See how the writer wants to save the gay community from being branded as terrorists. But he conveniently doesnot see the branding of Muslims as terrorists, and easily uses the term 'islamic terrorist attacks' in Mumbai. The last paragraph of the write up goes to the extent assuring that gay people will never break the American family. The writer forgets that he is talking of a deadbody; 'the great american family'. What is worrying is the normalisation of islam with terror, even when one is claiming citizenship.
Aryan Gay Terrorists? Posted by Robert Zimmer<http://www.411mania.com/user_profile.php?user_id=2864> on 12.15.2008 http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/92435/Gay-Terrorists?.htm In a time-honored tradition, another over-the-hill entertainer from the Old South attacks gay people -- this time comparing them to Al-Qaida. What is it with washed-up Southern singers from the 1950s becoming obsessed with homosexuality? Last week, 74-year old Pat Boone made headlines when he penned an editorial comparing gay protests against California's Prop 8 to the Islamic terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Boone's bizarre rant<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82830>, published on the fringe right-wing website World Net Daily, proclaims "there is a real, unbroken line between the jihadist savagery in Mumbai and the hedonistic, irresponsible, blindly selfish goals and tactics of our homegrown sexual jihadists." Sexual jihadists? That's hot. I've been looking for an excuse to wear my assless burqa to go toss some Molotov cocktails (make mine a double), and now Mr. Boone has given me one. Like most contributors to World Net Daily (such as insincere publicity whore Ann Coulter), Boone is more interested in self-promotion than facts. At last check, no gay activists I am aware of have ever murdered 200 innocent people in a systematic, brutal terrorist attack on a hotel frequented by wealthy Westerners. (I think the worst a group of gays have done to a hotel is redecorate.) Boone's article concedes that "the homosexual 'rights' demonstrations haven't reached the same level of violence [as the Mumbai attacks]," which of course gives Boone the loophole to deny he actually compared gays to Al-Qaida. But the damage is done; the message is clear -- and Mr. Boone has caused himself a mighty sensation, never mind the pesky truth. Boone's article is hardly the first reality-challenged piece to appear in World Net Daily; in fact, the site specializes in such drivel. Only marginally superior to the National Enquirer in terms of journalistic standards, some of World Net Daily's countless gems include an article claiming eating soy makes kids gay; their sponsoring of a kids' contest to debunk global warming as a myth; and an article offering 'proof' that "leftist thinking" is a mental disorder. Sadly, untold thousands of impressionable readers eat up World Net Daily's (soy-free) diet of garbage without pausing to consider whether their stories are rooted in reality. The only accurate statement in Boone's editorial is its last sentence, which reads "Hate is hate, no matter where it erupts. And by its very nature, if it's not held in check, it will escalate into acts vile, violent and destructive." This is too true, as history has shown us. In 1978, another washed-up singer from the South, Anita Bryant, proclaimed her "love" for gays (as Boone did in a separate World Net Daily article), while supporting a California ballot initiative to fire all gay teachers and those who supported them (Prop 6). While that proposition failed, unlike Prop 8 thirty years later, the lingering bad blood resulted in a terrorist attack of its own -- not by gay people, but by a straight person. Three weeks after the failure of Prop 6 on November 7, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Dan White (a religious conservative, as it happens), shot and killed San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, both of whom had opposed Prop 6. In 2008, I suspect that if people are going to be killed because of Prop. 8's fallout, they are more likely to be homosexual than heterosexual. Gay people are not terrorists because they want to have the same rights as straight people, nor will gay marriage destroy the institution of marriage or the American family unit, no matter how much fundamentalist Christians tell you so. It is a sad state of affairs when the religious right has to invent alternate realities to maintain power when the truth is so clearly no longer on their side. If there is a real, unbroken line between any two parties here, it is the eerie, alarming parallels between the radical, religious tyrants who wield a disproportionate amount of power in America and the radical, religious tyrants who do the same through Al-Qaida. Yes, our enemies are among us, but they're not who you think. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
