Homestead mailing list

[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> Bev; have you actually watched the youtube videos? I just watched
> over an hour of Dr. Khalid al-Mansour's videos from youtube.

Unfortunately, I can't connect fast enough to watch any video.  Surfing
is a very slow activity for me as well. It is one of the reasons I rely
so much on you guys to keep me informed.


 He's pro-Islam,
> but I didn't see ANYTHING that I found offensive or hateful, unless 
> questioning Christian ideas (in a respectful, non-derogatory way) is
>  hateful. He has a lot of strong beliefs, like believing that black 
> people are still oppressed because slavery had such a serious 
> psychological effect. He's anti-Israel and doesn't care much for 
> Christianity, but as far a I can see, not violently so...he in fact 
> seems to favor diplomacy in general. He rails against American 
> "Christian" aggression. He has some anger, about everything from the
>  Crusades, to slavery, to invading Iraq, and sees it all as a
> Christian war against Islam. He believes the solution is education,
> diplomacy, and 'brothers' helping each other. His Thinking out Loud
> is a good summary of his views (but the video itself is poorly done).
>
>
> His religious views (and I listened to MOST of the Birth and Death of
>  Christianity) are as annoying to me as listening to a Creationist
> for an hour, but not any more threatening or radical. The fact that
> he is proud to be Muslim and trying to help blacks doesn't offend me.

There are apparently several videos on Youtube.
IF it is nothing more than what you wrote above, I would still think it 
disconcerting, but not damning.  If it is as what I read below, it would 
be more damning to be affiliated with the guy.
Here is what I keep seeing a reference to..
from this blog and others:
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-would-rich-connected-muslim-reach.html

 In one of the videos, titled “Christians Designed Discrimination”
 uploaded by a YouTube user named IslamStudios, Al-Mansour said,
 “White people don't feel bad, whatever you do to them, they deserve
 it, God wants you to do it and that's when you cut out the nose, cut
 out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don't worry because God
 wants you to do it."

 He also draws lines between whites and African Americans. “The
 Christianity that white people got and the Christianity that black
 people got was not the same,” he added.

 In this<the word this is a link implying yet another video> video,
 Al-Monsour said white people fear Islam. “The whites
 are saying we can’t take over Islam, we are going to destroy it. They
 don’t care if you become a Buddhist, they don’t care if you are a
 Confuscist, you can be a Christian, you can be anything in this world
 you want, the only thing they are afraid of is Islam because there is
 1 billion 200 million, they don’t want you with that league!


--
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from
the government and I'm here to help.'"  Ronald Reagan