Who here thinks Fred Thompson made a racist comment

[eggnogaddict]

"If they took it one step further, I think the commanders should send them to see their 70 (He can't even get the number right) virgins they want to so bad"

I mean it's so unprofessional to say such a thing. Really, he insulted the Muslim religion. We want this man to be President who will have the responsibility to speak to foreign nations, many of whom are Muslim nations?

 

[Misesian]

Well that's like McCain and his comment on "trading burkas".

Forget about the racism, we have candidates who PRO-MURDER, they just don't see it that way because the worth of an individiual life to these people is determined by where they were born geographically in the world.

 

[Quick]

Well that's like McCain and his comment on "trading burkas".

He also insinuated that if we trade with countries in the Middle East, we are going to be trading with Al Qaeda. I didn't realize everyone in the Middle East was part of Al Qaeda.

Though, let's not go around with pitch forks claiming that other candidates are racist just because of the recent garbage that is out.

This debate was awesome.

 

[srmpass98]

Ya, I was saddened when he said that, and he was the only other candidate whom I enjoyed.

Attacking Islam wasn't necessary and I'm sure I'm not the only muslim who was sort of taken aback at his comments (along with McCain's burka comment). Oh well, politics is a dirty business.

 

[deedles]

My husband caught that one right away... of course, no one besides us will pay it any mind.

 

[homah]

Yep, they both made racist comments tonight. Meanwhile, on MSNBC right now, they are running a smear piece on the things in Paul's newsletter. This stuff will never be discussed.

 

[Naraku]

Yeah Thompson was saying they should exercise caution.

 

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

It was anti-Islamic, not racist.

 

[srmpass98]

It was anti-Islamic, not racist.

Yup. I understand he was speaking in the context of terrorists, but he also went a tad overboard in trying to win points and in fact implied something more malicious than what he intended.

 

[HazardPerry]

I am Muslim, and here in the USA that is basically a 'race' in the eyes of most Americans. These two comments were intensely racist and didn't hurt me (because I think those two people guzzle $h1t) but did insult me. Resorting to this sort of blind off-the-cuff bigotry is not going to help our foreign policy. I can't believe they just came out and said it...the nerve of saying RON is a racist...

 

[DrNoZone]

It was anti-Islamic, not racist.

Bingo. He sure offended all of the non-radical Muslims listening tonight.

 

[srmpass98]

It's not only the Muslim religion that has this "70 virgins" thing, it's also the Mormon religion: they say when you go to heaven (a planet called Kolob I believe) if you're a man you will have 70 wives or something like that. I read somewhere recently that the founder of the Mormon religion, Joseph Smith, admired the Muslim religion.

Nah, its in Islam too, but the 72 virgins is more of an allegorical reflection than a literal one.

 

[Catatonic]

Well we don't have a history of trading with al qeida but we do have a history of creating and funding them. You can't really get much worse than that.

 

[The Minister]

Nah, its in Islam too, but the 72 virgins is more of an allegorical reflection than a literal one.

Wouldn't 72 be a reference to number of years for one degree of procession?

 

[srmpass98]

What are you talking about, the virgin thing has been disproven numerouse times, its never mentioned in the Quran, and these people have the nerve to say that if you kill yourself you go to heaven? its the exact opposite you go to hell, Islam teaches diversity, they're the only religion who will base you firstly on what religion you are, than what kind of person you are, so if you arent even Muslim you can still go to heaven, yet the Neocon agenda is to pull islamophobia from Ann Coulture

Actually it explicitly states that one of the rewards in heaven is 72 virgins. I've never taken that too literally, but I believe that is what it says.

 

[LastoftheMohicans]

Not all Iranians are Muslims.

Not all Iranians are Muslims. Those could have been Christians, Jews or Zoroastrians.

 

[Thanehand]

What's really sad about both McCain and Thompson's statements is that there's a chance that they'll end up "on air" in the Middle East.

How do you think they'll feel about these comments over there?

 

[CaptBookbag]

i wonder if families of 9/11 victims found McCain's 'One way ticket' joke amusing.

 

[srmpass98]

What's really sad about both McCain and Thompson's statements is that there's a chance that they'll end up "on air" in the Middle East.

How do you think they'll feel about these comments over there?

Not too well. =(

 

[The00viper]

Both Thompson and McCain were highly offensive.