Don Pulls Up The Welcome Mat

Attn American Power readers: (A quick addition/update, by repsac3, 10/9/10): No, we don't know what Donald Douglas thinks he's doing by linking repeatedly to this American Nihilist article either, but this post here is about Dr. Douglas misquoting Imam Rauf, and his obvious and unhinged "displeasure" at getting called on it.
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That's all the attention you get, Unthinking Freak. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Like Reppy, exDLB, Bonejob Keefe, Truth 101 and the rest you commie refuse. Stay the hell away from this blog. You are the scum of the earth.

No. There, that’s out of the way. On to the rest of the post which he attacks nihilist troll Thinking Meat. TM says at his blog:

I was right, of course. You don't have the guts to post Rauf's actual words.
No, much much easier to 'paraphrase' them, so that you can portray him as 'saying' anything you need him to 'say'.

So Don does his best O’Reilly with:

And fuck you --- Unthinking Commie Pinhead. Here's Imam Rauf's exact words:

"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children."

And does Don do anything to counter this accusation? No. The crime perpetrated on the United States on 9/11 was heinous. Over 3000 US citizens and others lost their lives. The sanctions put in place and kept in place during the Bush I and Clinton administrations did lead to the deaths of over a half million Iraqi children. That was one of the reasons given by bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks. Rauf does not say the 9/11 attacks were justified. What he’s saying is no different than what Chalmers Johnson, Andrew Bacevich and many other conservatives have said. The attacks were blowback.

Don goes on to say of the imam:

As for sharia, the Imam published a call for sharia in America at Huffington Post last year: "What Shariah Law Is All About."

If anyone, and that includes you Don, can point out to me in that article where Rauf “publishes a call for Sharia” in the US I’ll give him a hundred bucks. The title of the piece pretty much sums up what it’s about as do the last few sentences:

Rather than fear Shariah law, we should understand what it actually is. Then we can encourage Muslim countries to make the changes that achieve the essence of fairness and justice that are at the root of Islam.

Words mean stuff Don. And you know you really love the attention you get from your nihilist anarchist fans.

ADDENDUM:

'Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies [the report says]. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy.' 

But, of course Ron Paul is not a conservative because he hates America as much as we nihilist/anarchists do.