Just got in an email fight with my mom

[LorieSmurf]

@Miller

I’m curious about the apparent attributions in the glurge from the OP’s mom. Are those referring to actual passages in the Quran, or did the author just make up some numbers so it looks like they’ve actually read the book?

I have no idea. I just copied and pasted the shit she sent me.

[vivalostwages]

@BobLibDem

Anti-Muslim bigoted glurge is everywhere. My half-witted brother in law sent this gem:
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The lady who wrote this letter is Pam Foster, of Pamela Foster and Associates, in Atlanta. She’s been in business since 1980, doing interior design and home planning. She recently wrote a letter to a family member serving in Iraq. Read it!

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation’s capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ?

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn’t they?

And I’m supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was “desecrated” when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?

Well, I don’t. I don’t care at all.

I’ll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I’ll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.

I’ll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg’s head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I’ll care when the cowardly so-called “insurgents” in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I’ll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care.

When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured that I don’t care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don’t care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed “special” food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being “mishandled,” you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don’t care.

And oh, by the way, I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s spelled “Koran” and other times “Quran.” Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and, you guessed it, I don’t care!

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends. Sooner or later, it’ll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don’t agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don’t complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country. *

So what do you do? Start a family fight? Let it pass? If a response would actually do any good, I’d say make a response. But if it would do nothing except make people angry, why bother?

A quick search at Snopes reveals some info about this particular one, though it was not written by “Pam Foster.”

[Rubystreak]

@LorieSmurf

I have no idea. I just copied and pasted the shit she sent me.

You should copy and paste what Dex posted back to your mom. People don’t realize that Christianity, when taken to its most fundamentalist expression, is just as repressive, exclusionary, and “anti-American” as fundamentalist Islam. So easy to forget that when you’re on the culturally favored side of the fence.

[BobLibDem]

@vivalostwages

A quick search at Snopes reveals some info about this particular one, though it was not written by “Pam Foster.”

Yeah, I caught that too, but I copied as it was sent. Doug Patton is the real author. One wonders if he is losing any KKK Frequent Bigot Points by the misattribution to Pam Foster.

[vivalostwages]

@BobLibDem

Yeah, I caught that too, but I copied as it was sent. Doug Patton is the real author. One wonders if he is losing any KKK Frequent Bigot Points by the misattribution to Pam Foster.

The Admins at Snopes posted the content quoted in the OP on their message boards, but have not identified the author. Someone did, however, rework it with “Catholic” instead of Muslim, as was done upthread with Christian in place of Muslim.

Still can’t determine the origin.

[Kalhoun]

This is the one I’m currently not speaking to my BIL about.

You Worry Me

Normally I wouldn’t give this kind of crap a second thought, but he asked my opinion and I opened up on him with both barrels. I guess it’s supposed to count as a Very Important Opinion since the author is a pilot (allegedly).

I’m waiting to see him standing on a corner with a sandwich board that says “Honk if you’re a terrorist!”

[BobLibDem]

Gee, Kalhoun, maybe we have the same brother in law. I just got that same glurge yesterday. How about this excerpt:

Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore?

What slime!

[Kalhoun]

@BobLibDem

Gee, Kalhoun, maybe we have the same brother in law. I just got that same glurge yesterday. How about this excerpt:

What slime!

That’s the line that pushed me over the edge. I stopped directing my comments to the “author” and started directing them directly to the BIL. He’s really quite pathetic. The glurge is the extent of his reading on the subject.

[DianaG]

Erm… is *covering up * now considered the mark of a shameful whore? Did I miss a memo?