American Family Association: Muslims Can Stay In The U.S. If They Accept Christ

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http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201004120008


Last week, we highlighted the bigoted words of Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association's Director of Issues Analysis, who called for the deportation Muslim-Americans. In a post today, Fischer clarifies his previous remarks, writing, "of course, most Muslims in the U.S. are not actively looking to do us harm. They're not the ones we have to worry about." But the conciliatory tone and nuanced analysis stops there, and Fischer, who has in the past advocated for a Canaanite-like cleansing of Muslims, brings even more shame to the American Family Association.

He writes:

If we separate ourselves for a moment from the rampant and mindless political correctness and multiculturalism which controls the thinking of the elites, and the ordinary Americans who allow the elite to do their thinking for them, it is obviously and plainly nuts to throw out the welcome mat to those who have a religious obligation to obliterate us. It is beyond comprehension that we have become so brain-addled that we regard it a positive virtue to blindly embrace our own destroyers.

Muslims who have become naturalized citizens, of course, would need to commit an act of treason to forfeit their citizenship and become eligible for repatriation. Based on the Constitution's definition of treason in Article III Section 3 <"adhering to (the) Enemies (of the United States), (or) giving them Aid and Comfort"> treasonous acts are likely committed on virtually a weekly basis here in the U.S. in many mosques and Islamic organizations.

-snip-

Many Muslims are on our shores on student visas and such and have not yet become citizens. We must politely decline their request for naturalization (becoming an American citizen is a privilege, not a right) and use the money we would otherwise spend on their welfare, their education, their medical care and their incarceration to graciously assist them in returning to their countries of origin.

Those who are willing to convert to Christianity and renounce Islam, Allah, Mohammed and the Koran may be welcomed, for they can become not just good Christians but true Americans.
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someone please tie Bryan to his kitchen chair and never let him leave his house again.
he is too religiously crazy to be let out in public.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Oh Jesus . . .

Figuratively and literally.

[hobbit709]

2. Let's turn that around

The AFA can stay if they renounce stupidity and bigotry.

Edit to add.

Maybe the AFA should accept Christ because they certainly aren't following the teachings of Jesus in their actions.

[PDJane]

3. This stuff makes my head hurt...........

This is bigotry. The man is a throwback to some other time and place.

I had hoped that, as a species, we were beyond this.

[mzteris]

4. AFA is a hate group... n/t

[havocmom]

5. Do these idiots support people who protest 'government taking over lives?'

When I read about these un-American zealots, I wonder just what kind of gift of prophecy Robert Heinlein had.

[The_Commonist]

21. I think about him often...

...when I read stories like this.

We are living in "The Crazy Years" all right!

[NotThisTime]

30. I just looked at their website... Obamacare, their rights, tea parties, in other words, nuts....

[SoCalDem]

6. Like a giant soup kitchen

pray to jesus & then you get your soup:(

[sui generis]

7. "treason"????

You know this guy IS the poster child for genocide. Where have we heard this before, let me see, OH YES!!!! if jews renounce judaism and become good faithful christians and stop all that circumcision nonsense, zen zey vill be allowt to shtay in ze country!

Really if somebody like this was in absolute power, which has certainly happened before, you KNOW it would end badly. some days, I wish I believed in that whole christian thing enough to wish that the baby jeebus would actually come back and smite their asses into a greasy pile of ash, every time some hard haired crazy eyed evangelical spouted off shit like this.

[Warpy]

8. Uh, can we kick the AFA out, instead?

My Muslim neighbors and coworkers have been indistinguishable from garden variety Methodists, good people who give the world their best while winking at the sillier and more damaging religious rules.

The AFA types are all sanctimonious pains in the ass who feel compelled to take their god's place and send me to hell.

I want to keep the Muslims. The AFA types have got to go.

[Deep13]

9. Awesome! We can go after the Jews next!

Convert or be expelled! Just like the 15th century. Then we can go after the other brown people religions like Hinduism and Buddhism! And nonbelievers. We cannot allow Satan worshippers to stay if Muslims and Jews are being expelled. When all that's done, we can start to work on Catholics.

By the way, Jesus hates labor unions almost as much as he hates teh gay.

:wtf:

Hang on while I wipe my ass with the Constitution.

[Canuckistanian]

22. And then the Mennonites and the Irish

Pretty soon America will be down to the descendants of the Puritans. I think that's the ultimate goal.

[RedCloud]

24. But never the one true religion: Nudism. All you sinners were born into it.

And when you shower you practice it.

[Canuckistanian]

25. I worship twice daily

To the distress of my mailman and the other people on the elevator at work.

[sakabatou]

10. How American of them

:sarcasm:

[City Lights]

11. Outrageous.

:thumbsdown:

[bobbolink]

12. That means many of the Founders would have been barred.

Many of the Founding Fathers didn't "accept Christ".

They were Deists.

[azurnoir]

13. what does the AFA say about Jews? n/t

[prolesunited]

14. Hey, let's launch Crusades II

[Karenina]

15. No one expected the Spanish Inquisition...

[WeDidIt]

16. Nobody expects the American Inquisition!

Will we call them Conversos?

[UP_4012]

17. .................

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[bridgit]

18. Muslims do accept Jesus as a Prophet, a Teacher - so by MFA standards Muslims can stay

[Rex]

19. But how do you know they really did convert Bryan!?

I mean, they could just be PRETENDING to be Christian in order to get closer and be marked off the 'suspect list'. Shouldn't we require them to wear a shirt that at least says, 'I said I love Jesus, but I still might be a Muslim so approach with caution'? Don't trust anyone Bryan, better yet just stay home and never leave it is too dangerous a world out there and you are safer at home on the lazyboy.

[Skidmore]

20. So who will they want to deport next, if successful at this?

Who next? These extremists have really been emboldened by the GOP and their mouthpieces. Yes, I hold the RW totally responsible for this and all bigotry being trumpeted now.

[AnArmyVeteran]

23. When driving through right wing Oklahoma all I could get on the radio were religious fanatics...

Every radio channel I switched to had religious fanatics spreading fear, hatred and lies. I heard a story about a guy who slept with a woman and when he woke up she was gone but the message "You now have AIDS" was written in lipstick on the mirror. It's a common scare tactic used by fundamentalist religious nuts but the story isn't even true. But right wing Christians rarely let truth get in the way of their evil agendas. Urban Legends has debunked the above story, but religious fanatics keep repeating it. (http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/world_of_aids.htm)

Another story from Oklahoma radio was about a Muslim who finally converted to Christianity. It was probably fake too.

I feel sorry for people who live in Oklahoma and are exposed to the constant fear, hatred, lies and intolerance from right wing Christians. And you can be sure that if given the chance religious fanatics would turn our country into a theocracy and impose all of their religious intolerance on everyone. People would have to adhere to their religious laws, like stoning women who are on their periods, condemning people for eating shellfish, and all the other insane crap in the Bible. I bet if the US became a theocracy the religious laws would be even harsher and more inhuman than the laws in Muslim controlled countries.

I believe one of the biggest threats to our country is religious extremism from right wing Christians.

[Heywood J]

26. I would ask him if he also means these Muslims,

but I suspect I already know the answer to whether he'd like to strip them of citizenship and deport them.

[Unvanguard]

27. Deport the AFA! n/t

[NotThisTime]

28. I wonder if this is the group my brother joined, the rhetoric is the same, only he'd like it global

He wants state and federal laws banning Islam as a religion, and if they won't convert, even if American's, they need to leave in some manner... Perhaps he's even farther right than this group? Does this group claim to be Christian, because apparently he's also become a Christian... go figure...

[KonaKane]

29. Muslims already accept Christ.

...as a prophet. Just not the son of God.

American Family Association needs to redo their homework.

[Tailormyst]

31. Dear AFA: Go fuck yourselves

[troubledamerican]

32. Perfectly reasonable.

And Americans can get their fucking straw out of Saudi Arabia (etc.)'s petrol milkshake. Unless, of course, Americans accept ALLAH.