Muslim contributions to our nation (Page 12): Absolutely right on, excellantee. Anybody think these are our buddies has their head up their butts.

VicBos1x

Absolutely right on, excellantee. Anybody think these are our buddies has their head up their butts.

MySunshineii Loc: Texas

You have just hit the nail on the head!

Now if the democrats could just see it for the true intention. I know I know not gonna happen....

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

emarine wrote:

They should & will be judged same as every other American citizen or find somewhere else to live... They already ride on the tax exemptions for church's which funds new immigration... not sure if other religious groups do the same but it's not a good idea... I thought charity went to needy American's not future needy Americans... The deeper I dig into this mess the worse it gets...

I have never heard of a Muslim charity that contributed to any other group than Muslim groups.

emarine

Louie27 wrote:

I have never heard of a Muslim charity that contributed to any other group than Muslim groups.

I'm not sure but seems like there are enough of them...http://www.guidestar.org/NonprofitDirectory.aspx?cat=8&subcat=46&p=1

Abel

Well, well, well..... I'm almost ashamed to was waste bandwidth on you, and I'm not going to regurgitate what mwdegutis wrote in his response to you, which is basically correct and to the point. But to be brutally honest, when I was young, which is more than a while ago, I lived on a farm and used an outhouse that smelled like roses compared to your agitprop about Muslims. Yes, I know a Muslim or two, and they seem to be personable, BUT, I wouldn't want them standing behind me when the SHTF, nor would they be wise to stand in front of me. Until I see, and hear, the so-called "good Muslims" stand up before their ilk, and our legal citizens, and publicly renounce Radical Islam with its Sharia Law, and show me by their ACTIONS, as well as their documentation, that they entered the USA legally, passed and qualified for immigrant status, visibly assimilated into the US culture with its laws and customs as laid out in the US Constitution, salute the US Flag properly and with respect, and incarcerate or kill radical Islamic Muslims in the act of protecting the USA, and convince me that they are serious when they take the oath of allegiance to the USA without lying about it (they are permitted to lie for their cause to anyone except another Muslim), then after a period of association with them I come to believe they are worthy to be in my country, I will accept them. Diversity is not all bad, until it begins to divide people because they are of a different color or religion and etc.

Political Correctness was a method of mind and speech control used by Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator, to control how his subjects spoke of him; if they spoke out against him, he simply killed them. Democrat Progressives use the same methods, but instead of physically killing their opposition, they just smear and ridicule their opponents and destroy their reputations and and families, and the Progressives are experts at this type of warfare. These Progressive Communists are at war with the USA and its borders, language and culture, and should be treated as enemy combatants and traitors!

I don't like the religion of Islam, nor do I like most any of the other well established organized religious businesses we have here in the USA; however, that doesn't mean I don't believe in a Supreme Being. A Supreme Being may have created, and maybe modified cells, and tinkered with our DNA to get us started, but from that point on, in general, we probably evolved on our own, and the Supreme Being many are awaiting to resolve the mess we have made of this planet are in for a long wait because the Supreme Being is off somewhere else experimenting with other civilizations or maybe has even died long ago; the gift given the "Human Race" that we are all a part of was an enlarged fore-brain, and it was to be used to further our evolutionary lines if we had the common sense and ability to make it happen! In general, we are proving to have been a poor choice, and if common sense was all that common, more people would have some of it! Organized religions, including Islam, are principally means of controlling masses of people, can and have been pretty bloodthirsty at times, and have allowed quite a number of slick talking "preachers" have become very wealthy spouting what people wish to hear, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, and they can "justify" damn near anything by INTERPRETING some particular broadly written "holy" book and "educating" or "brainwashing" a group of sheeple to follow their lead. Most every war throughout history has been started and fought over differences in opinion between some peoples religious philosophies! Logic tells me that only ONE religion may be right, and neither I, nor anyone else, knows precisely which religion it is, or will be; or even if any one of them will make the cut, in my humble opinion.

Kevyn wrote:

COURTESY THE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING
Courtesy the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

We've recently seen the results of a new study called Muslims for American Progress. Commissioned by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, the study is considered the first of its kind, offering a broad look at Muslim contributions to the state of Michigan. It examines the ways Muslims have improved Michiganders' lives over the last five years in such areas as engineering, civics, economic development, medicine, philanthropy, arts and even sports.

The study found that Muslims constitute about 1 percent of the U.S. population, and about 2.75 percent of Michigan's. Given the community's small size, another key finding is understandable: Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim. And when media content analysis reports that more than 80 percent of U.S. media coverage of Islam and Muslims is negative, the report says this “opens the door for a narrow media image to distort public perceptions of this diverse community.

That's where this study works to correct many of those misperceptions, especially in our state. In fact, the study's findings demonstrate a wealth of contributions to the economic, cultural, and political life of Michigan, which has been a magnet not just for Muslims from the Middle East, but from South Asia, West Africa, and Muslim communities from around the world.

Professionally speaking, Michigan's Muslims punch well above their weight. More than 15 percent of Michigan's medical doctors are Muslim, as are more than 10 percent of all pharmacists, more than 7 percent of all dentists, 6.9 percent of podiatrists, and 6.1 percent of osteopaths. These Muslim medical professionals provide 1.6 million appointments to patients per year, indirectly support 39,987 jobs, and fill more than 15 million retail drug prescriptions annually.

Michigan Muslims also have a serious philanthropic streak. In 2015, donations from Michigan Muslims to charity totaled more than $177 million of money, 650 tons of food, 45,000 articles of clothing, 14,000 gallons of water, and much more. In fact, The average Michigan Muslim household spent 18 percent more in charity in 2015 than the average U.S. household.

When it comes to the STEM sector, where women are vastly underrepresented, holding only 24 percent of all STEM jobs in the United States, the study finds that Muslim women are leading the way to gender parity. They're also spurring new developments in their respective areas of expertise, which the study illustrates with profiles of a half-dozen Muslim women working in such areas as highway safety, robotics, computer science, particle physics, and environmental remediation.

Perhaps most interesting to the average Michigander are the statistics on business and economics. The report finds that American Muslims constitute a whopping $5.5 billion of the consumer spending to Michigan's economy. Compared to the nation generally, in 2015 Michigan Muslim households spent 20 percent more in total, including four times as much on education and twice as much on apparel and services. For that same year, the report finds that Muslims owned at least 35,835 businesses in Michigan, about 4.18 percent of all small businesses in the state, employing approximately 100,000 Michiganders.

The report finds a community that, far from being the threatening caricature often presented in mass media, is not only generous, industrious, creative, and skilled, but also extremely diverse.

COURTESY THE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDER... (show quote)

MySunshineii Loc: Texas

Abel, I agree with all you said in your post. I also would like to think that any person with half a brain would too.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Abel wrote:

Well, well, well..... I'm almost ashamed to was waste bandwidth on you, and I'm not going to regurgitate what mwdegutis wrote in his response to you, which is basically correct and to the point. But to be brutally honest, when I was young, which is more than a while ago, I lived on a farm and used an outhouse that smelled like roses compared to your agitprop about Muslims. Yes, I know a Muslim or two, and they seem to be personable, BUT, I wouldn't want them standing behind me when the SHTF, nor would they be wise to stand in front of me. Until I see, and hear, the so-called "good Muslims" stand up before their ilk, and our legal citizens, and publicly renounce Radical Islam with its Sharia Law, and show me by their ACTIONS, as well as their documentation, that they entered the USA legally, passed and qualified for immigrant status, visibly assimilated into the US culture with its laws and customs as laid out in the US Constitution, salute the US Flag properly and with respect, and incarcerate or kill radical Islamic Muslims in the act of protecting the USA, and convince me that they are serious when they take the oath of allegiance to the USA without lying about it (they are permitted to lie for their cause to anyone except another Muslim), then after a period of association with them I come to believe they are worthy to be in my country, I will accept them. Diversity is not all bad, until it begins to divide people because they are of a different color or religion and etc.

Political Correctness was a method of mind and speech control used by Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator, to control how his subjects spoke of him; if they spoke out against him, he simply killed them. Democrat Progressives use the same methods, but instead of physically killing their opposition, they just smear and ridicule their opponents and destroy their reputations and and families, and the Progressives are experts at this type of warfare. These Progressive Communists are at war with the USA and its borders, language and culture, and should be treated as enemy combatants and traitors!

I don't like the religion of Islam, nor do I like most any of the other well established organized religious businesses we have here in the USA; however, that doesn't mean I don't believe in a Supreme Being. A Supreme Being may have created, and maybe modified cells, and tinkered with our DNA to get us started, but from that point on, in general, we probably evolved on our own, and the Supreme Being many are awaiting to resolve the mess we have made of this planet are in for a long wait because the Supreme Being is off somewhere else experimenting with other civilizations or maybe has even died long ago; the gift given the "Human Race" that we are all a part of was an enlarged fore-brain, and it was to be used to further our evolutionary lines if we had the common sense and ability to make it happen! In general, we are proving to have been a poor choice, and if common sense was all that common, more people would have some of it! Organized religions, including Islam, are principally means of controlling masses of people, can and have been pretty bloodthirsty at times, and have allowed quite a number of slick talking "preachers" have become very wealthy spouting what people wish to hear, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, and they can "justify" damn near anything by INTERPRETING some particular broadly written "holy" book and "educating" or "brainwashing" a group of sheeple to follow their lead. Most every war throughout history has been started and fought over differences in opinion between some peoples religious philosophies! Logic tells me that only ONE religion may be right, and neither I, nor anyone else, knows precisely which religion it is, or will be; or even if any one of them will make the cut, in my humble opinion.

Well, well, well..... I'm almost ashamed to was wa... (show quote)

There are three sects of islam, Sunni, Shi'ite and Sufi. Each considers the others heretics, and, therefore may be murdered, raped, enslaved etc at will. Easy way to get the bad news about the manufactured religion is to go to www.thereligionofpeace.com . Mohammad created allah out of the 360 Arab gods around the moon god al-illah and poorly recalled stories from the Torah and the New Testament as well as the Arab god legends.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

peter11937 wrote:

Married her when she was 6, consummated the union when she was nine.....can you say pedophile?

No but can say filthy damn scum!

kankune Loc: Iowa

lindajoy wrote:

No but can say filthy damn scum!

That's a sick sob....and the so called parents were just as bad. I just can't fathom the fact that anyone and i mean anyone could ever hurt an innocent child!!

bahmer

kankune wrote:

That's a sick sob....and the so called parents were just as bad. I just can't fathom the fact that anyone and i mean anyone could ever hurt an innocent child!!

I also can't fathom anyone and I mean anyone worshiping that sick sob as some kind of prophet and religious leader either.

kankune Loc: Iowa

bahmer wrote:

I also can't fathom anyone and I mean anyone worshiping that sick sob as some kind of prophet and religious leader either.

Only people with weak minds that can be lead like sheep with hearts of stone and no souls.

bahmer

kankune wrote:

Only people with weak minds that can be lead like sheep with hearts of stone and no souls.

For sure.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

kankune wrote:

That's a sick sob....and the so called parents were just as bad. I just can't fathom the fact that anyone and i mean anyone could ever hurt an innocent child!!

Heck kan, it would only take knowing someone did, and also knowing they'll never do it again !!! An eye for an eye if you know what I mean!!! Wouldn't think twice about it!!

Ricktloml

lindajoy wrote:

Heck kan, it would only take knowing someone did, and also knowing they'll never do it again !!! An eye for an eye if you know what I mean!!! Wouldn't think twice about it!!

I'm thinking of the Marine who was disciplined in Afghanistan who stopped the rape of a young boy, and the excuse was this is a cultural NORM and he had no business interceding. THAT is shameful, and just guess who was president and didn't stand up for our Marine

kankune Loc: Iowa

lindajoy wrote:

Heck kan, it would only take knowing someone did, and also knowing they'll never do it again !!! An eye for an eye if you know what I mean!!! Wouldn't think twice about it!!

I'm with you LJ...an eye for an eye.....