What do you think of this letter I received today, and please identify if you're conservative or liberal?

Question

Written by a housewife from New Jersey and sounds like it! This is one ticked off lady.
"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?
Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.
I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia .

I'll post the entire letter on my 360 page later today.

Answer 1

It sounds like a woman who has her priorities straight.

Since when are liberals interested in fighting terrorism? AMERICA is the problem I thought?!?!

Answer 2

I'm a moderate. More liberal on somethings and conservative on others. But I don't have any problem with the letter. I did not take it that she was bashing all Muslims. She feels a justified rage.
Personally I could care less what someone did with a batch of tree pulp, make it into a bible or a koran, newspaper, toilet paper, I don't care. If you want to kick it around a room, throw it down a well or shred it, I don't care.... as long as your not doing it to deny me the right to read it if I choose.

Answer 3

It sounds like she is playing right into the hands of those very people who want her scared and angry. She is more vulnerable that way.

No one is happy with what happened on that fateful day but we went after the wrong people and that is the problem.

The soldier who kicked the Koran may have been frustrated but why dis a whole religion of several million souls because of the actions of a few radicals? That is like someone kicking the Bible because some fool group caused trouble in the name of Christianity. And don't say it won't happen. Look at history before you say that. It happened alot. Ask the Native Americans who were forced to become Christian or lose their lives. Ask Africans if they were forced into becoming Christians during the colonial period or be deprived a livelyhood, food or their lives. We need to respect someone else's holy books whether we agree with them or not. What the soldier did was wrong and he needed to apologise to those who saw it.

Tempers fly during stressful situations but we should not allow ourselves to be affected so much or lose our cool. Doing that will cause us to say and do things we will eventually live to regret. To the housewife who wrote that letter, if she isn't over the rage of 9/11 and moving on with her life by now I suggest she find pursuits outside the house where her mind can be better occupied or seek professional help. Sure that event was tragic and we should never forget but we should not dwell on it nor should we continue to allow it to enrage us and consume our lives.--Middle of the road leaning left.

Answer 4

This is America. She does not now, nor does she ever need to give a rats a$$ about the Koran. I don't. We ARE fighting a war on terror against Muslim extremists whether anyone likes it or not. Conservative and proud of it!

Answer 5

I am a conservative and I couldn't care any less about desecrating a book... Until the bible becomes protected I sure as heck am not going to worry about being sensative to the koran.

Answer 6

To begin with, our nation was attacked on 11 September by radical elements. The idea that these people represents the over one billion Musilms worldwide is a rather stupid conclusion. They are a tiny minority within the Muslim community. Americans who insult Islam or act disespectfully toward the Qur'an, accomplish nothing other than turning more Muslims against us.

If you know a little history, you know that Osam Bin Laden and his mujahideen were being supplied by our government when they were fighting the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. What has changed? Why is he now our enemy?

Who is in Afghanistan now? I am certainly not defending a terrorist act that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. What I am saying is that it was our own politicians who brought terrorism to our shores. They certainly knew what would happen when American troops were stationed on Saudi territory. Our politicians are not stupid. They share the blame with the terrorists who attacked us by making us a target.

The terrorists are our enemies. Muslims are not, unless we go out of our way to insult and abuse them. We need to realize that there is no need for us to be fighting a "War on Terrorism" (by the way, terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy), if we had not been made a target for the terrorists. We need to change our foreign policy to what George Washington advocated: "Beware of foreign entanglements". The alternative is to lose our freedom.

It is the NeoCon mentality that rallies behind our politicians, the very people who invited the terrorist to attack us. They want the American people to give up our liberties and submit to the Patriot Act. Any real American will tell them to go to hell. We want our FREEDOM. We want the Bill of Rights restored. We don't want their protection. We want them out of office.

Real Americans want a return to Constitutional government, with all the freedoms that entails.

It is not Muslims who are taking away your freedom. It is our politicians. it is the same people who invited the terrorist attack on 11 September. It is always politicians who start wars. Unfortunately, they are not the ones who fight the wars.

I am a CONSERVATIVE. I am not a NeoCon. I believe in Constitutional government. I don't hate Muslims, or anybody else. I respect the right of everybody to their own faith. And I think that we need to mind our own business and stay out of other people's wars. That is the traditional American position.

Answer 7

Any decent Americanis still angry over 9/11. However, I cannot endorse this woman's attitude. She clearly equates Islam and Muslims in general with the criminal acts of a few extremists. That is not "righteous anger"--it is simply bigotry.

Her attitude is no different than if someone equated Christianity with terrorism simply because a terrorist like Eric Rudolph claied to be aChristian.

And--since you asked, I'm a liberal--and a Christian.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

Sounds to me like she needs to get a hobby...

But she does have a point....can anyone find out how many Bible's the Muslim terrorists have desecrated?

Proud conservative....to a point.