We don't want Robinson, Rocco, 12/17
Letters to the EditorPublished December 17, 2006
Robinson-Rocco debate
Enough is enough! This Nancy Robinson-Rose Rocco debate is like a bad commercial being played too much on television.
I voted for Nancy Robinson, but the people spoke and she lost. Get over it! I want to know why Robinson didn't complain about the residency of Rocco before the election. Is it because she had 14 years on the seat and thought she was going to win regardless?
We have two candidates who switched parties, so you have to wonder about their party loyalty, too.
I think that if Rocco is disqualified by the courts, a special election should be held and that both Robinson and Rocco be ineligible to run until the next regular election comes up.
Voters don't want Robinson; she lost by more than 1,400 votes. And if Rocco is deemed ineligible, she also should wait until the next regular election.
I certainly would not vote for Robinson again if she were allowed to run in a special election. Put two new candidates in to run against each other in a special election, which probably would require a primary and then another election.
Let's get on with life.
Jerry Bruzdewicz, Spring Hill
Fear of Islam can be treated, cured Dec. 12, guest column
Many Muslims hide true loyalty
It would seem, according to Dr. Adel Eldin, that Islam is the victim and non-Muslims are the perpetrators. However, his diagnosis of ignorance, deception and misinformation is correct.
Dr. Eldin would like us to believe that the terrorist faction is a small one, which, according to the special report on Fox News, Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam, approximately 15 percent of Muslims agree with and support radical Muslims, which is to say 150-million: no small group.
A report in the San Ramon Valley Herald quoted the founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (the Web site Dr. Eldin suggests we read), Omar Ahmad, saying "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth" (July 4, 1998). Those comments are so familiar when hearing the likes of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Mr. Ahmad later denied saying that comment. That also sounds familiar.
Naturally, we all would want our troops home, but not until Iraq has established a government that can become a stabilizing force in the Mideast.
I have no problem with the Patriot Act, and if they wish to tap my phone, be my guest. But if we had had the Patriot Act in force prior to Sept. 11, that cowardly act might have been found out and prevented.
As to Cat Stevens, who "advocates peace and justice," his comments regarding the fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie are hardly to be taken lightly.
According to Muslim belief, the Koran is the exact words revealed by God through the angel Gabriel to the prophet Mohammed, and I can only assume that all good Muslims adhere to and obey, to the best of their ability, what is written therein, which leads me to question the good doctor's comment of calling Christians and Jews his "friends," because in the Koran 5:51 (and several other places), it quotes: "O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends."
And, yes, Dr. Eldin, all three religions have a common father of Abraham, but it stops there.
I could not agree more with your last statement, of wishing for peace on Earth.
Jack Hampus, Spring Hill
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