Speaker Pelosi: Stand Up for Muslim Women, Not Islamists Like Rauf!
Honorable Speaker Pelosi:
I heard you say that the people who oppose the construction of the Ground Zero mosque should be investigated.
Investigate me. I oppose the construction of that mosque.
This mosque, built in such close proximity to Ground Zero, is intended to send a message to America and another message to the Muslims who are gravitating toward human rights laws and secularism. We are sure that this mosque will cause nothing but division and justified ill will towards Muslims in this country.
I came to America as a political refugee, fleeing from the Islamic rule in Iran that subsumed a secular, woman-respecting government. As a human, woman, and a mother, I could not live under nor subject my daughter to such brutal, barbarian tyranny. What I see now occurring in my new home, America, is Islamists forcing their policies in bits and pieces, here and there. It is terribly disconcerting, not only to me but to all Iranian Americans and the large majority of Muslims who came to America to live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
Madam Speaker: The Islamists are using the laws of this greatest of democracies to implement their ideology in any way they can — whether by propaganda, intimidation, the misuse of political correctness or anti-discrimination policies, or the minority status that this society puts at their disposal. Plus the most powerful of all tools, the money — the limitless petrodollars coming from foreign Islamist dictators with anti-democratic agendas.
Because the American Constitution calls for the separation of religion and government, the Justice Department, the ACLU, and others constantly minimize the influence Christianity and Judaism have on American secular society. What we, American Muslims, wonder: why is there an exception for Islam from the rules applied to others, even though the Islamic human rights record is deeply problematic and contrary to all the civil rights and individual rights laws of this great republic?
Why is Islam given a pass that is not given to Christianity or Judaism?
Madam Speaker: You are a powerful woman in the world, but you don’t care much about the human rights of hundreds of millions of women and children who need the support of the people like you to gain their individual freedom. You claim to be for the women’s right to choose, but then you ignore the right of women and children to have human dignity!
A large majority of America’s Muslims, women and girls, are living under sharia laws. Stripped of their human dignity.
You support the construction of the mosque but you don’t support the women and girls who are forced to wear hijabs against their will. Muslim women and girls live in seclusion, on the fringes of society, without recourse because of their families’ religion. In the name of religious freedom, political correctness in America only pleases the patriarchal hierarchy of the Muslim world. In the name of religious freedom, America permits Muslim communities to run a state within a state, perpetuating the patriarchal crimes against helpless women and children who should have their constitutional rights defended.
When “Muslim men” are given extra privileges that are definitely not granted to those of other religions, my Muslim sisters and I see this as the gravest discrimination committed in America.
Madam Speaker: We came to America to live in peace and harmony with Americans. We don’t want to be identified by our religion. We want to be identified by our cultures and the content of our characters. We want to be Americans, not Muslim-Americans.
We don’t want our girls forced by their fathers to wear hijabs, and to be embarrassed among their peers in American schools. We want to be free to practice — or not practice — our religion. We also want to be free to “choose.”
Unfortunately, politicians like you have chosen to cater to the worst among us — the Muslim dictators and the so-called community leaders. Ignoring the rest of us, Muslim women and children, as if we don’t exist.
The Islamists will not stop until Islam rules the world. Ayatollah Khomeini declared that Iran was a platform toward a Muslim world.
All of us American Muslims know that this is the most democratic country on Earth, and we are well aware of the Constitution and the meaning of freedom of religion in America. We luxuriate in that freedom, and we celebrate it, and we defend it.
You know well that the question here is not freedom of religion, or respect for Muslims! This is nothing but pure politics — sacrificing humanity in the name of religion for the sake of ideological politics.
We want America to treat Islam like it treats Christianity and Judaism, and to stop exempting Muslims from requirements imposed on others. We want Islam to be challenged by the same questioning, criticism, and control that is applied to other religions. Please stop pampering Islam to appease the terrorists and dictators.
Madam Speaker: The Age of Enlightenment changed the face of Judaism and Christianity, but Islam remains trapped in the 6th century. Here we have the Constitution and law. Apply it evenly to all — no exceptions for Islam. Support freedom from religion for the women and children suffering under Islamic law in America.
It always takes a real heroine to snuff out the posers, those who pretend to care about the plight of others, yet do EVERYTHING to obstruct their inalienable rights.
Such is the diseased mindset of ‘progressives/Marxists/socialists’ or whatever the heck they are labeled.
The proof as they say is always in the pudding.While Muslim women are subjugated by the most oppressive of all dictates via Sharia, Pelosi & her gang seek to ensure a smooth transition of Sharia into US society. While Iranian women were beaten before the world during the fraudulent elections-and at every juncture that they oppose the brutal mullahs- not a word of protest was uttered by ‘Madame Speaker’.Hmm…
Therefore, the only conclusion to be drawn is this-leftists/progressives etc are in ideological lockstep with Islam-United In Their Hate of all free people!!
I strongly agree that is would have be better to speak up for the females in the muslim mosques. Too many of these women have suffered too much. Today, if these women speak against the injustice that is part of their daily live, the men will murder/beat them into silence. Remember that in muslim society, the male has custody of the children.
There are some stories that are smuggled out for us to hear. But the identity of the woman is kept secret. We hope that one day they will be able to speak freely about the troubles they endure.
Until that day, we can be a voice speaking on their behalf.
First, I’m glad you came here and escaped from Iran’s Islamic overthrow. As I’m probably preaching to the choir, how many idiot, I’m sorry to be so pejorative, women married Islamic men in the late 70s and then went to Iran only to have their passports stolen, and been forced to live in slavery.
As for Nancy Pelosi; making a plea to her is like the old song, “you don’t spit into the wind.” Nancy should never be begged from anyway. She should be mocked, marginalized, and ignored. Doesn’t her head scarf wearing dhimmitude demonstrate clearly what kind of groveling political sand snake you are dealing with. Don’t get anywhere near her, lest she be within striking distance.
“Why is Islam given a pass that is not given to Christianity or Judaism?”
Why? Because Christians and Jews don’t strap bombs on themselves and blow up trains or restaurants or fly jet planes into buildings, that’s why. I’ve come to the conclusion that people like Mayor Bloomberg in New York City or Obama think it’s a lot cheaper and easier to simply inslut or ignore the feelings and rights of Christians and Jews in this country than to stand up for American principles in the face of possible attacks from Islamic extremists. What a bunch of cowards and multicultural appeasers we now have running this country. Instead of standing tall and standing for freedom, we now justify any form of barbaric treatment on individuals and cloak it under that pathetic heading of “multiculturalism.”
You want to stone a person to death for supposed adultery? No problem, it’s allowed under multiculturalism. You want to treat women and girls like chattel? Don’t worry, your society allows it. You want to allow the raping of women and the killing of gays? Hey, knock yourself out, if it’s OK by you then it’s OK by us. You have a religion that says it’s OK to turn children into suicide bombers or to issue “fatwas” calling for the death of 3,000 Americans? Well, no religion is perfect, right?
And even when our limp-wristed politicians object to something, they say they “condemn” those actions. Ooooooo, that will make those radical Islamists shake in their sandles. If we don’t stand up to these animals in our own country, how can we expect them to fear us overseas? So long as these politically correct, multicultural jerks remain in power here in the west, we will eventually lose our struggle against radical Islamists. And if Muslims like Manda Zand Ervin can see this, why can’t our own politicians?
“Why? Because Christians and Jews don’t strap bombs on themselves and blow up trains or restaurants or fly jet planes into buildings, that’s why”
Spot on. I wish I said this.
Libertyship46,
That was one of the most focused and accurate posts on this subject I’ve ever read. Thank you.
Why is Islam given a pass? There is the saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Pelosi and company hate the Christians and Jews (or perhaps what they stand for, and not the people who believe). Without Christianity or Judaism then there would be no resistance to many of the policies that they wish to impose (to many Christians and Jews who believe that the state is not the supreme being). By giving free reign to Islam they believe that they can wipe out the influence of the two true religions. They then hope that once that happens they will be able to control the non-true religion (and after watching the corruption that is occurring in Iran and Saudi Arabia, which is worse than what we see here, they may be right. Just give a few mullahs some kickbacks and some virgins and they’ll be happy).
Dear Miss Ervin: I know that your letter is just a device to express your position, but, nevertheless: Don’t get your hopes up. If Nancy Pelosi is willing to usurp the Constitution and violate individual rights (through socialist legislation), she’s not likely to care a fig about the persecution of women in any Islamic country or culture. More likely, she’ll accuse you of bigotry and “cultural imperialism.” I think you underestimate her fundamental nihilistic character. She, and President Obama, and Chris Dodd, and Harry Reid and others are intent on destruction for the sake of destruction. And don’t you think it is odd that, for example, for all the feminist college professors in this country, not one (that I am aware of) has uttered or written a word against the brutal treatment of women in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other Islamic countries? It would not seem so odd unless one grasps that these feminists are as anti-life and anti-Man as any random environmentalist or imam or mullah. Their heads are in the sulfuric clouds of moral and cultural relativism, and they, like Pelosi, can’t be bothered with genuine rights issues.
And what about the “National Organization of (Some) Women”? You don’t hear a peep out of them.
Pelosi is a scum-bag just like her father.
While I appreciate your letter and your position and sympathize deeply with the plight of women and girls forced to live under these conditions, after reading your article, I can’t understand how you can claim to still be a muslim or why you would even want to be a muslim. It is the most blatantly misogynist of all creeds. You have rightly rejected Islam and Sharia. Good for you.
Stand tall ex-muslims of the world. May your numbers continue to grow exponentially until this pedophile worshipping, woman hating, 7th century desert mooncult is no more than a bad memory. Inshallah.
Thank you for expressing this.
Miss Ervin, welcome – join us Catholics in the realization that Madam Pelosi’s leftism trumps all. It trumps her gender, it trumps her religion and it trumps her politics. Nothing else but equality of outcome is important to the leftist. She and her ilk would rather see the United States destroyed rather than some obscure group “discriminated against.” Leftist women will not help us or sympathize with us. It is up to us though, to turn the ship around and get back on course. THank you for your heartfelt words and stay the course. We will get it right again.
Great article, this is what I have been asking!! Why the cowtowing and cover up by the pols and the msm??? Why is the msm not outraged when there has been an honor killing in the United States??? Why the cover up??/
Speaker Pelosi………….do you also want to include Muslim boys being used as sex slaves which is also happening in the United States as we speak? Is the Victory Mosque Imam using young boys as sex slaves and not being prosicuted?
This is the Muslim culture……………..Pathetic! Stop all Islamic immigration into the United States!
Video attached and graphic:
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/sex-slaves-more-on-the-bacha-bazi-dancing-boys-of-afghanistan/
Well put, Manda. This doesn’t smack of taqiyah.
I can’t wait for hookers to become a political force so we can watch Pelosi pander to them, too!
Liberals,progressives,marxists,terrorists are promoting the sharia system and using sharia compliant financing to support their globalization ideology. They should all be exposed for what they are, traitors to Liberty and Freedom. Women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi should especially be ashamed since they are not only betraying the foundations of the US Constitution and US sovereignty, but they are also betraying women and children.Did Hillary run to the UN about the atrocities of Sharia in the US? No she was more concerned with attacking Governor Jan Brewer for trying to do her job and protect her borders from criminals,cartels and hezbolla.
Thank you for your open letter. I HOPE that we can CHANGE the course that we are on now and Stop Shariah.
Manda,
Thank you for your exceptionally well written article. But please don’t stop sharing your thoughts with us. I suspect you must be a very brave woman and mother to have stuck your neck out so far. But now that you have, please let us get to know you a little better. We need to know what kind of Muslim you are. There is much debate over the difference between Moderate and Radical Islam. The silence from the Moderates has been deafening. Perhaps for good reason. Your voice is a strong one and you will find that you have many more friends than you may think.
The “Three Things About Islam” video is really the starting point, the least you should know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w
And here is where you can find it in the Qur’an that men are encouraged to beat their wives, in many english translations to avoid confusion.
http://www.investigateislam.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=83
Child abuse severely punished in the western world is allowed in Islam according to Sharia law. Why? Because Muhammed did it.
http://www.investigateislam.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=72
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhy1oWYCbA
No Sharia law in the US, EVER. Muslim women and children living in this nation are counting on the constitution to protect them.
Good luck getting a dimwit like like Nancy Pelosi to even begin to get why the proposed mosque in lower Manhattan is an abomination. She and fellow ideologues will even gloss over the lying of the imam and the corruption of the backers.
I understand your plea, but Pelosi is the wrong person to appeal to. Even the Pope couldn’t convince her to stand against abortion, and she is a Catholic!
The best hope is that Ms. Pelosi’s so-called “power” is diminished by the November elections and that she no longer serves as Speaker of the House or third in line for the presidency (there’s a scary thought!).
Many liberals in America will automatically stand with Islam (without any thought whatsoever) as they are conditioned to stand with anyone perceived as an underdog or victims. It makes the takeover job of radical Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood, so much easier to have so many ignorant dupes.
Your picture of Nancy in a headscarf was taken when she went to Syria to (obsequiously) hobnob with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
thanks for speaking out–you are the MUSLIM(s)in the WEST I have had most concern for- I speak out against ISLAM I am not shy about it, nor innocent of it’s evils, at a certain point I KNEW I must.
Sadly you are the people who will be most affected by intransigence of ISLAM- there is no way for us to KNOW which MUSLIM is the next time bomb- and the time bombs are ruining it for those of you who came here to ESCAPE ISLAMiC totalitarianism.
Yes I too would be alarmed to see the nation I escaped to for freedom, become just like home- and provoking civil war- you, the nice, apolitical or not religious, who escaped will be lumped into the MUSLIM category-
after 9-11 I fully expected some fellow citizens to take to the streets-I asked my dry cleaner (who has brown skin and looks Muslim) to please be very careful- I was happy to be wrong- USA PROVED it’s tolerance it’s LACK OF RACISM- and yet we stand accused of intoleracne and racism by pro-ISLAM including our PREZ Pelosi and CO- they insist they cannot see what is happening in front of our eyes- USA has been SOLD to the higest bidder_ KSA
Dear Manda,
I applaud you for writing this letter: As an Iranian woman, I especially appreciate the following passages:
“We came to America to live in peace and harmony with Americans. … We want to be Americans, not Muslim-Americans.”
“We want Islam to be challenged by the same questioning, criticism, and control that is applied to other religions. Please stop pampering Islam to appease the terrorists and dictators.”
A MUST READ: 4 Stages of Islamic Conquest ~ and it is all happening right now in America ~
the underlying theme of the left, is their utter, burning hatred of true Bible believing Christianity. anybody who hates the GOD of the Bible as much as the leftists do, is all right with them. that’s why they embrace islam, hinduism, buddhism, etc. the goal of the left is to erase any vestige of the christianity of our founding as a nation. as ronald reagan said “when we forget we are one nation under GOD, we will be a nation gone under” that’s why obama stood in the muslim world and proclaimed loud and clear, that we are not a christian nation. the founders escaped institutional religions and knew we couldn’t have a state religion as in europe (where true christians were persecuted, killed and run out), but our country was, none the less, based on the Bible and GOD’s law, from whence came our strength and greatness.
hi Manda!I too am from Iran. I also agree with you thta muslims get a free pass. while I was raised in a conservative muslim household, my dislike and hate of iSLAM are not any less af any other organzed religion. I hate them all. I blog on Jihadwatch.com and I am very oppsed to that mosque being built there. I work in NYC and I was in the city when the plane hit WTC building. Islam is unforgiving and muslims in general do not assimilate. this is a huge problem. and I agree with you. the probelm is with our system of government.liberal/conservative or otherwise. our system of government here is basde on bribery. who ever gives more gets more. so pelosi does not say anything about the plight of women in muslim countries and nither did bush/clinton/bush/reagan. we MUSLIMS who see the evil in ISLAM are the only people who can change this. we are the one who expiriernced this evil religion first hand and know that it has nothing to offer but intolorance/violance/regression and back wardness. poticks do not belong to this issue. any politician who takes a stance against this musque being build there in a no good politican. this is separation church and state. I am not sure if she is doing this to get the muslim votes or rick lazio who is against is wants to get more votes. what we need to do to educate the americans here and to make sure Islamists are not going to take over. it is a tough battle. you also need to realize that Iran is far different of an Islam than the rest of them. 99% of the Islamsts who are here and intolorant are Suadis/pakistanis/yemenis. they follow the strict wahabbi version of islam which is the most violent sect of Islam. the saudis fund all of these projects and every member of our government is in bed with them/liberal or conservative.
AZADI/SOLH!!!!
Miriam Rove,
I’ve seen your posts before. I don’t always agree with what you write, but I think you have much to contribute….. not the least of which is your experience as a Muslim. May I take issue with you on a few things:
1. It’s one thing to not like, even hate, a religion and not want to belong… it’s quite another to HATE them all! Do you really see the moral equivalent of Islam (in all, or most, it’s forms) in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism? I see some but very little. 2. I agree that bribery of our politicians is a problem. But don’t you think it can be, and often is, dealt with? 3. You say you are against the Mosque, but that any politician who takes a stand against it is “No Good”. Do you not want to see our politicians speak out on the issues… so you know where they stand? I sure do. 4. I agree with you that the Saudi’s, and many other foreign interests have far more influence in our country than should be allowed. That’s why the money that will fund the GZM should be disclosed.
wayne: I have always said if it was not for religion we would not be having this discussion. Islam today is exactly the same the dark days of christianity. the reason that chrsitianity is reformed because they had a 700 year head start to Islam.
how is bribery often dealt with? I guess what I mean by that is the specail interest. those who contribut get the most. I have been here 32 years and nothing has changed.
politicains may not get involved where a house of prayer should or should not be built. this is separation church and sate.
i am not sure if were the money is coming from should be disclosed unless it is coming from a criminal source. while the saudis are one the biggest criminals out there, they will not be investigated beacuse all politicains are in bed with them.
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If you do not investigate where any money comes from, you do not know if it is criminal or not. All money should have a tag saying where it came from…for any project that involves anything international in particular.
The government is not going to investigate “any” “any” thing to do with the Saudi family. You are right, our government is in bed with them…we need ask..’to what end”
Whom ever gives the most to the party gets the favors granted, period. It doesnt seem to matter the country..it’s always been a case of follow the money. Perhaps this is the reason there is not a government around that has lasted for any great length of time.
America is quite young and already succumbing to the lure of money and favors, power.
What place a person like pelosi thinks she will play in a “man’s world” that Islam represents is beyond me.
She should be held up as a figure of ridicule, NOT respect.
A great post but, and this is important, there is no mention of the separation of church and state in the Constitution.
Sean,
The First Amendment of the Constitution states basically that the Congress shall pass no law respecting religion… one way or the other. I get your point, however, separation of Church and State, through First Amendment interpretations, has been institutionalized in US Courts… and rightly so. I think Manda is only asking that the US Courts provide her and others, who might otherwise be oppressed by Islamists, the same protections provided everyone else from other religions. It does seem a small thing to ask given the level of oppression coming out of Islam compared to say Christianity, Buddhism etc.
I don’t care if the courts have institutionalized a non-existent “separation of church and state”. What can be institutionalized can be deinstitutionalized whether you think it should be that way or not.
This country was founded on Christian/Judeo principles or this whole discussion would be moot. There would be no U.S.A. as we know it. People who came to this country thanked God that they finally reached here. Everything accomplished was done with thanksgiving to God. This freedom to express religion is one reason, among many, why people emigrate from their countries to the U.S.
We do not have a government established religion(this is banned by the 1st amendment) so no one who comes here will have to support a faith different from their own or be ruled by it. The state is not allowed to ban or meddle in religious affairs, which it seems to be doing when it comes to Muslims. They should neither encourage nor discourage particular religions. IMO government has no right to intrude into religions and the fact that they do is indicative of the way our country has strayed from the rights bestowed upon us by Constitutional amendments.
Charie,
I agree with much of what you write. I think the government should have stayed out of this discussion. But as soon as Bloomburg… and then O’Bama, opened their big traps we now have the government to deal with, in addition to the Muslims themselves. With them taking such a strong stand in favor of the GZM, and of Islam, our only recourse is to vote the bastards out this November and again in 2012.
You write “..no one who comes here will have to support a faith different from their own or be ruled by it..” Adherents to Islam are advocates of just the opposite. So, you see, we are going to have to deal with Islam, in a way very unlike the way we deal with all other religions in this country, be they Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Atheist or agnostic.
Fortunately, we do have experience in this. During the late 1800′s we were jailing Mormons by the hundreds and threatening to confiscate their property, mostly over the polygamy issue. At that time, the Mormon leaders were just as belligerent as Islam’s leaders of today. Today the Mormons are a modicum of a peaceful, Christian, pro American religion.
A very well thought out and well written letter. I hope you sent copies to every Senator and Congressman as well as the President. Not only those in office now but those soon to be elected should have a copy waiting for them when they arrive.
I have been following the happenings in Iran since the elections and hopefully your own country can throw off the shackles of these Mullahs that have taken the freedom your people so deserve. I also hope this government of ours wakes up to your plight and throws it’s full support behind the people of Iran. I truly believe a free and secular Iran will be the best thing that has ever happened in the Middle East.
Here’s email addresses for the Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
and website to find them for the House:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
Pelosi:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact/
I once sent a document to all Senators–took me about 3 days on their web email forms, but worth it!
I suspect Ms. Pelosi will be unmoved by this. She will interpret it,and her advisers will reinforce her view, as the ravings of another Islamophobe “pretending” to be a Muslim but more likely another one of those radical right wing tea baggers that make her quiver pathetically in fear of the violence to come. She says she’s seen it all before remember during her selfless public service for the citizens of that great bastion of American patriotism, San Francisco, CA.
Nonetheless, Nancy with the smiling face may be unimpressed but most of the rest of us are and assure you that we intend to knock the wicked witch of the west off her Speakers throne come November. If you are a citizen of this great nation gather your friends and relatives and get out and vote.
Ms. Ervin,
You are right to directly address Speaker (not for long) Pelosi about this issue, even if it is unlikely she will see the light. The truth must be spoken from every street corner and from every high place. I have tried to get people in my little college town of leftists – the sociologists and so forth – interested in the writings of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, even to the point of giving out free copies of her book; but they just are not interested. But to address them publicly so that people can see their apathy, or even hostility, is worth the effort to expose them.
Nancy knows things that we do not..and she is siding with who she believes will win…
I congratulate you on this courageous, thoughtful, and powerful editorial. As a writer who works to inform Americans of the plight of Muslim women in the West, I would be honored to speak with you and will try to contact you directly. I am humbled by your work.
Miriam Rove, I am also aware of your writings and congratulate you as well for your post here and for your strength in coming forward so often for the truth.
thank you
you must be reading something that I am not aware of with Miriam..completely unaware and I have read her postings here.
@Thomas_L……
Strange as it may seem, there are some ‘muslims’ who just worship allah – the same way lots of anglicans (CofE) just worship an indefiable ‘god’ of their childhood.
It is hard to break away from from childhood conditioning and feeling guilty about denying the existence of the supernatural.
However, Mohammed/Muhamed was merely human – and a 7th. century, extremely primitive, used camel seller at that. To ignore his misogynistic, arrogant, childish and violent example as something that we, as a society, have grown out of, is easier than denying a personal god. Many of these people still wish to consider themselves followers of allah. This is what is meant when they claim that muslims existed before 622CE. (Rather like the the jews and the christians, same god different prophet/messiah.)
Having been an atheist all my life, I don’t have this problem, but I am able to recognise and sympathise when I see it.
Thank you for having the courage too speak the truth about Islamic sharia law. My question to you is, why do you stay in a religion that treats women, gays and nonbelievers so brutally. I know that Muslim men treat their women worst than dogs. I know it is scary but you have taken the first step for you and all Islamic women, by talking about this subject. The next step. which is probably scarier for you is to walk or run away from these so called Islamic men. Believe me there are people willing to help you and all the others being mistreated. We can end this nightmare, but only with your help, GOD BLESS YOU and go in peace in the name of GOD!
It’s very difficult to see the rational, wisdom or positive outcome that could result from building this mosque near Ground Zero. The organizers, planers and financiers could not have been driven by their overt claims: love and reconciliation.
They want to show that America is intolerant country, therefore should not promote religious freedom and democratic reforms in Arab and Muslim tyrannically ruled sates. Next move will be introducing Shariah under another disguise.
Wayne, I agree. But you’re also assuming that Pelosi and other progressives actually defend the Constitution, which I do not believe they do; even your President has said that it is an imperfect document. Well, not to my eyes.
I think what progressives in Congress and in the courts have trouble with is the founding principle that all men are created equal, as well as the people’s unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, because these were bestowed by God–or if you are an atheist, at the moment of your birth. Those words were written to ensure no act of Government can infringe upon them. Ever. So I am not surprised when progressives try to substitute Government for “the laws of nature and nature’s God”in America’s founding principles; it is the only way they can gain supreme power and make the people dependent upon them.
Living in Canada, I am entranced by what I see occurring in the US. I’m not particularly religious nor am I hard right wing (I’m more Libertarian), but I see a slow train coming and both entrenched political parties are looking the wrong way down the tracks. And that train, driven by everyday Americans, not racist, ignorant old white people that the progressives and MSM portray them as, cannot be stopped. When that train runs over the ruling classes in Washington, and the US returns to its founding principles, women like Manda will see justice. Not social justice or environmental justice, the smokescreen of Marxist ideology to soothe the useful idiots, but what your founders envisioned when they carefully worded the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights–the envy of the common man around the world and the enemy of tyrants. Reagan said it perfectly: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
I estimate this letter took me about 2 minutes to read. Could it also be read aloud in the same 2 minutes on the evening newscasts of all of the major networks? Ms. Ervin, do you or anyone else at PJM, know how to make that come to pass? What an intriguing thought, that this could be broadcast out to millions of Americans at the same time. Perhaps as a “final thought” on programs like 60 Minutes or any of the evening news/talk shows.
Here is Nancy Pelosi’s twitter feed.
Today she wished Muslims celebrating Ramadan “joy, wisdom, and countless blessings.”
On August 3rd, she wished the Sing Tao newspaper a happy 35th birthday.
On July 6th Nancy Pelosi wished the Dalai Lama a happy 75th birthday.
On July 4th the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives didn’t do a darn thing on Twitter for the 4th of July — no “Happy Birthday America” or “God/Allah/Aqua Buddha bless the USA” or anything else.
This is one of our top leaders? Be afraid, be very afraid.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is “fictional,” according to biblical scholars.In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children’s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.”
Cybercast News Service repeatedly queried the speaker’s office for two days to determine where the alleged Bible quote is found. Thus far, no one has responded. …
Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn’t exist – it’s “fictional.” “It is not in the Bible,” Mariottini said. “There is nothing that even approximates that.”
OK, I’ll call you Roy, I remember Peloisi saying she believed in “The Word.”. I think the word she believed in was Pelosi and nothing else
This Lady from Iran has won my respect. She speaks with such power of conviction and thruth. The kind that speaker Pelosi lacks. She has lived in a muslim world were there are no rights and that is the reason these fools in America talk the way the way they do, because they have never suffered from such a dictator like regime. I guess the money they recieve under the desk change their mind or help them see how wonderful the Islamic cult, which has never been rivised, is. God help us. We are in trouble.
Imam Rauf, Burning Q’urans, and 9/11
With the ninth anniversary of the deadly, unprovoked, sneak attack by Muslims–in PC language, the attack by a small band of disaffected Islamic militants–fast approaching, the noxious vermin are crawling out of the woodwork to do what vermin do best, spread pestilence.
Imam Rauf and the Mosque: We’ve heard a great deal of late of the particular vermin that plan to crown the great Islamic victory of September 11th, 2001 by doing what Muslims are wont to do after great victories. Islam, Muslims, have traditionally emphasized their victories by erecting monuments, grand mosques, near or on the sites of those conquests.
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf plans to follow that tradition and add an extra-special exclamation point to the Islamic victory of 9/11 by not only building his monster mosque in proximity to the sacred ground of Ground Zero but by planning to open it, no doubt with great fanfare, ten years to the day after that great Islamic victory.
If nothing else, we have to grant Rauf the twenty first century’s Outstanding Chutzpa Award, an award conferred in recognition of his temerity, sense of ironic timing, and gross insensitivity to the still-open wounds of the survivors of 9/11 and their loved ones.
For a self-designated, peace-making bridge between Islam and the West, Rauf is astoundingly impervious to all sense of reason on his mosque, which he has every legal right to build even though by building it he will be infuriating millions of Americans.
His failure to realize that is one possibility that may be circulating in the imam’s brain.
The other possibility . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1866)
lettersent to Pelosi
Our job is to send Islamic terrorist to their heaven with Allah…before they send us to our graves..we must find a way to unplug the Muslim Student Associations from our campuses, remove Parliment housing known as Mosque that hold meetings to destroy the west, way to many mosque in the U.S. If we believe this is not a religion but rather a political ideology then we Americans have a duty to secure the fabric of our country. American cannot partner with an enemy within, they must be removed and sent home.