A note about the Muslim congressman from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, about whom I have written before; he’s the one that wants to use the Quran instead of the Bible in his swearing –in ceremony:
Remember that Ellison is actually a black from Detroit that converted to Islam while attending college so we are not talking about Osama here or even an immigrant.
Representative Virgil Goode of Virginia (R) sent out a letter to his constituents telling them to wake up to the Muslim invasion of Congress (Ellison was the first and only one in our history).
If we don’t stop Muslims from immigrating here we will have many more in Congress which would endanger the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America.
Keith Ellison was legally elected by voters in his Minnesota district, the majority of who were not Muslims.
Virgil Goode is a good example of a mindless reactionary that is a member of our Congress. It is hard to judge if he is using xenophobic scare tactics for his own political benefit or if he really believes in what he is saying.
Number one, we freely vote for our representatives. Is he saying that Muslims will trick us into voting for them? Or that people in Dearborn, Michigan (largest Middle Eastern population in the U.S.) cannot elect some one like them to represent them?
Here in Detroit, the Polish community in the past has always voted for one of their own – had to have a “ski” at the end of their surname; same for the Irish, Italians, and etc. but that was some time ago, we don’t really have specific European communities like we used to.
But new immigrants do appear to congregate in communities by ethnicity and/or religion. They are doing what Poles, Germans, Irish and etc. did hundreds of years ago.
Is that the problem with Virgil Goode; he is scared Europeans/Christians are being diluted into minority status by them thar’ non-Christian feriners? – Probably so.
Mr. Goode would rather things didn’t change; we were a nation of immigrants and our immigrant forefathers build this country and their kin (us) helped make it the greatest country in the world.
But we cannot be a nation of immigrants anymore? We must stop the influx on non-Europeans?
I will be the first to admit that we as a nation we have immigration problems – big time – and something has to be done about illegal immigration first and tightening up and policing legal immigration second but we cannot just close the door!
Immigrants are what made this country great and new immigrants will make it greater.
I can kind of understand where Representative Goode is coming from and I feel that religion plays a big factor in his anger but I personally fear fundamentalist Christians like Bush and his hordes a lot more than I do Muslims, Buddhists or any other religious groups.
Keith Ellison the Muslim from Minnesota has sworn to defend our Constitution above all else and I believe he will. The Bush Administration, on the other hand, has abused our Constitution and the rights it grants us. If Bush won’t defend our Constitution, maybe a Muslim from Minnesota will.
Remember that Ellison is actually a black from Detroit that converted to Islam while attending college so we are not talking about Osama here or even an immigrant.
Representative Virgil Goode of Virginia (R) sent out a letter to his constituents telling them to wake up to the Muslim invasion of Congress (Ellison was the first and only one in our history).
If we don’t stop Muslims from immigrating here we will have many more in Congress which would endanger the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America.
Keith Ellison was legally elected by voters in his Minnesota district, the majority of who were not Muslims.
Virgil Goode is a good example of a mindless reactionary that is a member of our Congress. It is hard to judge if he is using xenophobic scare tactics for his own political benefit or if he really believes in what he is saying.
Number one, we freely vote for our representatives. Is he saying that Muslims will trick us into voting for them? Or that people in Dearborn, Michigan (largest Middle Eastern population in the U.S.) cannot elect some one like them to represent them?
Here in Detroit, the Polish community in the past has always voted for one of their own – had to have a “ski” at the end of their surname; same for the Irish, Italians, and etc. but that was some time ago, we don’t really have specific European communities like we used to.
But new immigrants do appear to congregate in communities by ethnicity and/or religion. They are doing what Poles, Germans, Irish and etc. did hundreds of years ago.
Is that the problem with Virgil Goode; he is scared Europeans/Christians are being diluted into minority status by them thar’ non-Christian feriners? – Probably so.
Mr. Goode would rather things didn’t change; we were a nation of immigrants and our immigrant forefathers build this country and their kin (us) helped make it the greatest country in the world.
But we cannot be a nation of immigrants anymore? We must stop the influx on non-Europeans?
I will be the first to admit that we as a nation we have immigration problems – big time – and something has to be done about illegal immigration first and tightening up and policing legal immigration second but we cannot just close the door!
Immigrants are what made this country great and new immigrants will make it greater.
I can kind of understand where Representative Goode is coming from and I feel that religion plays a big factor in his anger but I personally fear fundamentalist Christians like Bush and his hordes a lot more than I do Muslims, Buddhists or any other religious groups.
Keith Ellison the Muslim from Minnesota has sworn to defend our Constitution above all else and I believe he will. The Bush Administration, on the other hand, has abused our Constitution and the rights it grants us. If Bush won’t defend our Constitution, maybe a Muslim from Minnesota will.
No comments:
Post a Comment