Jesse Petrilla of the United American Committee does his bit to remind those at the RNC of what should have been the chief concern of both the Republican and Democratic Conventions.
Jesse Petrilla of the United American Committee does his bit to remind those at the RNC of what should have been the chief concern of both the Republican and Democratic Conventions.
Good luck Jesse, there are thousands of us who are right with you.
If Barack bin Biden say that "the (global) War on Terror" doesn't exist, then, as far as the national Democratic party is concerned, global Jihad doesn't exist. Ditto the sentiments of the rest of the Democratic leadership. 9/11 counts for nothing; so, then, this willful conviction won't change for at least this election cycle. Moreover, the Ikhwan and Friends have a beachhead among Democratic ranks. Thus, I'd abandon hope in the Dems as a whole. I have more faith and better expectations in the Republicans.
I will see to it that resistance to Jihad is on my county's Republican Platform and work toward placing it on the state Platform. (Security and Iraq are in it already, but it is not explicit re Islam.)
1 voice is good; 10,000 voices better.
If you are an American taxpayer, then YOU paid for this message:
Nice to know that our tax money is being used for such purposes, is it not? Good luck Jesse -- you're gonna need it!
"Holy month of Ramadan! ?"
That is what YOU paid for with YOUR taxes; an pronouncement by the President of the United States that ramadan is holy!
I may take a mighty dim view of the Umma, but I don't doubt that there are some exceptional Muslim citizens (of the USA, that is). Scoundrels and fanatics aside, I would not overlook the wheat on account of the tares. [You may wish to argue that such, if they be found, are so in spite of, not because of, Islam. I was impressed by a Muslim physician's fervor against euthanasia, for instance, and that he made common cause with non-Muslims in opposition to it. Also, I recall Robert Spencer's productive friendship with Tashbih Sayyed, noted on this site's homepage sidebar.]
"Our Nation is stronger and more hopeful because of the generosity, talents, and compassion of our Muslim citizens."
Generosity=Billions upon billions of aid to Muslims countries from the US, that is generosity from Muslims. The only generosity Bush means is the money to Jihadi groups that threaten the infidels.
Talents=The war is deceit is a good talent. Taquiya is a good talent. The best is the network of stealth Jihad and not to forget the talent at making bombs and other means of killing infidels as commanded by Islam.
Compassion=Yes the great compassion of Muslims we see when Jihadis bomb and kill infidel children and women and men. When they kidnap and abduct young infidel girls and forced into Islam that is great compassion of Islam. The hate promulgated in the Mosques against infidels is mark of great compassion.
Adding all this up surely does make our good ole US of A a stronger and hopeful Nation. Maybe I need to take a logic and reasoning class, I must have missed something.
I wonder what CAIR thinks?
We're on the right track here! We just need to get the word out on what jihad entails and what's at stake!
Oh, There is that word again that the government PC loons want to hide, deny, not use because it is in effective, or insulting to the bigger war on terrorism -- Of course that is shear BULL CRAP! Who has got the ear of those who are trying to stop calling a spade, a spade? Was this influenced by CAIR?
And of course as Robert Spencer Reported in April of this year that a reliable source had informed him that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the terms “jihad” and “jihadist” by any State Department official.
The argument, of course, is that by using the word jihad, we’re validating the jihadist claim to be waging jihad. What the heck made the State department the authority on what words to use? Everybody knows what jihad we are referring to and not the so-called definition of "struggle" as being the defining word of jihad. And oh once again we are insulting Muslims by using the term jihad-- there's that victimization mentality. again.
Wimpy and foolish politicians, Stop taking your marching orders from Muslims, ISNA, and CAIR and call it what it is JIHAD!!
Jesse Petrilla's sign should be up on that big screen behind the Repulicans national Conventions Podium.
3 to 5 odds that he gets arrested, or "detained," and that sign never gets a second of air-time.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets sued.
Our Nation is stronger and more hopeful because of the generosity, talents, and compassion of our Muslim citizens.
Oh really? Like the one who was "serving" our country in Afghanistan and chose to kill his own commanders instead, AS THEY SLEPT?
He said Muslim citizens, not Muslim immigrants. Someone at CAIR is bound to take offense.
Rudi Guiliani in his speech tonight castigates Obama and Biden for their refusal to utter the phrase "Islamic terrorism"!!!
Not "radical Islam"...not "Islamo-fascism"...code phrases to say it without saying it...
...but "Islamic terrorism"...which is EXACTLY what it is!
No difference between the parties....my ass!
PS - Sarah's delivery was slightly wooden (certainly less so than Hillary's), but the content of her speech was dead on...and she didn't stammer or stutter once.
Hell, they can't all be like Fred Thompson.
Ah yes, another priceless ramadan message from bush. with bush, one has to be grateful for small blessings. And one of them is that our speech-challenged cic didn't repeat his immortal words, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," in this setting.
Petrilla is of course right, but one thing he (and we) have to recognize here is that there is a world of difference between what we recognize as Jihad, vs what McCain recognizes as Jihad.
For most of us, opposing Jihad is not just fighting Islamic terrorism and military operations worldwide, important as that is: it is also, if not primarily, opposing Islam's intrusions into the US, and importing Islamic practices - all of them primitive - to the US. Things like footbaths in Minneapolis Airport, not far from the convention, or honor killings in Dallas, or having schoolkids in CA schools pretend-play as Mohammedans. On the political front, it's also recognizing that internecine warfare among Mohammedans themselves are none of our business, and we shouldn't be wasting our limited resources in preventing them. For instance, bringing Iraq to the point where Shia and Sunni are no longer at each other's throats, or sending troops back into Afghanistan to prop up Karzai's regime and trying to rebuild the Afghan economies - all these are no-nos for us. Oh, and none of us think of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan et al as allies.
But for McCain, opposing Jihad is just a cynical way of him on caching in on limited public sentiment against Islam, and super-imposing that on his treatment of the war. For him, promoting the surge, and preventing Shia and Sunni from being at each other's throats is his interpretation of fighting Jihad. When he talks about putting US troops in Iraq for 100 years just like they'd be in Germany or Korea, he ignores the fact that Germany is a transformed country that's been completely de-nazi-fied, while there are no plans in his platform to de-Islamify Iraq. And there is no reason to believe that his policies on Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt will be any different from Bush.
Bottom line:
McCain: I admire the Islam
Us: There is nothing we genuinely respect about Islam
Big difference between us and McCain, Jesse, don't ya think?
My presidential analogy.
McCain doesn’t need to know the finer points of Jihad, he just has to be willing to fight it!
I can drive my Truck just fine, although I don’t really understand how the automatic transmission works, yet I can still drive it!
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"Our Nation is stronger and more hopeful because of the generosity, talents, and compassion of our Muslim citizens."
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Time to closely examine Mr. Bush's bank accounts. Off-shore in particular.
Go, Jesse, GO! We're proud of you and the UAC, and glad you're associated with our ACT! for America chapter.
Please report on the effect your sign had on the RNC attendees. I hope Palin and McCain in particular noticed it and commented on it. I also hope you have the opportunity to educate some of those who believe Islam is a "peaceful religion". I'm looking forward to the day I can vote you into office.
Our Nation is stronger and more hopeful because of the generosity, talents, and compassion of our Muslim citizens. (Bush's letter)
The worst part is, Bush actually BELIEVES this BS. Stupid, he is.
"Our nation is stronger and more hopeful because of the generosity, talents, and compassion of our Muslim citizens."
I also believe this. In fact, you could remove the word "Muslim" from this sentence and insert the name of virtually any religion and this would also be true. The difference is that there are fewer Muslim citizens who are invested in the effort to make America great, fewer who can be trusted not to support jihad, and that those who can be trusted are usually either consciously opposed to, or ignorant of, certain elements of their own religion.
None of this implies that on the level of the individual human soul, or even as a group, Muslims are worthless, and Muslim Americans should not be praised or respected.
The difference is that they should not be pandered to. Questions should be asked of the leaders of organizations claiming to represent them, and honest answers demanded.
Resistance to the jihad is compatible with a loving and tolerant attitude towards Muslims and their religion. We are at war against the jihad ideology, which involves warfare, Islamic supremacism, and mistreatment of non-Muslims. We shouldn't deny that it exists or that it has been historically paramount. But we are not at war against every Muslim, or every single aspect of Islam.
But we are not at war against every Muslim, or every single aspect of Islam.
Funky Child
The only difference between a moderate Muslim and a Jihadist is that the Jihadist is a true believer and true follower of Mohammad. If the Jihadist does everything that Mohammad has done, is that not the definition of a Muslim. My point is, that moderate Muslims do not follow the teachings of Mohammad, and that is good. If all Muslims were moderate, we would not really have the problem that we have.
Clever point, Bar; you just summed-up why I trust Senator McCain.
Mitt Romney said it.
Then Rudy reiterated it.
Sarah Palin put her seal on it.
All is not lost as long as Obama is beaten.
profitsbeard, you're right; I heard them, too. They actually had the audacity to clearly identify That Which Must Not Be Named. Now that's change we can believe. There is hope. (I loved that RNC video tonight of our civilizational struggle against JIHAD.)
profitsbeard, you're right; I heard them, too. They actually had the audacity to clearly identify That Which Must Not Be Named. Now that's change we can believe. There is hope. (I loved that RNC video tonight of our civilizational struggle against JIHAD.)
I get the impression that most people here get it, I've only run into a few folks that gave me a lot of opposition. The sign though only lasted for about an hour before a Muslim campaign volunteer complained and came over with a security guard to take the sign away, but then what happened the next day? Romney said exactly what we all believe and know, that radical violent Islam must be confronted and we must defeat jihad. Take THAT Muslim campaign worker! ;)
I've posted this poem by Arthur Hugh Clough before, but I will post it again:
"Say not the struggle naught availeth/ the labour and the wounds are vain/ the enemy faints not, nor faileth/ and as things have been, they remain.
"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars/ it may be, in yon smoke concealed/ your comrades chase e'en now the fliers/ and, but for you, possess the field.
"For while the tired waves, vainly breaking/ seem here no painful inch to gain/ far back, through creeks and inlets making/ comes silent, flooding in, the main.
"And not by eastern windows only/ when daylight comes, comes in the light;/ In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!/ But westward, look, the land is bright!"