Rev. Franklin Graham Accuses Obama Administration of Hostility Toward Christians (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 6:12 AM
Obama hostile towards Christians?
Ya think? What was your first clue?
Could it have been his support for infanticide?
Rev. Franklin Graham accused the Obama Administration of hostility toward Christians this week on CNN.
Via BreitbartTV:
The Jews aren’t too happy with Obama, either. If his administration would stop cracking greedy Jew jokes in public, that might help.
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bg commented:
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while i am not a fan, i Thank
You Rev. Franklin Graham!!
(not to mention there is ample
evidence to back up your claim)
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Chisum commented:
Thank you, Rev. Graham, for saying it out loud. Many of us have been thinking this for a long time.
Mitch commented:
The joke was funny–and moreso, it was a joke.
But his foreign policy with Israel is bad.
bg commented:
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just a sample:
Obama cancelled 2010 White House National Day of Prayer ceremony
[Obama cancelled 2010 White House National Day of Prayer ceremony. The National Day of Prayer has historically been the first Thursday in May, since Harry S. Truman put it into effect in 1952, but wasn’t official until the days of Ronald Reagan.]
Obama Celebrates Ramadan, Calls Islam “Great Religion”
September 25, 2009 Islamic Day of Prayer at the White House
i’m also still perplexed as to how anyone could not
detect Obama’s obvious disdain for Christianity..
most especially Notre Dame’s supposed Catholics..
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pm commented:
Graham’s comment that if we “cave in to a couple of people” we can expect there to be peace in the world –
highlights the most disastrous policy of this administration. Who can forget Ft. Hood – at least a dozen massacred – God rest their souls.
When will America wake up to what they’re doing: they’re friendly to our enemies, both foreign and domestic, and hostile to those – both foreign and domestic – with whom they should be allied. A recipe for disaster.
I, too, thank the Reverend for speaking out.
Related: Thought I heard Leno the other night mention that (once again) the usual opening prayer at that dinner was not (allowed) said – if true, it’s to be expected with this group.
ProLifer commented:
Rev. Graham did well — until he mentioned Obama’s faith in Jesus Christ.
Obama is NOT a Christian!!!
Reminds me of G W Bush:
“I looked the man in the eye. (And that man was Vladimir Putin!)
I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy…
I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
I like Rev. Graham — but he, like Pres. Bush, obviously lacks “discernment”!
Finncrisp commented:
Truly this is not laughing matter. This rewrite of what America is about has reached monstrous proportions. Our princples are being undermined and our Founders are being demeaned by the chatter from this administration. The take overs, the bailouts masking power grabs, the secrecy of the presidental czars, and the condescending way the American people are treated by this president should make us all take notice. Thanks , Mr. Graham, and I salute you.
Corporal Vere commented:
It needed to be said.
Seven commented:
Play with words. Franklin is actually taking a safe posture. He is giving Obama the benefit of the doubt if Barry Hussein believe there was a jesus. All Muslims in their orthodox views insist Allah had no son.
Has Obama repented? Not that we ever knew of. Is Obama forsaking fellowship with the saints? So funny. He can’t show the fortitude to walk into a church. (claims it would be disruptive) he can walk into a greeseburger joint and cope with disruption.
gus commented:
Hey Mitch, I take it you like Nazi Jokes too???
Are you familiar with who the TALIBAN is Mitch??
Or are you just an idiot?
Do you think the National Securit Advisor and former General should be making jokes about THE TALIBAN??
bg commented:
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just a sample:
Obama Administration Stacking the Deck with Islamists
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.
[..]
“…even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions… before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that’s where we are now- to being the first religion in America.”]
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
Terror czar deserves honorary membership in the Muslim Brotherhood
Tariq Ramadan’s American Islamist Victory Tour- 2010
He noted that the three politicians’ campaign war chests are
heavily funded by radical Islamists who support the mosque.
["While brave young Virginia men and women are risking their lives to fight terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, Connolly, Moran and Kaine are yucking it up with them and slapping each other on the back over at the Marriott," charged VAST Chairman James Lafferty.]
Michelle & Hatem
Gaddafi – Obama is a Muslim
I’m not a Muslim
not the G-D Obama i know.. /sarc/
[Obama has nationalized entire industries with taxpayer bailouts, passed the Economic Stimulus Bill, pushed the Health Care Bill, and the Cap and Trade Bill, converting a once free-market into a government-run socialist state. All of these actions rely on heavily increased taxes from the American taxpayer with more control over their lives for generations to come.
Obama's leniency toward Islam provokes the question of whose and what interests he is really standing for. The man with the name Barack Hussein Obama apologizes for America to Muslim nations while he endorses Islam in America. However shocking it may seem, and whatever the intentions, with Islam's nose in American government, the socialist plans are paving the way to generations of dhimmitude. The inflicting control over American lives the plans will cause and the taxes Americans will have to pay to put them into action is analogous to a jizya tax in accordance to Islamic doctrine–taxes imposed on non-Muslims to control them until they embrace Islam completely.]
much more here..
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bg commented:
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please pardon any repeats, thanks..
National Day of Prayer Is Unconstitutional
Obama agrees..
[Obama cancelled 2010 White House National Day of Prayer ceremony. The National Day of Prayer has historically been the first Thursday in May, since Harry S. Truman put it into effect in 1952, but wasn’t official until the days of Ronald Reagan.
For eight years, the White House held a celebration on the National Day of Prayer, and last year Obama cancelled the celebration, and the ceremony has been cancelled for 2010. In 2009, CNN reported that Obama was toning down the National Day of Prayer by cancelling the White House ceremony, but that the official day was not cancelled.
The National Day of Prayer was created to remind people to pray for family, friends, the country, etc. It wasn’t created for a specific religion, but for anyone who wanted to participate.]
oh wait..
[One of those values is the freedom to practice your religion -- a
right that is enshrined in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.]
Christians to Pray as White House Observes Ramadan
[“Since assuming office in January, President Obama has not only regularly passed up opportunities to affirm and celebrate America’s Judeo Christian heritage, but at times, he’s appeared to go out of his
way to suggest the opposite is true,” said Shirley Dobson, chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force.
“In light of these recent events, the president’s decision to carry on the tradition of hosting a White House dinner to celebrate the Muslim holy season of Ramadan is curious. Our disappointment, however, is not with the President’s decision to host such a celebration. Quite the contrary.
It’s simply unfortunate that he didn’t choose to extend the same level of courtesy and recognition this past May to the millions of supporters and organizers of the National Day of Prayer.”
The Rev. Johnny Hunter, an African-American pro-life leader who was arrested on the National Day of Prayer while praying outside the White House, said that by hosting the Ramadan observance President Obama “is distinctly placing Islam above Christianity.”
"He's stated before the entire world that we're not a Christian nation," added the founder of L.E.A.R.N. Inc. "By him turning his back on Christians on a day when we're to pray to God, then turn around and make such a flamboyant move toward Islam, it tells me that it's not America that's not Christian, it's the president that's not Christian."]
@ 4:07..
i’m still waiting for someone to please inform me as to whether
or not Muslims fulfill Zakat is any business of a US President??
how about Constitutional?? /sarc/
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Stuart commented:
Gee, what religion is hostile to Christians and Jews, (not to mention buddhists, Taoists, Hindus,
animists, and humanists)? Could it be?…. NAAAAAAAAAH!
Blue Collar Todd commented:
You have to give Graham credit for sticking to his guns here. Most other preachers cave on this when questioned about. This makes me think of the great preacher Charles Spurgeon who understood that Liberalism posed a serious threat to Christians, and that was over 100 years ago.
jomojava commented:
As one of the largest Muslim countries in the world (as proclaimed by The One), why would you expect the National Day of Prayer ceremonies to be observed?
bg commented:
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Radical Islam’s Vision For America
Where Does the Fight Against Islamism Go from Here?
[In fact, looking at the Obama campaign's inclination to appoint individuals like Mazen Asbahi to "Muslim outreach" may portend a naïve facilitative role with regards to Islamists and the ideology of Islamism. Looking at the converse, in what appears to be significant domestic and foreign support for President-elect Obama by Islamists, also portends an upcoming weaker stance – if not outright appeasement – from Washington against the ideology of Islamists. In fact, the messages from the Obama campaign (or lack thereof) concerning political Islam, were interpreted favorably by American Islamist organizations. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and their umbrella lobbying organization the American Muslim Task Force (AMT) all quickly rushed to congratulate President-elect Obama. Interestingly, the AMT pushed out an election eve endorsement on November 3, 2008, deceptively trying to "have its cake and eat it too." They stated to the Massachusetts Telegram and Gazette , "by making an 'indirect endorsement' but keeping it low profile, Mr. Ali said, the organization avoided two pitfalls: 'creating problems for the Obama campaign (and) accepting exclusion from the American mainstream." In other words, the Islamists carefully avoided any possibility of having the Obama campaign account for their stance by having to accept or reject the endorsement of every American Islamist organization. Thus the twelve Islamist organizations which are represented by AMT were able to claim public and open support of Obama on November 5, 2008 while avoiding any real contest of ideas and reckoning about their own facilitation and promulgation of political Islam.
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Identity Politics, the Left, and the Ideology of Islamism
The Obama mantra of “change” gives anti-Islamists little comfort arising out of a campaign which was negligently short on substance on the issue of radical Islamism and the threat of Islamist-inspired terrorism. One would be hard-pressed to find candidate Obama or any of his surrogates on the record once about the “contest of ideas” and what his vision, or that of his advisors, is of how that contest would play out in his administration. Sadly, when the issue of Islam and Muslims was addressed it focused far too narrowly and naïvely on identity politics and religious freedom for Muslims in America, rather than the threat of political Islam or the absence of religious freedom in “Muslim” nations. Political correctness once again prevailed against a backdrop of an ideology promoted by Islamists which still threatens our national security.
[snip]
Gen. Powell’s comments are misused by Islamists because he did not make them concomitantly with comments denouncing the political ideology of Islamism and Muslim political collectivism. When the Muslim community is looked upon as a collective and as a victim with no emphasis upon responsibility in defeating Islamism, it ends up propping up Islamists substantially. In order to know understand how reckless such comments can be, one need look no further than how far and wide Gen. Powell’s comments were disseminated by global transnational Islamist movements. Leaders like Gen. Powell need to both advocate for American religious freedom domestically which includes Muslims and all faiths while also positioning such advocacy within a concurrent Muslim anti-Islamist movement. Avoiding this positioning leaves Islamists empowered and overly comfortable. One cannot help but see that the Obama campaign and its surrogates have done just that- empower transnational Islamist movements.
We need cautious and thoughtful politicians who understand the “contest of ideas” within the Muslim consciousness. We need leaders who are willing to ask Muslims and all of their organizations the tough questions – not just the easy ones about condemning terrorism which any human being should do; but rather to ask Muslims to condemn the ideology of political Islam which is always an undercurrent of radical Islamist movements.
One can only guess that President-elect Obama seems to come from the school of thought that terrorism is simply a crime problem and radical Islamists are simply a crime syndicate. Such a line of thinking is not only wrong-headed but leaves us perilously and continuously exposed to a deep existential threat. Islamist terrorism is just that- Islamist. It is fueled by an undercurrent of political Islam which is running rampant in the Muslim world and yet remains basically unopposed by western ideas.]
please read the whole thing.. educate yourself as to the reality of the situation O is taking the non radical worlds eyes off of & focusing the radical worlds on.. *sigh*
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Just_Saying commented:
Franklin Graham is much more charitable than I am about Obummer’s religious faith (i.e., Christianity??). I am convinced Obummer is muslim, and one cannot be a muslim at the same time as being a Christian. No matter what Obummer says, there is no evidence that he is Christian, but I guess it’s really up to God to determine that.
I appreciate Franklin Graham’s courage in speaking out in this matter…
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Ladue Pundit commented:
Franklin Graham cares more about the physical AND spiritual well-being of Muslims than any imam.
He knows that violence is the fruit of Satan, Islam’s founder; about the suppression, mutilation, and murder of girls and women; about the aggression of Islamic conversion; and he is not afraid to proclaim that Christ’s kingdom includes a plan for THEM, Muslims, to walk in its light.
I’m a Catholic and do not agree on theological fine points with this man, but he’s doing what Christ commanded: “Love one another as I have loved you,” and “Go, therefore, and make believers of all nations.”
I wish a few Catholics I knew were this committed.
bg commented:
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ps: bg #17
re: [.]the Muslim community is looked upon as a collective
and as a victim with no emphasis upon responsibility[.]
that is exactly how Obama both
views & treats Islam to the bone..
Obama fully intends to wed church/mosque & state via “social justice”..
[From a political stance that is leftist, you must legislate to create a just society, and various programs need to exist in order to collect monies needed to even the playing field between rich, middle class, poor and those people who are routinely marginalized by society. Equal rights can be defined as equal access to things that make it possible for people in any societal sector to be successful. Therefore, leftist philosophy would support things like anti-discrimination laws and equal opportunity programs, and would favor taxation, especially of those who make a lot of money, to pay for programs that help provide equality for all.
The far left would argue that there are certain basic needs that must be offered to all. These include things like truly equal education and safety in all schools and programs that would help all children have the financial opportunity to attend college. Far left groups, often termed socialist even if they differ from true definitions of socialism, further argue that a just society cannot be had unless everyone has access to food, safe shelter and medical care. The way to achieve this is through taxation and government implementation of programs that will guarantee these things for all people.
The right political stance equally endorses a just society, but may criticize those who make poor choices and feel that while equal opportunity should exist, a government should not legislate for this. In fact it is argued that social justice is diminished when governments create programs to deal with it, especially when these programs call
for greater taxation. Instead, those who have more money should be encouraged to be philanthropic, not by paying higher taxes, which is arguably unjust.
From a religious perspective, you’ll find people all over the political spectrum who argue for social justice. Many Christian groups believe that you bring about justice through Christlike actions of mercy, especially those that help people who have been marginalized by society. Islamic perspective on social justice is similar; one of the Five Pillars of Islam is that all must give to the poor. However, certain sects of Islam promote views of women and men as different; women are not equal to and are subservient to men.]
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’
“Covenant for a New America”
[At a press conference on December 1... the possible Presidential contender said, '...the network that Saddleback has helped to create has
as much reach as any institutional force in our culture and has probably
a wider reach around the world than just about anything that's going on right now.... I hope one of the things that comes out of this conference that Pastor Rick has emphasized again and again, is no single branch of our society is going do this alone. If government thinks they can do it by themselves they're wrong. Churches have to recognize that they've got to be partners with the government. Business has an enormous role....]
UCC member Sen. Barack Obama discusses faith and politics
[Later -- during his interview with United Church News -- Obama continued his thoughts about religion and politics; specifically, the role
of religious principles in reaching a balance between national security
and social justice concerns.
"I believe that democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal values," Obama said. "Social justice and national security are both universal values, values that may originate for some in their religious beliefs, but are shared by us all."]
”I am certain nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after the mirage
of social justice.”
“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term ’social justice’.”
~Friedrich A. von Hayek
Social Justice & Obama
Social Justice & Marxism
Social Justice & Islam
again, just a sample & please pardon repeats..
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bg commented:
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Taking a stand
[The examples of appeasement to radical Islamists are growing exponentially. Who would have guessed how weak and subservient so many American corporations who pride themselves as the distributors of the uncensored work of the world’s leading artists would be in the face of threats from militant Islamists?
[..]
The suffocation of free speech on the heels of a growing western corporate phobia of radical Islamists and their barbarism is concerning. From the Danish cartoons to the South Park episode, the response seems to repeatedly be the same—bow to any pressure and suggestion of violence from Islamists. Hard to believe, but basically, “censor the artists, and freedom be damned.” And I say this as a devout Muslim who does in fact question the propriety and artistic value of much of the works in question. But that is not the issue.
At the end of the day, there is little difference between what the medieval Sudanese theocrats did under their shar’iah law to the British teacher on their land and what Comedy Central did to the producers of South Park on American soil.]
links @ link & more here..
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bg commented:
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Top Takes on National Security – How
Can We Thwart Future Islamist Attacks?
[M. Zuhdi Jasser
Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to how to stop the continued uptick in attacks stemming from jihadists on our soil. In the short term, we are going to have to continue to have faith in our Homeland Security apparatus, FBI, police, and supporting agencies to continue doing the great work they are doing in prevention, counterintelligence, and monitoring. This has certainly included our share of good fortune as we saw in this most recent case at Times Square. More importantly, in the long term, our nation desperately needs to wake up to the war of ideas. We have taken major steps backward in the past year too many to mention here. While the Obama administration wastes its time striking the words “Islam,” “Islamic,” “Islamist” and “Jihadist” from the government lexicon, the Jihadists continue to virally spread their unopposed narrative that “American society, government, and media are against Islam and against Muslims.”
As a nation, we have been missing in action in the war of ideas. We continue to give the victim-mongering Islamist groups in America a giant pass on how recklessly they facilitate that same victim-obsessed narrative which feeds the minds of future radical Islamists. The arc of radicalization will only accelerate until the American Muslim community develops a palpable pro-liberty, anti-Islamist response. This war of ideas has been nearly impossible with much of the media, government, and academe unwilling to engage in the tough work of theo-political discussions of necessary Muslim reform. Muslim youth and young adults will continue to be susceptible to the separatist jihadist ideas of radical Islamists unless we provide alternative liberty-based winning ideas for their identification with this nation. Already, many (including Sec. Janet Napolitano) are rushing to say that this Faisal Shahzad, the first one arrested so far in this incident, was basically a “lone-wolf.”
Whether he ends up being connected to a militant jihadist Pakistani network or not, he is not a lone wolf. The ideas that drove him to act did not hatch in his own mind. We ignore to our own detriment the common ideology, the common malignant virus of the slippery slope of political Islam that takes over these Muslims. When are we going to collectively wake up as a nation? We need to begin to saturate the domestic and foreign messages in the media and online available to young Muslims seeking the “truth” with one based in the need to reform, to separate mosque and state and teach an inherent loyalty to Americanism, Constitutionalism and the central belief in the Establishment Clause of our republic over Islamism while they can also be devout Muslims. Anything else is short-sighted and continues to leave us intellectually unarmed against the Islamists who will only hatch more and more attacks as we remain missing in action in the war of ideas.
- M. Zuhdi Jasser is the founder and Chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy based in Phoenix Arizona. He is a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, a physician in private practice, and a community activist..]
much more at link & here..
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Pat the First commented:
Franklin Graham has done more for people during his life than B.O. ever has for anyone. All people need to do is look at what Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc. does.
And by the way, the more I learn about Islam the more I am convinced Islam is evil. I think it is based in Satan.
bg commented:
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Thomas Jefferson and Islam
[“…that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”]
no no no, that’s not evil, it’s uh, uh, it’s
algebra, yeah, x+y=z, that’s what it is..
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Marsh commented:
I love how the left tries to get all insulted over people saying they’re anti-Christian. I used to be a member of the hard left. We hated Christianity with a passion. We thought Christians were all small minded idiots and a threat to modernity and “progression”. We only tolerated the Christians who were stupid enough to go along with our leftist, atheist and socialist agenda. We waged a constant Crusade to end Christianity by belittling and demonizing Christians as evil morons, by protraying Christianity as evil and backwards and the Bible as a contradictory work of fiction and fairy tales that were stolen from other pagan myths, etc. The left simply hates Christianity. Always has and always will. Marxism is the foundation of the left and he derided religion as a crutch and a drug for the ignorant masses. Communists went about destroying religion through force and the Western socialists are doing it through the courts and through propaganda.
bg commented:
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Obama’s see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
speak re: Islamism does not square with reality..
Khomeini accordingly delivered notorious
rebuke to the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace crowd:
“Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]…. Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
~ Ayatollah Khomeini
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John C. commented:
CNN and Campbell Brown are disgraceful. Clearly the plan was, “Let’s bring on the crazy fundamentalist and beat him up”. Franklin Graham did very well under the circumstances; he was the voice of reason and moderation. Good job, Franklin!
bg commented:
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Progressives
Political Islam
Political Correctness
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Joanne commented:
Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim…..big fat duh! If it walks like a Muslim and talks like a Muslim, it is a Muslim.
Islam is the worship of Satan.
bg commented:
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re: bg #22
Kay Day
[.] And we need better vetting of those who apply for citizenship from countries where hostiles live in large numbers. Two: We need a sea change in thought. While it is proper for our government to ensure civil rights for all and non-persecution of Muslims, this administration has gone overboard with actions such as barring Rev. Graham’s participation in National Prayer Day and permitting the president of Iran to enter the country. While excessive nationalism can result in tyranny, the lack of nationalism can result in destruction from within. [.]
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bg commented:
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Marsh @ 4:34 pm #29
re: [Marxism is the foundation of the left and he derided
religion as a crutch and a drug for the ignorant masses.]
so true, so true.. i was Dem up until a few short weeks after 9/11 (after i did some research & found out how despicable the Dems were, not that
i think the Reps are much better politically these days, but at least they aren’t anywhere near despicable.. just hope & pray they stay that way)..
just as sample:
Nazi, Communists, Arab Nationalist
Terrorists: One Camp, One Kampf
Marxism Makes Way for Islam
How Marx turned Muslim
Hitler, The Mufti Of Jerusalem And Modern Islamo Nazism
Islam And Marxism – A Marriage Made In Allaha’s Socialist Paradise
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John commented:
Graham is a nut job just like his old man. They both are kooks.
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John @ 9:50 pm #36
yawn..
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