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Curious thing received from my grandmother

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This is a chain letter sent to me by my grandmother... admittedly she is from a small conservative town and a bit racist in a passive fashion (thinks poorly of blacks and hispanic I know maybe others, but won't let it show when she deals with them) and it is one of my sticking points with her advice a lot of times... so it comes as no surprise she sent this to me... my only question is in regards to the end... Is Obama a Muslim Extremist?? he would have to be a convert to their ways or an extremely long term project 50 years in the making


I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can!

Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it!

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality
that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back.

These events are actual events from history.

They really happened!!!

Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his w heelchair by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by
Muslim male extremists between the of 17 and 40.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by-- you guessed it--
Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us,
airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people...
Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and
Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss,
but leave
Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40
alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

According to The Book of Revelation:

The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power,
he will destroy everything.


And Now:
For the award winning
Act o f Stupidity
Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet --
The Presidency of the United states of America

A Muslim
Male
Extremist
Between
the ages
of 17 and 40.


Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ???

I'm sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the
'unknown' candidate.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense.
As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it,


'Stupid
Is
As
Stupid Does.'
That which is not dead can eternal lie and with strange eons even death may die
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My grandmother once sent me something similar to this. I sent her a very cordial reply in which I systematically ripped apart every single point made by the chain letter, thereby forcing her to reconsider many of the reasons she'd agreed with so many of the points. She's similarly close minded and more than a little racist, but I've been slowly working to show her that, hey, things change.

I suggest similar tactics. Now all she sends me are random clippings she gets from her geneology research. Sometimes there's a printed email from a random family member and, rarely, a $5 bill. Very rarely she'll send something more political, but I think I've made it pretty clear to her that I am not of a conservative bent, that I do not agree with most of her more racist views, and that I'm really not into the whole religion thing. She's coming around, slowly.
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Post by rydi »

um... propaganda?

Obama isn't an extremist in much of anything, except being moderately left wing. he isn't a practicing muslim, and never has been (how do you have a scandal with your former pastor and be muslim?), and where in fuck does the bible say all that?

the profiling, which is in no way related to the obama smear (why can't people make actual arguments that in some way relate to their primary topic?!), has a small bit of merit. As my ex-brother-in-law from pakistan said, it does make sense to pay more attention to people from those countries, and who are obviously not a part of your culture. that said, you don't stop scanning everyone else either. it was a WHITE MALE 17-40 that pulled of the second biggest terrorist attack in the US (right here in OK no less). or our own government, depending on who you listen to, but either way the demographic is the same.
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when you die, nothing happens. unless you're a muslim extremist male between the ages of 17 and 40, in which case everyone in the crowded marketplace you died in dies as well.

That said, I fucking hate shit like this, it offends every jaded sensibility I have left.

There will come a time when the united states of america needs to look at what it has become and what it's becoming, needs to look at what people believe and what people say they believe, a time when the only way to continue progressing into the future is to carve out the extremists and the racists and discard them like trash. People that are so ignorant and so hateful and so prejudiced, like the author of this letter, are part of that trash. The time will come when america has to take out the garbage or drown in it. That time is now.

The only kind of person that should not be tolerated is the kind of person that refuses to tolerate another person based on their race, heritage, or religion. Nothing else is acceptable.

America's economy is no longer the largest in the world. American culture is no longer spreading like it once was. American influence over developing countries is faltering. America's credibility with world leaders is all but gone. And America's military 'might' has been shown to be failing, as in the last ten years we have shown twice that the same tactics that defeated us in Vietnam still work today, and no developing country need fear the might of the United States any longer, we cannot effectively wage war on the scale it would be fought in. The last hope for America is cultural and political reform. We must fight the cancer that will kill us, should it continue unabated. In ten years the age of America's world leadership will have faded from memory, with new leaders taking over our former role, unless we can turn around and examine ourselves critically, and act upon what we find. But we won't. We won't do that because it would be unamerican, because we want to hate people for no reason, destroy civilizations for money, and cling to our tired greatness like a life line.

*cough*

/end rant
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Post by durden »

I considered doing a list of bad things done by white male christian extremists, but it's easier to just call people stupid...
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Post by rydi »

no, a list is worth it. then you can make a chain letter out of it and send it out. say mccain made you do it.
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Post by durden »

i might actually show the list to students. let them remark on it. this and that other story about the rape cover up you posted. good times.
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both good for students. gets them talking. did you send your protest?
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yeah. i want to find other sources on it. if I can better validate some of this, I'll have students craft responses.
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Those wacky old people and their silly racism.
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