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Today, a visitor to my website commented on this cartoon...
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:25:58 +0000, "Support" wrote:
> A visitor to your Web site has filled out the form located at:
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> NAME ABDULL
> EMAIL qassim_mahmood@hotmail,com
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> MESSAGE why are you taking the mick out of islam for
> with the picture of saddam saying help me allah
> why wots ur problem !!
I sent the following reply to the email address "Abdull" supplied:
Hello, Abdull. I don't understand the phrase "taking the mick", but the PolyTicks cartoon depicting Saddam Hussein saying, "So help me, Allah," (archived here) was intended to illustrate my disagreement with the secularist attempt, at the time, to remove the Judeo-Christian God from the public square in American government. People, including Michael Newdow and the ACLU, were attempting to remove the phrases "In God we Trust", "One Nation under God", and "So help me, God" from our governmental procedings and substitute them with politically-correct phrases.
At the time, Saddam Hussein was on trial for his crimes against humanity and my take on the issue was, I believe, a legitimate commentary on the subject. Subsequently, a Muslim was elected to the U.S. Senate and took his oath of office on a Q'uran, rather than the Bible. There is also currently a debate as to whether witnesses may swear an oath to Allah, rather than to God, when giving testimony in a U.S. court of law.
I don't subscribe to political correctness nor the idea that the Muslim god and the Judeo-Christian God is one and the same; and therefore do not believe, as do Newdow and his friends, that they are interchangeable. I hope that helps shed some light on the background of the cartoon. I understand that many people, including yourself, may disagree with me. I respect your right to do so and thank you for sharing your comment with me.
Kevin Lauer
www.polyticks.net
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For the record, the reply I sent (the same day "Abdull" submitted his comment) came back "undeliverable."
> - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server:
> qassim_mahmood@hotmail.com; Failed; 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address)
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> Remote MTA mx4.hotmail.com: SMTP diagnostic: 550 Requested action not taken:
> mailbox unavailable
I guess "Abdull" didn't really want an answer to his question... or he was too much of a coward to hear it???
posted by
Kevin_Lauer
on February 14, 2007 at 1:28 PM
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08/06/05 - This cartoon depicts a "tickified" version of Saddam Hussein...
swearing under oath in his trial for crimes against humanity. Note the crossed fingers, indicating that he intends to lie. The words "So help me, Allah," are a reference to the secular movement's attempts to censor the Christian God in government, despite the obvious intent of our founding fathers to honor the Judeo-Christian God in all aspects of U.S. government.
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." ~ Patrick Henry of the Constitutional Convention
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible" ~ President George Washington, September 17th, 1796
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions ubridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." ~ John Adams, address to the militia of Massachusetts, 1798.
"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles.... This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." ~ Noah Webster
"Our laws and institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teaching of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that is should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian... this is a Christian nation." ~ US Supreme Court, 1892
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." ~ President James Madison
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." ~ First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay
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posted by
Kevin_Lauer
on October 23, 2006 at 10:34 AM
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