Showing posts with label american muslims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american muslims. Show all posts
Monday, November 12, 2007
Bad News For Americans Privacy Rights
After reading a good news story about Iraq, I found a "bad" news story about America, and concerns that we will lose more of our "rights", because of the war on terror card being played again! We all agree that things are different since 9/11, but really if we go so far overboard with giving up our rights, then the terrorists have already won, because they made us "change" who we are and that is their main purpose. Well maybe secondary purpose, obviously their main purpose is to kill us, but not living as Americans, is the death of our spirit and makes us less than who we are doesn't it!
As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.
We shall keep a close eye on how all of this plays out and will update when more information is available about the rights they want us to give up. After all the people testifying, basically are saying that we can trust businesses and government, to protect our privacy, and we all know how good the government is at running anything right, So this will just be one more fiasco in the making, and we will all be less safe for it!
bad news
Saturday, September 08, 2007
State of America Email I Received
I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, BUT NOT OUR SOCIETY. IF I OFFENDED ANYONE BY THIS, I REALLY DON'T APOLOGIZE.
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at
Roane County High School ,
Kingston , Tennessee ,
by school Principal, Jody McLeod
"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."
Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK.
I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK.
I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem...
I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology."
I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it enlightenment."
However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.
This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical .
Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.
Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical...
I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.
For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.
"However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.
They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD."
Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!
JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER."
If you are not ashamed, pass this on .
I went to several websites to see if this email was an urban legend and found it to be true. It occurred September 1, 2000, was delivered before the start of a Roane County football game!!
Have a Great Weekend!
email
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at
Roane County High School ,
Kingston , Tennessee ,
by school Principal, Jody McLeod
"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."
Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK.
I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK.
I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem...
I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology."
I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it enlightenment."
However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.
This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical .
Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.
Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical...
I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.
For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.
"However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.
They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD."
Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!
JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER."
If you are not ashamed, pass this on .
I went to several websites to see if this email was an urban legend and found it to be true. It occurred September 1, 2000, was delivered before the start of a Roane County football game!!
Have a Great Weekend!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Bali Conference Promotes Tolerance
I was just reading a very good story online at MSN news and have a link to it below.
There was a conference being held tuesday in Bali, Indonesia, as the world's most populous Muslim nation brought together religious leaders and victims of attacks by Islamic extremists.
A Jewish Holocaust survivor, one Sol Tiechman, 79, was one of those invited to speak at the conference and he made a plea for tolerance. Mr. Tiechman was a teenager living in Czechslovakia, whn his city was first occupied by the Hungarian army and then the Germans. He said that we should try and improve life instead of destroying it. He lost 70 family members to the Nazis including his sister, brothers, and grandparents, who were taken to Auschwitz,Warsaw, Dachau, Kaufering and Landsberg concentration camps before allied forces liberated them in 1945.
One of the goals of this meeting was to counter the conference last December which had been hosted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that tried to cast doubt on the killing of an estimated 6 millions Jews during World War II.
The daylong gathering on Bali island was attended by high-profile moderate Indonesian Muslim leaders, including former President Abdurraham Wahid, and Hindu spiritual head Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, as well as Buddhist teachers, a Jesuit priest and rabbis.
Victims of a terrorist attack in Israel and of suicide bombings by Muslim militants on Bali in 2005 were among participants. More than 220 people have died from two attacks in Bali.
Bali is a mostly HIndu city in Indonesia, which also has a Muslim population of some 190 million people, making it the largest Muslim nation in the world. The government is secular and people are mostly moderate, though there is a vocal militant minority that has grown in recent years.
I had several emplolyees who are from Indonesia and they are some of the nicest, calmest people considering all of the natural disaster's that have hit their nation. If there is going to be a New World Order, I would support allowing Indonesia to run it. Their peaceful ways would inspire us all to be better people.
Please take a look at the story and know that in a world where radical Muslims get most of the press, that there is a group of genuine moderates out there and we can only hope that their strain of Islam will be the winning one.
bali
There was a conference being held tuesday in Bali, Indonesia, as the world's most populous Muslim nation brought together religious leaders and victims of attacks by Islamic extremists.
A Jewish Holocaust survivor, one Sol Tiechman, 79, was one of those invited to speak at the conference and he made a plea for tolerance. Mr. Tiechman was a teenager living in Czechslovakia, whn his city was first occupied by the Hungarian army and then the Germans. He said that we should try and improve life instead of destroying it. He lost 70 family members to the Nazis including his sister, brothers, and grandparents, who were taken to Auschwitz,Warsaw, Dachau, Kaufering and Landsberg concentration camps before allied forces liberated them in 1945.
One of the goals of this meeting was to counter the conference last December which had been hosted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that tried to cast doubt on the killing of an estimated 6 millions Jews during World War II.
The daylong gathering on Bali island was attended by high-profile moderate Indonesian Muslim leaders, including former President Abdurraham Wahid, and Hindu spiritual head Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, as well as Buddhist teachers, a Jesuit priest and rabbis.
Victims of a terrorist attack in Israel and of suicide bombings by Muslim militants on Bali in 2005 were among participants. More than 220 people have died from two attacks in Bali.
Bali is a mostly HIndu city in Indonesia, which also has a Muslim population of some 190 million people, making it the largest Muslim nation in the world. The government is secular and people are mostly moderate, though there is a vocal militant minority that has grown in recent years.
I had several emplolyees who are from Indonesia and they are some of the nicest, calmest people considering all of the natural disaster's that have hit their nation. If there is going to be a New World Order, I would support allowing Indonesia to run it. Their peaceful ways would inspire us all to be better people.
Please take a look at the story and know that in a world where radical Muslims get most of the press, that there is a group of genuine moderates out there and we can only hope that their strain of Islam will be the winning one.
bali
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Are Young American Muslims To Be Suicide Bombers?
I was just reading the story on line about the new Pew Research Center survey which shows that one in four younger U.S. Muslims said in a poll that suicide bombings to defend Islam are acceptable in at least some circumstances, although most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly rejected the tactic and said they are critical of Islamic extremism and al Qaeda.
It is one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Most of the members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as does the general public. They are mostly willing to adopt American customs and have income and education levels similar to others in the U.S.
The trend that is most disturbing is that while nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam cannot be justified, 13 percent said they can be, at least rarely.
That sentiment was strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them said it often can be justified, 13 percent said sometimes and 11 percent said rarely.
At first read I was very concerned about this view, that it is alright to use suicide bombers to kill civilians, but it is a view that can be understood in the context of the question asked. The bases of the question was to defend their religion if it was under attack. Now we all know of homegrown terrorists, like the Columbine kids, and other young who “have” already killed, in kill and die scenarios, and they did it for much less laudable goals than protecting their religion. The hypothetical attack on religion might provoke a similar response if asked of any young person of any religious background if it were put in the right context.
I think we, all of us are more fearful of this scenario from muslims, because of the 9/11 attacks than anything else. I know that was my first thought when I read this report, but after a little more thinking I realized that most of the young people attacking and killing people in this country are school children, who are killing their peers, because they were picked on or some other reason to satisfy their feelings or a need to “go out in a blaze of glory”. These people choose the more bloody course of killing and then being killed by police or killing themselves if they are trapped. The better choice would be to just kill themselves if they are so miserable, but they are too selfish to do that.
The point of this is that while we should be alert to potential trouble from this sector of society, we should not automatically assume they will carry out suicide bombings. We were all young and made outrageous comments on occasion, or at least most of us did.
The truth is that no matter the number of people who believe this way, the majority are just people trying to live their lives as normally as possible. This is true of violence everywhere, from the KKK, Aryans, Latino gangs, Bloods, the Crypts, other black gangs, and groups in every nation on this planet have a minority who will kill for their beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be. Many are about religion as the Catholics against the Protestants in Ireland, or Sunni against Shiite in Iraq, but others are about money, turf, drugs, and other causes. The sad truth is people who want to commit violence will always find a reason to justify their actions and still the majority in each case do not believe this way.
We should just be thankful that so far these young “suicide bombers to be” have not felt sufficiently under attack to carry out any such bombings. This means there is still time to assimilate and Americanize these young people and then perhaps the only violence they will perpetrate will be through their video game systems.
Hopefully, they will discover over time that there is no war against Islam, except in the minds of the Islamic terrorists who want to over turn Western Civilization, and who see infidels everywhere.
Young Muslims
It is one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Most of the members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as does the general public. They are mostly willing to adopt American customs and have income and education levels similar to others in the U.S.
The trend that is most disturbing is that while nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam cannot be justified, 13 percent said they can be, at least rarely.
That sentiment was strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them said it often can be justified, 13 percent said sometimes and 11 percent said rarely.
At first read I was very concerned about this view, that it is alright to use suicide bombers to kill civilians, but it is a view that can be understood in the context of the question asked. The bases of the question was to defend their religion if it was under attack. Now we all know of homegrown terrorists, like the Columbine kids, and other young who “have” already killed, in kill and die scenarios, and they did it for much less laudable goals than protecting their religion. The hypothetical attack on religion might provoke a similar response if asked of any young person of any religious background if it were put in the right context.
I think we, all of us are more fearful of this scenario from muslims, because of the 9/11 attacks than anything else. I know that was my first thought when I read this report, but after a little more thinking I realized that most of the young people attacking and killing people in this country are school children, who are killing their peers, because they were picked on or some other reason to satisfy their feelings or a need to “go out in a blaze of glory”. These people choose the more bloody course of killing and then being killed by police or killing themselves if they are trapped. The better choice would be to just kill themselves if they are so miserable, but they are too selfish to do that.
The point of this is that while we should be alert to potential trouble from this sector of society, we should not automatically assume they will carry out suicide bombings. We were all young and made outrageous comments on occasion, or at least most of us did.
The truth is that no matter the number of people who believe this way, the majority are just people trying to live their lives as normally as possible. This is true of violence everywhere, from the KKK, Aryans, Latino gangs, Bloods, the Crypts, other black gangs, and groups in every nation on this planet have a minority who will kill for their beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be. Many are about religion as the Catholics against the Protestants in Ireland, or Sunni against Shiite in Iraq, but others are about money, turf, drugs, and other causes. The sad truth is people who want to commit violence will always find a reason to justify their actions and still the majority in each case do not believe this way.
We should just be thankful that so far these young “suicide bombers to be” have not felt sufficiently under attack to carry out any such bombings. This means there is still time to assimilate and Americanize these young people and then perhaps the only violence they will perpetrate will be through their video game systems.
Hopefully, they will discover over time that there is no war against Islam, except in the minds of the Islamic terrorists who want to over turn Western Civilization, and who see infidels everywhere.
Young Muslims
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