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Title: And You Can Just Forget About Zoroastrians!
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Published: Nov 27, 2007
Author: Trapper John
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:56:33 by kiki
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I know that it's old news at this point, and that there have already been a number of diaries on the story, but I feel that it would be criminal for the front page of Daily Kos not to contain at least a brief condemnation of Mitt Romney's appallingly bigoted, stupid, and hypocritical statement that: ". . . based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration. First, it's just out-and-out bigotry for Romney to say that he would apply a religious test when selecting cabinet appointees, and that he would specifically apply that test against an oft-maligned religious community. It's reprehensible, it's transparently an attempt to score points with retrograde GOP primary voters, and Romney should henceforth be shunned by anyone claiming to respect religious freedom. Second, it's incredibly stupid to allocate cabinet positions based on the percentage of Americans sharing a candidate's religious preference. Finally, it's breathtakingly hypocritical for a member of a religious minority -- one who has spent a substantial amount of time attempting to overcome the religious bigotry of his own party -- to then seek to beat up on an even less popular religious group, on the ostensible grounds that they constitue a small percentage of citizens. And it's just as hypocritical for an avowed opponent of quotas in affirmative action to support religious quotas at the highest levels of government. But then, that's Mitt Romney. The protean politician. A man who will say anything and attack anyone if he thinks it'll help him get elected. If he thought that the Muslim vote would put him in the White House, he'd promise to name three Muslim cabinet secretaries, regardless of their qualifications. Alas, Muslims are unpopular now in certain corners of your seedier political parties, so you can count on Mitt to bash away.
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#1. To: kiki (#0)
But Zorro-astrians are OK.
Uh, Mittsy, believe it or not most people are not satisified with the position of supplicant.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
April 12, 2007 - Bryan Schwartzman, Staff Writer Haverford College political scientist Harvey Glickman stated during a recent presentation that various population studies now show that Muslims, and not Jews, represent the largest non-Christian religious group in the United States. Glickman, also a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said that estimates as to the number of Muslims residing in America range from between 3 million to more than 6 million, though he believes the true figure to be closer to the higher end of the spectrum. According to the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey, an estimated 5.2 million Jews live in the United States. The Main Line Reform Temple-Beth Elohim member made his remarks during a lecture last week at La Salle University titled "The Challenges Facing Muslim Americans Since 9/11 -- The Political Context." He said that American Muslims -- the majority of whom are not Arab, but hail from South Asia or are African-American -- are going through an assimilation process, complete with certain discrimination, similar to what Jews and Catholics before them experienced. In addition, the entire process has been complicated by the war on terror and the American presence in Iraq. Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
I wonder if Trapper learned of many historical examples at an early age.
And You Can Just Forget About Zoroastrians!
I've already said too much.
#2. To: kiki (#0)
". . . based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.
#3. To: kiki (#0)
Mitt's the pitts.
#4. To: kiki (#0)
U.S. Muslim Population Tops Jews, Says Scholar
#5. To: kiki (#0)
First, it's just out-and-out bigotry for Romney to say that he would apply a religious test when selecting cabinet appointees, and that he would specifically apply that test against an oft-maligned religious community.
 | “There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.” -- Calvin Coolidge, "Whose Country Is This?",Good Housekeeping |
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