--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > In a message dated 1/5/08 8:07:15 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > jimdale827@ writes: > > > > Have Americans got a problem with Muslims then? > > > > Jim. > > > > Evidently Judy thinks so because in my original post I referred > > to Obama as a Muslim and she and a couple others became overly > > defensive of it, calling it a dirty trick and a lie etc. and > > calling me a xenophobe and a racist. You know, the common attack > > liberals make against people that don't share their political > > agenda. Yet she was the one all upset at Obama being referred to > > as a Muslim as if it were an insult and a smear. > > What liberals tend to dislike most about right-wingers > is not their political agenda but their propensity to > lie, as MDixon does above. > > First, it wasn't I who called him a xenophobe and a > racist. I called him an unscrupulous cynic for having > deliberately attempted to elicit outrage about his > lie that Obama is a Muslim so he could then call the > folks who objected xenophobes and racists, just as he > does above, by pretending that they considered it a > smear. > > With possibly a few exceptions, on this forum nobody > thinks it would reflect badly on Obama were he a > Muslim. In other less knowledgeable and sophisticated > venues in this country, of course, Muslims are considered > evil and treacherous, which is why right-wingers are > trying to spread the rumor that Obama is a Muslim. > > What's so offensive about the rumor is its *appeal* to > xenophobia and its exploitation of ignorance. > > MDixon knows all this (just as he knew from the start > that Obama isn't Muslim) because I explained it to him > in my initial response. So his current post involves > several layers of quite disgraceful disingenuity and > deception. > > I think the > > average Muslim in the know would have said "No, he's not a Muslim > > even though his father and stepfather were." I doubt they would > > have taken it as a smear, probably more as a complement. > > Of course the "average Muslim" would not consider it a > smear. However, Muslims "in the know" would add that > Obama's father had become an atheist by the time he met > Obama's mother (who was raised Christian but was not a > believer) and divorced her when Obama was two years old. > His stepfather's heritage was Muslim, but he did not > practice Islam and separated from Obama's mother after > five years. So even to say Obama has "Muslim roots" is > a gross exaggeration. He was neither brought up as nor > educated as a Muslim.
The fact is, Judy, that MDixon posted a simple two-line troll and both you and John fell for it like a ton of bricks, dashing in and attempting to shoot the messenger by doing EXACTLY the thing you are accusing him of -- labeling him with degrogatory words and phrases. MDixon has been remarkably calm and non-attached in this mêlée, whereas two supposed liberals have gone out of their way to paint him as a terrible person -- a xenophobe, a bigot, a liar. I just find the whole exchange interesting in that it consists of one simple troll and then the hys- terical reaction and smear tactics of a couple of people who fell for it, and don't even *realize* that the tactics they're suggesting that MDixon is using are their own. MDixon 1 do.rflex and authfriend 0
