The rino’s do pc under the guise that they are making friends and winning supporters from the left, the mccains of the world never catch on.

In the book there was a ticking time bomb, which could be viewed over the internet, but couldn’t locate, because the camera that was broadcasting its picture was a stolen wireless security camera, and of course, there’s no way of detecting where it had been moved to.

???

But as I said he distorted my post about religions and Constitution. I didn’t say that only Christisnism was compatible but that the writers in the Constitution obviously didn’t envision religions who practice human sacrifice, burn widows or preach subjugation and racketting of infidels. Had they thought about such religions they would have obviously included restrictions in First Amendment. They only envisionned basically (not perfectly, basically) benevolent religions. I also explicitly mentionned budhism as one of the religions they would have considered compatible thus Pete is merely lying when he says I restrict First Amendment to Christian religions. Howcver given that liberalms like him have come with teh theory that Constitution is a living documant (menaning that a mere judge can amend the will of the people) I see no reason he would oppose to applying his theory to that part of the Constitution called First Amendment and meaning that after 9/11 First Amendment applies no more to Islam just as it would not apply to the Aztec cult.

The ideologuue of Sudan’s genocidical junta is a Sufi. Let’s talk too about the strong Sufi influence in the Turkish empire when it was perpetrating its worst atrocities. Same thing about Barvbary coast pirates.
You can find truly “peaceful” varieties of Islam but Sufism isn’t one of them. And those truly peaceful varieties have something in common: they are considered heretics or non Muslims (eg Ahmedists) and they take such liberties with Muhammad’s teachings and Koran you can wonder if their Muslimhood isn’t just a cover in order to be left alone.

The fact that Islam has theocratic governments doesn’t exactly mean that it’s not a religion. You had a Calvinist theocracy in Geneva, obvious Catholic theocracies across Europe, the obvious intermingling of church and state in modern Israel (the Orthodox have a lot of pull in their government) as well as fairly overt merging of Church and State in pockets of Colonial America. By this argument, Christianity wasn’t a legitimate religion because until modern times it too was a complete system of life. An awful lot of American values went by the wayside in our decade long freakout after 9/11, let’s not throw the First Amendment over the side as well.

123. John, I mistook JFM’s screed against non-Christian religions not being covered by the First Amendment for your words because both you and JFM apparently feel that the First Amendment’s declaration of Freedom of Religion has some sort of loophole when it comes to Islam. It’s hard keeping extremists who want to ban a religion straight sometimes.

As a Catholic, I was actually more insulted by how badly written the books were than any of its conspiratorial hokum. I never worried about the films because Ron Howard as a filmmaker is about as adventurous as a bowl of corn flakes.

Really, when it comes down to it, you could take literally ANY movie and write this exact same blog post condemming it. I’m surprised we haven’t seen “Why won’t J.J. Abrams condemn Muslims in Star Trek. What’s he afraid of”.

Again, nothing is stopping you guys from making your own film, and it’s pretty silly to blast a filmmaker for not making the movie that you yourself haven’t made either.

You really take the cake for trollism.

Hmmm…so John, you are interpreting the First Amendment as only meaning Freedom of Christianity? I’m sure there are many American Hindus who would be interested that you (and presumably others) don’t feel the First Amendment applies to them.

If you had a brain, you’d be dangerous!

By the way, when’s the last time you ever heard of a Sufi Muslim blowing up anything? Oh, that’s right, you haven’t. Or do you actually understand the whole Sufi/Shia/Sunni thing?