With the recent two incidents involving right wing Christian terrorists in this country*, and the total suppression, as usual, of their political affiliations by the mainstream press, I thought it would be beneficial to take a few minutes to consider briefly the history of these two groups, the Sovereign Citizen movement and the Christian Identity "religion." This is not a complete story- the Christian Identity movement is an outgrowth of the British Israelite movement, which since the 1870's was based on the absurd claim that Northern Europeans were the real descendants of the Jews in the bible. Various explanations have been given about where today's Jews came from, some going so far as to claim that Jews (and black people too, of course) are actually not human beings at all, but spawns of an affair which Satan supposedly had with Eve, which is why God ejected Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Well, enough of this idiocy, on with the story. First, with Chri...
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Do we still have the freedom to lampoon islam? Ask the formerly iconoclastic South Park writers.
Anyway, they have the right to build that mosque, and Americans that hate the idea have the right to criticize it.
Pissing off 2/3 of the country is a strange way to "build bridges" and promote "cultural understanding."
Will this planned mosque do that? Only time will tell.
Absolutely correct, Silverfiddle. Too bad none of your fellow right wingers, who seem to spend half their time inventing supposed attacks on their own religion, agree with you.
As if the islamic cultural center in NYC is about humor. Actually... It is! It's a joke, a sick one which highlights the face of Conservatism.
Conservatism is White Christian Fascism. Conservatives will never consider non-whites, non-Heteronormative, non-christians as Americans.
And it highlights the lies of Conservatives, who for all their bluster don't believe religious freedom and don't believe in limited government.
What conservatives believe in is using Government to oppress and murder those who don't conform to their stilted bigotry.
Actually, Silverfiddle, I saw it as a colossal tower of coherent leftwing truth. Of course, being a conservative, you couldn't be expected to catch the difference.