Muslims make religion relevant

by YankeeJim | March 28, 2011 at 03:03 am

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In my opinion, if Muslim nations and people did not own the oil fields on which we are dependent, Islam and Muslims would be irrelevant. Religion in America is supposed to be a private matter with people going on about their business.

Some radicalized Baptists pop up to protest abortion and gays and lesbians, and that makes news. Radicalized Baptists are as close to radicalized Muslims as we get in America. Are all Baptists radicalized?

Jimmy Carter may be a liberal, but he is not a radicalized Baptist. Bill Clinton is a Baptist though not radicalized or affected one way or another.

Is Bill O’Reilly a radicalized Catholic? He might be.

CNN’s “Unwelcome: Muslims Next Door” The Hate That Hate Produced

Written by Casey Gane-McCalla on March 27, 2011 6:16 pmClick for More Next Post

NEW YORK-Thursday I had the privilege to watch CNN’s new “Muslim In America” documentary, “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door.” The hour long documentary covers the protests of a proposed Mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn by local residents. The story did not receive as much coverage as the infamous proposed “Ground Zero” Mosque, but was an equally interesting and somewhat entertaining look at a piece of America. One that shows a side of America that I do not not see in New York, not the Muslims, who wanted to build the Mosque but the right wing, anti-Muslim religious fanatics who opposed them.

The Lawyer who represented the lawsuit against the proposed Mosque was as funny a bigot as Borat or Archie Bunker with his colorful suits and language. If not for my respect for CNN and Soledad Obrien, I would think that this was a not a documentary, but a mockumentary.

The only characters I could relate to were the daughters of a Muslim professor at the local college, who were smart All-American (at least what I know of America) girls who were valedictorians of their classes.

Forty two years ago, Mike Wallace made the “Hate That Hate Produced,”to show Black Muslims and their hatred for white Americans, now we have a documentary that shows the hatred white Americans have for Muslims. Many people in the audience saw parallel between the ignorance, prejudice and bigotry of whites in the South during the civil rights era and the ignorance, prejudice and bigotry of middle American white people towards Muslims today, as well as a Black man, whos hatred of Muslims perhaps comes from his Muslim ex-wife.”