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North American Infidel Refutes CAIR’s About Islam Page! ...
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North American Infidel Refutes CAIR’s About Islam Page! Posted: 29 Mar 2014 06:31 PM PDT
From their What is Islam page:
When they say Prophets, they include Jesus. But what CAIR does not mention is that Muslims believe in a different version of Jesus. One who was not the Son of God. Koran verse 9:30 (Altafsir .com)
Koran verse 2:116
The only problem with those statements is that Jesus himself said he was the Son of God. John 20:31
Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. John 3:16
Nor do Muslims believe that Jesus was crucified. Koran verse 4:157
I wonder how Christians would feel if they knew about the above verse? Because I have not seen even one Muslim come out and say that right off the bat… Back to the CONcil on American Islamic Relations.
Yes, a way of life that calls for the death of those who have turned to disbelief. Koran verse 4:89
Apparently those who do not believe in Islam are not so “innocent”… CAIR: SNIP:
The Day of Judgment was explained HERE. Finally, my favorite part of the rebuttal: If Jesus preached the same message as Mohammad, why does the Ahadith state Jesus will come back as a Muslim and destroy Christianity? (Break the cross) Bukhari Volume 4, Book 55, Number 657:
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Liberalism is the Problem, Not Racism
Liberalism is the Problem, Not Racism
By Star Parker
When Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif, went off on Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis, for his remarks that “We have got a tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work,” the wrong part what she had to say got all the attention.
The big buzz that Congressional Black Caucus member Lee generated was her accusation that Ryan’s remarks were a “thinly veiled racial attack.”
But the part of her remarks I found most interesting was “…Mr. Ryan should step up and produce some legitimate proposals on how to tackle poverty and racial discrimination in America.”
Paul Ryan has been one of the most creative and courageous policy thinkers in Washington in recent years.
Ryan sat down with me for an interview shortly before he ran for Vice President in 2012 (the interview is on my organization’s websitewww.urbancure.org). His thoughtfulness and compassion came through loud and clear and he zeroed in on the core of a problem I have been talking and writing about for more than 20 years – government programs that not only do not solve problems but make problems worse.
I stepped into this whole business of public policy from my own experience with welfare. I saw that the welfare program, which operated in this country from the 1960’s until it was reformed in 1996, that required women to not work, not save, and not get married in order to qualify for their welfare checks was a most efficient mechanism to destroy family and perpetuate poverty.
So it should come as no surprise that single parent black households tripled as a percentage of all black households from the 1960’s to today.
Where Barbara Lee is right is that this is not about race. What it is about is liberalism.
The racial aspect comes into play in that black political leaders, like Congresswoman Lee, overwhelmingly embrace liberalism, progressivism, welfare statism – whatever you want to call it – that has failed and caused untold damage in the very communities they claim to want to help. And they refuse to ever learn. Their answer to every problem, despite prior experience, is more government, more taxpayer’s dollars.
When real reformers like Paul Ryan come along, they get branded racist.
In a column I wrote a couple years ago, I pointed out that the 41 member Congressional Black Caucus were uniformly Democrats, had a 100% reelection rates, and the average poverty rate in these Congressional Black Caucus districts was 20.3% and the average child poverty rate 28.8% - both well above national averages.
Economist Walter Williams has pointed out that, in America’s top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000, “…for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of them – such as Detroit (now the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history), Buffalo, Newark, and Philadelphia, haven’t elected a Republican mayor for more than half a century. What’s more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.”
Again, the point is not that the mayors of these cities are black. It is that they are liberals. And black politicians, like Congresswoman Barbara Lee, overwhelmingly are liberals, and they remain liberals, despite a long and consistent track record of failure.
When welfare was reformed, liberals like Barbara Lee fought it.
It is pure self-absorption for any interest group to think it is all about them. America is in real trouble today and we’re all in this together.
Ms. Lee talks about “code words.” Her code word is “racist”, which means someone, like Paul Ryan, who wants to make Americans of all backgrounds better off by giving them more freedom, more choice, more responsibility, and less government.
Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education
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George Will's Wisdom...
George Will 3/23/14
Critics of Rep. Paul Ryan's remarks about cultural factors in the persistence of poverty are simultaneously shrill and boring. Their predictable minuet of synthetic indignation demonstrates how little liberals have learned about poverty or changed their rhetorical repertoire in the last 49 years.
Ryan spoke of a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work,” adding: “There's a real culture problem here.” This brought down upon Ryan the usual acid rain of accusations – racism, blaming the victims, etc. He had sauntered into the minefield that a more experienced Daniel Patrick Moynihan – a liberal scholar who knew the taboos of his tribe – had tiptoed into five years before Ryan was born.
A year from now, there surely will be conferences marking the 50th anniversary of what is now known as the Moynihan Report, aka “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” In March 1965, Moynihan, then 37 and assistant secretary of labor, wrote that “the center of the tangle of pathology” in inner cities – this was five months before the Watts riots – was the fact that 23.6 percent of black children were born to single women, compared to just 3.07 percent of white children. He was accused of racism, blaming the victims, etc.
Forty-nine years later, 41 percent of all American children are born out of wedlock; almost half of all first births are to unmarried women, as are 54 percent and 72 percent of all Hispanic and black births, respectively. Is there anyone not blinkered by ideology or invincibly ignorant of social science who disagrees with this:
The family is the primary transmitter of social capital – the values and character traits that enable people to seize opportunities. Family structure is a primary predictor of an individual's life chances, and family disintegration is the principal cause of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. (AMEN!)
In the 1960s, as the civil rights movement dismantled barriers to opportunity, there began a social regression driven by the explosive growth of the number of children in single-parent families. This meant a continually renewed cohort of adolescent males from homes without fathers; this produced turbulent neighborhoods and schools where the task of maintaining discipline eclipsed that of instruction.
In the mid-1960s, Moynihan noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan's scissors.” Two lines on a graph crossed, replicating a scissors' blades. The descending line depicted the decline in the minority – then overwhelmingly black – male unemployment rate. The ascending line depicted the simultaneous rise of new welfare cases.
The broken correlation of improvements in employment and decreased welfare dependency was not just bewildering, it was frightening. Policymakers had long held a serene faith in social salvation through better economic incentives and fewer barriers to individual initiative. The possibility that the decisive factors are not economic but cultural – habits, mores, customs – was dismaying because it is easier for government to alter incentives and remove barriers than to alter culture. The assumption that the condition of the poor must improve as macroeconomic conditions – which government thinks it can manipulate – improve is refuted by the importance of family structure.
To say that poverty can be self-perpetuating is not to say, and Ryan did not say, that poverty is caused by irremediable attributes that are finally the fault of the poor. It is, however, to define the challenge, which is to acculturate those unacquainted with the culture of work to the disciplines and satisfactions of this culture.
Nicholas Eberstadt, an economist and demographer, notes that “labor force participation ratios for men in the prime of life are demonstrably lower in America than in Europe” and “a large part of the jobs problem for American men today is that of not wanting one.” Surely the fact that means-tested entitlement dependency has been destigmatized has something to do with what Eberstadt terms the “unprecedented exit from gainful work by adult men.”
Next March, serious people will be wondering why the problem Moynihan articulated half a century earlier has become so much worse while so much else – including the astonishingly rapid receding of racism and discrimination – has become so much better. One reason is what Moynihan called “the leakage of reality from American life.” Judging by the blend of malice, ignorance and intellectual sloth in the left's reaction to Ryan's unexceptionable remarks, the leak has become, among some factions, a cataract.
© 2014, Washington Post Writers Group=
Critics of Rep. Paul Ryan's remarks about cultural factors in the persistence of poverty are simultaneously shrill and boring. Their predictable minuet of synthetic indignation demonstrates how little liberals have learned about poverty or changed their rhetorical repertoire in the last 49 years.
Ryan spoke of a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work,” adding: “There's a real culture problem here.” This brought down upon Ryan the usual acid rain of accusations – racism, blaming the victims, etc. He had sauntered into the minefield that a more experienced Daniel Patrick Moynihan – a liberal scholar who knew the taboos of his tribe – had tiptoed into five years before Ryan was born.
A year from now, there surely will be conferences marking the 50th anniversary of what is now known as the Moynihan Report, aka “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” In March 1965, Moynihan, then 37 and assistant secretary of labor, wrote that “the center of the tangle of pathology” in inner cities – this was five months before the Watts riots – was the fact that 23.6 percent of black children were born to single women, compared to just 3.07 percent of white children. He was accused of racism, blaming the victims, etc.
Forty-nine years later, 41 percent of all American children are born out of wedlock; almost half of all first births are to unmarried women, as are 54 percent and 72 percent of all Hispanic and black births, respectively. Is there anyone not blinkered by ideology or invincibly ignorant of social science who disagrees with this:
The family is the primary transmitter of social capital – the values and character traits that enable people to seize opportunities. Family structure is a primary predictor of an individual's life chances, and family disintegration is the principal cause of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. (AMEN!)
In the 1960s, as the civil rights movement dismantled barriers to opportunity, there began a social regression driven by the explosive growth of the number of children in single-parent families. This meant a continually renewed cohort of adolescent males from homes without fathers; this produced turbulent neighborhoods and schools where the task of maintaining discipline eclipsed that of instruction.
In the mid-1960s, Moynihan noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan's scissors.” Two lines on a graph crossed, replicating a scissors' blades. The descending line depicted the decline in the minority – then overwhelmingly black – male unemployment rate. The ascending line depicted the simultaneous rise of new welfare cases.
The broken correlation of improvements in employment and decreased welfare dependency was not just bewildering, it was frightening. Policymakers had long held a serene faith in social salvation through better economic incentives and fewer barriers to individual initiative. The possibility that the decisive factors are not economic but cultural – habits, mores, customs – was dismaying because it is easier for government to alter incentives and remove barriers than to alter culture. The assumption that the condition of the poor must improve as macroeconomic conditions – which government thinks it can manipulate – improve is refuted by the importance of family structure.
To say that poverty can be self-perpetuating is not to say, and Ryan did not say, that poverty is caused by irremediable attributes that are finally the fault of the poor. It is, however, to define the challenge, which is to acculturate those unacquainted with the culture of work to the disciplines and satisfactions of this culture.
Nicholas Eberstadt, an economist and demographer, notes that “labor force participation ratios for men in the prime of life are demonstrably lower in America than in Europe” and “a large part of the jobs problem for American men today is that of not wanting one.” Surely the fact that means-tested entitlement dependency has been destigmatized has something to do with what Eberstadt terms the “unprecedented exit from gainful work by adult men.”
Next March, serious people will be wondering why the problem Moynihan articulated half a century earlier has become so much worse while so much else – including the astonishingly rapid receding of racism and discrimination – has become so much better. One reason is what Moynihan called “the leakage of reality from American life.” Judging by the blend of malice, ignorance and intellectual sloth in the left's reaction to Ryan's unexceptionable remarks, the leak has become, among some factions, a cataract.
© 2014, Washington Post Writers Group=
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