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[Adventurer]

In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent
Fri Dec 1, 9:05 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.

The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us."

At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061201/us_nm/usa_muslims_fear_dc

[In my opinion many fanatical Muslims are a danger and these people are ignorant and there are also many ignorant Americans who are a danger to the Union and the world we live in.]

[bucheon bum]

Muslims are more integrated in American society than most of Europe. This article gets its "info" from a talk-radio program. How scholary.

As the article also notes, a Muslim man was voted into Congress last month. Yup, us americans are freeked out about Muslims.

Come on, I realize you feel obliged to post an anti-american topic every day, but this is a pretty desperate attempt to do so today.

[cbclark4]

I think the OP is not motivated in any anti-American way. He is highlighting a very common notion. There are amongst some in Muslim community elements that wish to see the downfall of the "Decadent American Society".

Some seek these goals through subversion and violence. Can the aforementioned "some" be present in position of power? Can they be elected?

As far as tattooing I think most people find that absurd. I also think that Fundamental Muslims just as Fundamental Christians wish to change the moral tone of the nation away from the "Decadent American Society". Most of those wishing to accomplish that through the Democratic process, no one complains (at least not too much) when a fundamental Christian is elected.

cbc

[Gopher]

[W.T.Carl]

Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that Americans don't take kindly to people flying airplanes into our buildings?

[Gopher]

[mnhnhyouh]

And many governments use fear to motivate and control their populations. The "Yellow Peril" was an oft used phrase in Australia in the 1950's. It made sure we felt isolated from the rest of the world by our Asian neighbours to the north. Add to that the "Red Menace" that had somehow mixed with the "Yellow Peril" and you can see why we jumped on the the "Agent Orange" bandwagon and introduced conscription for the first time*.

h

*There was a referendum in Australia to introduce conscription during WW1, but it was defeated. The introduction of conscription during the Vietnam war was done without an referendum.

[NAVFC]

While blantant racism and profiling are bull crap I can understand WHY they would be afraid.. There is a book writen about terrorism, I forget the name written by a author named Steve Emerson where he goes to some mosques and listens to what they preach. In some mosques in major cities in this nation he found them preaching the typical anti american one day the infidels will fall , jihad, etc etc type stuff.
Though not all muslims are like that.

[Gopher]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Kuros]

[Pligganease]

Hard to believe... Adventurer posting a Reuters "Americans are soooo simple" article...


Hard to believe.

[thepeel]

Geeze, I wonder why...





















Americans distrust muslims because muslims should be distrusted. Or, would we trust moderate Nazis?

(here come adventurer with a lecture about how the muslims are of varied ethnicity etc.. Save your breath. i get it. But, it doesn't matter. Islam is an ideological virus, a cancer.)

[thepeel]

I'm really sick of the mentality espoused by adventurer (though not of him himself, cause I don't care)/

muslims, the world over, leave death and destruction in their path. Their religious brethren butcher 3000 people on American soil and it is Americans who deserve scorn and smug righteous indignation for perhaps being suspecting of those who want to kill them.

Get a grip.

If there was a poll of Iraqis that found most of them distrust Americans, I'd figure that quite right on. The people of Iraq should distrust the country that overthrew their government. But, we may not apply the same logic to Americans. They aren't allowed to have human responses in the way we allow the muslims to advocated all kinds of horrible acts in the name of whatever the Crime Against Islam is today.

When a muslim goes on some rant about killing all the Jews and Americans the liberal apology industry pulls into full steam finding the "root cause" of the seething, religious-inspired hatred of the muslim. When an American is suspicious the non-American and liberal-American attack industry gets her fix but throwing dirt at the rightfully suspicious Americans.

Americans distrust muslims because a bloody scary number of muslims openly advocate the killing of all Americans.

Case Closed.

[mnhnhyouh]