Posts Tagged ‘Muslim’
August 4th, 2011 by John Feehery
An interesting story caught my eye in the New York Times today, about the rise of a radical right-wing group in, of all places, Sweden.
Swedes are concerned that they are losing their national character because of the high influx of immigrants from Muslim countries. The Times noted the resentments of one typical Swedish family:
“Michael Ahlgren, who lost his job as a security guard for the Red Cross just before Christmas, wears a tattoo of the Swedish flag on his shoulder and voted for the Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party that shocked the country by winning nearly a quarter of the votes for the city council here in 2006. He and his wife are outspoken in their resentment: the government spends money on refugees, they say, but their daughters’ school lunches have barely any vegetables and, to accommodate Muslim religious practice, no longer offer pork sausages.”
The lack of vegetables doesn’t seem like that much of a big concern. The pork sausages? Now, that is a reason to get mad.
This is not just Swedish problem. It has spread to the United States. Read more...
Tags: America, bacon, Chicago Public Schools, Christian, Conservatives, Economy, Government, immigrants, Iowa, Jewish, Koran, Muslim, New York Times, pig farms, pork, Red Cross, Republicans, Sweden, Torah
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May 5th, 2011 by John Feehery
America loves conspiracy theories. Franklin Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. The CIA killed Jack Kennedy. George Bush blew up the Twin Towers. The Trilateral Commission runs the world. Elvis has not left the building. Jim Morrison is still alive.
Our current President is particularly good at spawning conspiracy theories. He is a Muslim. He hates America. He is a racist. He worked with Bill Ayers to overthrow America. He wasn’t born here. He never actually went to college. He is the Manchurian candidate. He is actually a space alien.
Conspiracy theories are fun for the whole family. It gives a purpose to all things. It means that somebody has a plan somewhere.
There are a number of good conspiracy theories that will come out of this Osama Bin Laden assassination. First, of course, is that he is still alive. No matter if those photos are released or if they are not released, some percentage of the population will believe that Mr. Bin Laden is still alive.
Another conspiracy theory is that Bin Laden has been dead for months and that the President finally revealed this today because he wants an excuse to pull our troops out of Afghanistan and to prop up his popularity ratings. Read more...
Tags: CIA, Conspiracy Theory, Franklin Roosevelt, George Bush, govenment, Jack Kennedy, Muslim, Osama Bin Laden, Pearl Harbor, President Obama
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March 7th, 2011 by John Feehery
I am a big Peter King fan. When I worked for the House Republican Leadership, I was a fellow traveler with him when it came to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I agreed with him on engagement with Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams, and I worked with him on many things Irish, particularly when I worked for Speaker Hastert.
King, a former boxer when he was at Notre Dame Law School, can be a pugnacious guy. He is a brawler. He fights hard for his constituents. And he is protective of them. When he ascended to the top of the Homeland Security Committee, you just knew he was going to do everything to go after those people who have threatened his constituents in the past.
That is why he is moving forward on this hearing in his committee on the possible threats that have come from radical Islam within the U.S. As King himself says, that is not an indictment of all of Islam. Liberals have tried to portray the Congressman as some sort of anti-Islamic racist, which, of course, he is not. Read more...
Tags: 9/11, America, arab, Congress, Homeland Security Committee, House Republican, Islam, Muslim, Notre Dame Law School, Peter King, Speaker Hastert, terrorist
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July 15th, 2010 by John Feehery
This reminds me of one of those old Japanese monster movies — – a death match brought to you by cable television.
The NAACP pass a resolution condemning racist elements of the Tea Party. Various spokesmen from various factions of the Tea Party (there is no one single Tea Party) gamely call the NAACP racist for calling them racist. Depending on which cable channel you are watching, you either have pictures of white people holding up offensive pictures of Barack Obama or pictures of black people saying really nasty things about white people flashing up on the background.
I understand why the NAACP would pass such a resolution. Let’s face it, this is a great way for the NAACP to get some press, which has been a pretty hard thing for them to do in the Obama era.
And I can see why the Tea Party folks would react the way they did. They not only get to say that they aren’t racist. They get to say it on cable television. How fun is that?
This is what passes for a civil racial dialogue in our country today.
Thank you, cable news networks. That is very helpful. Read more...
Tags: African-American, Barack Obama, bill ayers, Conservatives, Democrats, Muslim, NAACP, Republicans, Reverend Wright, Tea Party
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An interesting story caught my eye in the New York Times today, about the rise of a radical right-wing group in, of all places, Sweden.
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