"Christian Right’s Emerging Deadly Worldview: Kill Muslims to Purify the Earth"
Chris Hedges has this monologue on AlterNet:
Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out at Christian colleges — a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy — to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the Family . . .
The public denigration of Islam, and by implication all religious belief systems outside Christianity, is part of the triumphalism that has distorted the country since the 9/11 attacks. It makes dialogue with those outside our "Christian" culture impossible. It implicitly condemns all who do not think as we think and believe as we believe as, at best, inferior and usually morally depraved. It blinds us to our own failings. It makes self-reflection and self-criticism a form of treason. It reduces the world to a cartoonish vision of us and them, good and evil. It turns us into children with bombs.
These three con artists are not the problem. There is enough scum out there to take their place. Rather, they offer a window into a worldview that is destroying the United States . . .
See our earlier reports here and here to make more sense of the source of this rhetoric.
4 Comments
I dont agree with anyone that says kill them reather than talking.
I have yet to hear a Muslim debate what is good and what is bad with their religion.
It seems to me its more of a cult than a religion. If you try to change your from Muslim you are killed.
You put a link to Focus on the Family, is that bcause you never took the time to see what was really said?
I normally support your group and think you have done many good things. However you really need to spend some research time to find out a little more about a group of people that would rather see you dead than talk to you.
The author of the AlterNet article included the link to Focus on the Family accusing it of being a racist group. ADF certainly does not agree with that point of view. The Focus link was broken, but that has been corrected. We included links to our earlier posts precisely, because we wanted folks to see the source(s) of this kind of rhetoric.
Christians are taught to love one another…not to hate one another.
Someone surely has the facts reversed.
SO THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT NOW.