October 25, 2012 10:36 AM
Popular Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan says anti-Muslim comments heard when he bought the team made him more determined. Byron Pitts profiles Khan on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
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Khan is about as American as anyone could be. Despite being born overseas and despite being a Muslim, he sees himself as an American. If people are going to see him as a sand-n*gger, then we have learned nothing since WWII and what we did in the Japanese internment camps. And the same people who Mr. Kahn as the problem seem to forget that the Bible is riddled with historical examples of outright slaughter in the name of God. So, if I get it straight, that makes it OK for the US and its allies to murder people and stealing their resources, while branding anyone else who uses their religious foundation as a flimsy excuse to employ their foreign policy; that makes them terrorists, whenever they happen to object to being murdered and stolen from?
If Khan can be a "guiding light" for Muslims to show that Muslim extremism only translates to the same level of ignorance and stupidity that we possess on this side of the pond, when people fail to comprehend their being manipulated by politics and dysfunctional foreign policy, perhaps more Muslims might feel they can stand up and say to their neighbors, "I am Muslim, I am proud of being a Muslim, and I don't believe in terrorism, no matter which side instigates it."
Too many gullible lemmings have been led over the cliff by falling for the crap that the Bushes, the Clinton, and now Obama, have dumped on them, still believing that the US had some God-given right to all the resources on the planet and that people hate us because we are free. No, they don't hate us for being free; they hate us because we let "used car salesmen" politicians convince us that it's OK to steal and murder. Because these gullible voters couldn't get a large enough handle on all this to ever question our own government abuse of power, particularly over the last 20 years, our foreign policy went from being the Global Policeman to cleaning up pockets of any resistance to globalism.
The average chowderhead sitting in his BarcoLounger with a beer can't fathom the level of deceit and wickedness that our legislature presidencies have brought down. Instead, they console themselves with a sixpack and some anesthetizing ball game, rather than have to deal with any real problems.
The problem is ignorance; just flat-out, stupid, dumb-as-a-rock, ignorance and as long as these cerebral sloths keep cheering for more Hope and Change or thinking that Romney is different from Obama, we are lost. Who here saw the Third Party debates on RT the other night? THAT was where the real debate was, not those dog and pony shows with Candy Crowley and Bob Schieffer.
But back to Mr. Khan; Mr Khan represents capitalism the way it was intended by our forefathers. There are people out there who have ambition, work hard, recognize opportunities and take risks to gain from them. Not everyone has to become a Rockefeller and grind other people into the dirt to achieve success. If anything, Mr. Khan has probably made himself more of a target in the eyes of his more ignorant brethren, which would be not unlike all the grain and bible belt flag-wavers we saw here in the US after they'd bought the 9/11 fairy tale.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -MLK
Jacksonville has come a long way since the 1960s when I was born here. Of course it can make more strides, as can most any community, but make no mistake, Mr. Khan is loved and respected - even if the team stinks!