E-mail: A USPS stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays

[Sweet Freedom]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/eidstamp.asp

[da_chimperor]

1. I don't know what else to say other than it's blatantly bigoted

and logically flawed as it assumes that all Muslims are fundamentalists which they're not. Best way I can think to counter it is to make the same kind of thing but with atrocities committed by Christians in the past showing the lack of logic behind this piece of shit. The thing is, I think that the only people that would actually believe this aren't really worth dealing with. :shrug:

[Sweet Freedom]

2. True

The best response is probably the last graph from the Snopes article:

The President of the United States, George W. Bush, has extended official greetings, issued messages, and participated in commemorations of both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (even after the September 11 attacks), and the White House web site promotes the EID stamp as well.

[Sweet Freedom]

3. Here is the e-mail

Dear Fellow Patriotic Americans,

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks.

Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp.

I strongly urge you to REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your holiday stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors. I also strongly urge you to pass this along to every Patriotic AMERICAN you know, whether by email or otherwise.

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I imagine it will be circulating again around the holidays. Snopes discusses the reasoning behind the stamp (see link in first post).

[alexisfree]

4. I have not

seen this stamps in California yet. I did not know that a simple stamp will have to be against the Americans..

[Sweet Freedom]

5. Another response

From this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

OK, I'll boycott the Muslim stamp. But in order to be consistent with the logic of attaching blame to an entire group rather than the lunatic fringe nutcases within that group who are personally responsible for such despicable actions, I guess I'd better expand my boycott:

REMEMBER the CHRISTIAN abortion clinic bombings and child molesting clergymen! Well, now I guess I gotta boycott Christmas, too!

REMEMBER the BLACK crack dealing gangsta thugs! Throw Bill Cosby, Oprah, and Colin Powell in jail with the rest of 'em!

REMEMBER the WHITE guy who bombed Oklahoma City! Hey, I'm white too! Uh oh...

REMEMBER the GERMANS who started World War 2 and gassed six million Jews! Shit! And to think I liked beer and bratwurst!

REMEMBER the REPUBLICAN presidents who brought us Watergate, Iraq, and runaway deficits! OK, so I'll vote for the Democrats...

REMEMBER the DEMOCRATIC presidents who dropped nukes on Japan, escalated Vietnam, and got blowjobs in the Oval Office! Well then, to hell with all of them! I guess I'll just focus on getting rich.

REMEMBER that GEORGE WASHINGTON owned slaves. Time to boycott the dollar, folks!

The bottom line is that every religion, culture, race, and nation has things to not be very proud of. Don't be so easily tempted to condemn the whole bunch, because it's a slippery path to becoming a bitter, hate-filled bigot who thinks the whole world is out to get them