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<blockquote data-quote="magoo57" data-source="post: 285171" data-attributes="member: 4661"><p>Ms. Moreluck. you seem to be a fine lady and you have supported me in this forum. So it is with great trepidation that I take a stand different from yours.</p><p>Part of my ancestry is Irish. For 75 years my people owned the copyright to terrorism. If I spoke with a brogue instead of a Southern drawl, I could have been taken in by Engish authorities when I visited there after college. When I see the persons at my guard shack and in the offices with their prayer rugs praying towards Mecca, I have to remind myself that once praying towards statues of the Madonna or to the Sacred Heart of Jesus could have gotten me lynched in parts of the US 100 years ago.</p><p>And if these people speak in a language different from mine? Well,<em> it's not my conversation.</em> I don't understand the language my daughter uses when she textes. What should one do with her? (Yes, I try to keep up and I get a readout of her IMs, etc.)</p><p>Like you, I do believe that only legal residents should be here, but I also remember the past. Where if you did not speak English with a Midwestern accent, you were considered a hick. That a person whose family had been Americans for over a century were still not "really" American and placed in Japanese-American interrment camps. Or where Mark Twain's works were not studied in schools since the books used Southern slang.</p><p>I believe in the rule of law and the hope of America. I do not think that the teaching of the prophet Mohammed- whom I have read in transliteration( Muslims state that the words of the Allah can not be translated). I hate to say it, but Catholicism was more bloody during periods like the Cathar Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>( I didn't expect the bloody Spanish Inquisition)</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="magoo57, post: 285171, member: 4661"] Ms. Moreluck. you seem to be a fine lady and you have supported me in this forum. So it is with great trepidation that I take a stand different from yours. Part of my ancestry is Irish. For 75 years my people owned the copyright to terrorism. If I spoke with a brogue instead of a Southern drawl, I could have been taken in by Engish authorities when I visited there after college. When I see the persons at my guard shack and in the offices with their prayer rugs praying towards Mecca, I have to remind myself that once praying towards statues of the Madonna or to the Sacred Heart of Jesus could have gotten me lynched in parts of the US 100 years ago. And if these people speak in a language different from mine? Well,[I] it's not my conversation.[/I] I don't understand the language my daughter uses when she textes. What should one do with her? (Yes, I try to keep up and I get a readout of her IMs, etc.) Like you, I do believe that only legal residents should be here, but I also remember the past. Where if you did not speak English with a Midwestern accent, you were considered a hick. That a person whose family had been Americans for over a century were still not "really" American and placed in Japanese-American interrment camps. Or where Mark Twain's works were not studied in schools since the books used Southern slang. I believe in the rule of law and the hope of America. I do not think that the teaching of the prophet Mohammed- whom I have read in transliteration( Muslims state that the words of the Allah can not be translated). I hate to say it, but Catholicism was more bloody during periods like the Cathar Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition. [I]( I didn't expect the bloody Spanish Inquisition)[/I] [/QUOTE]
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