Beck freaks out about Six Flags' "Muslim Day," compares it to having "Japanese Day" after Pearl Harbor
July 20, 2010 9:41 am ET
From the July 20 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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And incidentally, one of the only things I've ever agreed with Beck on is his condemnation of FDR detaining Japanese-Americans during World War 2, but I guess he's changed his mind, since he's depicting every Japanese person in the world as being The Enemy during World War 2, much like he thinks every Muslim in the world is The Enemy now.
But in a no trump contract, if you let him in, he can run the cards in hypocrisy until the cows come home.
Can Muslim Americans come to your soiree this August? Or is this affair only for Christians?
Nobody should ever complain except us wingnuts
Any religion other than (my brand of) Xianity should be suppressed
*organizing?
I found some neocon spin on this that makes it sound bac
It's them terrurists!!!!1!!
Everyone should agree with me
Cowboy diplomacy
Everybody else in the world is a potential enemy
Yea he has said that, which is interesting because the same Glenn Beck said this four years ago...
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He may have recently honed a new paranoid-of-the-next-holocaust schtick, but let's always remember who we're dealing with.
That was...well, back in....sometime...
/snark
i'll stop now.
BUT does not Beck remember the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of nisei Japanese, Japanese born in the US, served in Italy and France, had the highest casualty rate, most purple hearts(9000+) and most Medals of Honor, (21).
The learnin' I get from Glenn Beck...
Beck is that much of a slimebag.
The Muslim Family Day site.
Keep pushing, Glenn, some nut will come through for you soon and you can get your vicarious rush from the tragedy he/she causes.
The tragic events of 9/11 that resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives, also affected this event directly. The chief organizer, Tariq Amanullah, who worked on the 96th floor of WTC, Tower 2, passed away. The team was unable to come together again till year 2004, when the event came back bigger than ever before.
Not everyone who died that day was Christian. Muslims from several countries died that day. Their families loved them and mourned their deaths, too. Except that some people persecuted them for being Muslim and un-American, even as they grieved for the dead.
Glenn, I dunno. But my guess is that Six Flags, like you a money-making operation, is, like you, just trying to make a buck.
Your stock in trade is outrage. Theirs is amusement. There's usually not much difference.
Now I would be even more happy with Six Flag's if they had a Non-Believer Day.
Its to bad you guys dont know what it means to American or have pride hell I bet you cant say the Pledge
Based on sightability in North America, in 2010 Eid al-Fitr will start in North America a day later - on Friday, the 10th of September.
Although Eid al-Fitr is always on the same day of the Islamic calendar, the date on the Gregorian calendar varies from year to year, since the Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar and the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar. This difference means Eid al-Fitr moves in the Gregorian calendar approximately 11 days every year.
Because of this, several amusement attractions, like Sea World and Six Flags, are holding Eid events for Muslims on Sunday, September 12, 2010.
So much for trying to be considerate.
If one of you liberals respond. Please keep the vocabulary down to one or two sylables. Wes cants understands yall.
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Your opinions have obviously stirred a great deal of discourse in this country. I believe that is what our founding fathers intended. We are all entitled to our opinions and to voice those opinions and I don't villify you for your right to do so.
Your charcterization of "Muslim Day", however, as something negative and in poor taste shows your lack of knowledge about the nature of the event. From a corporate standpoint, it is certainly an event that targets a group of people with the hope that it will generate additional revenue for the company. From a personal standpoint, it provides Muslim theme park guests with a chance to experience the parks in a friendlier atmosphere (the chances of which I think you have destroyed as a result of your comments and the media's attention to them). The designated day allows Muslim guests to feel less conspicuous as a result of their dress or their religious habits. The parks provide space for the Muslim guests to practice their religion in private (say their prayers at designated times).
In my opinion, your public comments about this planned event demonstrate your inabilty to differentiate between religious beleifs/ethnicity and actions and/or motives of a select group that happen to adhere to that religion or who are descendents of individuals from a certain region. I think you would agree that your intent was not to condemn all American Muslims, but your comments do pander to a group of citizens who would do so. You walk a fine line. Unfortunately, because of your popular status, you have effectively condemned park guests who might choose to visit and appear to be either Muslim or Arabic and have inadvertantly, but effectively, called to action those who would do harm to innocent people.
I can partially understand your perception that Six Flags was insensitive by scheduling the event for Sept. 12. (Were it scheduled on Sept. 11 I would echo your misgivings, if not your tone.) I question that as well and feel that there should have been an anticipation that it would cause such tumult. (Perhaps that was the intent - it's free advertising for the company!)
As I stated previously, I certainly don't dismiss your right to state your opinions. It is, after all, the way you have lived your American dream and what our founding fathers intended. I am disturbed, however, by your lack of concern for those Muslim individuals who choose to visit the theme parks on this day whose safety you have put in jeopary from those who treat your comments as a call to action against both Six Flags and Muslim guests who visit the parks on that day.
We shall all see what the day brings.
Respectfully,
A proponent of common sense and thinking before speaking