re: #2 Achilles Tang

It’s a silly fight. People will use the word as they wish and those who mean it’s just a personal betterment objective don’t need to publicize it.

Why not have a campaign that says Muslims shouldn’t yell Allah U Akbar whenever they try to kill an enemy, of either side?

Amen./

What does yelling Allah U Akbar have to do with this. This is about Muslims in America and a PR campaign being fought by both sides. Geller is literally painting all Muslims as psychotic terrorists. CAIR is fighting back with a positive campaign that hurts no one. You see the shit that this hate group is putting up all around the country and in major cities? How can anyone blame CAIR to setting up their own ad campaign to counter it?

You know, I’m sick to death of Americans seeing Muslims in the context of 9/11 and terrorism. What Geller does is perpetuates that bigotry that we have to endure for almost 12 freaking long years. What Muslims in America do here as citizens has no affect on the extremism we see in Pakistan or Afghanistan. They live with us in peace. So we repay them by saying they’re dirt and basically all a bunch of terrorists.

And it’s true. Jihad does not mean what a lot of boneheaded Americans thinks it means. It means struggle and it’s a very important concept to the Muslim people. How would you like it if suddenly some nut started putting up anti-atheist signs all over the country, in buses and mass transportation?

So you question Allah U Akbar which is cried in battle OVERSEAS. This has nothing to do with American Muslims. But let me remind you. The US Army is basically a rolling religious revival of sort made up primarily of Christians. They don’t scream Allah U Akbar but they have field baptisms, Chaplains, prayer, biblical inscription on their sniper scopes.

And who do you think they see as attacking Iraq looking for WMDs. This country is a Christian nation. Maybe it can think it can easily hide behind the shroud of secularism but the primary moral motivator for most Americans is Christianity. So after 9/11 when Muslims allegedly attacked the WTC and the Pentagon the Christian Americans retaliated by invading Iraq and killing anywhere from 150,000 to 700,000 Iraqis. They see this as an attack of Christians.