Obama: Think About A Trade-In

Nmysys wrote:

Why? Not all camel riders are Muslim and there are plenty of Muslim women who don't wear veils. Chill with the stereotyping.

Let me see if you and I can get this whole picture together so you can see where I was going with that statement.

IMO there is an underlying theme to everything that has been going on for the last over two years. You won't buy into it until it is too late, but I am going to lay it out anyway. You have read probably most of the threads over this last year. We have made claims that Obama is actually a Muslim. You do realize he was raised as one at least while he lived in Indonesia. He has proven to be against our strongest ally in the Middle East, Israel. He basically ordered Mubarak to step down, and has now jumped into a third war, in Libya. All of these efforts have had a destabilizing effect in the Middle East, allowing Iran to gain the power lost when we toppled Saddam Hussein. Instead of stopping their Nuclear Arms program, he said he would sit down with them and show them we are good people, and then did nothing. He bowed to the Saudi King. In Libya we are arming the rebels and it is rumored that many of them are Al Quaeda. We have argued on here about the attempt to build a Mosque at Ground Zero in N.Y.C. Meanwhile we are changing things in this country and allowing the Muslims to get even stronger here in the USA. All of this will eventually lead to IMO a takeover here in this country with Sharia law, and then, you will see that the only transportation available will be the camels, and you will have to abide by this Sharia law and wear the veil that I mentioned. That is my prediction of what is happening in this country and the world. I know you will not agree and give me all of your Liberal responses. Go ahead, your turn.

Nope, not gonna give you all my responses, because we will just continue to disagree. Instead, I'd like you to chew on some food for thought, which will require time. I'm going to go big picture: methinks that much of the protests against the growing numbers of Muslims, and even the coming minority status of whites in this country, is triggered by feelings of fear at the impending unknown of what that might mean for the balance of power and is kicking in preservation instincts - fight or flight. I see the Republicans stepped-up efforts at implementing their social agenda, marginalizing science, limiting the EPA, defunding Planned Parenthood, unfettered growth of the DOD, concentrating wealth and power in the upper echelon, restricting unions, and passing laws to allow creationism to be taught in science classes, as the outward manifestations of said fears; they are attempting to treat the symptoms and not the causes of their fears. (The Dems just seem to be clueless, and continue to spinelessly pander to corporate interests). How about a new paradigm? Learning from those not like you, acceptance, realizing that they bring both strengths and weaknesses, and agreeing that cooperation benefits all. Most Muslims are not at war with us, and the growing Hispanic population has yet to present a tangible threat.

Nmysys, do you seriously think that Americans would be so weak and stupid as to allow sharia law to overtake our way of life? We value our freedoms above all, and we're armed to the teeth - they ain't gonna take over by direct force. By subtly infiltrating our infrastructure and changing laws to benefit them? By increasing our fear so that we continue to let the federal government take more and more of our freedoms? The direction this country has been moving has been to increase power and influence toward the upper class - those who have a vested interest in keeping this country the same way it is now...

(And even if they did take over, they ain't importing camels here. They use cars too, you know...)