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Lowe's Hardware pulled their advertising from the TLC show All American Muslim under pressure from the right-wing Christian extremist group Florida Family Association, which has also made a stink about sympathetic portrayals of gays on some other TV shows.
Lowe's MIGHT change its mind, if people apply enough pressure. The company is already sort of, kind of attempting to backtrack.
Oh, and forget about "I'll shop at Home Depot from now on." That is actually a very conservative company that gives a lot of money to anti-gay candidates.
All American Muslim is a reality show about Muslim families in Dearborn, Mich.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-lowes-threatened-with-boycott-for-yanking-ads-from-show-about-muslims-20111212,0,113957.storyLowe's Hardware pulled their advertising from the TLC show All American Muslim... more
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Those extremist preachers supporting Rick Perry are totally, irremediably, irretrievably insane...Those extremist preachers supporting Rick Perry are totally, irremediably,... more
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Why were America's Islamophobes able to avoid accountability for so long?
Few political terrorists in recent history took as much care to articulate their ideological influences and political views as Anders Behring Breivik did. The right-wing Norwegian Islamophobe who murdered 76 children and adults in Oslo and at a government-run youth camp spent months, if not years, preparing his 1,500 page manifesto.
Besides its length, one of the most remarkable aspects of the manifesto is the extent to which its European author quoted from the writings of figures from the American conservative movement. Though he referred heavily to his fellow Norwegian, the blogger Fjordman, it was Robert Spencer, the American Islamophobic pseudo-academic, who received the most references from Breivik -- 55 in all. Then there was Daniel Pipes, the Muslim-bashing American neoconservative who earned 18 citations from the terrorist. Other American anti-Muslim characters appear prominently in the manifesto, including the extremist blogger Pam Geller, who operates an Islamophobic organization in partnership with Spencer.
Breivik may have developed his destructive sensibility in the stark political environment of a European continent riveted by mass immigration from the Muslim world, but his conceptualization of the changes he was witnessing reflect the influence of a cadre of far-right bloggers and activists from across the Atlantic Ocean. He not only mimicked their terminology and emulated their language, he substantially adopted their political worldview. The profound impact of the American right's Islamophobic subculture on Breivik's thinking raises a question that has not been adequately explored: Where is the American version of Breivik and why has he not struck yet? Or has he?
(read the rest at link)Why were America's Islamophobes able to avoid accountability for so long?
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You just can't make this shit up. This is where extremism leads...to death. Ugly Betty actor kills his mother seemingly because she wouldn't follow his brand of Christianity.
Read the details at the link above.You just can't make this shit up. This is where extremism leads...to death. Ugly... more
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is concerned that President Obama's trip abroad has served to bring out "the unhinged among the president's critics."
Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."
That psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
(more at link)MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is concerned that President Obama's trip abroad has... more
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A pro-life group says that the Western world's current low birth rate could mean that Muslims will overtake the West's population in the coming decades.
The Population Research Institute said the Western world is facing a crisis with almost every country having birth rates below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, according to OneNewsNow.
The replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women would have only enough children to replace themselves and their partner. At 2.1 births per women, the population growth through reproduction would be about zero.
"It's because Christian and Jews are refusing to have children, refusing to get married, [and] having such low birth rates that the Muslims are going to inherit the Earth," said PRI spokesman Joseph D'Agostino to OneNewsNow. "It's not anything the Muslims are doing; it's what Christians and Jews are not doing."
CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE....A pro-life group says that the Western world's current low birth rate could mean... more
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After the senseless slaying of Dr. Tiller, Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered protection for abortion clinics nation wide.
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Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered increased security for some abortion clinics and doctors in the wake of the slaying of Dr. George Tiller.
Jeff Carter, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, confirmed the decision "to increase security for a number of individuals and facilities" following Tiller's slaying at a church service Sunday in Wichita, Kan.
Citing U.S. Marshals policy, Carter would not describe who was being protected, or what security measures were being taken.
Source: SF Gate
Is Holder's order justified? Why or why not.After the senseless slaying of Dr. Tiller, Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered... more
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WICHITA, Kan. - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement on the defensive Monday with prominent leaders delicately distancing themselves from the accused killer while positioning their stand as one shared by a majority of Americans.
Already reeling from the failure to dominate last year's election and worried their cause won't be at the center of the hearings on President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, anti-abortion leaders feared that backlash from George Tiller's death could temporarily silence the abortion debate.
"In the immediate future, it makes it difficult to even speak about an issue we've been speaking about for 365 days a year," said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life. "Anything you say — somebody is going to pounce on us."
Abortion opponents were swift to condemn Tiller's shooting death Sunday during church services in Wichita. Kansans for Life and Operation Rescue, which is also based in Kansas, said 51-year-old Scott Roeder, who is being held without bail one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault, did not belong or donate to either group.
'Operation Rescue condemned the killing as vigilantism and "a cowardly act." But its founder, Randall Terry, stressed that the anti-abortion movement should not tone down its rhetoric. He said the gunman was wrong to kill Tiller, 67, but that abortion opponents bear no responsibility for the action.
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Source: MSNBC
Do you think the senseless murder of Dr. Tiller will hurt the anti-choice movement?WICHITA, Kan. - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement... more
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WICHITA, Kansas - An arrest has been made in the slaying of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, who was gunned down Sunday morning at his church in Wichita, Kan., according to an FBI spokesperson.
Tiller, a prominent advocate for abortion rights wounded by a protester more than a decade ago, was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir at the time of the shooting, his attorney said.
Tiller was shot during morning services at Reformation Lutheran Church, attorney Dan Monnat said. FBI said the suspect was apprehended without incident. An earlier manhunt was focused on a car registered to a Kansas City suburb nearly 200 miles away.
National anti-abortion groups had long focused on Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions. In 1991, the Summer of Mercy protests organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion activists to this city for demonstrations marked by civil disobedience and mass arrests.
Shot in the arms in 1993
Some abortion opponents had resorted to attacks against Tiller and his Women's Health Care Services clinic long before Sunday's shooting. A protester shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.
The women's clinic run by Tiller is one of three in the nation where abortions are performed after the 21st week of pregnancy, when the fetus is considered viable. Monnat said Sunday that Tiller had asked federal prosecutors to step up investigations of vandalism and other threats against the clinic out of fear that the incidents were increasing and that Tiller's safety was in jeopardy.
Source: MSNBC
Yeah, I thought these people were pro-life. Oh well, I guess killing a sentient/aware human being is sooo much better than terminating a fetus. The hypocrisy of these conservative Christian extremests make me sick.WICHITA, Kansas - An arrest has been made in the slaying of late-term abortion doctor... more
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I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red... more
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ANP: John Hagee gets a new "face", but is it really still the same old song and dance?
American News Project: In late May, after three months of deliberation, John McCain called Pastor John Hagee "crazy" and renounced his endorsement. But Hagee has come back stronger than ever -- thanks to friends like William Kristol, Joe Lieberman . . . and the public relations firm W5, which also represents Microsoft, Snoop Dogg and Pamela Anderson. This week in Washington, D.C., Hagee's non-profit organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), brought together five thousand supporters of the bedeviled pastor, and a new regime of media relations was much in evidence. Hagee avoided issues that have caused controversy in the past (Armageddon, homosexuals, God's purposes for the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, etc.). By pulling back the veil and conducting unauthorized interviews with several of Hagee's Christian Zionist followers, ANP reveals the fanatical ideology that still lies behind the CUFI's more restrained rhetoric.ANP: John Hagee gets a new "face", but is it really still the same old song... more
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