So let me get this straight, Mr. President. We, the American people, who have always come to the aid of Muslim nations in times of disaster, need to learn “tolerance”? How much tolerance have Muslim countries shown us? Pan-Am 103 blown up by Lybians in 1988. Dan Pearl beheaded in Pakistan in 2002. U.N. barracks bombed in Lebanon in 1983 which killed 241 U.S. Marines. U.S. Special Forces soldiers dragged through the streets in Mogadishu, Somalia. U.S. soldiers dragged though the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I don’t know where you were in 1979, but I watched the news every single night for 444 days while 52 Americans were held in Tehran, Iran as hostages.
What did we hear from our leaders during those sad times? The same thing you are telling us now: Muslims (all the incidents that I mentioned occurred or were instigated by Muslim countries) are not our “enemies.”
You told us over and over “America is a tolerant Nation.”
Well, Mr. President, I, for one, am not. I am sick to death of seeing Americans being killed by these “peace-loving” countries. I, for one, am sick and tired of being told to “love my enemies,” forgive the people that we have helped with billions of American hard-earned tax dollars who burn our flag and drag our dead warriors though their streets. I, for one, am not going to allow our big-hearted, generous nation to be forced to cower to the Muslim extremists or their religion.
Leon Ceniceros, Mesa
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Accuracy posted at 10:30 am on Fri, Sep 24, 2010.
“Well, Mr. President, I, for one, am not. I am sick to death of seeing Americans being killed by these “peace-loving” countries,” Leon Ceniceros stated in the letter to the editor.
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Americans are being killed in Muslim countries for what? . . . For Muslims as the drums of war continue to beat around the planet.
Muslim Brotherhood, a wing of the Islamofascist movement supports the enforcing of the oppressive Shariah law, which is responsible for brutal religious persecution across the globe. And Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is in allegiance with the Muslim Brotherhood.
bigbearchaseme posted at 4:43 pm on Fri, Sep 24, 2010.
Really. This is what the paper has come to. Publishing racist giberish. Wow.
Perhaps, Leon, you are Catholic. The Inquisition was "needed" to purify. Maybe you are Christian. I guess you will ignore the teachings of "Christ" laid before us by those who perpetrated the Oklahoma City Bombing? Maybe Baptist? Do you believe in the teachings of Pastor Steven Anderson who prays for the death of a human? Regardless of your personal religious beliefs, there are radicals everywhere. To lump the few onerous ones in with the rest is despicable to those who love peace.
You do follow the bible and Christ's teachings then? All that stuff about -
“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else?" - Matthew 5:43-47
Oh, did you catch that? The President wasn't the only one who has said "Love thy enemies" (although for the life of me I can't find one instance where he said that exactly...) Good old Jesus Christ did.
So, do you follow Christ? Or is your Christ intolerant?
Accuracy posted at 5:59 pm on Fri, Sep 24, 2010.
It is hard to be a Christian in a Muslim-dominated society, especially in the Middle East where Christians were murdered in the streets. Despite the risks, some bold Christians feel compelled to share their faith with Muslims and other Middle Eastern people.
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” (Matthew 5:43-44)
Meanwhile, at the United Nations General Assembly, remarks were made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleging a US government role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
And President Barack Obama accused Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of making "offensive" and "hateful" comments.
Bingo6 posted at 8:32 am on Sat, Sep 25, 2010.
Sorry, Leon, don't lump me as a "We" in you low educated tirade.
Last time I read the "Constitution" (you can thumb through your pocket copy) The document guarantees the rights of all "AMERICANS" to worship or NOT worship as they D*** well please.
Your nonsense about the Muslim radicals in, "FOREIGN NATIONS" is totally irrelevent to our rights and the rights of all Americans under our constitution.
Quite frankly I'm much more concerned about people like you who only believe in our rights as long as they fit your own misguided agenda.
That along with the crazies from your demigod Glen Beck and his corporate billionare backed, Tea-Party movement as a threat far more dangerous to the health of our republic that anything a foreign extremist can do to this country.
You, sir and your nativist kind our the present and currrent danger to our Republic,domestically NOT, any outsider foreign national whose country does not celebrate the same right as we do.
Tolerance, even with its most horrible consequences at times, that you abhor is our most basic of all virtues, we lose that we lose our nation.