A state representative has organized what he promises will be a bipartisan rally Friday evening at the state Capitol to protest potential U.S. involvement in Syria’s bloody civil war. Rep. Paul Wesselhöft, R-Moore, said he hopes to help spur a nationwide antiwar movement in the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will arm […]
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‘No excuse to cheer destruction’
Reiger claims to have been sympathetic to Israel until he learned that the state of Israel is really on land that belonged to the Arabs since the Middle Ages, land that was thus taken away from the indigenous Arabs in 1948 and turned into a Jewish homeland by Britain. First, I would point out that […]
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‘No excuse to cheer destruction’
Reiger claims to have been sympathetic to Israel until he learned that the state of Israel is really on land that belonged to the Arabs since the Middle Ages, land that was thus taken away from the indigenous Arabs in 1948 and turned into a Jewish homeland by Britain. First, I would point out that […]
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‘No excuse to cheer destruction’
Reiger claims to have been sympathetic to Israel until he learned that the state of Israel is really on land that belonged to the Arabs since the Middle Ages, land that was thus taken away from the indigenous Arabs in 1948 and turned into a Jewish homeland by Britain. First, I would point out that […]
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A response to Wesselhoft
He takes offense at the fact that a mosque might be built close to Ground Zero. To me, this says that he believes Islam, and Muslims in general, are to blame for terrorism, rather than blaming the relatively small group of extremists who actually committed the crime. This is like taking offense at Christianity because […]
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A response to Wesselhoft
He takes offense at the fact that a mosque might be built close to Ground Zero. To me, this says that he believes Islam, and Muslims in general, are to blame for terrorism, rather than blaming the relatively small group of extremists who actually committed the crime. This is like taking offense at Christianity because […]
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A response to Wesselhoft
He takes offense at the fact that a mosque might be built close to Ground Zero. To me, this says that he believes Islam, and Muslims in general, are to blame for terrorism, rather than blaming the relatively small group of extremists who actually committed the crime. This is like taking offense at Christianity because […]
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Political reflection
I agree that Sheryl Siddiqui’s Commentary (“The post-9/11 Muslim experience”) lacked a clear point, needlessly alluded to the War on Terror and was an essay more about feelings than facts. However, I did not vote for her, nor do my tax dollars pay her salary. It is saddening to see an elected official, namely Rep. […]
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Rep. Paul Wesselhöft questions Islamophobia
We agree with her that many Muslims abhor the killings of 9/11. However, instead of keeping her cause positive, she had to demonstrate how many more Muslims have been killed in our war on terror; and then she accuses Oklahomans and especially her lawmakers of being Islamophobic and “ill-informed” and “brainwashed” and believing in “distortions.” […]
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‘Right of return’
“Today, I’m hearing the term ‘the right of return,’ and it’s in reference to the right of the Palestinian people to return to that land,” the man, Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee Chairman Charlie Meadows, said to the crowd gathered before him. “I want to tell you something: I believe in the right of return […]