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18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 2:20 pm
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My take on the new pew poll that says 18% of people think Obama is Muslim, which is up from 11% in March 2009, and how I wish the media would portray this issue.
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm
The only thing that is surprising to me is that the percentage is not higher: When half a country's population believes that the universe was literally created in six days, they are more than capable of believing all kinds of untruths and propaganda.
For a developed country, US Americans are often represent the cutting edge of idiocy.
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 3:58 pm
so, is he a muslin* or does he agree with that stuff that his pastor said before/right after the election?
*(intentional) At least he's not polyester.
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 4:20 pm
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 6:52 pm
There are a lot of people in the US who are scary stupid.
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 9:32 pm
(August 20, 2010 at 6:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are a lot of people in the US who are scary stupid.
I think its not only on the US Min 
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2010 at 9:51 pm by Entropist.)
(August 20, 2010 at 9:32 pm)LastPoet Wrote: (August 20, 2010 at 6:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are a lot of people in the US who are scary stupid.
I think its not only on the US Min
True-- though the US excels at it, turning it into a science (no pun intended).
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 20, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Quote:turning it into a science
More like an art form.
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 23, 2010 at 10:10 pm
(August 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm)Entropist Wrote: The only thing that is surprising to me is that the percentage is not higher: When half a country's population believes that the universe was literally created in six days, they are more than capable of believing all kinds of untruths and propaganda.
For a developed country, US Americans are often represent the cutting edge of idiocy.
True, and I'm not proud of it. 
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RE: 18% of Americans believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim: So what?
August 24, 2010 at 1:51 am
(August 20, 2010 at 2:20 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: My take on the new pew poll that says 18% of people think Obama is Muslim, which is up from 11% in March 2009, and how I wish the media would portray this issue.
Then America is 18% moron. Nothing new about that.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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