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U.S. government sues Minneapolis suburb

hypocritexposer

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(Reuters) - The U.S. government sued a small Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday, accusing it of religious discrimination after local leaders denied a Muslim group the right to open a center in the municipality. The Justice Department filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis against St. Anthony Village, where council members voted 4-1 in 2012 to deny a request by the Abu Huraira Islamic Center to create a place of worship in the basement of the St. Anthony Business Center.


In other news


Report: Another Man From Minn. Has Died Fighting For ISIS

Another American from the Twin Cities area was killed fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, CBS News reports. This man, who’s not yet been named, is the second American from the Minneapolis area to die fighting for ISIS.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/08/27/report-another-man-from-the-twin-cities-has-died-fighting-for-isis/


The U.S. government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side by side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and are poised to become a major threat to the homeland, according to senior U.S. officials. Officials say concern is widespread in Washington that radicalized foreign fighters could return to the homeland and commit terrorist attacks with skills acquired overseas, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/26/us-citizens-joining-islamic-state-pose-major-threa/
 

Steve

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these scumbags are not Americans...

it is more then just birth, naturalization and circumstances that makes a person an American.

While we may have some vile creatures living here.. they are not American,.. and as far as I am concerned once they leave to fight with a terrorist group.. they should be treated as traitors..
 

Larrry

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OT, let me tell you RR was a friend of Americans and obama is not. Maybe I could get Letterman or Leno to tell you that so you might understand...never mind. You won't
 
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Steve said:
the speech this was taken from is worth reading...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43011



Ronald Reagan


Radio Address to the Nation on Prayer
September 18, 1982


My fellow Americans:

Today is a special day for our citizens of Jewish faith. It's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marking the beginning of the year 5743 on the Hebrew calendar. So, to all of our friends and neighbors observing this holiday—and speaking for all Americans—I want to wish a happy, peaceful, and prosperous New Year.

Rosh Hashanah also reminds us of the rich and varied religious heritage we Americans are blessed with. More than any other nation, ours draws inspiration from the creeds of many peoples from many parts of the world. They came to our shores from different ports of origin at different times in our history. But all of them—from the men and women who celebrated the first Thanksgiving more than three and a half centuries ago, to the boat people of Southeast Asia—came here with prayers on their lips and faith in their hearts.

It's because of this shared faith that we've become, in the words of the Pledge of Allegiance, "one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

At every crucial turning point in our history Americans have faced and overcome great odds, strengthened by spiritual faith. The Plymouth settlers triumphed over hunger, disease, and a cruel northern wilderness because, in the words of William Bradford, "They knew they were pilgrims. So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed."

George Washington knelt in prayer at Valley Forge and in the darkest days of our struggle for independence said that "the fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army."

Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the wisest of our Founding Fathers, had no doubt about the source from which our cause was derived. "The God who gave us life," he declared, "gave us liberty..."

And nearly a century later, in the midst of a tragic and at times seemingly hopeless Civil War, Abraham Lincoln vowed "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."

It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.

And just as prayer has helped us as a nation, it helps us as individuals. In nearly all our lives, there are moments when our prayers and the prayers of our friends and loved ones help to see us through and keep on the right path. In fact, prayer is one of the few things in this world that hurts no one and sustains the spirit of millions.

The Founding Fathers felt this so strongly that they enshrined the principle of freedom of religion in the first amendment of the Constitution. The purpose of that amendment was to protect religion from the interference of government and to guarantee, in its own words, "the free exercise of religion."

Yet today we're told that to protect that first amendment, we must suppress prayer and expel God from our children's classrooms. In one case, a court has ruled against the right of children to say grace in their own school cafeteria before they had lunch. A group of children who sought, on their own initiative and with their parents' approval, to begin the school day with a 1-minute prayer meditation have been forbidden to do so. And some students who wanted to join in prayer or religious study on school property, even outside of regular class hours, have been banned from doing so.

A few people have even objected to prayers being said in the Congress. That's just plain wrong. The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying; its declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray.

The time has come for this Congress to give a majority of American families what they want for their children—the firm assurance that children can hold voluntary prayers in their schools just as the Congress, itself, begins each of its daily sessions with an opening prayer.

With this in mind, last May I proposed to the Congress a measure that declares once and for all that nothing in the Constitution prohibits prayer in public schools or institutions. It also states that no person shall be required by government to participate in prayer who does not want to. So, everyone's rights—believers and nonbelievers alike-are protected by our voluntary prayer measure.

I'm sorry to say that so far the Congress has failed to vote on the issue of school prayer. Jr:st this week, however, I asked Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker to bring this measure to a floor vote. I'm happy to say he told me he'll do everything he can to accomplish this. However, passage requires a vote by the House of Representatives, as well. So, I call on the House leadership to make an equal effort.

Today, on one of the holiest days of one of our great religious faiths, I urge the Members of the Congress to set aside their differences and act on this simple, fair, and long-overdue measure to help make us "one Nation under God" again.

Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America.

Yep-- one of Ronnies best speech's... And he recognized the fact that this country is made up of a varied heritage of cultures and religions and that the Constitution does not recognize any as being the "right" culture, creed or religion- or that any religion is better than another as some of the current rightwingernut hate and fear culture seems to interpret the Constitution....

Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the wisest of our Founding Fathers, had no doubt about the source from which our cause was derived. "The God who gave us life," he declared, "gave us liberty..."


And I still refuse to buy into this rightwingernut belief that my God/Creator, after finishing his chores in Genesis- decided to hand over the Christians to the God of Team B, the Jews to the God of Team C, the Muslims to the God of Team D, etc. , etc in their current apparent practice of Polytheism...
 

Mike

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OT wrote:
And I still refuse to buy into this rightwingernut belief that my God/Creator, after finishing his chores in Genesis- decided to hand over the Christians to the God of Team B, the Jews to the God of Team C, the Muslims to the God of Team D, etc. , etc in their current apparent practice of Polytheism...
Believe what you want. Not one phuck is given..............
Not here anyway. :roll:
 

loomixguy

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So beheading infidels is OK in your book? Doesn't matter if you're in Syria or Scranton, just whip out that knife and start sawing away? Clitoral scarification's no big deal either, huh?

What a maroon. Your wife & daughters should kick you so hard you can wear your ass for a hat.
 
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Mike said:
OT wrote:
And I still refuse to buy into this rightwingernut belief that my God/Creator, after finishing his chores in Genesis- decided to hand over the Christians to the God of Team B, the Jews to the God of Team C, the Muslims to the God of Team D, etc. , etc in their current apparent practice of Polytheism...
Believe what you want. Not one phuck is given..............
Not here anyway. :roll:

Does not surprise me... Like I said before- just like these ISIS thugs- the KKK thugs that killed men, women, and children and bombed church's just because of their hatred and fear of people of a different color- can't truly believe in any God... They are the spawn of the Devil...
 

Steve

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And I still refuse to buy into this rightwingernut belief that my God/Creator, after finishing his chores in Genesis- decided to hand over the Christians to the God of Team B, the Jews to the God of Team C, the Muslims to the God of Team D, etc. , etc in their current apparent practice of Polytheism...

so if you do not believe in the Christian G-D , that is up to you...

but for the record,.. the Jews have team A and ARE the chosen people,
that is clearly spelled out in the Bible,..

Jesus came to them,.. it was not until a woman asked him for some crumbs did he see the need to minister to all of us,

our profits were not always the best of folk that a righteous MAN would pick to be messengers,.. many had faults.. but their message was one from G-D and a pure message.. one meant to "BETTER" us for generations.

but none compared to the selfishness and brutality of mudtowelhead.


as a Christian I believe in the Trinity.. not the gods of abcd.. and especially not the brutal obscene god of islam..

beyond that you totally misinterpreted Reagan's elegant speech..

compared to Obama's dismissal of Christianity and Judaism, and fawning over islam,.. Reagan's is a refreshing understanding of our nations roots in the Judeo-Christian founding and how that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
 

Steve

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Does not surprise me... Like I said before- just like these ISIS thugs- the KKK thugs that killed men, women, and children and bombed church's just because of their hatred and fear of people of a different color- can't truly believe in any God... They are the spawn of the Devil...

We have been trying to explain to you islam is the devil's deception.,..
glad to see your starting to understand that...
 

loomixguy

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Steve said:
Does not surprise me... Like I said before- just like these ISIS thugs- the KKK thugs that killed men, women, and children and bombed church's just because of their hatred and fear of people of a different color- can't truly believe in any God... They are the spawn of the Devil...

We have been trying to explain to you islam is the devil's deception.,..
glad to see your starting to understand that...

He'll never "get it", Steve.

Old Taqiyya is the peace loving Muslim.... you know, the one who points out who the infidels are so the moderate Muslim can hold the infidel's feet while the militant Muslim cuts off the infidel's head... :roll:
 

Mike

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OT wrote:
just like these ISIS thugs- the KKK thugs that killed men, women, and children and bombed church's just because of their hatred and fear of people of a different color- can't truly believe in any God... They are the spawn of the Devil...

So.........what would you call the "Extermination" (word used frequently by Generals Sherman & Sheridan, U.S. Army) of the Plains Indians in your part of the world?

Angels?

If you really wanted to make amends to those Indians, and right the wrongs done to them, you would give them back all of your deeded property and pay them interest on the money made from it...... just to keep you from the Devil. :roll:
 

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