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Is it just me, or does it seem like Islam is going through some Oedipal complex with the Jews.  Y’know, kill daddy, marry mommy, that kind of thing.

Judaism spawned Christianity (Jesus the Jew).  Judaism also spawned Islam (Abraham was Jewish long before Islam existed [started 600-800 AD], father of Ishmael, born from his slave Hagar).  If you’re gonna be monotheistic, go to the wholesaler, avoid the middleman.

As for me, this monotheism crap is getting in the way of good times.  I say go worship trees again if you MUST worship something.  They do more for us and ask far less from us.

So I heard from Dhimmi Watch about this idiotic postcard made by War On Want, and once I took a good look at it, I saw what the problem was… the arrow was facing the wrong way. I decided to fix that.

Original (kinda):

New Freshness:

My response to a post on The Jawa Report:

“As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.”

If there are any Muslims in his district, he’s not representing their religious beliefs in his government office (I assume it’s his gov’t office). If he was merely representing his own religious beliefs, this would just be an inelegant letter (though as a politician, he should be more politically savvy with his words), but he’s saying this as a Representative of “the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia”.

If his Judeo-Christian display — and disregard of any other religion — is only as a Representative of Virginia, then he’s wrong.

I’d bet money that the stuff on the wall is up there because he’s down with Buddy Christ, and that’s fine by me, but his letter is puerile because of its implications that swearing in with the Bible is better than swearing in with the Qu’ran.

“When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand.”

As opposed to that OTHER book.

Adding to that the xenophobic undertones of anti-Muslim sentiments on immigration and religious displays in his office, you just have someone who appears to be more of a hick than a thoughtful politician.

Virgil Goode may be a great guy, but he comes off as a blustering simp in his letter.

More:

In my opinion, Muslims who come to the U.S. seem to assimilate quite well. We have hardly any daily Muslim violence here compared to what many European countries face on a daily basis. I like to think it’s the lack of Socialistic programs — compared to the scale of European Socialism — that allows people of other cultures to integrate more thoroughly to “America: The Concept”.

Rep. Goode did mention a drain on our social services as one of the reasons he’d like to curtail Muslim immigration. Maybe an inability to utilize U.S. social services by anyone who isn’t a citizen would allow all immigrants who come here to be of a more desirable stripe. After all, when you have to hustle to put food on the table, and see the success of others in your peer group, you have less time and tolerance for radicals.

This is not to say we don’t get radicals, or that more radicals won’t come to the U.S., but it seems to me the vast majority of Muslims in this country are not radicals, and assimilation into our American culture is what most of the Muslim immigrants want.

As for Rep. Goode’s office wall, I don’t really care what he puts on it. However, he gives no explanation why he wouldn’t put a Qu’ran on his wall when asked about it by the Muslim student. From the tone of the letter, I interpreted his rejection not to his not being Muslim, but to his seeming general dislike of anything Muslim.

I personally have not read the Qu’ran, but I do read Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch blog every day. I highly recommend it.

Thank you for your questions and comments, MCPO Airdale.

I know, I know, I put too much Jewish stuff on here.  It’s not meant to be a Jewish blog thing, and it’s not because I’m Jewish myself, it’s just that Israel is a major part of the Middle East situation, and that situation affects us here in the U.S.  It’s my understanding that what’s good for Israel is good for the United States.  So, when I see some Jewey goodness out there, I like to post on it.

For example, Atlas Shrugs notes…

“This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” pp. 234-235. -Martin Luther King

You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely ‘anti-Zionist.’ And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God’s green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews–this is God’s own truth.

Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so.

Why? Because Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land.

The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.

The Negro people, my friend, know what it is to suffer the torment of tyranny under rulers not of our choosing. Our brothers in Africa have begged, pleaded, requested–DEMANDED the recognition and realization of our inborn right to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our own country.

How easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable right of all mankind, to understand and support the right of the Jewish People to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good will exult in the fulfillment of God’s promise, that his People should return in joy to rebuild their plundered land.

This is Zionism, nothing more, nothing less.

If you believe the Jewish people deserve to have an independent state, then you are a Zionist. It’s that easy.

So if you get some black person throwing “Israel/Jews are bad” in your face, throw this right back at them.  They can’t ever go against what Martin Luther King Jr. said.

Over at Atlas Shrugs, that hot-looking chick (Pamela Geller Oshry) parrots Dennis Prager’s Townhall article:

UPDATE: And let’s discuss who decides what book a congressman takes his oath on ………..America or Keith Ellison?

I am with Prager on this;

Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran. He should not be allowed to do so — not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization.

First, it is an act of hubris that perfectly exemplifies multiculturalist activism — my culture trumps America’s culture. What Ellison and his Muslim and leftist supporters are saying is that it is of no consequence what America holds as its holiest book; all that matters is what any individual holds to be his holiest book.

What the….

How can anyone honestly say they condone forcing someone of another religion to uphold his oath of office on a bible that isn’t his own?  This kind of reactionary illogic stuns me.

Why not just slap his face and tell him his beliefs are not welcome in this country?  Oh yeah, because that would be WRONG!