Don't vote for Barack because he's a MUSLIM and we are at war with Muslims!!!
By jessigirl116
@jessigirl116 (848)
United States
March 28, 2008 12:39am CST
Yes, that comment made me give pause for a second while I fast-forwarded and rewound bits and pieces of CNN I'd recently watched. I honestly had no idea what that person was talking about. I thought Barack was Christian, and does it really matter? Does a candidate have to be only Christian? Either way, I'm not a fan of the news or people trying to slam someone because of a religious preference. I don't know much about if we are warring with Islam, or if it's relevant to Baracks campaign. How did our society become so bad?? Of course, that is a rhetorical question. I know what's wrong. Too many rules and not enough freedom of choice.
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@Perry123 (363)
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28 Mar 08
WTF?
It doesn't matter one way or another.
BUT IF YOU THINK WE ARE AT WAR WITH ISLAM YOU ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN.
Even suggesting we are endangers the lives of allied troops...some of whom ARE Moslem.
We went to war in Iraq to free the nation of an evil dictator. Sadly, that vaccuum left an opportunity for warring factions of militant terrorists to try to disrupt rebuilding and take power . They are killing each other and we are tryng to stop them so that normal moslems can get on and rebuild iraq.
At war with Isam ....don't be ridiculous.
you really ought to think about this carfully its not the crusades.....you are 700 years behind the times.
9/11 was the action of lunatic trrorists al qaeda...the monstrous organisation once praised by Reagan and Clinton as "freedom fighters" in Chechnya and Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. US even aided them with arms like stinger missiles. They are the result of CIA sponsorship against when Russia was communist and nothing to do with Islam.
And now they are causing most of the trouble inside iraq. Again they are killing tens of thosuands of iraqi moslems and we are trying to stop them. To protect the vast majority normal decent moslems.
Al qaeda are not represntative of Islam or any islamic nation state. There are two million peace loving british citizens and probably a large number of Americans too who are Moslem who abhorred the events of 9/11 as much as any of us; and stand against trrorism and lunatic preachings.
But can you imagine if the rival factions in iraq perceive the US is there to attack islam? They will all turn on allied troops so you see how dangerous a remark that is?
WE ARE NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM...wash your mouth out
@Perry123 (363)
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28 Mar 08
Yes my turn to wash my mouth out.
Sorry Jessigirl .....and indeed thankyou for bringing this up.
my crit is therfor aimed at the same people in the media.
It worries me enormously that some americans and british are thinking this and I see it on US media too....which has to be said is now the most biased, simplistic, ignorant media in the world; whil giving the imprssion of being analytic.
Countries like China and Russia and its tv stations, and even al Jazeera, are far less biased....though of course you must also question everything.
British media has got bad too because it doesn't ever question things.
I don't blame american people for thinking stuff like this but the media and also Hollywood with very simplistic movies about good versus evil; black hat white hat cowboys.
It is a great shame because it betrays a wonderful hollywood spirit of cinema and terrific journalism in the 1960s and 70s which showed the USA to the world as a self questioning, free, tolerant and intelligent nation.
now its all lowest common denominator (same as th UK) and ridiculously simple and flawed analysis which then passes on to the populace; both in the US and UK.
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@jessigirl116 (848)
• United States
29 Mar 08
Actually, I'm a girl... and I didn't hear it on CNN, I heard it in person, I checked my memory for related info from things I'd recently watched on CNN. I don't recall being at war with Muslims but I don't really know anything about it. I overheard the statement and just thought I'd share it and get more opinions.
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@WC1989 (595)
• United States
28 Mar 08
I agree with you, what was that person thinking? Even if Barack was a Muslim, we're not at war with Muslims, we're at war with a country that happens to be full of Muslims. It's not like Muslims are bad, most Muslim people I've met were just normal people-but with a few alternate, but perfectly benign, rules (and I've met a lot, I used to go to a school with about 70% Muslim students). Just because we, as a society, don't like the extremists, doesn't give us right to bash the "normal" Muslims.
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@thebeing (657)
• Romania
28 Mar 08
well, it's politics... :) In my country, the religion is not that handfull of dirt that one politician throws at an other. I saw recently a show where some nutcase had the nerve to come up with some bad stuff about the actual mair of my city. Those things were true. I don't deny that. And i HATE my city's currently mair, but that's not the point. The point is, whenever the time for allections draws near, all the policitians try to do some good deeds to SEEM that they want the good of the people. And, with those good deeds, they "open the people's eyes" about their opponents. When i hear a politician say "i'm talking with a lot of people about their problems", that is the synonim of "ok, i just want to get there, and then, f**** you all". No politician cares for the people (and, if they do, that will be "remediated" with power). Politicians make me sick, and i strongly believe that 90% of the world's politicians should be hanged, because the world is in the bad shape that is today ONLY because of the politicians.
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@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
29 Mar 08
Yes, Obama is a Christian. He has a muslim middle name, but he goes to church and is a member of a church. But I also think that it is sometimes important to see what kind of political idealogy one has... and sometimes political philosophy can be shaped by religion too.
@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
1 Apr 08
I have read and saw these kinds of things everywhere. These are just black propaganda by certain groups of people. Many know the truth that he's not a Muslim. And in my case, even if he's a Muslim, there's still no problem with it for as long as he represents the interests of the majority.
@bochco123 (594)
• United States
28 Mar 08
Well you're right. He is a Christian and it doesn't matter. Or at least shouldn't matter. Whoever said that on CNN was absolutely wrong.




