This is a matter of opinion and opinions are like (well you know) everybody has one.


My personal opinion? I agree.

If after reading this email you disagree, Please, no need to reply back to me. Your opinion is yours and that's fine, just delete it.
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A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back.

These events are actual events from history..

They really happened!!!

Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Ken nedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists.

4. During the 1980 's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists.

8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists.

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Ken ya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the o ther was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by-- you guessed it-- Muslim male extremists.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people... Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

According to The Book of Revelations:
The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40's, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything.

And Now:
For the award winning Act of Stupidity Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet -- The Presidency of the United states of America .. A Male of Muslim descent who is the most extremely liberal Senator in Congress (in other words an extremist) and in his 40's.

Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ???

I'm sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the 'unknown' candidate Obama...

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart commo n sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense.

As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it,
'Stupid Is As Stupid Does'

Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it!
or again. . . just delete if you disagree.

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Haha...ah yes...I read it very "carfeully" indeed...some would even say I read it carefully.

What follows is my friend's reply to this letter.  She had previously told her aunt not to send her things like this and was understandably annoyed...
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"As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it,
'Stupid Is As Stupid Does.'"

I bet the Book of Revelations says that the anti-Christ will be Muslim. It's a shame, then, that the Book of Revelations was written circa 95 AD, before Islam was founded (Muhammad, the founder of Islam, wasn't born until the sixth century). I bet most Christians don't know that Muslims believe in Jesus.

The mujahideen were actually originally funded by your hero, Ronald Reagan, and were encouraged to fight the "Godless commies." Little Afghani children were given propaganda pamphlets by the US and taught the Arabic ABC's using words like "jihadist" etc.

Ahem. We'll ignore the fact that a bunch of neo-Nazis were recently arrested for conspiring to murder Senator Obama. By the way, Barack Obama is "the most extremely liberal Senator in Congress"? First of all, I'll refrain from commenting on the grammar of this statement. Second of all, have you ever heard of Dennis Kucinich?

Yes, it's true. Thousands of people were murdered horrifically on 9/11 by Muslim extremists. Has it ever occurred to you that among the people murdered in the Towers were Muslims?

Let's refrain from going over the Christian terrorists in the US. Ahem, the KKK. Christian extremists have repeatedly murdered doctors trying to help out young women.

The Army of God, a Christian terrorist organization in the US, is responsible for acts of shooting, killings, and bombings.

"You have been exposed to anthrax. We are going to kill all of you. Army of God, Virginia DARE Chapter."

Pro-life murderers who advocate life! Cognitive dissonance? Hmm...

The Irish Republican Army is another example of Christian terrorism in the past, specifically Catholic, often against innocent English civilians.

The list goes on and on. What is being done is truth distortion to show that "extremists" speak for the entirety of the Muslim world when they don't.

You describe Obama as an extremist. You know what? I am happy that he is. I think that we need a person who has extreme views in fighting poverty, promoting peace, and solving the world's ills. Besides, we need Obama to repair the damage from another extremist: George W. Bush.

Good luck on November 4!

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Oh, and FYI...the above email was sent to my friend's aunt's list of several dozen contacts.  So when my friend sent the above response, she hit "Reply All." 

I do support Obama, and I voted for him, although I don't find him to have a "MASSIVE Christ-like appeal;" that's, er, a little over-the-top.  At the same time, however, he is certainly NOT the most liberal Senator...not even CLOSE.  He is actually rather right-ish for a Democrat.  But no matter your position on the political spectrum, and no matter your opinions on the beliefs of each of the candidates, it's this kind of religious conspiracy SHIT that has been pissing me off throughout this election.

But I'm not going to rant about it, because Ben Amey, another friend of mine, has already done so in a most intelligent manner in his column, "Slightly Left Behind," for the campus newspaper at SUNY Oswego.  He began this column as a response and counter to a heavily right-wing column written by a fellow student.  (I feel all right posting this with names attached since it's already been published online, and Ben is pursuing a career in broadcasting anyway.)

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Slightly Left Behind
By: Benjamin Amey
Trouble in Democracy: A Country Divided

Here we are, two weeks away from an election that will change the face of this country for quite possibly the next few decades, or even the next hundred years. And, save for a few days ago, Obama has held a comfortable and increasing lead over his Republican challenger. While that lead has shrunk slightly but has also leveled out, what is more troubling is the turn this campaign has taken.

In my first column this year, I wrote about how those who complain about campaign rhetoric need to toughen up or shut up. However, some of the things that we've seen lately have gone beyond campaign rhetoric into dangerous threats and hate speech. A few examples: at a rally for John McCain before the final Presidential debate, a woman in the crowd stood and said, "I don't trust Obama, I've read about him, he's a Muslim." At this point, John McCain rightfully took the microphone away from her, not only because Obama isn't a Muslim, but because a person's religion should have nothing to do with if you trust them or not. At a Sarah Palin rally, we've heard shouts of "traitor" and, amazingly, "kill him" from McCain-Palin supporters. The latter comment actually struck up a Secret Service investigation.

Traitor? Muslim? Kill him? Is this America, the greatest democracy in the world? Are we really still this prejudiced, this bigoted that we still react this way to a black presidential candidate? And yes, I say black because I will pretty much guarantee that those comments wouldn't be said about a white candidate.

But it hasn't just been on the national stage where we've seen these types of comments. In this very paper, we've seen Obama called a communist, a socialist, seen him and his supporters compared to "drinking the Kool-Ade" in the Jonestown Massacre, and seen his ads compared to those of Adolf Hitler.

To me, this is despicable. The communist comment is a play to the old fears of the McCarthy days, a dark time in American history where innocent people had their lives destroyed for political reasons only. A reference to the Jonestown Massacre, where over nine hundred people died? Comparing the ads of Obama to one of the worst mass-murderers in the history of the world?

Why do we tolerate this? One of the things that makes America great is the fact that we are able to disagree without making these horrific insults. I'm sorry, but no matter who a candidate for president is, they don't deserve to be compared to Hitler or the Jonestown Massacre, which was the greatest loss of civilian American lives until September 11th, 2001 and in which Democratic congressman Leo Ryan was murdered.

To those who have remained civil in this campaign or who have only attacked a candidate based only on their record or policies, I applaud you. A few of these people are the various Republicans who have stated they are voting for Obama, such as Colin Powell. People like this remind us that this is just a presidential race, and, at the end of it all, we are all still Americans.
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Ben published the above as a Facebook note, and one of the commentators below it remarked sardonically, "On a slightly different note...Guess who al-Qaeda endorsed today?"

By that, said person meant that a web site supposedly linked to al-Qaeda has expressed a public endorsement of John McCain.  Of course, you can't clarify these things either way, but here's an article about it if you want to read it (and you should).

So, Obama is the male Muslim terrorist, but al-Qaeda endorsed McCain?  Seems as though we have some wild Red Scare-esque accusations from BOTH parties going on here.

But I haven't seen that from either Obama or McCain.  Both candidates and their representatives (even in those damn counter-campaign ads, which also piss me off) have challenged (some might say "attacked") one another based primarily on one another's voting histories, previous public statements, and other sources that involve something actually ON THE RECORD that have nothing to do with race, religion, or even gender issues.

That is a good thing!  It is a sound and reasonable thing to do, no matter where you stand--and let's be honest, it's not as though these candidates are night-and-day different.  Indeed, both candidates have inconsistencies on the record, and both have changed their minds and/or public positions on certain issues--but hell, aren't all HUMAN BEINGS like that?

As for me, I don't care all that much about inconsistencies when I listen to debates.  There's a difference between inconsistency and hypocrisy, and if you're perceptive, you'll see that difference come across in a candidate's personality.  I care about the candidates' delivery of concepts, and their intents and plans to executing said concepts, and the good that said concepts will do to our country and to the world.

Thank you for reading.

<3 ~ Ashley