Below is an email I just received. I honestly just freaked out about this.
NEW STAMP - THE SECOND TRY
Apparently 'they' think that putting hearts and butterflies on it will make most people not realize that the rest is Arabic and probably not something we want to support.
New Stamp - the second one!!!
USPS New 44 -Cent Stamp Celebrates a Muslim holiday.
If there is only ONE thing you forward today... let it be this! President Obama has directed the United States Postal Service to REMEMBER and HONOR the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a new commemorative 44-Cent First Class Holiday Postage Stamp. REMEMBER to adamantly & vocally BOYCOTT this stamp, when you are purchasing your stamps at the post office. All you have to say is "No thank you, I do not want that Muslim Stamp on my letters!" To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Military Barracks in Saudi Arabia ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE! REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 ! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks! Pass this along to every Patriotic American that you know and get the word out!
Honor the United States of America !
End email.
If the picture didn't work, it has a butterfly, a stamp, and a muslim charecter in the middle. Like, nothing even remotly representing muslims being awesome.
Exactly, which is why I'm wondering who the hell SkaterKid got this E-Mail from. If anything, Obama is going to have celebration of the Muslim holiday in order to get the nation more "acceptable" towards Islam. It would be just like the Jewish holidays; not nationally celebrated, but able to celebrate.
See, most of us are so patriotic about our nation that we automatically discriminate against whomever attacked us. WWII, it was the Japanese. 9/11, it was a group of extremist Muslims, except the sheep forgot about the extremist parts.
Thats similar to letters my family gets from a distant relative. So far I have gotten two letters that say Obama is bad for this, this, and this. Then say we need to do this, this, and this; listing the exact same things...
REMEMBER the American bombings of Lebanon? REMEMBER the American support of Saddam Hussein? REMEMBER the massive aid the US has provided to Israel and its occupation of Palestine? REMEMBER the CIA coup of a democratically elected president of Iran in '53? REMEMBER the US aid of the muhajadeen during and before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? REMEMBER the million + Iraqi civilian losses to due to the sanctions and war of the First Gulf War? REMEMBER the hundred of thousands dead from the current occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan?
I can name an imperialist policy of the US 1000x greater in damage for each single bombing by a Muslim.
Skaterkid, if that is truly you opinion I have just lost any and all respect for you. As to everyone else thank heaven for someone with common sense, I don't understand why people must automatically blame every member of a religion for something only certain people did. If that was the case, every Roman Catholic would be at fault for the looting, raping, and killing that occurred during the crusades. See what it's like? Extremists exist everywhere some are just more ....outspoken.
Woah Kyouzou, don't get the wrong idea. that was in his E-mail and he is wondering "WTF?" from it. I'm also wondering this, mostly where the hell did this come from? Because I've never personally got this E-mail even though this is assuming to be public.
Oh yes and of course Obama is the one in charge of the postal industry and he makes the stamps himself. Oh and shit, HE MADE ONE SINGLE STAMP THAT HAD TO DO WITH MUSLIMS!!!
Okay, now I'm confused, more than usual. You got this E-mail....when? If it really is recent, why are these people.... you know what? I quit, I officially give up on the majority of people.
*hangs head* Sorry I just deal with this mess so often it really is starting to piss me off. I didn't see that all off it was the email, i thought he had summarized it and then posted his views... I apologize skater, however the rest of my comment still stands.
No not really, the post office is in charge of that. Bush has more important things to do.
But blame for what anyway. We cant have a stamp in the US that celebrates a Muslim holiday even though there are millions of Muslims living in the country?
