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This makes me sick. As I stated before. I can think for myself. I don't need a Holy Man, Pope, Mullah, Imam, Reverend, Pastor or any other religious head to "guide me". What makes these men so holy that we must hang on their every word and go out to commit bigotry and hate in the name of Religion? Why did these three young men act as they did? Simple, because they chose to listen to some towel-head jerk that self-righteously appointment himself an authority on Holy Scripture.

When people think for themselves and use common sense and common curtesy toward their fellow human beings then the world can live in Peace. But that is not going to happen in my lifetime, simply because idiots like this are easily led by ego manics dressed in clerical garb of whatever flavor of religion.

I believe in God and have a strong Christian faith, but that is for me alone. I can attend church and do, but I don't have to come away from the experience believing everything I was told. I can think for myself and sort out what is real and what is bull hockey, thanks for that term Keith in Tampa.

These young men are taught to accept what their religious authorities tell them. They are not to question and probably have never read the Koran by themselves and disected the meaning. It is easier to follow than lead. These young men need to learn a different message and I hope they do time so they can get first hand knowledge what it is like to be some lifer's bitch, LOL.

Rob in Iowa

From: Keith In Tampa
To: historical-pictoral@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 11:00:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Historical Pictorial] If Muslims Gay-Bash In San Francisco, Do They Make a Sound? - Big Journalism

Thanks for sharing this with the group Duncan!

(This pisses me off.....I have literally dozens of pictures, most of which I have posted here before, of the mistreatment, and actual murder, capital punishment, and downright cruelty of Islamic Nation-States' treatment of homosexuals. These individual who were caught targeting men in San Franscisco need to be made an example of)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Duncan - wrote:

(...In my never ending quest for truth, justice and the American Way, I scour the internet for information pertinent to the gay community's ongoing struggle; the following represents the media's reaction to a recent incident in SF, Calif. A man walking along minding his own business was assaulted with a BB gun from a moving car because the occupants thought he might be gay.....)

http://bigjournalism.com/bcarroll/2010/03/10/if-muslims-gay-bash-in-san-francisco-do-they-make-a-sound/#idc-container

If Muslims Gay-Bash In San Francisco, Do They Make a Sound?

Posted by Bruce Mar 10th 2010 at 7:15 am in Featured Story, Religion, media bias | Comments (244)

A week ago, news began to break in San Francisco about a targeted gay-bashing crime that allegedly occurred on February 26.

Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday.

Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. When the men were pulled over, police found a video camera that was used to film the shooting, investigators said.

Clearly, of course, this had to be a Christian right-wing, tea party, anti-government, bigoted homophobe from the South. Right?
Wrong.

The three men, Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Sayed Bassam, 21, and Mohammad Habibzada, 24, the driver, were arrested.
According to [police spokesman Officer Samson] Chan, they allegedly admitted to the crime.
“The suspects did make a confession, basically stating that they came to San Francisco to target gay people,” he said.
But what is strange about the media reports is that the identity group, nor the motives, of these three “urban youths” is never mentioned in any news accounts. San Francisco Chronicle get it right? No dice. How about the local TV stations? Get real. The Associated Press? Ha!

Imagine, if you will, that the BB gun attackers had been white. Or from Utah. Or from Texas. Or Laramie, Wyoming. What kind of wild adjectives would have been applied? We can only surmise. Editorializing against mainstream Americans who are now out-of-favor by the media (whites, Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons, conservatives) happens everyday on America’s front pages and network news programs. But when it comes to Arab/Muslim attackers — all silence is golden for the American media.
Predictably, the gay media outlets and left-wing bloggers continued their head-in-sand approach in the reporting of this Muslim-on-gay violence in America’s homo mecca. The leading gay magazine in America, the Advocate, is silent about the identity or motives of the men aside from their names. Again, one can only imagine if these were “Christianists” on an anti-gay BB gun field trip to San Francisco.

The silence of the Muslim angle is also deafening by left-wing gay bloggers Towleroad, JoeMyGod. But at least they took notice. No such luck over at Pam’s House Blend and Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. You would think Sullivan, who once claimed to recognize the threat to gays by Islamic radicals, would have picked up on the story. Nope. Andrew must not have heard about the incident. Convenient.

Imagine, if you will, that the BB gun attackers had been white. Or from Utah. Or from Texas. Or Laramie, Wyoming. What kind of wild adjectives would have been applied? We can only surmise. Editorializing against mainstream Americans who are now out-of-favor by the media (whites, Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons, conservatives) happens everyday on America’s front pages and network news programs. But when it comes to Arab/Muslim attackers — all silence is golden for the American media..........

Folks who aren’t in tune with the American gay community need to understand something fundamental. The gay liberal activists and thought leaders that make policy and advocacy decisions have long ignored the existential threat to gays and lesbians by Islamic extremism. Liberal “gay rights” groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Gill Foundation, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are far more concerned about attacking American Christians on a daily basis than facing the real threat to gays around the world.

"....I’ve never seen this kind of display in a public square in America. Keep in mind, this was an Iranian government-sanctioned, religious-law execution performed because these teenagers were accused of being gay.

The hangings of gays is routine punishment in Iran and other Islamic-ruled nations.. But the American Gay Establishment is too concerned about court-forced marriage, educational indoctrination of kids and Federal funding to worry about such trivial matters as systematic killing of gays by Islamic regimes. Or the looming threat to American gays and lesbians on our shores.

Just last month, the blog Creeping Sharia reported on disturbing comments by Vanderbilt University’s Muslim chaplain.

I go with what Islam teaches,” said Awadh A. Binhazim, who is listed on the Vanderbilt website as “Adjunct Professor of Islam at the Divinity School” and an adviser to the Muslim Student Association. His comments came earlier this week at a diversity event for students.
He was asked directly, “Under Islamic law is it punishable by death if you are a homosexual?”

Binhazim said, “Yes. It is punishable by death.”

Lovely. Watch the video (at the link) and realize that this is happening on a college campus in Nashville, Tennessee, not Saudi Arabia.

Lovely. Watch the video and realize that this is happening on a college campus in Nashville, Tennessee, not Saudi Arabia.

But hey — let’s demonize, character assassinate and hunt down American Christians who oppose gay marriage first, shall we? Priorities.

It is also important to note that the fundamental philosophies of a majority of the American gay activist community have been rooted with elements of anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, anti-war, and anti-Israeli sentiment for the past three decades. You could not have attended an anti-Iraq war rally in 2003-2007 without seeing many rainbow flags (the unofficial symbol of gays and lesbians) mixed in with pro-communist, anti-capitalist, anti-Bush and anti-American signs, symbols and chants.

In order to be gay and part of “the community” in America, you must first renounce “the mainstream,” your individualism, liberty, capitalism, the Constitution, the basic right to vote and your patriotism. All those checked? Join the club!

To fight against Islamic terror against gays is completely foreign to the DNA of the American gay establishment. To them the enemies are Republicans, white and straight men, and the US military.
When it comes to the threat of Muslim-on-gay violence in San Francisco or around the world, the American gay community truly takes a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach........