The Daily Show has saved me from having to write a thousand word post griping about the idiocy surrounding the building of a mosque. No, not THAT one –the non-mosque mosque in NYC– but one in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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The anti-Islam woman interviewed in the clip –Laurie Cardoza-Moore– is for real, by the way. She’s not an actress or comedian putting on an skit or reading a script. She actually believes the ridiculous things coming out of her mouth. For that alone, it’s worth watching. It’s important to see hatred and stupidity on display … and to point and laugh at it.
A prime example:
Cardoza-Moore: “You believe that the Jews and Christians are the infidels and they are, according to the Koranic teachings, supposed to be killed.”
This is, in fact, one of the HUGE lies being told by Anti-Islam morons. Unlike in Christianity, where anyone who is not an actual Christian is an infidel, Islam recognizes both Christians and Jews as Brothers of the Book … since they do, in fact, all worship the same god (the god of Abraham). Infidel in Islam means someone who doesn’t believe in god (i.e. agnostics and atheists). So, no plans to kill all the Christians and Jews. The argument that is usually shot back after I make a statement like that is that radical Islamist terrorists think anyone who isn’t Muslim is an infidel, but I’d counter that just like many crazy fundamental Christians, these radical followers of Islam are not following the tenets of their religion.
If there was just one thing I could pound into the heads of the anti-Islam Christians, it’s that Islam isn’t out to kill you. You aren’t an infidel. You are all brothers (and sisters). But alas, too many Christians just want to hate someone … like anyone who isn’t Christian (or even anyone who isn’t their particular flavor of Christian).
Another laugh riot from the mouth of Laurie:
Cardoza-Moore: “Pork is not served on any entree.”
This would make them evil why exactly? She does know Jews don’t eat pork either, right?
Anyway, the clip must be watched for her interview, because it’s not even just what she was saying, it was how she was saying it. Such haughty smugness … while sitting there talking to Aasif Mandvi who is an actual Muslim. I mean, I’d be embarrassed to say the things she was saying directly to someone of that faith, but not her! She’s got the righteousness of Jesus behind her! Facts be damned!
What a disgusting, small-minded, and ignorant human being.
I’m finding it harder and harder not to start foaming at the mouth every time I hear this kind of bull shit. One of my employees just got an ear full. Well I’m an infidel! and I’m more christian than that lady ever will be… Give em hell sweetie.
When a nation’s patrimony is squandered and leaders have no practicable remedy, (they being the proximate cause), the age-old ploy is to direct blame onto an outlander and away from those culpable. This works well enough given that most people are already conditioned through ignorance and fear to obey their betters. I don’t blame the haters (insofar as all they do is run their mouths) for the simple reason that they are doing nothing more than following the script they were given. Our society doesn’t value mental health, and combined with the already large number of crazies we produce, any self-styled demagogue has a ready-made political base, at least for a while. What is concerning is the deliberate confusion of religion and politics, similar to the antebellum arguments of slaveholders who invented the white Jesus and the rest of the cornballism that still holds sway among many Baptist-style sects. In the northeast it seems to be working-class Catholics to whom most effort is directed. Out here, west of Texas, few people care. Anyway, nothing’s going to change as long as it suits our leaders’ interest, since they are solely responsible for how the children behave.