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- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+95Read the story first before commenting. It's not what you think from the description alone.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+78A quick quote from the article:
"I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland
"For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting.
"Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous." - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65"Reminded me of the yellow Star of David emblem for the Jews in WW II."
Was it the part of the article where he says it was just like the Star of David for the Jews? - martalli, on 10/12/2007, -13/+62The response to his suggestion just shows you what sort of people are listening to talk radio. It's no wonder that O'Reilly, Beck, and Savage continue to get an audience.
One should note that these folks vote, and are probably part of the persistent 30% who seem to support Bush no matter what. - AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -10/+59to clarify, i do because of the people that agreed with the radio host at first. Those people need to be punched in the face multiple times.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+53"This does not make America as a whole a bunch of rascist"
You're right, it doesn't.
However, this does:
"A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification." - Shayer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+52All the posters from littlegreenfootballs.com must have been tuning in on that day.
- Endemoniada, on 10/12/2007, -9/+45You've had plenty of time to recover, more than enough. The problem is that it's waaay too easy for politicians to use that fear and hurt for their own, twisted agendas.
America has no excuse anymore. Anything you do from now on really needs to have a clear and simple goal: stop the hate. Especially your own.
I know there are millions of good americans who don't hate other people simply because of their religion, but there are also millions of ***** (some of them top politicians) that simply don't care about anything other than themselves.
The rest of the world is already up in arms over the way the USA has been acting. The american people really needs to do the same. Rise up, defy your own run-away government and show them that it's YOU, the people, that have the power.
And contrary to what I hear practically every day, muslims don't hate america or western society. They hate megalomaniac bastards that start wars to make money and racist morons who think they should get to decide how everyone else lives their lives. They hate them just as much as the rest of the world, but they're the ones crammed in the corner, fighting nail and tooth for a way out.
As soon as the USA stops trying to sit on top of the middle-east and muslim world, they'll stop trying to rise up over the USA. Simple as that. - dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Damn, and I had a really good self-righteous rant building up too.
- buuch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32these people have been in our country for a long time before there was all this hype about terrorism. ***** your bigotry
- barakatx2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30does anyone know where we can find the audio of this if it exists?
- gahzinia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28"The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us.""
While it's true that there are plenty of Muslims that want to kill Americans, there are also plenty of Americans that kill Americans. Open the newspaper on any day and there will be articles on some person getting shot, robberies, ... so by that thinking everybody should be locked up.
I strongly feel that we need to defend ourselves, but man, I'm scared about Big Brother.
"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away " - Endemoniada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28No one tells christians they should be branded, put into camps or even be collectively executed. When they do, I really do think they'd be kind of upset too, don't you?
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31What about the Iraqis? Oh right who cares about people in a poor, down-trodden country.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26People should know that Muslims are a part of America now (about 5 million I think), and they are here to stay. There are big Muslim communities in just about any major city.
The U.S has always had a problem with certain "groups". The Native Americans, Chinese labor, Jews, Japanese/Germans during World War II, Hispanics (Operation Wetback), and let's not even get started with blacks.
Now it's the Muslims. - zestyhedgehog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26From the article: "A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification." Bush's approval rating this summer - 33-34%. Figures speak for themselves.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -22/+47I really really really really ***** hate my country.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+305 years not enough?
- ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22This made me sick to my stomache. Because it's these same callers that will condemn what Hitler did, yet they are condoning the same acts.
- jaibee, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27This is a sad and scary view into the mentality of Americans who think we as a nation are morally superior to all other nations no matter what we do. To them it’s okay to act just like the Nazi’s because we’re America and we can’t be wrong; therefore there is no comparison. Still, the folks that called into the radio show to tell the host that he was completely nuts give me so much hope that the good people of this country are not outnumbered by the lunatics.
- stardrek, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29Guantanamo is not a good thing, I don't like it more then most other people, but do not try to compare it to the concentration camps. They are nothing alike. Millions of people died from starvation, gassings, being cooked alive, and cruel scientific experiments. Don’t even try. Guantanamo is blemish on our society as a whole, but the concentration camps are at an unparalleled level of evil.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -17/+36I can't wait for the day that I'm out with someone, and we're on a bus or train or something. A person of middle eastern descent will sit near us and the person I'm with would say "let's move over there" and I'll lose it. I'm white, btw.
- Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19And this is why interning people of Japanese descent in WWII was carried out. People are stupid and it gets worse when they're afraid.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Wow...what he did was just like Borat, but a whole lot scarier.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Yes, all Muslims should pay gravely for the actions of a very small fringe of Muslims. That is just such a well thought out opinion, kokojie
by the way, that was sarcasm, if you didn't catch it - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20@Mu99ins:
They HAVE been vocal about it, you just don't hear it on the news.
http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php - rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21This was a brilliant hack, the kind of subversion of popular culture that can actually penetrate and change a few people's minds. Klein should be applauded for it.
The only thing scarier than the hostility, intolerance and flat-out threatening hatred discussed in that article toward Muslims, is the fact that, in poll after poll, atheists are held at even lower esteem - significantly so.
As an atheist-American and a father of atheists, I find that really depressing. Not to diminish in any way the pain and dismay Muslim-Americans must feel reading this, but at least they have the joy of finally having representation (and there have been Muslim-Americans in appointed positions, in the White House and the Judiciary, vs. zero representation for atheists - or even for the nearly 15% of Americans who, whether or not they believe in a god, designate their religion as "none").
We face nothing but hatred, and not a single public figure will come out to our defense. When Bush Sr. said atheists should not even be citizens, not a single member of Congress condemned it. When network news anchors and others repeat the odious lie that "there are no atheists in foxholes" (when in reality atheists serve in the military disproportionately to their numbers), not a single member of Congress joined our protests outside the television stations.
Ben Stein called 9/11 an "atheistic horror" and suffered no consequences to his career for it.
Starr Jones said she didn't think atheists should be president, and said, "maybe, they could babysit my children, maybe", she suffered no consequences for it.
Imagine a tv personality saying, "Jews should not be presidents", or a vice president of the US and candidate for the presidency saying "Muslims are not patriots, they should not be citizens"; look at the outcry when 9/11 is blamed on "Muslims", rather than on the Islamic extremists who perpetrated it.
When idiots like the callers to that show spew their venom, at least a majority of us recoil, speak out, condemn. Yet, when the target are atheists, there is thundering silence in America.
Truly, we live in a society that is one-part filled with hate, and two-parts filled with apathy. Until we cease to tolerate intolerance, until we cease to tolerate the ignorance that breed fear, which in turn breeds hate, we will not honor the title "Americans". - Drealoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Don't hate your country. Hate the people in power. Hate ignorance. America is a wonderful place. Even better though, say that you'd really like things to change instead of dismissing it like you just did.
- topnotchnet, on 10/12/2007, -9/+262 planes full of americans were killed today, yesterday, and will be killed by big tobacco everyday
get over it
talking on your cellphone while driving kills more people then terra in this country
the govt kills way more people
im really starting to be scared of how ignorant the majority of the american population is
and i dont know what to do
cuz unfortunatly im not rich enough to leave yet
anyone wanna give a brother a loan @20% interest?
: ) - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@kokojie
What would you do if there was a terrorist attack in the US by an Asian group, march yourself into a concentration camp? - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Sylar3, you stupid *****. Do you honestly believe that all Muslims are violent and a danger to our society, and that somehow they are going to take over our country, despite the fact that they represent a very very small portion of our population?
If you think there is no middle ground between letting Muslims live in this country and Sharia law, I feel really sorry for you - Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16And to think, some of them might actually be voting.
After reading about some of those callers, I'm beginning to think there needs to be IQ tests for people before they're allowed to interact with the rest of society. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18We were attacked very violently by some white guys who blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. There are a zillion things which threaten us more on a daily basis, statistically speaking (driving a car, high cholesterol, natural disaster).
Acts of terrorism are much more easily packaged by the media and digested by consumers of media. The problem is that our (US) response to terrorism has been, "Let's go kick all their asses! America ***** YEAH!" The fact that a huge percentage of the Arab world dislikes the West to some degree or other indicates a failure on the part of the West, the US in particular (as the de facto 'head' of Western culture).
The US always claims, at least by inference, "What? We never did anything to bother them. We don't understand why they hate us so much; they must hate our freedom." *****. If we, the US, did *nothing* to Arab Muslims, they wouldn't care about us at all.
Now, as I see it. Arab Muslims explain it generically as "You don't understand our culture and you offend us," which also translates to "Arab Muslim traditional culture is being pushed aside by the expansion of Western-style culture, and we really don't like that." Fine, that's fine. That's a fair reason to dislike a culture, when it's "invading" your own. Not a fair reason to kill people.
The US, Bush in particular, explains it as "They hate our freedom." That phrase makes almost no sense. Only example of where I could see it making sense would be if the West was pressuring Arab states to clean up their acts as far as human rights are concerned - which is something that most Arab states need to do. (This is not to excuse the US for its over-reaches, or exclude human rights issues elsewhere.) If that happened, and Arab states resisted, that would explain their dislike for us. But I don't think that happened. I translate "They hate our freedom" to "We hate your *imposition* of *your* freedom on *us.* We'd like to have *our own* freedom back, and we're willing to fight for it." That makes sense; still no reason to kill civilians.
So, back to that we just wantto go kick everyone's asses. Military action against Al-qaida in Afghanistan was reasonable. After that, there should have been some serious introspection. There never was. - AlienX3.5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15r u joking. so u think a few ***** represent billions of people. let's pretend ur christian, there are some christians that steal. so u want to blame the entire relegion for it. It's against christianity to steal and those guys aren't following the rules of their relegion. Same thing with muslims, a few of them go kill innocent people and u wanna go blame all of the muslims. it's dumb ***** like u that vote for bush.
- Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@VolatileWhimsy, "merre, and where did you pull that up?"
Uh. Read the article. - SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14This is what you get when you have a country that is spoon-fed propaganda and shock "stories" via the boob tube daily. Is it really a surprise that people are so extreme in their fear and hatred of Muslims when all you see on TV is how horrible they all are?
All I can say is I'm glad I'm growing up in this generation. I never got sucked into the TV world. The Internet is a godsend. - AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -13/+26the idiots in other countries haven't told me to my face that i will rot in hell for eternity for not accepting their religion. So i immediately don't have as big of a problem with them
oh and the idiots in america are nowhere near the only reason why i hate america, i should have specified - AlienX3.5, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16WTF is wrong with this racist peice of *****. Are u that ***** stupid?
- battlecow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16yay! lets revert to the 40s and put jews into concentration camps and japanese people in internment camps... god i hate stupid f*ckers.
- nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14America is a beautiful country, as a nation it has done many honorable and amazing things.
It's not the country I hate, it's a large portion of the population I have a problem with. - Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Man, not only are you a retard but you spam too.
I wish I could dig you down 20 times. - Moonpig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14GDunck-
You really are a monumentally stupid person, aren't you?
Please don't have children. - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"in 807"
You see, I think Muslim culture has evolved quite a bit in 1,200 years. Non-Muslims in Muslim countries these days are not required to wear some sort of star. Come on, put some logic into your argument
Also, not every Muslim country is run under Sharia law. - themicah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+175 years gone and 500,000 innocent people (mostly Muslim) from a country that had nothing to do with the attack dead from military adventurism. GET OVER IT ALREADY - sand in America's vagina has directly ruined the lives of an entire generation of people in Iraq (never mind Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, etc., etc.) Thoughtless is one word for it. Americans and America have become disgusting since 9/11 - acting as though no people in the history of the world have ever sustained an attack on 3000 civilians before. It was sad when it happened because any loss of life is sad, but after the past half century, here's the world's smallest violin packed full of dynamite for poor Imperial America.
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Kind of off topic but there is a good story behind what caused Japanese Americans to be interned.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=737#more-737 - atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"and only American Idol is unique to our place."
Only in name, it's an imported show... - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Very well put Endemoniada. I wish more people shared you're views.
- dzlpwr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10behold:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/02/dc-radio-host-jerry-klein-exposes-anti-muslim-bigotry/ - apetrie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Vikings were the first to come to North America (besides the original migration from Asia, of course).
- artificial001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ secretive coward and all the other people who support muslim ids and camps
It's RACISM. RACISM IS BAD. You call yourself the party of moral values, but you embrace racism? That's ***** hypocracy and there's no other way to put it.
One of my only friends I can truly trust is Muslim, and the fact that you'd want to put him in a camp? Why don't we send you to the ***** insane asylum instead? -
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