Extracted from the comments on a September 12th post at the far-right conservative website
Townhall discussing the candidacy of Muslim Democrat Keith Ellison (MN-05), or more accurately his Muslim supporters like CAIR, which the article asserts has "deep connections to supporters of Islamic terrorism." Others have commented on the post: I will post about the comments.
Note that I am not cherrypicking miniscule and overlooked comments; of twenty seven current comments on the post, I have reproduced here over a third of them; many of the others are inconsequential; none provide counterweight.
A Black Muslim in Congress is the last thing this nation needs. [...]
We are only recently becoming aware of the silent invasion from Mexico. Illegal immigrants demonstrating in the streets, and the increasing political muscle of Mexicans, based on their numbers, should result in a closer look at Muslim political power in America. We already have local governments controlled by Mexican politicians. Sanctuary cities are the result.
I know one thing for sure. Cynthia McKinney was finally flushed out of Congress. She is a racist nut, but people in her District sent her back to Congress more than once. The sight of her Black Muslim bodyguards should work against a racist Muslim in government. You never can tell though.
What committee assignments with the Dimms give him: Intelligence, Armed Services, Energy? Who is going to give him a Security Clearance? Will he participate in closed-door committee meetings?
Why in the world do we allow organizations like CAIR to exist in this country? We should either put them in prison or deport them.
Mr. Ellison, I have just 3 quick questions to ask you that are all related so you don't need to keep track of them by writing them down.
1. Why do you chum with religious folks who love the historical figure Mohammed, who had sex with a nine year old when he was 56 years old, owned, traded, and promoted sexual slaves; and promoted for all Muslims for all time the practice of polygamy which subjugates women?
2. Why are you associating yourself with a religion that has a Holy Book: the Koran, that advocates adult men having sex with prepubescent girls?
3. Which of the above practices that Islam honors is MOST appealing to you?
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
.....and so it begins...
.....first they migrate to our shores and multipy like rabbits...
.....then they infiltrate our schools and government...
.....the next thing you know our women are in burkas and we are on prayer rugs under Sharia Law...
I have stated before that if you believe a muslim you are nuts.!! Their is nothing peaceful about them. They will lie to your face and laugh about you behind your back. Any group that will not intergrate themselves into the American way of life, should not be allowed to stay in this country. If we allow them to stay and be elected to our governmental offices this will destroy our country just like a CANCER.
I will never trust a Muslim [...]
It's a matter of - Do they really believe the crap in the Koran? If they do, that's a problem. They are indicted by the words of Mohammed.
Since there is no way to verify what a Muslim will do if called upon by leaders of his faith to commit destructive acts, no background check is sufficient to satisfy me. Sorry, can't change that. [...]
Knowing the radicals of this swill of a religion will rot in H*ll is mildly comforting. With or without virgins (don't care) -
But the peaceable Muslims being deceived by Mo and allah - that breaks my heart. I pray they are encouraged to convert to My religion every day.
Why aren't we freezing the assets of CAIR and other Muslim groups in this country? I thought any group supporting terrorists were supposed to have their assets frozen? I also think we should stop letting Muslims immigrate to this country and any Mosque preaching violence against America should be shut down.
Yikes
Now they're infiltrating Congress?? Hopefully, the NSA has been tapping his phones.
omg
fears coming true...This truly cannot be allowed.
My goal in reproducing these comments here is to document, in the day after remembering The Day, what conservativism stands for, by the words of their supporters. To all those that ask, why do some Americans continue to support the war in Iraq: this is why. To all those that wonder where the overt racism of past decades lingers; here it is. To all those that wonder why a mere handful of men with knives or explosives can rattle the core of democracy itself, can light a match to the Constitution; this is how it happened, is happening, will happen.
You merely have to raise the spectre. The followers will do the rest. You merely have to raise the question; the followers will extrapolate. Because it is the Muslim that is the problem. It is the Black Muslim. Like immigrants from Mexico, it is the Black Muslim, with his false God. He will kill us all, unless he converts. It is the Black Immigrant Muslim Terrorist -- all words mean the same thing. There are no individual bricks, only the wall. There are no Good Mexicans, Good Immigrants, Good Black Muslims. They are Infiltrating Congress. They are Swill.
The racism of a David Duke remains, intact -- it simply wears a better tie, and then only when company calls. George Allen talks not to the air, but to his base. Townhall caters not to invisible groups, but to real individuals with an agenda that remains no different from what it was twenty years ago, or fifty.
Mexico and Islam, Islam and Black, Black and Allah, Allah and Terrorists, Terrorists and Immigrants and Muslim and Black and Democrat and FEAR, now, FEAR, because They Are Taking Over, and They are Winning, and They -- there is no difference, in this agenda. There is only the other; the nonchristian; the nonwhite. Beyond that, all words mean the same. They are interchangeable, like cogs, or lives, or soldiers.
And that is why terrorism works, and why boxcutters can cut through a Constitution. Because, in the end, there are a great many among us who knew that the Constitution was a farce from the day it was written, because ink is ink, and skin is skin, and blood is blood.
And blood remembers.
And ink does not.
Update -- The Townhall site redirects visitors attempting to view the column in question; after two attempts at a direct link, both of which were met with redirects after the span of an hour or two, I will not bother with a third. The column is the Sept 12th, 2006 post by Joel Mowbray (this link, too, may stop working after a while.)