"Sikh Temple Shooting Reveals the Devastating Results of Hate Mongering"

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Sikh Temple Shooting Reveals the Devastating Results of Hate Mongering

By: Rmuse at PoliticusUSA

http://www.politicususa.com/sikh-temple-shooting-reveals-devastating-results-hate-mongering.html

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Americans should have been appalled at the opposition to an Islamic Center near Ground Zero from Republicans who used the terror attacks to invoke hatred toward Muslims, but with Fox News and Republican lawmakers lining up to show their outrage, it soon became a pariah to speak up for religious freedom. Republicans have, in fact, played the religious freedom card to great effect in their fight to restrict women’s access to contraception, but as has been noted several times, their version of religious liberty means the right to impose radical Christianity on the entire population. However, as the preacher above said, he holds religious freedom in the highest regard, as long as it is his religious freedom to exclude Islam that he claimed was not a religion at all, but a state government system that is contrary to the Constitution.

This country is in jeopardy of erupting into sectarian violence based on race and religion, and in fact, among ultra-right wing fringe groups there is persistent talk of a coming race war. In the coming days Americans will learn what, if any, motivation caused a thirty-something white male to drive to a Sikh temple and begin shooting innocent Americans congregating to worship in the manner they see fit. One thing is clear, the man did not drive to the local Baptist or Assembly of God church and open fire on white congregants, and there were no anti-Catholic rallies in Wisconsin to incite protests against Vatican law leaving only one plausible conclusion; something drove a white man to gun down dark-skinned people with long beards and head coverings, and one can imagine that he confused peaceful Sikhs with equally peaceful Muslims he thought were plotting to replace the Constitution with Sharia Law and conquer America. If he had been paying attention, he would know America has already been conquered by right-wing hate and their propaganda machine at Fox News and the Republican National Committee.

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[progressivebydesign]

1. bring back the Fairness Doctrine. And frankly some sort of decency rules.

I cannot fathom how Fox is allowed to just outright lie on their "news" shoes, and there is no recourse.