Presidential Medal of Treason. George Bush yesterday conferred the highest civilian honor this Nation accords, upon "Muhammad Ali" (born Cassius Clay), the traitorous boxer who has betrayed everyone and everything of importance in his life. How desperate is Bush for black approval that he makes a mockery of the Medal of Freedom?
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Cassius Clay was born into Christianity but betrayed his family, and Christ, to convert to Islam.
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He proudly revoked his (family's) "slave name", but didn't understand that Christians had abolished slavery whereas Islam maintained it, at the very time he renounced Christianity and even into today! There is still slavery in parts of the Islamic world, even in black Africa! But not in the United States nor in any other Christian country. The idiot.
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He apparently led a life of easy sex before marriage, even tho fornication is forbidden by Islam. Indeed, so adamant is Islam about forbidding fornication that it takes extraordinary pains to prevent temptation by causing women to cover themselves from head to foot to maintain their modesty and chastity.
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He got married — and cheated on his wife. He thus betrayed both his wife and Islam, which forbids adultery, even on pain of death!
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He has had four wives, so was serially unfaithful to three of them, and is known to have committed infidelity against at least one and possibly more of them, maybe all.
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He was a draft resister who refused induction into the military on the preposterous basis that he was a conscientious objector. He was really just a coward and Communist sympathizer. He didn't want his dear friends the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Communists shooting at him. He might die! and of course he couldn't see himself going to Paradise upon death, could he?
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Defending his supposed opposition to war, he said in May 1967, "Many great men have been tested for their religious beliefs." How stupid does he think people are? The whole world knows that Islam has absolutely no problem with war. Alas, there are an awful lot of stupid people, including the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that his opposition to war was sincere. Ha!
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This is a man who risked killing every time he stepped into the ring to bludgeon a man into unconsciousness (see this blog's entry of September 18, 2005 about boxing; the boxer mentioned in that blog did indeed go on to die). That didn't bother this "conscientious objector" to violence. He was perfectly willing to risk killing someone for money and glory, but not step onto the battlefield for his country, nor for the defense of democracy or of little yellow people attacked by an international conspiracy of political lunatics like Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh. So he betrayed his country.
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What has "Muhammad Ali" not betrayed? He was praised by Malcolm X, whom he supposedly regarded as his hero, but accepted his new name from Elijah Muhammed, who was at that very time openly hostile to Malcolm X and shortly afterward had Malcolm X killed!
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The whitewashed biographies of "Muhammad Ali" that we now see trivialize or actually conceal his many betrayals of everyone around him and the principles he pretended to revere. But the information is there, if you look hard enuf. Why should you have to search thru source after source to uncover his huge character flaws?
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As against all his grave misdeeds, betrayals, and hypocrisies, what exactly did "Muhammad Ali" do to warrant a Presidential Medal of Freedom? He made a little noise about injustice to blacks — but was essentially AWOL in the civil-rights movement. He didn't sit at any lunch counter or try to enter any white school or university, nor even stand with those who did. He didn't board the bus for any Freedom Ride. He wasn't at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. He didn't even appear, much less speak at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Supposedly indignant about racism in the U.S., he lived his entire life here and did essentially nothing of consequence to change society for the better. He left that to others. He was too busy becoming rich and famous, saving his own skin in the Vietnam era (not a racial reference), and cheating on his wives.
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Now the bastard is a semi-vegetable, rendered a shaking, empty hulk by divinely just natural retribution. His long years of boxing may have produced Parkinson's Disease. Or may not. Katherine Hepburn and Michael J. Fox didn't box, but they did develop Parkinson's. In any case, the prideful swaggerer has been brought low by nature, and now we're supposed to feel sorry for him? I don't. And I don't forgive his treason.
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"Muhammad Ali" is unfit even to associate with decent people, and supremely unfit to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His life has dishonored his family, his birth religion, his adopted religion, his wives, and his country. He has hidden cowardice behind pretended religious and political principles — devotions he never pursued once he escaped military service. He was not a consistent voice of the progressive nor pacifist movement. He just used those movements to evade danger in Vietnam.
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At a time when the President is concerned about public support for another war, it is bizarre in the extreme that he would be rewarding treason and disingenuous pacifism. I know that Bush is an idiot, but are his puppeteers also idiots? Apparently so.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,058.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 3:41 PM