'Mohammed' enters top 20 boys names list in England and Wales

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6. I back the Democrats because Christian Fundamentalism is just as dangerous.

Right, because those Christians love to fly commercial airplanes into buildings, saw peoples' heads off with steak knives and strap explosives to themselves to kill jews at bus stops.  Why the *&%$ are we going after muslims it's the Christians who are causing all of the trouble.

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1)  Good for you!  Everyone should condemn Muslims for their hateful intolerant beliefs.  There is no reason to put up with 'cultural differences' that trample the rights of the individual.

6)  I couldn't agree more, obviously.  We're lucky in the US - very few Muslims.  On the other hand our government is run by our own homegrown religious fanatics, who are just as bad as Muslims - just not quite as desperate.  After all, we're already firmly under their thumb.

1) On this I agree

2) can you provide some examples of this?  Last I heard, this was a free country and not a theocracy.

BTW, Bush saying a prayer or giving thanks to the Lord does not count as an example.

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Have you been reading the Star Tribune lately? sheesh. Just look at those nutjobs like Kiffmeyer and Lindner we have that Pawlenty's been tolerating as well. Remember Luis Palau?

What about Luis Palau?  He, his organization and voluntary sponsers paid for the festival, which I and tens of thousands other minnesotans attended.  There wasno government sponsership.  This a free country and people have the right to gather on public property.

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I couldn't agree more, obviously.  We're lucky in the US - very few Muslims.  On the other hand our government is run by our own homegrown religious fanatics, who are just as bad as Muslims - just not quite as desperate.  After all, we're already firmly under their thumb.

Can you provide some examples of this?  Last I heard, this was a free country and not a theocracy.

BTW, Bush saying a prayer or giving thanks to the Lord does not count as an example.

The US is very far from being a free country.  There are many attempts by the religiously motivated to 'legislate morality', from laws against drugs and prostitution to drinking regulations.  Of course the most glaring case is the horrendously unfair treatment of homosexuals by a government dominated by those who hate them - the religious.

Bush's praying may seem merely embarrassing and stupid, but in fact it is a signal to this intolerant interest group - 'I'm with you, and I will do my best to use the power of the State to harm those we both hate - secularists, hedonists, homosexuals'.

 

So you think that drugs, prostitution and totally unrestrained behavior is acceptable?

It's a fair fight, there are hundreds of groups dedicated to attacking religion, family values and morality in this country.  why won't you call them out for being intolerant to people like me?

I am proud to have a president who is not only not ashamed of his faith but couragous enough to express it in public, despite what amoral, standardless hatemongers think.