Day: August 23, 2010

RonPaul.com:

Many fellow conservatives say they understand the property rights and 1st Amendment issues and don’t want a legal ban on building the mosque. They just want everybody to be “sensitive” and force, through public pressure, cancellation of the mosque construction.

This sentiment seems to confirm that Islam itself is to be made the issue, and radical religious Islamic views were the only reasons for 9/11. If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

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I hope independent and liberal voters in California will take note that the California Republican Party — which is having trouble attracting voters who aren’t old straight white men — chose to hold its convention at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, which is owned by Doug Manchester, who is famous for providing the seed money to get Prop 8 off the ground.

It was his donation of $125,000 to anti-gay activists early in 2008 that made it possible for them to pay professional petitioners to gather the required number of signatures to put Prop 8 on the ballot that year. When asked why he made the donation, Manchester was the soul of holier-than-thou piety, saying he was motivated by “my Catholic faith and longtime affiliation with the Catholic Church.”

You can guess what happened about six months later, but here it is anyway:

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