From Stark
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who recently launched a bid to get the GOP presidential nomination, came in for an initial wave of criticism for his outspoken Christian religious views, which were perceived in some quarters as threatening the separation of church and state.
Now, Perry is taking fire from an altogether different quarter. Blogs with titles like Jihad Watch, Bare Naked Islam, and Rightside News are posting accounts of Perry’s alleged friendly ties with Islamic groups and individuals in Texas and elsewhere. The authors of these accounts seem to be among those who see themselves as resisting what they are convinced is Islam’s plan for world domination.
I hope it’s obvious that we are not endorsing those views or these blogs. But they may represent a significant slice of the political base that Perry is trying to woo.
Here’s some 2004 polling data from Cornell University:
“About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location with the federal government, and 26 percent said they think that mosques should be closely monitored by U.S. law enforcement agencies. Twenty-nine percent agreed that undercover law enforcement agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations, in order to keep tabs on their activities and fund raising. About 22 percent said the federal government should profile citizens as potential threats based on the fact that they are Muslim or have Middle Eastern heritage. In all, about 44 percent said they believe that some curtailment of civil liberties is necessary for Muslim Americans.”
Here are some mainstream media reports on Perry and Islam, from the Houston Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor.
Debunking the Rick Perry “Pro-Sharia” School Curriculum Myth
By David Stein
http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/1945
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How’d that internment camps thing work with the Japanese for WW2?
All this on account of 19 nut cases and one VP.
Perry is a lunatic worthy of the party of lunatics, but all these conservative tea banging miscreants are just so much horse fodder and bad air…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/paul-ryan-tax-loopholes-donors_n_931712.html
“He left his cowboy boots in Austin, but Gov. Rick Perry brought some Texas straight talk to New Hampshire. “Live free or die, you’ve got to love that,” Perry told an audience in Bedford last week, adding that the state motto reminded him “of a little place down in Texas called the Alamo.”….
Texas is creating half the new jobs in America, thanks to the pro-growth policies Perry presided over. (Or, as Perry put it here, “They aren’t coming because we have good barbecue and warm weather in December.”)…
….As he explained in Portsmouth, “It’s all about jobs. The message every day is going to be about jobs.” That is the message that can sell in New Hampshire.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-perrys-very-good-week/2011/08/22/gIQAsoRNWJ_story.html
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And do you know who is credited with originating that New Hampshire motto?
Darn John, you get around!
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Very funny, John.
But not as funny as Perry’s claims about job creation!
Your Great, Great Grandpappy?
I would love to claim the general, but my Stark forebears did their fighting on behalf of the Habsburg emperors, as near as I can tell, and they were not in command positions.
“House Stark is one of the Great Houses of Westeros, ruling over the vast region known as the North. It is by far the oldest, claiming a line of descent stretching back over eight thousand years. Before the Targaryen conquest, the leaders of House Stark ruled over the region as the Kings in the North.
House Stark’s sigil is a direwolf on a white field, sometimes white and green. Their family motto is “Winter is Coming”….
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Stark
Just in case you haven’t seen the series, I won’t let you in on what happens to the Head of the House Stark!
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