RE: Don't buy the new Christmas stamp

I got the following email sent to me today:

 

 

CHRISTMAS STAMP How ironic is this ?? !! They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property? USPS New Stamp This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text. If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it be this! pdF REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm 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! Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp. REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office. 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 to pass this along to every patriotic AMERICAN

 

 

Here is my reply:

 

First off, this is NOT a Christmas stamp!!!!! Why is it that Christians seem to think that all holidays must center around their religion? This country was founded on religious FREEDOM. Muslims have as much right to have stamps issued for their holidays as Christians have to get stamps for Christmas.

 

Read the article here to get the facts on this stamp, and it has been issued every year since BEFORE 9/11/01: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/eidstamp.asp

 

Get the facts straight before you go protesting a postage stamp!

 

If you want to protest terrorist acts, remember these also:

 

Remember the Westboro Baptist Church (www.godhatesfags.com). These are the CHRISTIANS who praise the killing of our troops by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan and protest at the funerals of our troops! These "Christians" are protesting at soldier's funerals weekly! I have shown up to show these nuts that their terroristic acts are unwanted in this country, have any of you?

 

Remember all the children who were molested by CATHOLIC priests!

 

October 2, 2004 - Christian terrorist group kills 44 Hindus, wounds 118 in Northeast India.

 

January 16, 1997 - Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs a gay nightclub

 

July 27, 1996 - Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs Centennial Olympic Park. Kills 1, wounds 111.

 

1969-2001 - over 3000 people are killed in Ireland and the United Kingdom as a result of bombings and other violent acts between the predominently Roman Catholic Irish nationalists on one side, and the predominently Protestant Unionists and secular British Crown forces on the other. More than 1800 of those killed in "The Troubles" are civilians, many the victims of sectarian attacks.

 

In the United States, arson, firebombing and vandalism of abortion clinics, along with harassment of clinic employees and patrons have been cited as examples of terror tactics employed by anti-abortion extremists. Occasionally the perpetrators have been self-proclaimed Christians.

 

Want to read more about Christian terrorist acts? Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

 

Keep one thing in mind. These acts of terrorism, etc. are being carried out by EXTREMISTS. 99% of the Muslims in the world have the same values as Christians in the world. Much of the Muslim belief is rooted in the same place as the Christian faith, and they believe in many of the same occurences historically.

 

If you are going to protest something, protest terrorism! Leave the Muslims alone, they are not the problem!