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http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/09/muhammad-ali-responds-to-donald-trumps-muslim-ban-plan
Muhammad Ali hit out against Islamic extremists and Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States on Wednesday.
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world,” the three-time world heavyweight champion said in a statement. “True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.”
The Louisville-born boxer, who converted to Sunni Islam in 1975, called on Muslims to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda”.
He added: “They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.”
The 132-word statement, issued under the headline ‘Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States’, also took a thinly veiled swipe at Trump’s sweeping proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, made on Monday in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.
“Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is,” Ali said.
Even with advanced Parkinson’s disease having severely limited his speech and mobility, the 73-year-old icon continues to lend his global clout to a number of humanitarian causes.
In March, the Olympic gold medalist called on the Iranian government to release an imprisoned Washington Post journalist, calling the detained Jason Rezaian a “man of peace and great faith” who used his “gift of writing and intimate knowledge of the country to share the stories of the people and culture of Iran to the world”.
In 2011, Ali headed a group of prominent US Muslims in calling on Iranian leaders to release a pair of American hikers who had been detained near the Iran-Iraq border two years prior.
Known simply as The Greatest, he is renowned today as much for his principled stances on religious freedom and racial justice as his epochal victories over Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
Muhammad Ali hit out against Islamic extremists and Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States on Wednesday.
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world,” the three-time world heavyweight champion said in a statement. “True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.”
The Louisville-born boxer, who converted to Sunni Islam in 1975, called on Muslims to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda”.
He added: “They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.”
The 132-word statement, issued under the headline ‘Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States’, also took a thinly veiled swipe at Trump’s sweeping proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, made on Monday in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.
“Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is,” Ali said.
Even with advanced Parkinson’s disease having severely limited his speech and mobility, the 73-year-old icon continues to lend his global clout to a number of humanitarian causes.
In March, the Olympic gold medalist called on the Iranian government to release an imprisoned Washington Post journalist, calling the detained Jason Rezaian a “man of peace and great faith” who used his “gift of writing and intimate knowledge of the country to share the stories of the people and culture of Iran to the world”.
In 2011, Ali headed a group of prominent US Muslims in calling on Iranian leaders to release a pair of American hikers who had been detained near the Iran-Iraq border two years prior.
Known simply as The Greatest, he is renowned today as much for his principled stances on religious freedom and racial justice as his epochal victories over Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
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full quote should have read:
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, Garland, Oakland, Chattanooga, Beslan, Boston, Paris, London, Patani, Madrid, Timor, Mosul, Bali, Chittagong, Mumbai, Ottawa, Bagdad, Samarra, Kirkuk, Sydney, Sirte, Misrata, Tripoli. the other Tripoli, Kobani, Damascus, and on and on and on, or anywhere else in the world" |
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DIAGFYC.
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trigger warning: the following video contains personal views that may differ from your own. the following video contains confrontation of opinion between two persons. the following video contains politically incorrect viewpoints. the following video contains poor sound quality. the following video contains poor video quality. the following video contains stuff from an era other than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBnc8YNaaQ please remain in or return to your safe space if any of the above are possible to cause anxiety, fear, depression, leakage, neurosis, or any other symptoms. see your medical healthcare professional for the required medication. |
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Ali is a legend, universally admired. Parkinson sells life insurance to 90 year olds. One of them is a sellout ****.
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brief summary for those too scared to click on the link, parkinson thinks the different races should be allowed to inter-marry, ali thinks it should be forbidden.
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Ali is mixed-race, Parkinson is 100% Yorkshire-white.
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Ali was a great boxer but he never was a Muslim,he just skirted with it for a while.
He thinks like a lot of Western leaders its a religion of peace. |
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Ali is mixed-race, Parkinson is 100% Yorkshire-white.
parkinson thinks the different races should be allowed to inter-marry, ali thinks it should be forbidden. |
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'nothing Islamic about killing innocent people' says Ali
The boxing man believes all the Quran passages about killing non-believers are typos caused by the dodgy typewriters they were forced to use back in the 7th century. |
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I would like to see some proof that Ali actually said those words.
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polybot 10 Dec 15 10:10
parkinson thinks the different races should be allowed to inter-marry, ali thinks it should be forbidden. Thanks for the clarification. Maybe if one of Parkinson's antecedents was a slave raped by her owner, he'd think differently too. |
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Black slave-white owner, obviously.
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Black slave-white owner, obviously.
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Like, really obvious.
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Maybe if one of Parkinson's antecedents was a slave raped by her owner, he'd think differently too.
i forgive your weak logic and hysterical irrationality because, well, i'm very forgiving. statistically both would have a very similar probability (basically 100 percent) of having an antecedent raped by slave owner. i'm guessing you believe the ancestors of ali would have greater frequency due to the much greater prevalence of slavery in african culture? to me this seems churlish and petty conjecture befitting a racist like yourself. you're apartheid views are duly noted however. |
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Black slave-white owner, obviously.
not the reverse? do you see black slave-white owner as the natural order? how about the long history islamic white slavery, should this be stripped from history in your view? or do you see black/black slavery as the natural order? do the millions of current slaves have a case considering they are not owned by michael parkinson or another white man? |
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Ali made a complete ass of himself on the Parkinson show.
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 a truly desperate and pathetic defence.if only i were so desperate to resort to such rhetoric. well it would probably look something like this: "mik, you probably not only keep black slaves, you probably also rape, kill and eat them  why pretend otherwise? FACT!!!"but luckily i'm not that desperate. |
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Who are you rooting for Polly, Ali or Trump?
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I never thought a thread about Muhammad Ali, Islam and Donald Trump would produce such a difference of opinions. A shame to see chit chatters arguing. In a strange way I feel partly responsible.
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Who are you rooting for Polly, Ali or Trump?
1. that's a false dichotomy, false dichotomies only work on fools, which is why it is a standard leftist tool. 2. ali isn't running for president, trump doesn't (in the literal sense) attempt to beat people unconscious. 3. both use hyperbole to push their agendas, one for the islamic agenda, one for the us agenda. 4. i don't "root" for anyone |
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I never thought a thread about Muhammad Ali, Islam and Donald Trump would produce such a difference of opinions. A shame to see chit chatters arguing. In a strange way I feel partly responsible.
 just like the tragic child who cannot reconcile his own responsibility for the divorce of his parents and the tragic collapse of his entire world.well i hope you're happy, me and mik were on the verge of getting back together and would have lived happily ever after if it wasn't for your dastardly interference  |
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i'd booked a romantic trip to the algarve and everything, won't even get my deposit back now
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ALL you ignorant nazis and liberal apologists know nothing about the qur'an as the true word and understanding can only come if you understand arabic
therefore nearly most muslims in this country don't understand it haha but it is the escape clause for muslims - do you see - you kuffurs cannot understand it and we will make it what we think because of your ignorance you couldnt make it up but they do and also the warmongering so calle prophet made it all up to hahahahahahah Oh - and as for killing innocent people - they are doing it all the time - all the islamic tribes are doing it and so are the honkeys too |
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rob_dylan - A shame to see chit chatters arguing. In a strange way I feel partly responsible.
you sh1t stirrer - you should be ashamed of yourself. |
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Danny Dyer today - 'Is it me or is this geezer completely off his strange looking nut?'
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Tyson will be scared stiff having upset Danny.
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Did he manage to say it himself or was the nation of islam pulling the strings just like the good old day
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He's no longer able to speak and has had no involvement with the Nation of Islam since 70s. Apart from that, you made your point well.
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The way he treated the great Joe Frazier was an absolute disgrace.
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too well fpr a **** like you coward
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I think he realises that TMM. Smokin' Joe did say some nice things about him in Facing Ali though, so maybe he softened towards the end.
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In what way am I a coward? You're the one having a pop at a disabled old man.
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you know why coward
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No, I don't. Please, enlighten me...
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you know your a serial exstremist apologist as we have disgust before
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only a coward that wont face facts does that
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Listen, I am the most al-Qaeda one here. What would you expect?
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Poor Mikael. Polybot lit up a fat Cuban and blew smoke in his face as he tried getting in the ring. I don't know if the rules allow for a KO before the fight starts but that sucker went down quicker than Jordan's knickers.
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