CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger blames the breakup of his 50-year marriage partly on the stress of living near a leading American Muslim advocacy group that he and his wife worried was so close to the U.S. Capitol that “they could blow the place up.”
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In addition to CAIR, he told the newspaper that another stress on the marriage was the 1995 decision by “holier-than-thou Republicans” in the House to ban gifts from lobbyists. The meals and theater tickets from lobbyists once meant “a social life for (congressional) wives,” Ballenger said.
What did they do, sit up all night with a telescope? Sounds like a typical home-skooled flat headed Pooblican.
Ballenger said in the latest interview that after the 2001 terrorist attacks, his wife was anxious about all the activity at CAIR, including people unloading boxes late at night and women “wearing hoods,” or headscarves, going in and out of the office building.
“That’s 2 1/2 blocks from the Capitol,” he said, “and they could blow it up.”
“Hey, they look like furriners! They probably some of them terrorizers!”
It’s great how you can make his idiot statements seem brilliantly insightful by merely providing your posts for comparison.
Still, regardless of the context your existence provides, this man is an abomination. Too incoherent to match Ibrahim Hooper, punch for punch, but still a fruit.
What’s sad is how many people had similar reactions after 9/11. Here in TN there were all sorts of gas stations that put “American owned” on signs in front of their buildings. The implications are obvious, but it was really disconcerting at the time. The patriotism of the rednecks around here scared me more than terrorists. You couldn’t say ANYTHING nice about Muslims or Arabs (or even Indians) without someone thinking you supported the bombing or were anti-American.
Also, apparently a lot of people feared leaving their houses because they might get killed by terrorists. The post 9/11 hysteria was intense.
Of course, Lizard King is still right…this guy is an idiot. I’m just pointing out that he isn’t the only idiot.
As always, I welcome the brilliant wordsmithing of the world renowned (in his own mind) Thin Lizzie. Why, without you, I wouldn’t know what dry lack of humor is! Thank you soooo much! :lol:
Sonny boy- you may not be dry but judging from your posts you have had a lot of experience with ‘humorlessness’.
I think this thread falls under the the ‘we’re all in agreement’ catagory. It’s just another example of the ruling class mind set. Cry me a fucking river, his wife didn’t have a socal life because he couldn’t accept bribes anymore? Talk about a social elitist – all you libs got nothin’ on this guy!
Libs? Who the hell you talking to? Just because I’m left of you militia nuts don’t make me a lib. I’m a gun-toting marksmanship-award-winning death penalty advocating tree hugger. :)
I guess it depends on where you were. I was in Philly, and it became a matter of principle to eat more regularly at my favourite American immigrant restaurant, a little Afghan place named Kabul. I don’t know of anyone that disapproved of that, and I am not even convinced the owner did as poorly as you’d think given the unfortunate confluence of circumstances. Also, he’s one of the few that still has the American flags he put up (modest ones, mind you, not the patriotism on steroids you saw elsewhere), rather than simply deciding an acceptable time period had passed and it was ok to move on to other decor. I get a kick out of that.
Personally, I am much more perturbed by the alacrity with which Ibrahim Hooper and his CAIR buddies jumped all over the issue of anti-muslim discrimination. They continue to condemn terrorism only in the abstract, fully justifying the perception of them as apologists for terror.
Daniel Pipes wrote a good summary a while back, and since then their focus on Muslim victimhood has only become more disproportionate. Mind you, I know it’s their job, but without responsibility attached to it and a sense of balance to their histrionics, they only further marginalize whatever weight there may have been to their accusations.
I think you are right, Lizard King. But it isn’t just a country or down south thing. In DC they were changing the name of French Fries because they disagreed with the French govt. I guess even hearing the word ‘French’ became offensive? And there were reports of voilence and or persecution toward Muslims all over the U.S. Many Muslims were afraid to go out, though for different reasons than the politician’s wife. Glad to hear that some places weren’t as affected as others though.
If their goal is to find common ground between Muslim communities and America as a whole, they fail miserably (unless you count creating yet another victim culture as successful assimilitation, these days) when they adopt a platform that plainly slants towards apologism for terrorism. Me, I think CAIR seeks to keep the Muslim population segregated but tolerated and with political weight for them to use, rather like some other minority demagogues…the difference is in the critical nature of the terrorism issue, which makes them far more dangerous.
