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Posted by admin on October 16, 2009 under Internet, Opinion, Religion | 
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Posted by admin on September 6, 2009 under Opinion, Politics | Comments are off for this article
Things Only a Republican Could Believe:
* Parents who don’t want their children to pray in school are Anti-American zealots — parents who don’t want their children to listen to a speech by the President of the United States telling them to work hard and get good grades are noble patriots.
* Peacefully demonstrating against the country starting an international war is treason — showing up with automatic weapons to protest healthcare reform is democracy at its finest.
* Any government official with a desk job should have every action scrutinized — any government official with a badge and a gun should never be questioned or disrespected. At all. Ever.
* Questioning the legitimacy of an election because the “winner” was selected by the Supreme Court is sour grapes — questioning the legitimacy of an election because the winner (by the largest number of votes in American history) is really a Kenyan born Muslim despite all evidence to the contrary is being a vigilant American.
* Lying about a blowjob is an impeachable offense — lying about a war is no big deal, really.
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Posted by admin on July 8, 2009 under Crime, Opinion, news | Read the First Comment
It’s not really surprising that the Metro Nashville Police Department has decided that Sahel Kazemi killed Steve McNair in the pro-quarterback’s condo last week. Supposedly Kazemi and McNair were alone when the shooting happened, McNair was shot two times in the chest, and 1 time in the head from over 3 feet away, then one final shot to his temple for the coup de grace. According to Metro PD, Kazemi then shot herself in the temple, and collapsed on the gun.
But does this even make sense? 
According to Kazemi’s nephew she didn’t own a gun. She told the nephew that McNair “has enough guns” if she needed one for protection. But according to Metro PD she bought a gun from “a guy” on July 2nd, the same day she got a DUI in Nashville, with McNair in the car.
Posted by admin on December 18, 2008 under Internet, Opinion, Religion, news | Read the First Comment
The Associated Press is reporting that an Atlanta judge briefly jailed a Muslim woman named Lisa Valentine for contempt of court, for refusing to remove her head scarf at the security checkpoint. Mrs. Valentine was apparently at the court accompanying her nephew who was facing a traffic violation hearing.
According to Mrs. Valentine’s husband, Omar Hall, she was stopped by security guards at the metal detector for refusing to remove her head scarf and barred from entering. She then apparently turned to leave the courthouse, and swore at the security officers. Officers arrested her on the spot and took her before the judge where she was held in contempt. She was quickly released following pressure brought by the Council on American-Islamic Relations with Federal officials, citing a violation of her religious freedoms.
Naturally Muslim groups are calling her jailing “outrageous” (source), but is it? Is it really outrageous to expect courtroom security officers to enforce these rules for everyone’s safety?
Here’s an image of a Muslim woman in a Burqa. Can you really say you’d be fine with letting her pass through a security check point dressed like this?
So what’s the answer? Putting a Muslim woman at all security checkpoints so they can go and privately be screened by a member of their own faith? Definitely not. Not only would this be outrageously expensive, it smacks of preferential treatment and in my opinion violates the separation of church and state. How could the government hire Muslim women to take this security position without violating discrimination laws? It could not.
Maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal. So some Muslim women want to enter the court wearing the head scarf or Hijab. What about Catholic Nuns, do they have to remove their head gear? What about Sikhs, do they take off their turbans? My answer to that is an emphatic yes, and yes.
Religious tolerance is one thing, but it should always take a back seat to the welfare of the citizenry. For example, when Christian Fundamentalists refuse medical treatment to their critically ill children, they have been charged with child abuse. Or when other Christian Fundamentalists have beaten their children, in some cases to death, while “exorcising them of demons” they’ve been rightly charged with assault and murder. (Reference)
Mrs. Valentine said, she “just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights,” but what about the rights of everyone else in the court room to a modicum of security, surely that supercedes any argument of religious tolerance.