Need help with comeback to Muslim stamp racist e-mail!

[kimchi]

This e-mail has my blood racing right now. What is the best way to let this person know that this boycott of the Eid stamp is racist and unnecessary? I thought of using Christian examples-is that too much?

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001!

REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp.

REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp whn purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.

REMEMBER to pass this along to every patriotic AMERICAN you know, whether by e-mail or otherwise

[wtmusic]

1. REMEMBER that Muslim teachings borrow

extensively from Christianity!

[regularguy]

2. Don't waste your time.

Just point out that only a f--king idiot would forward this trash.

[alfredo]

12. alter it and forward it.

Replace Muslim with Gerbil.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/boycotts/eidstamp.asp

[arcane1]

4. they sum it up best:

snip:

If it's appropriate for the President to honor these holidays, it ought to be appropriate for the United States Postal Service and the American public as well. If it's not appropriate for the President to honor these holidays, then Americans should be expressing their dissatisfaction through actions a little stronger than merely boycotting a postage stamp.

[CanuckAmok]

5. Wait, I thought everything the President does is unquestionable...

Point out THAT hypocricy. Isn't the USPS and arm of govenrnment, and ultimately takes orders from the Prez?

If tyhe president wants to commission a stamp commemorating hunting male cheerleaders for sport, that must stand in Freeperville.

What stupidity!

[Cheswick2.0]

6. write them back and say you are muslim

tell them yoru grandmother was Arab and you have been following the religion for a couple of years.

[kimchi]

7. Thanks, all.

I went to snopes and couldn't find it, 'cause I'm obviously a dork.

She knows I'm pagan. That is what pisses me off the most. She also knows I'm a democrat, and that I have always fought for the underdog. I haven't seen her in years, and it seems she's gone over to the dark side.

[FloridaJudy]

14. Are you my doppleganger?

I also have a so-called friend who sends me bigoted right wing spam.

At least she didn't send you the "sheet head" joke. That one was so offensive I set my E-Mail program to "ignore". Works for me.

[wryter2000]

8. Christians

Christians killed millions in concentration camps in the 40's.
Christians kept slaves in the US.
After that, Christians lynched their descendents and turned dogs and fire hoses on them when they tried to exercise their right to vote.
Christians blew up the Federal Building in Oaklahoma City.

What does this tell us about Christians? Absolutely nothing.

[Zuni]

11. Nazis were not Christians

They might have been born into Christian families, baptizied and what not but most Nazis (SS and active party members) were anti-Christian like Hitler and some were actually pagan like Himmler and some of the SS

[durutti]

15. Hitler

"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated.

"For God's will gave men their form, their essence, and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. Therefore, let every man be active, each in his own denomination if you please, and let every man take it as his first and most sacred duty to oppose anyone who in his activity by word or deed steps outside the confines of his religious community and tries to butt into the other.

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

"The Führer made it known to those entrusted with the Final Solution that the killings should be done as humanely as possible. This was in line with his conviction that he was observing God's injunction to cleanse the world of vermin. Still a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite detestation of its hierarchy ("I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so" ), he carried within him its teaching that the Jew was the killer of
God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of
conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God --so long as it was done impersonally, without cruelty."

-- John Toland (Pulitzer Prize winner), Adolf Hitler, p. 507

[ArkDem]

9. Just remind them that Islam

is the religon of peace.

[BiggJawn]

10. Tell them that Hitler was a Christian...

Of course, they'll deny it, you COULD send them a picture of a "Gott mit Uns" belt buckle, but these folks' minds are already made up, please don't confusde them with facts.

I got that one last week. the "Delete" key worked wonders....

[kimchi]

13. I never just delete this shit.

I always counter ignorance with knowledge.

One day it may even sink in.