[Dean's World] Dean: "The Feeling Of Hatred Was Palpable"

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Posted by Dean:
"The Feeling Of Hatred Was Palpable"
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1141522550.shtml


     Speaker: After that chant, we're going to talk about just who the
     Prophet Mohammed was. Guy behind me: He was a camel driver!

   It gets worse. Read it here: [1]Part 1, and [2]Part 2 and [3]part 3
   and [4]part 4.

   I will note that the poor muslim they got to speak to this tragically
   hate-filled mob was a representative of the [5]Free Muslims Coalition,
   who I've linked many times in the past.

   I am tired of being told that these muslim-haters don't exist and/or
   are too tiny in number to matter. These people were yelling at a
   fellow American, a man born here, a man from an organization that has
   loudly and unequivocally stood up against terrorism for years, and
   told him to "go back to the Middle East" and openly compared him to a
   member of the Ku Klux Klan.

   All for simply wanting to defend his faith against the most strident
   and irrational of criticisms.

   I won't apologize for standing up to these people, or pointing out
   that they exist. Not when [6]Ann Coulter spews her hatred and never
   even apologizes for it. Not when books like [7]this one and [8]this
   one are in wide circulation. Not when it's still common to [9]cherry
   pick an out-of-context quote and parade it around in the blogosphere
   as proof that an entire religion is evil. And not when
   rationalizations like, "I don't hate muslims, I just think their
   religion is evil" pass muster as respectable thought, which so far as
   I'm concerned is about as convincing as "I don't hate Jews, I just
   want Israel wiped off the map."

   Yes, I understand disagreeing with a religion. I understand
   criticizing a religion. But there's a difference between that and
   simply slandering it and, by extension, its adherants.

   We can do better than this.

References

   1. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-1-before-discussion.html
   2. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-2-calm-before-storm.html
   3. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-3-eruption.html
   4. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-4-question-and-anger.html
   5. http://freemuslims.org/
   6. http://www.theamericanmind.com/mt-test/archives/017959.html
   7. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/qid=1141517900/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-6292688-3758319?s=books&v=glance&n=283155/deansworld01-20
   8. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591022495/ref=pd_sim_b_2/104-6292688-3758319?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155/deansworld01-20
   9. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1139180683.shtml