{"id":69,"date":"2008-10-21T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/mccain-supporters-defend-islam.html"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:48:11","slug":"mccain-supporters-defend-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/mccain-supporters-defend-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain supporters defend Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a McCain rally in northern Virginia, a man was handing out bumper stickers equating Obama with Communism and radical Islam, and preaching about the dangers of Islam. McCain supporters, including a conservative Christian and several muslims, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsproject.org\/videos\/158\">confront the bigot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1417423198\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"videoId=1866657225&amp;playerId=1417423198&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\"><\/p>\n<p>Note that a McCain campaign official also makes an appearance and reiterates that McCain&#8217;s supporters hail from all religions and that this man&#8217;s message is in no way representative of John McCain. <\/p>\n<p>The man and his sidekick eventually give up and leave, to cheers and applause by the McCain supporters present. I have to say, that the people in this video standing up for McCain and against bigotry are real Americans in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this was <i>northern<\/i> Virginia, which according to Governor Palin&#8217;s own spokesperson, is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mt-static\/html\/%5BPfotenhauer%5D%20acknowledged%20%5BMcCain%27s%5D%20difficulties%20in%20Northern%20Virginia%20but%20said%20the%20region%20is%20not%20%22real%20Virginia.%22%20She%20added,%20%22The%20rest%20of%20the%20state,%20real%20Virginia,%20if%20you%20will,%20I%20think%20will%20be%20very%20responsive%20to%20Senator%20McCain%27s%20message,%22%20Nancy%20Pfotenhauer%20said.\">not the real Virginia<\/a>&#8221; where true pro-America Americans reside. As much as the McCain campaign disgusts me at times, it&#8217;s important to remember and emphasize that McCain&#8217;s <i>supporters<\/i> are as genuine Americans as anyone else, apart from the few bad apples who spoil the image. There&#8217;s a lot less that divides us than the domestic radicals, or the campaign spin doctors, would have us believe.<\/p>\n<p>(video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1008\/Defending_Islam_at_a_McCain_rally.html\">via Ben Smith<\/a> at The Politico.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a McCain rally in northern Virginia, a man was handing out bumper stickers equating Obama with Communism and radical Islam, and preaching about the dangers of Islam. McCain supporters, including a conservative Christian and several muslims, confront the bigot: Note that a McCain campaign official also makes an appearance and reiterates that McCain&#8217;s supporters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[100,70,108,95],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamerica","category-purple-politics","tag-islamophobia","tag-mccain","tag-patriotism","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>McCain supporters defend Islam - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McCain supporters defend Islam - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At a McCain rally in northern Virginia, a man was handing out bumper stickers equating Obama with Communism and radical Islam, and preaching about the dangers of Islam. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}