“If America opts to turn from a TO to a FROM country, we’re finished.”
Jester you are a crazy bastard but this is really a great point. If we give in and become one of those places that lives on fear and restriction the terrorists will have “won” in a much more thorough way than even they could have dreamed.
“You people are talking about the first time you ever saw Muslims like it was the first time you saw an alien.”
I didn’t say that IJ, I said what I felt the first time I saw a burka. Big difference. I saw, and knew, Black Muslims in Harlem long before you were born.
lechacal, it’s mostly about people misinterpreting what other people have said…nothing new for the OT.
This is the worst raunch hour ever!
“I once heard someone say the only correct response to 9/11 was to rebuild the towers exactly like they were.”
That person wasn’t in real estate finance.
By daveinbedstuy on August 18, 2010 4:34 PM
I think most people misinterpreted what legion was saying. He did it in a snarky way so that a few took the bait
dibs,
if people are misinterpreting my words they fail to see the
subtlety in them,I can’t account for that.
to summarize:
honor killing=killing=bad
especially when based on a cultural/religious norms in direct opposition to American tradition.
“If America opts to turn from a TO to a FROM country, we’re finished.”
Jester you are a crazy bastard but this is really a great point. If we give in and become one of those places that lives on fear and restriction the terrorists will have “won” in a much more thorough way than even they could have dreamed.
I’m also rather chary of Sharia Law.
This entire thread = too long, didn’t read.
“You people are talking about the first time you ever saw Muslims like it was the first time you saw an alien.”
I didn’t say that IJ, I said what I felt the first time I saw a burka. Big difference. I saw, and knew, Black Muslims in Harlem long before you were born.
So let them mosque it up, I think. I once heard someone say the only correct response to 9/11 was to rebuild the towers exactly like they were.