Lord Help Me.

I will be as respectful as possible in the following post. I promised myself that I would be nice, and that I would not stoop to the level shown in this blog/article/commentary/whatever. Let's get into it...

This man named Fred has a mouth on him. His blog is called The Texas Fred Blog (http://www.texasfred.net/) Good! Let's speak our opinions and let them be heard, and enjoy the freedom that is the internet, and respect one another... oh... wait.. not that last one? Oh ok, that's fine. You don't have to be perfectly respectful 24/7, that would be so much work. But at least we will be honest with each other right?!? No?!?! hmmmm.... okay. There has to be something of value in this post right? Let's take a deeper look.

There is the chance that this was put out there, just to get people talking. Look at me, I'm (kinda) talking right now! Cool. So it was supposed to evoke feelings in me. Shall we discuss those feelings now? I think that would be a great idea.

Title : The TRUTH about Islam.

Starting with the opening sentence.

“Barack Hussein Obama may not have the fortitude to call the radical Muslims exactly what they are, or he may be afraid of offending Islam if he speak the truth about his Jihadist and ISIS brothers, or, perhaps he doesn’t see anything wrong with the practices of Islam because he really is one of them.”

Okay.. I know what you are thinking. But it gets worse. Don’t walk away just yet.

“I find it amazing that supposedly *peaceful* Muslims can stand idly by as a herd of Islamic TERRORISTS do what they do in the name of their religion.”

From this article in the Huffington Post :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-clerics-condemn-terrorism_us_566adfa1e4b009377b249dea

“Almost 70,000 Muslim clerics have come together to pass a fatwa against global terrorist organizations, including the Taliban, al Qaeda and the militant group that calls itself the Islamic State.

During an annual gathering of South Asian Sunni Muslims in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this week, almost 1.5 million attendees signed a document protesting global terrorist activity, according to The Times of India.”

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Muslim-Scholars-Groups-Against-ISIS-Speal-Out-361309791.html

(Here you go. )

It is obvious to me that the audience for this kind of blog are possibly ignorant people who are scared of what they don’t understand. Yes, there are many extremists within many religious.. Examples like the KKK come to mind quickly. His evidence is loosely translated verses from the Quran. For example, one that he lists is as follows

“Kill the Jews and the Christians if they do not convert to Islam or refuse to pay Jizya tax (9:29)”

NOWHERE IN ANY TRANSLATION OF THE QURAN DOES IT TELL ANYONE TO KILL ANYONE ELSE IF THEY DON’T PAY THEIR STATE TAX.

Although it does say to fight against that, because that’s not cool dude. Just pay your taxes… c’mon.

Yes, we all understand that religious texts have crazy shit in them. Like in the Bible when Moses is freaking out about the Midianites.

(Numbers 31:17-18)--"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. 18 But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves."

I cannot get past the broad generalizations of how all Muslims are standing idly by, and watching this happen, and not doing anything about it. Then again, does my mother feel the need to defend the KKK because they say that they do what they do in the name of Christianity. NO! She understand that they don’t truly represent her. And if someone made the correlation of her church and the white supremacy group, that would be super offensive.

Anyways, it was hard to digest all of this ignorance. But I did it. Can’t wait to see what comes next out of this guys ass. Sorry! Mouth. I meant mouth.

Texas vs Refugees

The Dallas Morning News' Editorial section, has put up a lovely article called "In dropping legal challenge to Syrian refugees, Texas is pragmatic — but hardly humane". I highly recommend taking a look at this piece. It really represents how inhumane our state government is being towards the Syrian Refugees.

“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office has quietly dropped its 10-month legal crusade to bar Syrian refugees fleeing their homeland's barbaric civil war from entering this state.” Obviously, this case would have never made it into trial, because our state does not even have the power to sue in a situation like this. We didn’t drop the case because of “a sudden humanitarian impulse on the part of our state's top GOP leaders.” We dropped the case because litigation costs money.” Period. End of sentence. Done.

I like the way that the author (whoever he or she is), doesn’t just go with their gut, but that they give some solid evidence in their argument, which truly helps them to look more credible as a source. They point out that Governor Greg Abbott hasn’t made a peep about why the lawsuit was dropped. Hmmmm…. Interesting.

This argument was clothed in the robe of safety. “Well, all these refugees are terrorist and they can’t come here cause that isn’t safe, and cause… well… I said so!” (not an actual quote btw.) They believed that they would be putting Texans at risk by bringing in people who are escaping from horrors that none of us could even imagine. They are dangerous extremists, and they have no place here apparently.

The author is believes it is “unlikely to have been a change of heart, a startling sunburst of recognition that of more than 1,000 Syrian refugees resettled in Texas since 2011, none are known to have posed any semblance of a terror threat.” Agreed.

I think that the target audience for this post would be people who disagree with Texas backing away from this resettlement program. This is very much so on that side of the argument. I felt like it was geared towards me and I personally feel the same way.

I also think that it was really smart of the writers to break it down for us at the end. They put up a little section called “How We Got Here”. Listing various things in the recent past that all in all lead us to this point in time. I love that just because not everyone ready will be fully versed in this situation. Which will totally turn readers off! If they can’t understand something, they will more than likely just skip over it, or not bother to even keep reading at all!  This to me is a clear effort on their part to make the story easier to digest, which is the opposite of what other sources do. Why do they make legislation so hard to read and understand? Maybe they don’t really want you to know what they are up to… Ruh Roh.