07-18-2016, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 07:01 PM by Anthony '58.)
But Vladimir Putin, who is stridently anti-Muslim and pro-Jewish (Russian, Syrian and Israeli military strategists held a clandestine three-way meeting last November) - his neofascist Ukrainian nationalist adversaries regularly petrol-bomb synagogues and bash Roma (The People Formerly Known As Gypsies) over the head with baseball bats (who knew that baseball was so popular in Ukraine?) - is no enemy of the United States, and certainly wouldn't be regarded as that by a Trump Administration, if there is one.
By contrast, Islam already has considerable "street cred" in the African-American community, and many of the members of the New Black Panther Party, etc., are in fact Muslims. Plus a history lesson is most timely here: The ancestors of today's Pakistani Muslims were low-caste Hindus who converted to Islam to escape the Hindu caste system - reminding us that Islam has an awesome track record of attracting the poor and downtrodden, or any group that considers themselves such.
Try to imagine 9/11-magnitude terrorist attacks every week or even more often somewhere in the United States. It is very easy for me to do so - especially if Trump does win the election.
By contrast, Islam already has considerable "street cred" in the African-American community, and many of the members of the New Black Panther Party, etc., are in fact Muslims. Plus a history lesson is most timely here: The ancestors of today's Pakistani Muslims were low-caste Hindus who converted to Islam to escape the Hindu caste system - reminding us that Islam has an awesome track record of attracting the poor and downtrodden, or any group that considers themselves such.
Try to imagine 9/11-magnitude terrorist attacks every week or even more often somewhere in the United States. It is very easy for me to do so - especially if Trump does win the election.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892