A good friend sent me another one of those chain letters that is intended to inflame. Since it's about healthcare reform, and since it's underhanded, I thought I'd share it with you.
It begins like this:
Now isn't this interesting? It was used in the health care law. Every day there's another revelation of what Obama is doing to our country.
Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill. I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists. It is a REAL word.
Word of the Day: Dhimmitude Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.
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In fact yes - that's what Dhimmitude is. It's not pretty.
HOWEVER - NO - not only is dhimmitude not mentioned in the healthcare reform law (Affordable Care Act) - but it has nothing to do with healthcare reform or President Obama at all.
What the healthcare reform law does address is the exemption of certain religious groups from being fined if they do not purchase health insurance by 2014 when the law requires it. But those groups are very limited and, in fact, the only ones really identified are Christian! Amish, Mennonites - people who have historically never accepted social security or Medicare when they are 65.
Further - NONE of this information is located anywhere near page 107 of the law!
The reason this email is so inflammatory is because it suggests that Muslims will be exempt from the requirement to purchase health insurance (or be fined) - as if they are some special group identified by the President. Untrue, untrue, untrue. First - the legislation was written by Congress. And second, Muslims are never mentioned, and since they accept social security and Medicare when they turn 65, they won't ever be exempt.
Please don't fall for this kind of schlock! Believing it - and worse, passing it on - means someone has pulled the wool over your eyes. They must take you for a fool, believing you to be someone who is willing to pass on misinformation or, as in this case, disinformation. And we all know there are groups who love that they can get people to do their dirty work for them.
In the future, when you get one, you can use this information to confirm or debunk these emails. If they are true? Then sure - pass them on! But if not? Then don't play someone else's pawn.
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I get emails like this from my in-laws all the time. I got tired of deleting them so I said something. That got me in trouble!! So now I go out of my way to refute an email they sent me and then I hit “reply all”. I am now off their mailing list.
Kathy, I like your style!!! This is exactly what I am doing with this one: Sending this link and 2 others to show the “real” intention on the original sender
Blessings!!! /
TRISHA: Am wondering why you think religious exemptions are not mentioned on page 107 of Obamacare … the following is a quote from page 107:
“(5) EXEMPTIONS FROM INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—
In the case of an individual who is seeking an exemption
certificate under section 1311(d)(4)(H) from any requirement
or penalty imposed by section 5000A, the following
information:
(A) In the case of an individual seeking exemption
based on the individual’s status as a member of an exempt
religious sect or division, as a member of a health care
sharing ministry, as an Indian, or as an individual eligible
for a hardship exemption, such information as the Secretary
shall prescribe.”
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Laura – it seems that your page 107 and my page 107 are very different.
You’ll see the page 107 I reviewed linked from the post above. There is no mention of what you have quoted.
Do you have a link to your page 107? Maybe we have different copies of the same thing.
Regardless of which copy anyone is looking at, the answer is that NO – the word dhimmitude is not mentioned and NO – Muslims will not be exempt from paying for their healthcare coverage. They will purchase insurance, or be fined, just like the rest of us.
Here is more information from FactCheck.org.
Trisha
How can this not lead to federal agencies being tasked with the work of determining who is a good “investment” of the finite healthcare resources?
Now I’m not educated and I never graduated from high school but I work for a living. I work hard to support my family, 3 sons and a wife. We are responsible with our lives, I have a beer now and then, we don’t smoke, do drugs, heck I don’t even take Tylenol when I get a headache which is usually after hearing that our economy is improving, well not in my neck of the woods. I grew up on welfare in BC Canada. Hey a shout out to all you Canucks! There is nothing more destructive to the self worth of a person than to do nothing and get something. It took years for me to come to my senses and associate “work” with “money”. This has to stop, the working class supporting the class that is sucking the life out of our countries. They have to be educated and trained just like I had to. I am now Owner Operator of my own electrical company. This bill might work without the moochers.