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What a week this has been in the global fight against Islamofascism. Last Sunday the arrest of 17 home-grown Canadian terrorists brought home to the world that many mosques are terrorist incubators. Items such as this (via LGF):
...made MSM efforts to turn a blind eye to the fact, appear absurd.
Then today comes news that terrorist leader Zarqawi has been killed in Iraq. This has a devastating effect on terrorists in Iraq.
And today we also see a poll showing that 63% of Dutch adults say Islam is incompatible with Europe.
With every passing day, the world sees more and more, that 99% of the terrorists on Earth are Islamic, and that Islam breeds terrorists. Mosques that are incubating terrorists must be identified and dismantled. They need be tolerated no more than a school that taught Nazism would be tolerated. Mosques must teach, and imams must loudly declare, that terrorists who kill in the name of Islam, are lost to Islam, and lost to their religion. And even that's not enough. Does Islam teach love, the way the Judeo-Christian tradition does? What does Islam teach, besides that Islam is supposed to destroy all other religions?
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#2Remember to hate terrorists, but not to hate Islam. Every time I open a page here I get the feeling that all Muslims are bad people. What about the, ahem, vast majority of them that don't follow every word of the Koran, and who in turn dont go around killing westerners? How many of them even stand for such acts? Too bad their opinions will never become well understood in the mainstream though, because they are neither exciting nor of concern to us.
#3Dear Al,
Nice comment, but totally uniformed and naive. (And I, as a Christian, am not commissioned to hate anybody.)
Most Germans were peaceful people; so how did they support Hitler and the extermination of non-Aryans and dissenters? They did nothing.
I live in a large building complex where over 60% of my neighbors are Arab Muslims. I have had many heart-to-heart discussions since the events of September 11th and despite the fact that the neighbors who will speak to me are educated and doing well financially, there is such a different ethic and view of others outside their faith.
It is they who refuse to communicate.
Muslim-owned shops in this area threw out Danish products and held meetings to protest the cartoons.
They live apart from their non-Muslim neighbors and do not join in community activities or national celebrations (as I have been informed by many of my Muslim neighbors) i.e. the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving as it is forbidden for them to do so.
They laud Christians and Jews as, People of the Book, yet their hatred against Israel, Jews, the Catholic Church, Christians, those of other faiths, and the United States is far more vehement than our outpourings on these pages. Consider the most popular pop song they sing is, 'I Hate Israel'. It is sung in all the local Arab clubs in my area - especially at the hookah shisha lounges.
Please visit: http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-04/05/article02.shtml
This is the face of ordinary Muslims.
Could you imagine a similar song in the US called, I Hate Muslims being tolerated by the mainstream?
To be a good Muslim, one is obligated to follow the words and direction of Mohammad, just as to be a good Christian, one is obligated to follow the words and direction of Jesus.
They are diametrically opposite commissions.
It is also interesting to note that I did not see any Muslims who gathered to condemn and protest the actions of September 11th - or any other time fellow Americans have been attacked. I cannot remember one instance when Muslims gathered en masse in Washington to support the United States. I did not see any Muslim rescue workers or volunteers at either Ground Zero or the Pentagon. (I am originally from New York and lived near the Pentagon.) So by their silence and apathy towards their fellow Americans, one infers that they support terrorism. they certainly don't support this country.
While my local church immediately invited a Muslim speaker to explain how the American Islamic community felt after September 11th, there weren't any other Muslims in attendance or reciprocation of fellowship by the local mosque.
My Ethiopian and Sudanese neighbors have some interesting insights from their perspective that are less flattering. These people have moved here and are trying to assimilate as quickly as possible into the American way of life.
What a contrast!
If the American Muslim community wants to distance themselves from Islamists and terrorists, they should be more visible and strive to become part of the American community.
#4This is a great post, A.M. I'm going to quote it in a new article on Monday.
#6All true Muslims seek total domination of the world by Islam. They consider it an aberration that it hasn't happened yet. Naive and ignorant westerners are going to pay a heavy price for not resisting the influx of even moderate Islamists into this country.
Educate yourself about Islam. Read the Koran. . .it will tell you all you need to know about this extremist cult of death. Islam is a cult of ignorance, intolerance and death. Look at which "faith" is exporting death and destruction to the west.
#7To Al......
Moderate Muslims are guilty by proxy. . .when a person gives money, training or aids and abets terrorists, they should be deported.
This should include the members of all mosques, that in any way supported any organization, related to terrorist organizations. Period.
#8How intolerant of these Muslims to sing songs against the country Israel. Why if a Muslim country- say Afghanistan, had attacked a Christian country like say the USA and killed 600,000, and additionally had invaded and occupied another, to slaughter its population for over 40 years, we Christians would have turned the other cheek, welcomed the Muslim invader, and never preached against them in our churches, nor -horror of horrors- sang 'we hate Afghanistan'.
Nor would we, as Americans, resort to armed insurgency to drive an invading force from our land and homes, since this would amount to terrorism.
This is because we are a Christian nation and believe in the holy commandment: 'Thou shalt not kill', which is also why we Americans do not maintain either a large armed force, weapons of mass destruction, nor an agressive 'preemtive strike- on suspicion' policy.
And since we also observe the holy commandment: 'Though shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.' So we would never lie and lie our population into war.
These are just a few examples which prove conclusively that America is a peace loving, Christian country, unlike most of the world, where violent terrorists and warmongering tyrants rule.
God bless America, Christianity and Jewry, which together make the peacefull, happy world of today.
#9s.a.tan
I think your sign-in name says it all.
Your ignorance of world history and events is astounding.
#10The Republic rats
Said Tweedle Dum to Tweedle Dee, “It’s time for the election.”
In Yankee land, where simple folk must make their dim selection,
As which of us, though even we, can’t tell one from another,
Is least detested in some way, less rotten than his brother,
Said Tweedle Dum “I lied and lied and lied and lied for war.”
Said Tweedle Dee “I did that too, and many years before.”
Said Tweedle Dum: “The Constitution, why I tore it up and pulped it,
Then cried aloud of freedom from the White House and the pulpit.”
“That’s nothing.” Said his brother with a supercilious look,
“I used it for my toilet, then shat on the holy book.”
“While all the while declaring my belief in Christian Lore,
As I murdered Muslims by the ton, and Christians by the score.”
So brother, does it matter, each will get his turn to reign,
Since the public see no option but to vote one out again,
And we are sure, as anyone can ever certain be,
That as you more abuse them, in return they vote for me.
While I, shall always help to make things worse, and worse, so properly,
The simpletons will never dare to challenge our monopoly.
For, since, each time the public, learns to hate each party brother,
It never gains the commonsense to form a party other.
S Atan
#11Churches, Free Speech, 501 (c)(3)’s, and the IRS Part I
The Big Picture has been devoting a great deal of coverage and opinion on the implications of political and social agenda coming from Mosques; I have become, as many have, concerned about the militant political, and in many cases, anti-American agenda guised as G-dliness that is emanating from several of our nation’s churches.
While many denominations and congregations are confused by the IRS definitions of free speech, religious freedom, and the separation of church and state as it applies to houses of worship and other non-profit organizations, I shall speak only about my own denomination, the
Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA). It is well known that currently the ECUSA is in a state of crisis both domestically and internationally for a myriad of reasons, however, for the purpose of this discussion, let’s just concentrate on the concept of political content in sermons from the pulpit and political activism on church property.
Historically, churches in general, have always been a political entity and force. In fact, the head of the Church of England (the Mother Church of ECUSA and part of the worldwide Anglican Communion) is the King or Queen of England who is the Defender of the Faith (currently Queen Elizabeth II) so the Church of England and State were meant to be one and inseparable. Speaking against the government or sovereign was considered treason. The American War of Independence caused a break with that relationship and the structure of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America mirrored the representative democratic government of our new (and radical) political system.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights were adopted and guaranteed certain rights that had been denied in the former 13 English colonies in America. Since the Constitution does not forbid or limit church congregations or clergy from exercising their rights of free speech, political opinion, or assembly, political content and agenda found their way into many sermons. Churches were the driving force in Abolitionism i.e. Henry Ward Beecher, Women’s Suffrage, Labor Movement, the Civil Rights movement, consistant Anti-war activity, Abortion and most recently LGBT rights, But our Founding Fathers did not factor in the types of taxation we have today and the concept of non-profit or not for profit status vis a vis the Bill of Rights. It took a Democrat by the name of Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1954 to limit this right.
All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Pasadena is being taken to task by the IRS for blatant political content and pronouncements from a guest speaker, their Rector Emeritus, Rev. Dr. George Regas, who is in denial about a sermon which the IRS alleged he endorsed Sen. Kerry for President during the past Presidential campaign.
This church serves a large and politically active parish with lively outreach and ministries. It is a well-known fact within the ECUSA community that All Saints’ (as
St. Mark’s in the Bowery, their East Coast counterpart in New York – please see article) is a pacifist church that is socially and politically far-left. They are proud of the label: Progressive Christians. But even the
Mystery Worshipper in his/her report of 2003 felt uncomfortable about the sermon and activity in the churchyard immediately outside the church building, despite his/her sentiments in favor of the issues.
Stick around for Part II...
#12Churches, Free Speech, 501 (c)(3)’s, and the IRS. Part II
The Mystery Worhipper report from 2003 quoted:
Did anyone welcome you personally?
I was accosted in the courtyard outside the church by a high school girl who handed me a church flyer denouncing the war against Iraq and urging political action. I also was greeted by an usher as I entered the sanctuary. And "the peace" was very friendly; people went out of their way to greet people even remotely in their vicinity.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
Ostensibly, the sermon was about listening for the "still, small voice" of God. In reality, it was a diatribe against the war with Iraq.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
The rector's use of the "bully pulpit." I don't expect to hear sermons when I go to poitical rallies, and I don't expect to hear political arguments from the pulpit when I go to church. Even though I have always opposed the war, I don't think a worship service was the place to press that agenda.
I agree.
Theologically, the Church should be in the world, but not of the world. It should be an oasis for those of all social and political persuasions to worship, pray, and receive instruction on how to deal with the world according to the guidance found in scripture. Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Independents etc. should all feel as brothers and sisters in one community. A parishioner should not feel polarized or uncomfortable because he or she does not conform to the worldly opinions held by the clergy or majority of the parish. Thinly veiled sermons endorsing candidates and/or promoting a specific political agenda is inappropriate and unacceptable. The freedom to proselytize and the freedom to politick are not synonymous nor should they be interchangeable. As Americans United for the Separation of Church and State pointed out in their blog: “Clergy, both right and left, must understand these clear rules and obey them. Non-profit status is a privilege, not a right. Turning our nation’s churches into cogs in a political machine violates the integrity of religion and undercuts the fairness of the democratic process. Tax-exempt donations intended for religious and charitable work should not be misused to subsidize partisan politicking.
And the notion that the IRS is just after left wingers doesn't fly as demonstrated in this article that talks about the right wing's difficulties like the Branch Ministries/The Church at Pierce Creek case against the IRS. Branch ministries lost See: http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/42_4/07_FMS.htm
The IRS and the more orthodox Episcopalians/Anglicans of all political persuasions (such as myself) feel that All Saints’ is being provocative and has crossed the line.
It is obvious that we need a concise definition of non-profit/not for profit or totally get rid of that status altogether!
At this point the IRS has every right, according to the current non-profit rules and regulations, to take away All Saints’ tax- exempt status as they have with several other faith-based institutions (i.e.The Christian Coalition and Pat Robertson) that represent a broad spectrum of political and social ideas. If they paid their taxes like any other special interest group, they could exercise their right to free speech and assembly guaranteed by the Constitution, and therefore have the ability to say and do whatever they want without government interference.
Besides, paying taxes is a Christian precept and responsibility: Luke 20:22-25 )Render unto Caesar...)
In conclusion:
All Saints’ has sinned against the IRS in thought, word, and deed and by what they have done and what they have left undone.
Rules are rules. If a parish accepts the financial benefits of being tax exempt, they must follow the guidelines or accept the consequences. All Saints’ (and the ECUSA) can’t have it both ways:
Put up, or shut up.
All Saints’ is hosting workshops and speeches on
November 19th wxploring this subject with representatives from all ‘Abrahamic faiths. It is strongly suggested that one get there early in order to participate in this dialogue.
Interesting artcle from the San Francisco Chronicle:
#13Correction to post #12
The paragraph should read:
At this point the IRS has every right, according to the current non-profit rules and regulations, to take away All Saints’ tax- exempt status as they have with several other faith-based institutions (i.e.The Christian Coalition and Pat Robertson) that represent a broad spectrum of political and social ideas.
#14Thanks for these great posts on this important subject, A.M. I will update post #12 per your revised paragraph.
#15Post #12 has been updated.
#16IN response to #2, Christians are constantly told not to hate the terrorists, but to hate islam, the ideology that is driving their beheadings, etc. I hate both, because I hate what God hates, which is murder and idolatry. Islam is idolatry,they idolize the joran, they idolize muhammad. Try saying one thing about muhammad, and guess what.YOU HAVE BLASPHEMED. I thought blasphemy only applied to God!
I gave up all my so-called moderate muslim "friends" recently, and boy, does it feel GOOD.
#17all muslims are potential terrorists what i cannot believe is that we haven't rounded all of them up and locked them away till this war is over like we did the japanesse during ww2 it would not take much to build holding centers.
#18Ah, i see. Well that's because you are an idiot
#19Al, if insults are all you got, instead of facts, examples, and evidence, it makes your side of the argument appear to be very weak.
This just in from the New York Times: so you need to add Islamic schools.