You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s Mark Williams, the head of the Tea Party Express, and the organizer of Sarah Palin’s recent visit to Boston.
The animals of allah for whom any day is a great day for a massacre are drooling over the positive response that they are getting from New York City officials over a proposal to build a 13 story monument to the 9/11 Muslims who hijacked those 4 airliners.
The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god and a “cultural center” to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult.
And it goes on.
We anxiously await the denunciation of this racist by our tea-party-friendly friends on the right. If the Tea Party wants to be taken seriously as a non-fringe political movement, it needs to shed itself of this nutjob pronto. Rob? Michael?
sco says
I thought they were supposed to be saying that Allah is the Moon God (warning: Chick Tract).
joets says
it’s actually closer to being true than not. Very very dicey subject.
christopher says
Allah is the One God according to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. End of story.
joets says
but the definition morphed over time. Look at Isis. Around the time Jesus was on Earth, Isis had become almost a monotheistic diety, whereas thousands of years before, she was part of a pantheon.
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p>Muhammed wanted to restore the religion of Abraham and needed a vessel. Allah was the best candidate, seeing as where he lived and who was the main god of the tribes in his area. When he returned to the Kaaba following his exile and military victory, he destroyed the fetishes of pagan arabia, but it would have been impractical to invoke an entirely new god, so Allah was adopted.
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p>This isn’t to say, however, that Allah is NOW the moon god by any means. While the influence exists, it doesn’t dominate. An analog to christianity would be the fact that much of christian thought is rooted in Aristotle and Plato, men who predated Jesus.
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p>It would make sense to adopt Allah. After all, one can not say that God is not the God of the moon. He is the God of everything, moon and stars included đŸ˜‰
christopher says
As long as we can also acknowledge that YHWH has His roots in the mythology of other cultures as well. “Allah” is of course just Arabic for “God”.
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p>This is Dale Robertson, leader of TeaParty Express
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p>There’s numerous Tea Party factions, and so it can get confusing. If it turns out that they’re all jerkwads, it gets easier to be sure the leader of any given set of teabaggers is a jerkwad.
david says
according to teapartyexpress.org. Robertson is the founder of a different tea party outfit. AFAIK Robertson has nothing to do with “Tea Party Express.”
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p>But you’re right that it can get confusing! đŸ˜‰
charley-on-the-mta says
It’s funny … I did that show on ‘RKO a few weeks back, you know, where we all went there … One of the nutballs that called in insisted that Obama called himself a Muslim while he was on his “apology tour” of the Middle East. Crazy, I thought.
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p>The next day I was listening to the Todd n’ Tom show again — you know, returning to the scene of the crime. The same dude calls in, repeats the same assertion, and says, “facts are facts.” And Fineburg not only does absolutely nothing to refute the kookiness, but flatters the guy for his, uh, “factuality”.
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p>They don’t care, they don’t care, they don’t care. Expect a round of wild rationalization along the lines of:
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p>a.) “THAT’S NOT RACISM” (Well, maybe you’d prefer we call it “religious bigotry”, but that’s not much better, is it? cf. Semantics, pedantry.)
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p>b.) “HOW DARE YOU CALL US ALL RACIST” (We’re not, but Mark Williams is organizing your rallies. How hard would it be to tell him to stay away? cf. strawman.)
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p>c.) “YOU’RE JUST AS BAD” Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, etc. Also probably Sean Penn and Al Sharpton said some bad things. Tu quoque, disanalogy
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p>There is literally nothing Mark Williams could say that the other Tea Partiers would consider out of bounds. They like him, and they want him around. So let him be hung around their necks.
christopher says
If he is he has insulted his own God, the God of Abraham, but hey – this attitude hardly strikes me as Christian so I don’t want to claim him either.
jumbowonk says
I was about to post a comment about the same issue. He just really screwed himself over from a Christian perspective by calling God a monkey god. Of course, teabaggers are too stupid to realize “Allah” is Arabic for “God”
mark-bail says
it’s who and what you are that count.
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p>The truth is deeper than reality. Obama may not actually be a muslim, but he really is a muslim.
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lightiris says
Famous words by somebody: “It’s not who you are but who you look like.”
jconway says
I have said it before and I will say it again the Tea Party would not exist if the Democratic President was not an African American. They would not be here if Hillary Clinton had won. Its almost entirely white, its almost entirely old, and it is composed mostly of the same kind of whites that got agitated historically over integration, busing, etc. These are the George Wallace voters and their descendants.
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p>And for any Republican or conservative or libertarian to argue otherwise is to ignore the vile contemptuous racist language they have consistently employed, whether it is the ‘n’ word, spitting on black Congressmen, or bringing guns to Obama rallies. This kind of right wing extremism has been triggered by a black President, and there are consistent connections between the Tea Party and far right nationalist/hate groups. The Tea Party arose from the Ron Paul campaign which was consistently supported by neo-confederate magazines like Chronicles and the American Conservative, books that bash Lincoln as a tyrant, and the specter of states rights, secession, and nullification once again entering political rhetoric, all isolated on the right.
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p>And for the life of me I do not understand why this is not getting more coverage, even by the supposedly left wing MSNBC and New York Times there is complete silence on this subject.
christopher says
..but as I recall the 1990s were full of irrational hatred of the Clintons and brought us the OK City bombing. They were accused of everything up to and including ordering a hit on Vince Foster. Racism seems to be convenient with a mixed-race President, but if it weren’t race it would be something else.
jconway says
Here is Ron Paul himself in his true confederate apologist colors, aligned in the shape of stars and bars.