Bucky wrote:7) We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill

When asked on Newsmax TV's "The Hard Line" on Tuesday about Ben Carson's comments that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, the former Arkansas governor began by saying there is no religious test for public office, but then shifted to a comment about Obama.

"I'm less concerned about what faith the person has. I'm more concerned about the authenticity of their faith and how that plays out in their politics ... I'm also concerned about a guy that believes he's a Christian and pretends to be and then says he is, but then does things that makes it very difficult for people to practice their Christian faith," Huckabee said.

Europeans are finally awakening from their self-imposed Rumpelstiltskin deep slumber to discover that multiculturalism is actually cultural rot and is ripping their countries apart.

From the United Kingdom to France to Spain to Germany, leaders or former leaders have decried multiculturalism as a poisonous experiment for their nations.

Progressives love the multicultural vision, thinking that it makes them so tolerant. But it comes at a huge cost to the culture of the adopted country. America has toyed with it, but make no mistake, if we adopt it, it will be the end of America. Now please understand, I’m not saying to completely divest yourself of your home countries culture when you emigrate to America. You can still of course honor the culture of your country in a million different ways, but since you came to this country most likely in order to avoid persecution and/or for the great economic opportunity America affords, you should honor America and its culture as well, don’t you think?

Asking someone to adapt to our culture is very different from accommodating every other culture above our own. We HAVE a very strong culture of our own, and most immigrants (at least the legal ones) are here so that they can benefit from the opportunities America affords them, not the services the American government provides via theft.

The US chose a different, but still practical, path. It was intended to be different from ethnically-based nations, following the now-unpopular path of the ‘melting pot’ in which a new, American, culture would be created from people of different cultures who, while retaining some distinctive characteristics, would primarily see themselves as ‘Americans’, loyal to the nation as a whole.

"Members of the Western elite class overwhelming subscribe to a neoliberal outlook in general and to the tenets of multiculturalism in particular," the speech read. "In other words, they tend to accept the principle that recognition, positive accommodation, and even celebration of demands and special political and moral claims of various ethno-racial, religious, or sexual minorities are obligatory through group-differentiated rights. The result is a obsessive favoritism of allegedly disadvantaged groups often hostile to the European descendent majority of Americans."

Recent immigrants have to learn what is written in the Constitution; they are likely escaping places that don’t believe people are created equally and endowed by their creator with human rights and therefore cherish what America truly is. In other words, if you come from a place where you have no rights, you’re likely to truly cherish the place that respects your rights—and that is certainly the path that the overwhelming majority of American immigrants have taken for hundreds of years.

Asked another way, how is this multiculturalism working out for our culture.

As we see the role of Christianity diminished in our country — as we see our institutions abandon or corrupt its doctrine — are things getting better or worse for us?

When we eliminate all moral standards – When nothing is really considered to be “wrong” anymore, do we have greater freedom?

NYTimes on 9/24 wrote:Stampede in Mecca Leaves at Least 717 dead

drsmooth wrote:Probably doesn't go here, but this event fits my definition of 'mindless tragedy':

NYTimes on 9/24 wrote:Stampede in Mecca Leaves at Least 717 dead

Apparently high death tolls have become a regular feature of Mecca pilgrimages.

Maybe there's a way in this to isolate the radical Islamists - I don't see them conducting huge human stampedes

note to Philadelphians: please don't stampede the Pope

The head of the Central Hajj Committee, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, blamed the stampede on “some pilgrims from African nationalities,” Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV channel reported.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's health minister, Khaled al-Falih, blamed undisciplined pilgrims for the deadly stampede, saying the tragedy would not have occurred if they “had followed instructions.”