Pat Robertson: "Muslims could end up taking over the city council to pass ordinances"

[sabra]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100820/NEWS06/100820022/Pat-Robertson-Muslims-could-bribe-Rutherford-officials-to-get-mosque-

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Robertson said money from wealthy Muslims in Saudi Arabia could be used to pay for the mosque's construction. The Middle East country, he said, practices a more extreme form of Islam.

"This isn't just religion," Robertson said.

He went on to say that Muslims could end up taking over the city council to pass ordinances that require public prayer and foot washing.

Before long, you'll have girls in schools with head dresses on, he said.

:crazy:

[liberal N proud]

1. Does anyone take anything this spook says seriously?

[sandnsea]

11. Sadly yes

An older woman we know is seriously afraid of this. She is a fierce women's rights advocate, when it comes to voting and work, not abortion. She rants on and on about women's rights being taken away if we give the Muslims any rights. And she's a Baptist that votes for Republicans who would take her rights away in a snap if they could get away with it.

People make no damn sense.

[mitchum]

34. She is not a fierce advocate, but a lukewarm one...

and I doubt that her fierce advocacy for women's rights to work extends to the right of a woman being allowed to be employed as a pulpit-pounding grifter in her bullshit baptist church

[bobbieinok]

57. she should check out where SoBapts are + are going

Albert Mohler, president of the SBC seminary in Nashville, closed a whole department at the seminary (I believe it was the department of Christian Counseling, a department that had an extremely high reputation in the world of seminaries.) WHY???? because most, if not all, of the professors (with very reputable degrees) were women, and Mohler does NOT believe women should be in authority over men.

It was very funny (in a tragic way) to see how he and others supported Palin for VP; women, according to this group, are subordinate to men in marriage and in the church--just not in government. Of course they would have had problems with claiming women should never be in authority in government, considering the various female leaders in the OT.

(For those who might be interested in male and female roles in the Bible, check out the pro-subordination arguments under the term "Biblical complementarianism" and the anti-subordination arguments under the term "Biblical egalitarianism." For more pro-subordination stuff--if you can stand it--search "manly men, womanly women.")

Bobbie in OK

[sandnsea]

61. No, she is a fierce advocate for women

Republicans make my head pop, but when the women's outreach center in this town needs money, she's there.

Now you may be in a personal position to degrade this woman and women like her, but when you're in a small town with limited resources, you can't alienate these people.

In other words, your post and attitude are useless in ACCOMPLISHING anything.

[mitchum]

62. You are right; my attitude will have no effect in changing the fact that she is a mendacious bitch

[rucky]

40. Very much so.

Scary people. Sadly some of them are related.

[mmonk]

51. Absolutely.

They are in the Tea Party and the Republican Party. That's why as long as I breathe air, I will never be one of them unless I have a lobotomy against my will.

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't think Robertson has ever been to NYC.

That's pretty clear.

[mitchum]

39. He has been there many times, but the rubes that he cons have not done so

[Lindsay]

3. Of course,

fundamentalist Christians would never think of becoming stealth candidates....

[louis-t]

4. What a screaming moron.

The religious right has been trying to force prayer in school for years.

Oh, and foot washing? We were checked for foot problems in gym class and told to make sure we dryed between our toes after showering to avoid athlete's foot. In 1973. Forced foot washing-the new GOP outrage of the week.

[lumpy]

37. Gee, maybe that would solve my son's stinky foot problem.

v

[el_bryanto]

5. yeah. Except such ordinances would be against the first amendment

In order to protect the First Amendment from those Muslims we must destroy it?

Bryant

[dembotoz]

6. that might be 1 way to get rid of toe nail fungus

conservative evangelicals have been taking over local governments for a long time around where i live.
Hell, someone to be able to vote for would be a pleasant change.

[EC]

7. Is he talking about the same wealthy Saudis

that help finance Fox?


Aren't there girls in schools with head scrafs now? I see them all over - so what? I recall having to wear a scraf or hat in church every Sunday, no one tried to stop me...There are beliefs that women can't wear pants too, so we have girls in school wearing dresses and skirts...ooh, scary...

[Blue Owl]

8. What a crusty, fearmongering dingleberry

stuck between the rancid, diarrhea-spewing asscheeks of religion and propaganda.

[City Lights]

9. Go fuck yourself, Pat. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. You mean... like the Christian right has done?

Nah, could not be projection!!!!

[Greybnk48]

12. LOL! That's the first thing I thought!!

[Blue Owl]

15. +1

No shit!

[malaise]

28. Ding ding

We have a winner :evilgrin:

[JuniperLea]

30. Spot on...

[lumpy]

41. To the point.

v

[awoke_in_2003]

44. that pic is why...

I could never be a christian. Seriously, worship someone who washes other peoples feet?

[JuniperLea]

45. Only humble people can worship...

I humbly worship Mother Earth... and our greater cosmic connection. That might be God for all I know. I don't really care.

Jesus' own humble nature is what makes me like him... his ability to wash the feet of his followers is one of the nicest things he ever did. Saving the whore from being stoned was another... hanging out with lepers was pretty cool too.

I hope you were being sarcastic. Really.

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Nope, not being sarcastic...

I will be a good human and help those in need, but I will be subserviant to nothing, especially not fictitious superheroes.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. Hey, that double standard is HIS.

He feels entitled to it, dontcha know? ;)

[Bluebear]

35. +

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Pat Robertson..

ばかやる

idiot.

[DailyGrind51]

14. Because we all know how many Muslims there are in NYC, right, Pat?

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Hey! Pat! Here ya go...

http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

[LiberalAndProud]

17. Pat Robertson practices a more extreme form of something or other.

He thinks it's Christianity. I would disagree.

[Bitwit1234]

18. Has someone told him the control Fox....or does he already know that

and chooses to ignore it. How about owning the Bush family ALL OF THEM at one time or the other. when the media has the facts and only wants to report LIES what can you do.

[athenasatanjesus]

60. I'm sure Pat Robertson at least indirectly makes some money from those same Saudis. nt

[steve2470]

19. Pat, go home. Retire. Shut up. Go see your grandkids and kids

Go worship quietly in your own church.

You have never made and are not making any logical sense. YOU and people like you are the reason why Christians of ALL stripes get no respect.

[Initech]

20. Hey Pat, the Saudis have a controlling stake in Fux Snooze. What do you think of that?

[hankthecrank]

21. you should go to your room no dinner for you old fart

[Bonhomme Richard]

22. "money from wealthy Muslims in Saudi Arabia could be used"...

to donate to the republican governor candidates via Fox.
"money from wealthy Muslims in Saudi Arabia could be used" to buy up american faux news outlets.

[mike r]

23. I like foot washing

and hand washing, too.

[ladjf]

24. Dumb. Not possible. Won't happen. Don't worry. nt

[LaurenG]

25. Pat - I pray they do and then then can show you

how a real person of faith is supposed to behave. Jerk!

[malaise]

26. He should know

Crazy fundies have taken over many school boards

[yellowcanine]

27. Foot washing is/was practiced by a number of Protestant churches.

Even some of the Baptist groups practiced it, as well as Pentecostals, Mennonites, Methodists, Adventists. Pat Robertson doesn't even know his own church history. And last time I looked, it was Pat Robertson and his ilk that was promoting public prayers, not Muslims.

[JuniperLea]

29. Jesus did it too...

[yellowcanine]

33. Yeah him also. Doesn't surprise me that Pat Robertson would miss that.

Of course that is why it was practiced in many Protestant churches, as well as by Anglicans and Catholics. One has to wonder if Pat Robertson even reads the Bible sometimes.

[JuniperLea]

36. I keep posting this...

There's no asterisk after "Thou shalt not kill."

There's no list of "except for."

Robertson probably wouldn't get that either.

[CatholicEdHead]

53. There is a Catholic heritage about it

Protestants got it from Holy Thursday masses. Then again Pat also hates Catholics (that style of fundie protestants)

[jberryhill]

32. "This isn't just religion"

No shit, Pat... really?

You mean like a "religion" that owns a cable broadcast network, a university, and a law school?

That kind of thing?

[mitchum]

38. "and that's what we christofascists have been trying to do for decades!"

[leeroysphitz]

42. Ok flame me if you like but if I had a wish...

I would wish the old man dead (sorry but come on, it's Pat Robertson)and for his creepy son and heir apparent to then get caught red handed, on video in a bizarre sex scandal about a month or two later so that with any luck this rotten group of backwards, delusional and bigoted mouth breathers known as the 700 Club Inc. might finally go away.

[and-justice-for-all]

43. Just like his Xristofascist friends have done for decades..nt

[Taverner]

46. Oh fuck you Pat

[Mariana]

47. Pat Robertson agreed that Americans were to blame for 9/11.

When Jerry Falwell rattled off all the various groups of Americans who he asserted caused 9/11, Robertson's reply was "I totally concur." Muslims, radical or otherwise, were not one of the groups mentioned.

Fuck him.

[mbee]

48. We'll never have national healthcare as long as we have

a media that covers ignorant people like this one?

[Enthusiast]

50. Pat Robertson, you never say anything righteous,

you never say a thing worth a damn. With you it's always a bunch of made up garbage. Why can't you tell the truth? Try it, it will be a refreshing change.

[spanone]

52. so could christians. pat, pretty fucking scary, eh?

[Ikonoklast]

54. "Argle Bargle!"

Marion cracks me up with his performance art, every time.


I still say Andy Kaufman is alive and writes comedy scripts for the right-wing loons.

[msanthrope]

55. Nobody tell Pat one of our networks has a Saudi prince as a major shareholder.

His head might fucking explode.

[David Zephyr]

56. Hey Pat, you stupid fuck: the House of Saud bought the House of Bush eons ago.

Pat's worrying about Muslims buying city councils when Pat Robertson's favorite jack-off dolls, the two George Bushes, have long been Saudi puppets.

To quote Jesus: Pat, "you strain at a gnat and swallow a camel."

[Owl]

58. Piss on Pat.

[mbee]

59. Years ago my Mother used to say Ole Pat raided

the diamond mines in Africa!