Tancredo and the Other Crazies

[erpowers]

I had wanted to post this yesterday, but just never got to it. Yesterday it was reported on the Lou Dobbs show that Tom Tancredo made another one of his stupid statments regarding the muslim world. I did not watch the whole show, but apparently Tancredo claimed that America must be willing to nuke muslim holy sites. This may be something he said earlier in that it sounds so similar to something he said earlier. However, the thing that really shocked and upset me was the number of people who seemed to agree with Tancredo. There were actually a number of people who emailed in saying they thought Tancredo was right. One person even wrote in claiming we should be will to bomb a place call Quam in Iran. I just never thought people in America would be so crazy. I just do not understand how people could think that by bombing things that people love would make those people leave Ameria alone. I contend that if the leaders of this country start bombing things muslims really love than we will see them bomb American sites. In addition, from what I have heard the Iranians are the mean muslims. They are the ones who are really willing to fight anyone. So, I think the leader of this country should definitely not start bombing things in Iran.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. The Iranians I know are anything but mean

They are gentle and kind with a graciousness and hospitality that can take your breath away. But then the Iranians I know are Sufis, which is a persecuted minority in that country. Last year, for example, the government destroyed a major Sufi center in Quam, and arrested, detained, and tortured hundreds of peaceful protesters. I would be, therefore, distrustful of the mullahs in power in Iran. Just for your information, though, those mullahs do not represent, politically or spiritually, everyone in that nation.

What Tancredo and his supporters want, really, is the destruction of all Islam, because they have mistakenly lumped all Muslims into the terrorist camp. I'm sure it was some of his supporters who have desecrated mosques in this country, and have thrown bricks through windows of stores run by Muslims, or who applauded the murder of a turban wearing Sikh after 911-they are afraid of anything "different". This theory is supported by the fact that after the OK City bombings, there wasn't mass hysteria against any sect of Christianity--people knew better. McVey and his comrades were a tiny minority, not representative of Christianity as a whole. No one demanded that all Christian ministers condemn the bombing-it was understood that they condemned it. No one required that all Christian churches go and talk to-and stop-the groups advocating killing of abortion providers and bombing of women's clinics. It was understood that these small, violent splinter groups did not represent the faith as a whole.

Tancredo and his ilk, however, demean and defame Islam in general, ignoring the fact that Muslim leaders have condemned the terrorism (including 600 imams in this country AND the heads of the various Sufi orders here), and demanding that we ordinary Muslim Americans somehow get the terrorists to stop, as if we had some magic wand we could wave over the terrorist right wing Muslims. These people are not interested in hearing the facts nor in finding out more about Islam itself. Their actions are based on fear and intentional ignorance.

[Sadie4629]

2. New version of MAD??

Mutually Assured Destruction. If the threat is out there that the holiest of Islamic sites would be targetted, then maybe "they" won't nuke NYC, or start a smallpox epidemic, or whatever the biggest threat to us would be. :shrug:

(Not to defend Tancredo, who is an idiot, but stating that we must be "willing" to do something is a far cry from saying we "will" or "should.)