Cal Thomas, (un?)wittingly steps into the heart of conservative hypocrisy.
Though I rarely find Cal Thomas sometimes not an extremist, and he is not a loud mouthed clown like AnnC, Newt(sometimes), and Rush(=evil Krusty), this time his nonsense hit home I find this one easy to backhand into his court. And it's not only me, hit a nerve with muslims.
Thomas' commentary prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to urge its supporters to contact WTOP and voice their concerns. WTOP received many calls and emails from both sides.
On Wednesday, WTOP invited Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesperson and Cal Thomas, to separately respond to Thomas' previous comments.
In his reponse, Hooper said Thomas' comments undermined CAIR's effort to promote mutual understanding and social justice.
"For him, I would imagine that his next step is the expulsion of the Muslim-American community," Hooper said. "We condemn extremism. We've condemned terrorism....We've issued dozens of condemnations on dozens of terrorism attacks."
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Lets start with what WTOP had in it's article:
"How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their mosques, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked. "Okay, lets have the required disclaimer: Not all Muslims from the Middle East and southeast Asia want to kill us, but those who do blend in with those who don't. Would anyone tolerate a slow-spreading cancer because it wasn't fast-spreading? Probably not. You'd want it removed."
Lets take this and do some fun word replacements. Lets try "Japanese"
"How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their shrines, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked. "Okay, lets have the required disclaimer: Not all Japanesefrom the strike Middle East Asia want to kill us, but those who do blend in with those who don't. Would anyone tolerate a slow-spreading cancer because it wasn't fast-spreading? Probably not. You'd want it removed."
Doesn't that sound like about 60 odd years ago? How about this:
"How much longer should we allow people strike from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to China and build their Christian churches, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked. "Okay, lets have the required disclaimer: Not all Christiansfrom the the West want to overthrow our government, but those who do blend in with those who don't. Would anyone tolerate a slow-spreading cancer because it wasn't fast-spreading? Probably not. You'd want it removed."
I'm going to add to this later, trying to delineate even more hypocrisy, and show the right a room they've built with no doors (to peace)but lots of mirrors (where like animals, they can't recognize themselves). but I had to get a start.