Beck may seem a rodeo clown or snake oil salesman but what he's selling is not as benign as snake oil because he's not just selling Gold and books and Xmas sweaters but is rather a potent And Dangerous mix of hate and fear .
It appears in America hate and fear are hot commodities- a growing concern as they say.
To make the mix even more toxic he also adds his revisionist history in which African Americans had a good deal as slaves or that America was founded as an exclusively Christian Nation , all the founding fathers were Christians -he includes Mormons of course -others will have to be investigated
It is such talk which has led to Pogroms , massacres, lynchings in the past
Jon Stewart Rips Glenn Beck
imaginaryuniverse | March 20, 2010
Jon Stewart spoofs Glenn Beck and rips his world apart. A must see! Don't forget to Rate! (first few seconds garbled and then the rest is fine)
Fun video from the Democratic Party Uber conservatives
some sounding like the old racist & fascist Bircher Society
GOP Tea Party: These People Could be in Charge
Demagogue Glenn Beck & Tea Party Nut-jobs invented to stoke hate -racism, Islamophobia, anti-Civil Rights, anti-pluralism, anti-multiculturalism, anti-liberalism, anti-progressivism
Conservatives & GOP promoting fear
Pap & Ed Schultz Expose Glenn Beck's Racist Tea Party
golefttv | August 25, 2010
Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Schultz Show to discuss the real intentions behind Glenn Beck's upcoming Tea Party rally, to be held at the same site (and on the anniversary of) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Bomb Mecca Inc.= America or Bombs R Us
So will this Islamophobia become more prevalent and more dangerous. These are the people who cling to their Bibles and their guns- their God is a Rambo style God.
Will they be able to strip the rights away of Muslim Americans and others.
They talk about various groups in america and have characterized these groups as "Other" as different as somewhat Alien - a massive fifth-column which needs to be dealt with.
If the government and those in authority refuse to take decisive action they seem to be encouraging their constituency of white right-wing radical Evangelicals to take action themselves against these groups-
Such as those whoare now protesting at various Mosques in America-insulting Muslims as they enter or leave using bull horns to interupt the Muslims praying or tossing a bomb or two or just rocks into Mosques in America.
Or shooting and killing Muslims in france for instance the government began its campain against its Muslim citizens by outlawing the head scarf in the public schools- why the only reason was based upon hate and fear and thereby limiting the freedoms of Muslim citizens. We are talking about a simple headscarf not a full Burqa.
For many critics the headscarfs are symbolic of the second class status of women in Islam which is not true about all Islamic countries- things differ in the various countries due to differnt cultures, traditions, world view different histories
What next you tell them they cannot do the call to prayer its annoying, intrusive and offensive since it is a call for people not to go to Jesus but to go to honor Allah to hear the words of the Qur'an which the Christians call Blasphemy
Put restrictions on where mosques cannot be built or how big or the way it is designed -
That a mosque should not stand taller than a church steeple and should be built close to the ground
make Muslims carry special ID- see Arizona law Latinos and Muslims next what the Atheists ,or heretics and withces and demons see Sarah Palin being give special protection from those nasty demons and yet they want her as President
Telling Muslims where they can live or what professions they cannot enter
This is how Christian nations treated Muslims in the Middle Ages before expelling all Muslims
It's getting scary out there. Americans once hated and feared the Irish, Catholics, Jews, Asians,Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans and now Muslim-Americans.
Media Matters details the spread of Islamophobia in the right wing media and now catching on among the population at large . They show that the issue is not just about a Mosque or Community Center being built at "Ground Zero" but about Islam and Muslim Americans whom they describe as taking part in a Stealth Jihad - infiltration - Anchor Babies
Religious freedom? Right-wing's anti-Muslim assault echoed in nationwide mosque protests
Despite the right-wing media's claim that their opposition to Park51 -- the planned Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan -- is not about restricting religious freedom, protests have sprung up nationwide in opposition to local mosques and Islamic community centers in the wake of the manufactured controversy. These protests follow the right-wing's relentless assault on not just Park51, but Islam in general.
Right-wing media repeatedly claim that Park51 protests not about restricting religious freedom
Numerous conservative media figures have claimed opponents of the project have not talked about restricting Muslim's religious freedom, such as Fox News' Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Steve Hayes, and Peter Johnson Jr., as well as National Review Online, blogger Pam Geller, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
Protests follow relentless right-wing attacks on Park 51 and Islam
Gingrich compares Islamic center to Nazis erecting sign near Holocaust museum, Japanese site near Pearl Harbor. On the August 16 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Newt Gingrich said, "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."
Nugent: "The mosque will attract extremists and radicals who will try to harm America."
Staten Island, NY: "Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island." A June 10 New York Times article reported on opposition to a proposed mosque in Staten Island, New York that "have focused overwhelmingly on more intangible and volatile issues: fear of terrorism, distrust of Islam and a linkage of the two in opponents' minds." From the New York Times article:
''Wouldn't you agree that every terrorist, past and present, has come out of a mosque?'' asked one woman who stood up Wednesday night during a civic association meeting on Staten Island to address representatives of a group that wants to convert a Roman Catholic convent into a mosque in the Midland Beach neighborhood.
''No,'' began Ayman Hammous, president of the Staten Island branch of the group, the Muslim American Society -- though the rest of his answer was drowned out by catcalls and boos from among the 400 people who packed the gymnasium of a community center.
and;
Murfreesboro, TN: Mosque opponents are afraid the mosque "will be turned into a terrorist training ground."
Florence, KY: "Stop the Mosque," and "the takeover of our country."
and:
Protests follow relentless right-wing attacks on Park 51 and Islam
Gingrich said, "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."
Nugent: "The mosque will attract extremists and radicals who will try to harm America." "If additional American blood is spilled in the Big Apple, the politicians who supported this mosque will be as guilty as the Muslim voodoo kooks who love death and destruction in the name of Allah."
Cal Thomas: "Ask yourself: if you wanted to infiltrate a country, wouldn't a grand strategy be to rapidly build mosques from Ground Zero in New York, to Temecula, Calif., and establish beachheads so fanatics could plan and advance their strategies under the cover of religious freedom and that great American virtue known as 'tolerance,' which is being used against us?" In a July 21 post on The Washington Post's On Faith blog, Thomas wrote:
A mosque near Ground Zero is not about tolerance, but triumphalism. It isn't about honoring the dead, but celebrating their deaths.
[...]
Don't we know why our enemies desire a beachhead in America? They wish to launch new terror attacks and forcibly convert Americans to their way of thinking and believing. What will we gain by allowing this to happen?
Morris: Park 51 will be used to "train and recruit Sharia law advocates who become terrorists."
Morris: "[T]hese Sharia mosques...have become the command center for terrorists" and Park51 "would be too."
Bolling: Park51 "may be a meeting place for some of the scariest minds -- some of the biggest terrorist minds."
Kilmeade: "The next Hamburg cell could be right downtown."
Limbaugh suggests Park51 would be a "recruiting tool for domestic extremists."
and so it goes,
GORD.
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