Comments on: What’s The Big Deal About Turbans?

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:50 +0000

Love you Margaret! But Muslims DO NOT wear turbans. I mean they can, but it’s not a muslim thing.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:21:55 +0000

You wearing a turban…you would be a giant head taking over America! HERE COMES THE HEEEAAAAAAAD!!!!!!

But seriously, the mounting ignorance of Americans when it comes to issues such as these continues to infuriate me. Americans need to learn more about the world in their education, as they only really ever seem to know about America (and even then sometimes their knowledge is limited).

There are videos on YouTube by an Australian satirical group sometimes known as “The Chaser” from their show CNNNN (where they make fun of American media), in one episode one of the Chaser boys goes to America and asks the general public questions about Iraq and the Middle East – one of the questions they ask are,
“Should American Muslims have to carry around a special ID or should they have a special ID number tattooed on their arm?”

…the amount of people who support both these ideas is unbelieable – have people never read about WWII?!?!

Eh, I know that wouldn’t obviously be everybodies opinion but the fact that there are people who think that way is appalling.

By: Brandy

Brandy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:05:46 +0000

Not only Muslims wear turbans.

Many Sikhs are singled out and discriminated against because of their turbans. They believe in the sanctity of ALL life, to the point they don’t cut their hair. (Hence the turbans!)

And that ventriliquist doll, was it Madame? She wore a turban! So did Lucy! Come on!!!

But all is fair in politics, right? Sigh.

By: DustinJames

DustinJames — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:24:10 +0000

Bruce… wtf… the Clinton camp have repeatedly denied that they are behind the release of that photo, she denied it in the debates. The only thing that ties them to that is the Drudge report… are you going to tell me that you thing Drudge is right about anything? That a-hole will lie about anything.

Don’t spread the lie that Clinton pushed that photo, it’s damaging to the party.

By: lee

lee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:10:22 +0000

oooops….fashion faux pas! your turban should match your go-go boots and/or your granny-square poncho.

the caftan stands alone!

By: Rob Caldwell

Rob Caldwell — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:08:06 +0000

While I agree it is silly to pick on Obama for wearing a silly turban, I do have to disagree with your lumping of all religions as just the same old thing. In its apex Christianity was the most violent, repugnant religion on the planet… it had the power and used it any way it wished including murdering and silencing those who happened to think for themselves or had science on their side. Today Christianity is a toothless empty shell of its former self because of things like education, liberalism and democracy. It no longer has the power it used to and has become the ineffectual and silly belief system that it always was.
Now if you go back a few hundred years, before the reformation and moderation of Christianity to that awful time, rightly called the dark ages, when ignorance and violence rained supreme you will find the religion of Islam standing there with an empty gaze and a thirst for blood. While as an atheist I see all religions laughable and worthy of my contempt for their intellectual laziness, they do not hold violence and repression of women in such high regard.

There is a fear in liberal circles in pointing out this obvious fact. And rightly so, since the leaders that the Islamic religion has chosen for itself are willing at the slightest honest evaluation of their beliefs of satirical jab to declare death threats on those outside their religion as well as those inside who dare to have a change of mind. If you are a Muslim and you leave the faith you are to be killed. If you speak out against the Muslim faith you are to be killed, and if you represent Muhammad in a drawing or cartoon you are to be killed per Islamic law.

If you would like to learn more about this I recommend the writings of Ibn Warraq “why I am not a Muslim” and Ayaan Hirsi Ali “Infidel” a man and a woman who live their lives in hiding and in fear after leaving the faith and having the gaul to speak truthfully of the reforms that need to take place if Islam is to be compatible with modern day liberalism and democracy.

While I appreciate your thought and am a huge fan of your comedy I have to say that if a presidential candidate is a Muslim is a concern to me if he is lying about being a Muslim it is a bigger concern. They way things are in this country that has moved so far from the separation of Church and State that is once held so hi as an ideal you cannot get elected without pretending to be religious.

I as an atheist will be voting for the candidate who pretends to be the most religious and secretly is the least religious. I’m not sure if we have that in this election, but that is the flaw in our “pretend you have a choice” two party system.