But don't give me any Muslims or Mexicans
Categories: Islamaphobia
Muslim Demographics an Islamaphobic rant
The You Tube video titled, “Muslim Demographics” now making the rounds in the United States, can be seen at the above URL.
What follows represents my opinion in the matter.
D. Grant Haynes
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This is as vile a piece of Islamaphobic hate mongering as I have ever seen. It was, in all likelihood, put together by either a conservative Protestant Christian organization or by Zionists—often the same people. The maker of this video is no "friend of (a) muslim".
Every ethnic group ever coming into America to be assimilated was looked upon as a "threat" by the ones already here and established. Ask the Native Americans who were here at least 10,000 years before Bible punching Christians and Jews waded ashore.
The Italians who came in the 19th Century were called "wops" and were distrusted initially. Now, their grandchildren are part of the mainstream. We all appreciated Sinatra.
The so-called "Shanty Irish"--almost all Catholic and poor--came in waves after the 19th Century potato famine in their land. They were initially distrusted and called “Paddies” by those already here. The Irish assimilated quickly and gave us John Fitzgerald Kennedy in a couple of American generations.
What the producer of this despicable presentation ignores in his or her hate mongering is that the next generation of Muslims in Great Britain, Canada, or the United States will have gained enough education and westernization to aspire to give their children the best opportunities. They will wisely elect to have two or three offspring rather than eight or ten, as grandchildren of 19th Century Irish immigrants are now doing, the Pope be damned.
The American experience changes people. Succeeding generations dispense with Old World ways of thinking and living. They become Americans and, while preserving the best of their own cultures, hopefully, dispense with the darkest and most unworkable baggage brought along. This will occur with Muslim immigrants too.
America is a melting pot and her strength grows out of her diversity. I cannot accept the proposition that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are God's anointed and that we should man barricades to keep out Muslims and Hispanics.
I have no desire to adopt Islam any more than Judaism or Billy Graham's Christianity, but no Muslim has ever done me harm. Nor has any Hispanic.
On the other hand, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney--both blue-eyed Protestants from families that have been here many generations--damned nearly destroyed my nation between 2000 and 2008.
And now a man of color, Barack Hussein Obama, is beginning to lead us out of the darkness of the Bush Era.
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