Not So Sweet

If you burn a Iranian, Mexican, or or Palestinian flag, it is considered a hate crime and you can go to jail - and rightfully so of course! But with that in mind, why is it not considered a hate crime to burn the American Flag in front of Americans??!! Try going to Saudi Arabia and burn their flag... see how long it takes for you to get shot and killed by the police. My father went Saudi Arabia on business, and was almost arrested right at the airport for wearing a (small) Cross around his neck!! I don't think the people from these countries should be complaining about us!!

another very narrow minded point of view here. Being a Roman catholic working in a muslim country and see the harmony of those of the east and west really opens your eyes to a lot of things. The word Islam itself means Peace.

Get off your brainwashing and come down to a Muslim country like the United Arab Emirates to see how hospitable and considerate the people here are. They don't jump at the display of crosses or frown upon the various religions here unlike you seem to. From this reaction alone I wonder if living in America is so much better with people like you. Luckily I've met and know a number of good American people to know otherwise.

These wars are not in the name of religion but the intepretation of it by some strong willed personalities and the media frenzy. But if you really want to go back in history: How on earth did you forget the crusades in the last 1300 years and didn't forces in the name of Christianity encroach into Arab lands to pillage and murder?

yes I agree , look at liberal policies for the last thirty years and then tell me that we havent let every rabid dissenter form public policy.. wha you thought it was manily Republicans.. look again and do some research.

The bulk of the change has been from liberals.. We have just sat back and taken it, especially because people who are the dissenters attach anything they want changed racist even when it is not and that gets all the sheep to follow in line. Illegal aliens rights and ability to steal your Social Security # and it is not against the law, welfare, the new deal, any mention of the Christian religon, the seperation of Church and State as a law that was written in the Constitution when it was not, The Big Bang THEORY, EVOLUTION, and CREATIVE DESIGN are a few examples to give.

(The reason I gave evolution and the big bang theory is because it is faith pure and simple.. the Math does not add up to prove The Bang and for evolution.. why have we not had one example in the last 150 years that we can say has evolved and not just mutated?)

This scarf thing is stupid, and maybe she is using it as a religious symbol...but is it any more stupid than people who tell others to take off crosses from around their necks so they don't show their Christian religon? Why is hypocrisy allowed in everything except when it is in regards to the Christian and Catholic religon?

You are an IDIOT! Do you not realize how ignorant you appear when you post totally fabricated lies as facts? No, Muslims did not call for England to stop preaching about the Holocaust. Go to www.snopes.com and you will see that that was a fabricated email going around as a fact. No, Muslims do not have anything against Christianity or Judiasm. They are considered religions of the Book and as an Abrahimic religion the same as Islam. It is not Muslims who are against Christian symbols inside Christian countries, it is a certain other religion who has taken over the US and controls how they think and act. Why do you think schools can no longer call "winter break" Christmas break"? Because it offends the Jews since Hannakah is celebrated around the same time as Christmas. As for this scarf that people are saying resembles a keffiyeh, first of all, not only Muslim Arabs wear a keffiyeh, also the Christian and Jewish Arabs of certain countries wear it as well. So it is not an "Islamic headdress".

How much can you honestly say, that coms out of the U.S. media, isn't somewhat fabricated by the government?

American_1:

You made several common mistakes in your post.

"We have been told we can't prayer in schools because it offends"
Not at all. It is because it violates the Establshment Clause of the US Cosntitution. If you knew anything about the history of prayer inthe schools you would knwo that the FORCED prayer (and they were forced) were specifically Christian. Even in public schools with almost majority Jewish student populations.

"We are told we can't smoke because it offends"
Not at all. It because of medical PROOF that second hand smoke is a serious health risk.

"We are told that we have to learn a new lanuage .. because our lanuage isn't understood .. and it offends people that can't understand it"

Although I too have problems with this issue, it is NOT because it offends. It is an attempt to make sure that government services are available to new immigrants. Now I personally think that it has gone too far but, NO ONE is being forced to learn a new language.

"we can't have our holidays"
Sure you can . It is the when the government does it taht there is a Constitutional problem. And stores are doing what theya re doing because they are intelligent enough to understand that not everyone in the US observes the same relgious holidays. It is called being civilised.

"we can't pledge to our flag .. because it offends"
Not at all. Again it is an Establishment Clasue issue. The pledge as it originally was written and said (unitl the nut jobs during the McCarthy abomination occured) did NOT have the words "under god" in it. My parents grew up saying the pledge as it was meant to be said.

"Our men and women are fighting for our freedom and dying and we have to go through all this.. wake up people .. this is America .. with this i will end .. take back America as we knew it "
Slavery, children forced labor, women not having a vote, segregation, etc. Oh yes let's get back to taht garbage. My father fought in WWII so that people who voiced dissent would have the right to do so. Our founding fathers felt that dissent was often the ultimate form of patriotism and that those who try to quash it are traitors.

But intelligent dissent is critical. Gellar, Coulter and Malkin are not capable of intelligent comment let alone dissent. they only know racism and bigotry. They would have been great in Saddam's propaganda team.

".. if you dont like it then GET OUT!! "
Mindless comment.