Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a series of incendiary Tweets about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center
She pulled down one of them after concocting the word "refudiate" and then used the word "refute" incorrectly.
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
She then pulled the second attempt down and took a third swipe at it.
Peace-seeking Muslims pls understand. Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing
"Peaceful," "peace-seeking"? Why the qualifier? How about "peaceful Christians"? And as if Sarah Palin knows anything about "healing." Perhaps that's the biggest joke of all.
Well, not quite. The Thrilla from Wasilla then compared herself to none other than the Immortal Bard himself (and with indirect reference to her primary obsession, Barack Obama).
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
As Billy Boy so wisely noted in The Tempest:
You cram these words into mine ears against
The stomach of my sense.
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn's book The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power will be published by St. Martin's Press.
(Thanks to palingates for the screen saves.)
1. Muslims traded slaves since the religion's inception in 652 AD and still do today in some regions like Mauritania. They attacked Europe numerous times seeking slaves, especially white Eastern Europeans (i.e., slavs) They took African girls for harems and African boys for eunuchs (chop-chop)
2. Muslim traders in North Africa spread smallpox from the Arabian peninsula across Africa and then into Europe. Hundreds of millions have died from smallpox in Europe, Africa and the New World. The smallpox that killed Native Americans was a disease originally from E. Africa or Central Asia. There have been a billion deaths worldwide from smallpox, but it was finally eradicated by European effort.
3. Muslims plundered Jewish and Christian settlements in Palestine and subjected the culture to backwards rule and primitive religious values. They repeatedly harassed the eastern Greek civilization finally overrunning it in successive waves, turning it into the backwards region of Asia Minor under Suleman and the Ottoman empire.
4. They execute thousands of dissident religious minorities every year throughout the entire domain of Islamic control. (UN statistics)
The British and American Navies finally put an end to worldwide slavery which had existed for thousands of years, .... but get the blame for the problem. What about the 14 centuries of Islamic slavery?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/apr/04/gender.religion
(OK, she did write "Women and Madness," innovative for the times). But her journey
was not typical of feminism. To marry--an Afghani Muslim, sounds regressive to
me, like an eyes-wide-open-trip to the most repressive marital arrangement possible.
What happened to Chesler to cause her to go so far to the other extreme from that
which she was prolestyzing in the feminist/psychology movement? That's the more
important question.
Many great Americans have used strange verbiage to make a point. They even create words that don't exist. Spelling doesn't make great Presidents. But the liberal mind set hops on the spelling bee and forgets the honey.Building a Muslim Mosque at the base of Twin Towers could not be a worse move. Many of my friends lost their lives on that day and I would hope that peace loving Muslims would feel the same. Her words resound because middle America feels the same. I put Geoffry Dunn in the same class as Marvel Comic filmmaker Oliver Stone. Both should get the Mad Magazine award for twisted thinking.
Attila Honey
erudition, I must put you in an even lesser category than your "Marvel Comic filmmaker."
I don't agree with your put down of Oliver Stone, by the way. Who are you to call out
these gentlemen for "twisted thinking?" And who am I to ever challenge your coruscating
proposal of "The Brave New World of Elitism Racism when you're tripping out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Russia
(Benyamin Korn)
**Post is photo of NYC Twin Towers burning with dark smoke curling into the air.
"Governor Palin – The planned mosque so near Ground Zero is ‘An Intolerable Mistake
on Hallowed Ground’"
Posted On July 21 , 2010
could you please explain what you meant by "how she won
her first term in AK?" Appreciate it and fan you.
In Jason Linkins fine article on this thread, we can learn that Palin's tweet was just a part
of the GOP Grand Scheme. (I say, it smells Rovian.)
Linkins says: "Attacking Muslims Is In Vogue Again Among Conservatives."
I'll give a quote from the first sentence of that article, and then provide the link below.
"Recently in the land of the demented, it's become ultra-voguish o hate Americans who are practitioners of Islam. Loud, angry, scare-bears have made their position very clear.
Muslims aren't allowed to have mosques in lower Manhattan or Staten Island or
Tennessee or Southern California."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/glenn-beck-upset-that-mus_n_654214.html?ir=Politics
about the Alaskan "Bear Man" was removed after it had appeared for some time.
together with my response to you which consisted only of the words that it was
"sad, sad about [Treadwell's] girlfriend." One can only guess why the thing was
pulled. You said a w-word which rhymes with Jacko which, if it was censored
for that, is mind boggling since Herzog's film describes the extent of Treadwell's
mental "demons," to include the likelihood that he was "bipolar affective disordered."
I thought that you might have stealth deleting powers!
I have no powers at all....sniff.
Detroit's SMART bus system has rejected the button-pushing placards that read "Fatwa on your head? Is your community or family threatening you? Leaving Islam?" - and direct Muslims to a Web site urging them to leave the "falsity of Islam."
"It's a purely anti-Muslim hate issue," Dawud Walid of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the Detroit News on Friday.
Faiza Ali, of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the ads were based on a false premise that people face coercion to remain with Islam. She said Muslims believe faith that is forced is not true belief. Geller has a history of speaking out against Muslims, and the ads are "a smoke screen to advance her long-standing history of anti-Muslim bigotry," Ali said.
statement an undercurrent of anxiety--whether you actually feel
it or not is anyone's guess--which you would have us all start to
feel anew, in a type of emotinal contagion. OMG! The onset of
mass panic > > Sarah Palin is RIGHT for once! Don't let THEM
build a mosque anywhere near NYC, let alone the site of the
towers. Sarah, Sarah, Sarah Palin. . .
(hmmm? In no way am I hinting that you would have a vested
interest in supporting any cause advanced by Palin, someone
you've probably never even met, who lives up in Alaska, way
far away from the elusive mrskorn!)
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get my made-up word, "bearophile," into the Urban Dictionary.
Does anyone see that as offensive to the extent that it would
have been censored? Can I not share that benign thought
about a word, which is neutral in tone?
If anyone has insight into the dubious nature of my apparent
disregard for a word, please let me know. Thanks.
(my unconscious intent, no doubt, and mods here can read our unconscious). LOL
Fanned and faved your comment (which was my original thought). Thanks.