What do you think of the comments in this video?

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YouTube is often used for propaganda. In this case, a video has been cut and pasted together out of context to make conservatives (and the TEA Party movement) appear to be racists while Muslims are victims. What was really happening is that citizens were protesting a Muslim “charity” purported to have links to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Al Queda. There have been many of these “charities” which have been investigated and shut down by the federal government since 9/11. I don’t know the validity of the charge in this case, but I doubt it would draw that kind of protesting if there weren’t something to it. Consider that there are hundreds of Mosques operating in the U.S. without any protesting at all. It seems that the protesting isn’t against Muslims, but rather against Muslims who support terrorism.
 
I asked specifically about the comments from the protesters. What is your opinion of the comments and behavior of the protesters?

Everything else you said is irrelevant to me because I am trying to focus on the comments and behavior of the protesters.

We as Catholics have to be offended by the comments that were made. Sending someone “to paradise early” and telling people to go home “and beat your wife” is out of line and is not Catholic/ Christian behavior.

The people in this video are coming off as racist and any valid message they may or may not have is lost in their rage.
 
What I am saying is that the video is propaganda. Therefore, it does not matter what ANYONE is saying in the video. You do not know the real context, because you do not know what really happened, and we are not presented with both sides of the issue.

You have said, “The video states they were there for a homeless charity,” but now you know that the protestors believe the “charity” exists to donate money to the cause of blowing up little kids on buses and killing innocent people going about their day. Yet, you persist in drawing attention to what the protestors say out of rightous anger. Are you not equally offended for the victims of terrorism?

What is worse – a few ugly words or children being torn limb from limb in a violent act of terrorism funded by money from our own backyards? People are angry that this mentality exists in those who walk among us, when all they can do is hurl insults. What do you expect them to say? There are much worse sins in the world than to express contempt for the contemptible. You find fault in the protestors and seem to want company in that belief without even knowing what the targets of the protest said or what their motivation is. Why? What ax are you grinding?
 
I’m sorry, but I think you are being prejudice. You assume they are terrorist based of the fact that their are protesters there, but refuse to condemn the words of the protesters that we can hear and know are wrong.

The politician saying her son can send them to paradise early is not wrong? You wont say that is wrong? How about screaming go home and beat your wife? Why can’t you say that is wrong?

I have no ax to grind. I posted my question out of curiosity. Unfortunately the one response I got is awful and racist.
 
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I have no ax to grind. I posted my question out of curiosity. Unfortunately the one response I got is awful and racist.
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Excuse me? Nowhere in his comment has he been racist, or awful. He is giving his opinion. Perhaps you need to practice your charity, you seem quick to condemn.
 
Two peas in a pod?

Seriously, I read and hear racism when someone can’t simply condemn a comment such as the two examples I gave.

The only justification the poster gave is basically that they are being protested they must be bad. Why would someone protest against a good group?

Is this behavior social justice?

There really isn’t one person on this board who will say that making comments like that to other human beings is wrong?

Where is the charity in that?
 
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