In a message dated 9/24/07 7:07:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Calling for an explanation of a religious > belief that evokes high emotion and political activism, that often ends in death > for a group of people, is hardly anti- Islamic, unless of course it happens > to be an embarrassing belief. Yes. That's sounds just like some of the 'beliefs' of those in the Christian Right and the right wing media who demonize Muslims. Kinda like Michael Savage who wanted to "stick dynamite up their asses, light the fuse and drop them out of airplanes". Or Anne Coulter who recommended we invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. Or Glenn Beck During a November 14, 2006, interview with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, Beck said to the congressman: "What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." (Beck later apologized for what he said was a "poorly worded question.") On his shows, Beck repeatedly belittles the Muslim faith by mocking Muslim names and through actions such as "mark[ing] the death" of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with a "Zarqawi bacon cake." Jerry Falwell, "I think Mohammed was a terrorist." So which one of these people is quoting a religious text calling for anybody's death? Michael Savage isn't a Christian, he's a Jew. Ann Coulter's comment, as I recall, was tongue in cheek. Glenn Beck mocked a dead terrorist not a religion and Jerry Falwell just may have been right about Mohammed being a terrorist due to all the killings he was responsible for on scriptural grounds (Koran of Medina ) 8:12 : “I will be with you. Give strength to the believers. I will send terror into the unbelievers’ hearts, cut off their heads and even the tips of their fingers!” ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
