Oklahoma lawmaker shows prejudice against Islam

[perspicuity85]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=11&articleID=071023_1_A1_spanc46170

This is outrageous!  Oklahoma will continue to be a redneck state as long as ignorant people like Rex Duncan are elected to the state legislature.

[tulsapoolplyr88]

I tell you what.....you go over to the Middle East and try to hand out the Bible.  Lets see how well you are received.

[TURobY]

quote:Originally posted by tulsapoolplyr88

I tell you what.....you go over to the Middle East and try to hand out the Bible.  Lets see how well you are received.

Fortunately for us, we aren't in the Middle East.

quote:From the article
"I don't know any Christians who run around using the Bible as their basis of justification or instruction booklet to keep killing innocent people," he said.

Sounds like someone has never taken a history class.

[bigdtottown]

have to wonder what he thought the Crusades were...

[rwarn17588]

The guy's just being an a**hole.

It was a gift from a local Muslim-American group. Don't you think it's rude to shout to the high heavens, "I hate this gift!" like a spoiled kid at Christmastime?

If he didn't like the book, he could have just sent it back instead of making an a** of himself.

If a Muslim politician in the Middle East acted the same way about the Bible, I'd call him an a**hole, too. But it's not terribly likely that would occur, because Jesus is considered a prophet to Islam.

Here's the best part of the article:

"I don't know any Christians who run around using the Bible as their basis of justification or instruction booklet to keep killing innocent people," he said. <end clip>

Apparently he's never read the book "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer.

Whatta goofball.

[MichaelC]

It's pure politics, guarantee you he sent for the media himself.

[guido911]

[/quote]
Sounds like someone has never taken a history class.
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Exactly. History class. Unfortnuately, the middle east is stuck in history, whereas this Country and the majority of civilized society is living in the present.

[rwarn17588]

I think you're seriously underestimating Southerners' ability to carry a grudge for 140-odd years, guido.

There's an awful lot of those "The South Will Rise Again" Confederate flag-wavers around.

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I think you're seriously underestimating Southerners' ability to carry a grudge for 140-odd years, guido.

There's an awful lot of those "The South Will Rise Again" Confederate flag-wavers around.

That's right RW. Every day you read or hear stories about "Confederate flag-wavers" videotaping the beheading of people while  praising God all the time around here. Oh, and how about those Confederate flag-wavers strapping bombs to themselves or their kids to kill the infidels in praise of God.
Yep. Those slack jawed Southerners are just like them Muslims

[rwarn17588]

Now, now, Guido, you didn't have to get so excitable. [}:)]

I don't like religious extremists of any stripe. Both sides have plenty. Does Eric Rudolph ring a bell?

Back to topic: No matter what you say, I doesn't change the fact that Rex Duncan is an a**hole.

[MichaelC]

Shoot, the ones I know, down in Clayton, OK, they take pride in the fact that persons of color don't live there, and pride in their confederate flag bumper stickers.  With regularity and freedom they speak of minor atrocities toward unsuspecting black folk they might have come in contact with.  And, their nick-name is "Little Dixie".  Seriously.

These are the type of folks this particular politician was pandering to, those and apparently people like guido.

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelC

Shoot, the ones I know, down in Clayton, OK, they take pride in the fact that persons of color don't live there, and pride in their confederate flag bumper stickers.  With regularity and freedom they speak of minor atrocities toward unsuspecting black folk they might have come in contact with.  And, their nick-name is "Little Dixie".  Seriously.

These are the type of folks this particular politician was pandering to, those and apparently people like guido.

Oh, so I am like those persons in Little Dixie you criticize? You do not even know me. Oh, and since you decided to ignore my post to RW and resort to ad hominem, you are also a coward bomb thrower. Perhaps you should leave this thread, big people are communicating.

[MichaelC]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

Oh, so I am like those persons in Little Dixie you criticize? You do not even know me. Oh, and since you decided to ignore my post to RW and resort to ad hominem, you are also a coward bomb thrower. Perhaps you should leave this thread, big people are communicating.

Wow, you're not even close.

I never criticized the folks of Clayton, OK, or you.  "Little Dixie" is their nickname, and apparently this politician was speaking to you.  Just relaying info, it's all there, nothing I said about Clayton is untrue.  Go check it out yourself.  And if you didn't like what the politician did, you've got a crazy way of showing it.  Crazy.

[rwarn17588]

I think Michael C and I would agree that guido is at least sending mixed messages.

Or confusing ones, at least.

[jne]

From The World:

According to the governor's council, other Republican representatives declining a copy of the Quran are David Derby of Owasso, Guy Liebmann of Oklahoma City, Scott Martin of Norman, Mark McCullough of Sapulpa, Mike Reynolds of Oklahoma City, and Susan Winchester of Chickasha.

This is just sad.