Grand Junction Comments

By Jeff

July 4, 2009 12:23 AM | Link to this

Let’s never forget the fallen men and women in uniform that have defended our great country over the many, many years of our independence. Let’s also not forget that the current war and great loss of life that we are facing this Independence Day was nothing more then lies and ignorant, made-up stories that made the American people think that we needed a war… A war against a country that has never attacked the USA. Let’s once again never forget the great people that defend our country and let’s bring them home… May we conserve our armed forces until there is a country and a war that is actually a threat to this great United States.

By A'ishah Meghan Hils

July 6, 2009 12:32 AM | Link to this

Let us also remember the Muslims who died fighting for their country and for freedom in other countries, like Corporal Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, who was 14 on 9/11 and wanted to enlist. He enlisted right out of high school and died at the age of 20 in Baqubah, Iraq to an IED. All of the servicemembers deserve our respect in this war against those who violate human rights, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Western, Eastern.

By fct

July 6, 2009 7:48 AM | Link to this

Egypt was one of the precious crown jewels of the Eastern-Roman Empire. More importantly, Egypt was also the breadbasket of Rome first and of then Constantinople.

It was a fertile land that produced and exported wheat, corn, wine, oil, textiles, glass, cosmetics, and medicinal and chemical products of the time. The population of Egypt made up of Christian Copts was estimated to have been about 9 millions at the time the Arab aggression in 641.

The persecuted Copts were the original inhabitants. Egypt, before the Islamic invasion was not an Arab country.

Apart from the few Arab invaders who traumatized Byzantine , then invaded Egypt in the 7th century, none of the descendants are Bedouin Arabs. They descend from the Pharaohs who built the classic Egyptian civilization along the Nile valley in beautiful cities like Luxor, Memphis, Karnak and Thebes.

Muslim Arabs pounced on both empires in fourth decade of the 7th century (641 C.E.). After their conquest of the Byzantine provinces of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine (today’s Israel), they invaded Egypt in December 641 C.E.

http://www.historyofjihad.org/egypt.html

By Waitasecond

July 9, 2009 7:37 AM | Link to this

Wasn’t Gary the one who was screaming “PEACE GHOULS!” every time someone brought up our fallen soldiers in Iraq, during the previous administration? I guess it’s okay to talk about them now that the Cheney/Bush regime is out of power.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Well, okay, maybe it’s not.