving in Congress.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3671)	12/20/2006 9:10:03 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Thou doth protest too much... Perhaps there is not enough, eh? And, how can people say that the Muslims worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; and Jesus? Moon god, of all things. Lunacy in deed and spirit.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3671)	12/23/2006 4:33:43 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

'All my staff at the church have been killed - they disappeared' (Christians in the Middle East) TimesOnline.co.uk ^ \| 12/22/06 timesonline.co.uk Christians in the Middle East have paid a high price for the Iraq war, the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and the Pope’s controversial remarks about Islam. Egyptian Copts, Iraqi Chaldeans and the Palestinian Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant communities have faced violence and even death at the hands of their Muslim neighbours. Canon Andrew White, president of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, told The Times that the Iraq war had had a dire effect on the lives of Christians in the region, particularly in Iraq, where he is the vicar of St George’s Church in Baghdad. “All my staff at the church have been killed,” he said. “They disappeared about a year ago and we never saw them again. Of the rest of my congregation, most say they have been targeted in some way or have had letters delivered with bullets in them. People forget, or the Islamic groups don’t realise, that Christianity was in the Middle East before them and therefore they see Christians as being part of the Western coalition military presence. Things have got considerably worse since the Iraq war.” Tensions have also increased elsewhere. In Syria one Christian Assyrian said that he was planning to emigrate to Canada because of growing Islamic fundamentalism in a society having to absorb huge numbers of Iraqi refugees. “I do not feel at ease any longer and I do not want my two sons to live in this polarised society and atmosphere,” he said. (Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ....