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artgnome - 2007-12-18 17:15:13 - http://artgnome.diaryland.com
I ALWAYS get stuck in the slowest lane, behind the person that can waste more time than a teen in a mall. <br> the college I was at shoved buddhism down my throat from the time I got there to the time I left. They said it was "cultural" and not religious. what crap. <br> I will never like Hilary, I didn't think her husband was a good president, and I don't think she would be either.

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Smed - 2007-12-18 22:50:47 - http://smedindy.diaryland.com
You SERIOUSLY are not using Kathleen Kersten's column in the Star Tribune. She who complained wildly about St. Thomas losing it's religious way is now complaining wildly regarding someone accomidating another religion that seems 'weird' and 'odd'. Oh, and the tract that was 'prominently displayed' was probably buried on a shelf. Of course, Christians never have any wacked out pamphlets or tracts about wives being subservient to husbands. Oh, yeah, Huckabee is all for that. Kersten is just a lot of hot air that bloviates everywhere, is quite hypocritical, and can only see the good in right wing evangelical Christians, and can NEVER see any good thing in Islam. It's a shame that prejudice against people different than her has colored her writings so much.

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Brin - 2007-12-19 01:39:06 -
Smed, you'd piss and moan if the source of something that disagreed with the way you do things on your planet was Mother Jones. Why don't you just accept facts, despite who the source is?

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Dave - 2007-12-19 04:04:47 -
Smed - if you remember, when a large church group recently said that women should be subservient to their men, there was a major outcry from other Christian groups. Here, we're talking about one religious group taking over what WAS a "meditation room", which used to be for ALL religions. Was there a cross in the "meditation room" along with the Islamic items, or a Torah, or a Pagan symbol?<br><br>And as for your assertion that the tract was "probably buried on a shelf" - I note that you do not deny that the statements were not true and not characteristic of Islam...whereas I readily admit that there are extremist Christians that are out-of-touch and bottom-feeders (cf. Westboro Baptist).

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Bob - 2007-12-19 11:44:14 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
Funny how you missed things like the Christian 'gentlemen' attacking Jewish students on the New York subway, and the only guy who went to their aid was a MUSLIM. Or that Congressman Steve 'Christmas and Christianity' King FAILED to show up for the vote on his own resolution (which was, supposedly, because of the 'voting for Ramadan' thing). I suppose that if you truly believe we're in danger of being taken over by militant Islam overnight, there's nothing more to be said .... but all of us need to be aware of subjective validation. --- As for Hillary, I don't care if she bakes cookies and hands 'em out to the neighbors - I don't like her policies (which change depending on polls). THAT's the Hillary *I* know.

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Dave - 2007-12-19 13:57:06 -
Bob - as I said before, there are members of all religions who act abominably. And there are Muslims who don't think like the extremists. But militant Islam is the one that is killing people for insults, and you don't hear very much about moderate Muslims speaking out against the militants. I have yet to hear the ACLU speak out in favor of a Christian group, but many many concessions are being made toward Islam.

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Bob - 2007-12-19 16:42:29 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
Try the following: http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html --- http://www.aclu.org/religion/discrim/31346prs20070730.html

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Bob - 2007-12-19 16:43:50 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
And one more, a little more recent. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16467661.htm

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