I'm on your first link now,
The Washington Post piece by the Center for Immigration Studies guy.
My general take, so far remains:
- I don't see any evidence of the SLPC inciting violence, and it appears that they wouldn't put someone on the hate list for simply refusing service to gays. They have to say something about homosexuality being a mental illness. There are standards.
- I think it's fair to label the SLPC a liberal organization. If they didn't list all those Black hate groups and Black supremacist groups, I'd say,
hey, something's wrong here. They're being selective about who goes on their list. But that's not the case. They're not a *blindly* liberal organization.
- I'll go so far to say that it's not
that much of a stretch that the SLPC could, if they read some of my posts here, classify me as hateful along with Reub and a few others. Specifically, some of my posts in those Religion of Peace threads. (And if that happens, you won't find me linking to their website anymore.
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But, a distinction should be made. There are things about Islam that make me uncomfortable. There are enough people who want to kill us in the name of Islam that we can't keep saying, "We'll they're not *real* Muslims." Because of all the real, tangible terrorism (read:bombs) and all the incitement from people like the recently deceased
Sheik Abel-Rahman, I tend to be more on guard, to think more about that than I do the peaceful Muslim majority.
However, I recognize that this is my issue. I need to work on my own bias, not to go around saying all Muslims should be deported. It's very similar to how I got into trouble with Curlew, how he misread my personal feelings as a general statement about rural areas, leading to his abrupt departure.
If someone says they don't want to associate with gays, I don't think they're going to end up on the SLPC's list.
If they say that homosexuality is an illness, or a mental illness, they're probably going on the list.
Makes sense to me.
Should Hirsi (sp?) Ali be cited on the website for saying that Islam is a religion of hatred? I don't know. That's a trickier one.
9pm EST Explosions in Iran (Isfahan) and Syria and Iraq. Not yet confirmed.