Comments on: Our home grown racists show up at town hall to protest bedroom-community terrorists

By: Gaby

Gaby — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:39:08 +0000

For many years writers have written thousands of books about Islam and their desire to rule this world,but (NON) have come up with the right SOLUTION
Until I found this book :BEDROOM TERRORISTS
In simple term,it gives them few choices
1- Respect our law (OR) get out
2-Denounce Violence (OR) you’re not welcome in out country
3- Stop Brainwashing Children in our Suburbs and Streets

I strongly recommend reading “Bedroom Terrorists” for all the FACTS that our Leaders have IGNORED

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:01:12 +0000

Mary, down hear Wayzata. There’s this one street …

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:17:10 +0000

So, I live in Plymouth. Just since 2009. Moved here from Chicago. I have no idea what accent you’re talking about… In fact every single fact in this post is news to me.

To me it seems just like the suburbs I grew up in, in Overland Park, Kansas. Everybody is white, except a few “model minority” Asians. And everybody goes to church. And nobody likes to pay taxes, or which is why we don’t have any damn sidewalks and street lights and curbs and gutters on our roads. You don’t have to lock your doors and there’s nothing to do on the weekends. I would love to be convinced that Plymouth is somehow different from every other exurb, that people here vote, every now and then, differently than my Kansan “It was good enough for my great-grandpa, it’s good enough for me” neighbors… But where in Plymouth do I go to see this hidden diversity and progressivism?

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:48:01 +0000

Umm .. are you implying there’s something wrong with what MarkH said in that quote you provided there?

If so then what? It seems pretty accurate and reasonable to me.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:25:25 +0000

or a man who is an exact clone of Michele Bachmann.

Wouldn’t an exact clone of Michelle Bachmann have to be female? Otherwise you’d need to change an X chromosome – which is the default or so I gather – into a Y one right?

By: hoogreg

hoogreg — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:37:49 +0000

My sincere belief is that since 2001 there has been a concerted effort to spread anti-muslim propaganda via the internet, under the guise of “Support the Troops!”, “This is what we’re fighting against in Iraq!” and The Islamicization of Europe. This stuff originates mainly in the US, but we’re starting to see more from India, Canada and the UK.
What you see on tv, in your inbox and in forum comments is the result of a patient and well-organized campaign to ensure that Muslims are seen as the Enemy, and to convince people there’s an insidious plan to turn the world into a Muslim Horde (or something – the details are a bit vague).

Previously I was only curious about this – it was just a bunch of white supremacists doing what they do.

But the comments in the Globe & Mail’s coverage of the Norway massacre were horrendous (“Toronto’s National Newspaper” a nominally Conservative but generally pretty centrist paper). Before the announcement that the killer was Norwegian, probably 80% of the 2000+ undeleted comments were anti-muslim, anti-Islam or anti-immigrant. This is shockingm, because I really thought we in Canada had largely avoided participating in the general trend of anti-muslim intolerance in the West. Boy, was I wrong.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:39:53 +0000

rpenner ….. there’s a difference?

By: rpenner

rpenner — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:33:55 +0000

cajoles -> cojones ?

By: Kimberly Chapman

Kimberly Chapman — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:23:46 +0000

All I know is the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS building here in Austin couldn’t have possibly been a terrorist, despite his anti-government ramblings and the whole plane-crashing-into-a-building thing, because he was a white, Christian Texan male and we all know what to call THOSE people: Mr. President.

At least, Perry is really hoping everyone will see it that way…

My sympathies for you having to deal with morons. Try not to read comments too long, because that’ll cause dain bramage.

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:57:02 +0000

In a bit of irony, many of the Asians who were part of frontier Minnesota were Syrian and Lebanese Christians, coming here for religious freedom. Their reception was very similar to that displayed in those comments. So much for it being all about the religion. These settlers were immortalized in the Betsy-Tacy books, but if you're looking for something a bit more scholarly, I'd recommend the Minnesota Historical Society's They Chose Minnesota for some background on what we've always been like.