Obey law if you don't want to be offended
Here we go again, somebody being offended because a sticker about Jesus is on the back of the front seat of a vehicle, which just happened to be a deputy's patrol car.
If M. Reza Salami was offended, he should just not look at it, like the sheriff said. It seems like every religion in the world comes here and wants Christians to put their beliefs in the closet and hide them. Where is the so-called tolerance that everyone wants when it comes to Christianity?
There doesn't seem to be much to go around. Maybe Salami should be more worried about driving around breaking the law with an open alcohol container.
Don't drive with open alcohol in your vehicle and just maybe you won't be stopped and have to be offended again. I am thankful that the officer just might have prevented you from hurting someone and, by the way, driving with alcohol is very offensive.
Ernie Andrews
Greensboro
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"It seems like every religion in the world comes here and wants Christians to put their beliefs in the closet and hide them. Where is the so-called tolerance that everyone wants when it comes to Christianity?"
Suchf conflicts are an inevitable genuinely idiotic immigration policy. It's difficult for ordinary citizens to appreciate how determined many in Washington are to turn the U. S. into "a tangle of squabbling nationalities" (Teddy Roosevelt). I illustrated this point in letter published in the Carolina Journal:
Blast and Kudos to CJ for Report on N. C. Muslims
Letter, Carolina Journal
February, 2007 (PDF file, scroll to page 27)
http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjprint/display_cjprint.html?id=73
Dear Editor:
High praise for Carolina Journal's probing examination of the growing Muslim presence in North Carolina — as the likelihood that any of North Carolina's large news organizations would undertake that task is remote. (To do so might suggest that "diversity," as a social good, has limits.)
As regards Islam, its compatibility with western civilization has not been demonstrated. Therefore to allow continued Muslim immigration is to take on needless risk.
This is not our government's attitude, of course. From a New York Times report:
"In 2005, more people from Muslim countries became legal permanent United States residents — nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades." ("More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip," 9/9/06)
It gets curiouser.
The prize for Most Egregious Diversity-Driven Folly out of Washington — among a crowded field of viable candidates — goes to something called the Diversity Visa Lottery Program.**
Every year the State Department puts 50,000 foreigners on the path to eventual U. S. citizenship by nothing more than the luck of the draw. Slots are determined by an algorithm designed to increase America’s “diversity.” Below some of the diversity slots for 2007:
ALGERIA - 912
BANGLADESH - 5,901
IRAN - 1,361
IRAQ - 80
NORTH KOREA - 6
LEBANON - 86
SAUDI ARABIA - 27
SYRIA - 40UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - 19
YEMEN - 43
Incompetence? Or something worse?
Tom Shuford
Lenoir
Posted on December 6, 2007 7:28 AM