God’s Purveyors of Hate

Just prior to the Oklahoma City tornado disaster, NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet. You know where this is going.

Fred Phelps Jr., the son of the Westboro Baptist Church’s pastor, blamed the tornado’s death and destruction on Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant who expressed his support for Collins.

Fred Phelps, Jr. @WBCFredJr
OK Thunder’s Durant flips God by praising fag Collins. God smashes OK. You do the math. #GodH8sFags #FagsDoomNations #FearGod #GodH8sU
10:47 PM – 20 May 2013

Evidently one tweet was not enough to make his hate-filled point. So, two minutes later, Phelps chimed in again:

Gay Marriage: WWJD

supreme_court_buildingChristian opposition to homosexuality is legendary. Christians have blamed homosexuality on everything from the fall of the Roman Empire to the attacks of 9-11. Jerry Falwell, for example, claimed that God allowed our enemies to attack us because we made God mad — he said that the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make homosexuality an alternative lifestyle “helped this happen.” And all the people (OK, Pat Robertson speaking on behalf of a lot of Christians) said, “Amen.”

Why does everyone hate the Jews?

 

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi may have shown his true colors. In several incriminating videos which have gone viral Morsi’s apparently anti-Semitic slurs have come to light. In one, a television interview from three years ago, he calls Zionists “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.” In the same year, at a rally in the Nile Delta denouncing the Israeli blockade of Gaza, he declares: “We must never forget, brothers, to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews.” He’s not yet finished inciting hatred. Egyptian children, he said, “must feed on hatred; hatred must continue. The hatred must go on for God and as a form of worshiping him.” Lest we dismiss these blasts from the past as mere youthful indiscretions, just three months ago, a pious Morsi, worshipping at a Mosque, can be seen mouthing the word “Amen” as the preacher urges Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters.”

Muslims for peace

Hedieh Mirahmadi

Last week I wrote about the most persecuted religion in the world — Christianity. So dire is the persecution of Christians, Christianity is in danger of disappearing from its homeland. Christianity is most in peril, I noted, in Muslim-majority countries where either by official policy or official laxity, Christians are discriminated against, persecuted, tortured, threatened and even killed (Christians are not alone in this; atheists, Jews, Baha’is, and Muslims judged heretical are likewise persecuted.) Since this impending threat to Christianity has been largely ignored in the West I called upon the Western media to report on these atrocities and so prod Western governments to act in support of the universal human right to the free expression of religious belief. Finally, I said it was not my place to speak for Muslims but that Muslim leaders needed to make a compelling case that Islam is not inherently intolerant.

The most persecuted religion in the world

Over the past year, I have written of the intolerance that Christians have shown to Muslims in the U.S. From Missouri to Murphreesboro, Christians have demonstrated both a lack of charity and a denial of the right to religious liberty by setting fire to old mosques and opposing new ones. But Christians in the U.S. are rank amateurs compared to the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

Advice to the Sphinx: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Sheikh Murgan Salem al-Gohary recently called for the destruction of the Sphinx and Giza Pyramids in Egypt. In a television interview, he said, “Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam, including the elimination of idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues.”

How seriously should the Sphinx take the sheik?

“God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” he continued. “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”

My advice to the Sphinx: be afraid, be very afraid.

Advice to the Sphinx: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Sheikh Murgan Salem al-Gohary recently called for the destruction of the Sphinx and Giza Pyramids in Egypt. In a television interview, he said, “Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam, including the elimination of idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues.”

How seriously should the Sphinx take the sheik?

“God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” he continued. “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”

My advice to the Sphinx: be afraid, be very afraid.

The witness of Malala

Last week, 14-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban. Her “crimes”: the courageous Malala exposed Taliban atrocities and advocated for the education of girls. A cowardly Taliban gunman walked onto her bus on her way home from school and shot her. Malala is recovering from her wounds in a hospital in Great Britain where she fled out of concern for a second attack — the Taliban has pledged to finish what they started.

Thousands of Pakistanis have rallied to express their support for Malala and their condemnation of the Taliban; they pray for Malala and for what she stands for — the education and rights of women.

When Politicians Talk Theological Nonsense

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), in a recent talk at Liberty Baptist Church, proclaimed that the earth is not more than 9,000 years old and was created in six twenty-four hour days. And he was just getting started: evolution, embryology, and big-bang theory, he says, are “Lies straight from the pit of hell.” Evolution and the big-bang are familiar targets; but embryology?

He knows these are lies, he states, because (a) he’s a scientist and (b) scientific data proves the earth to be young.

What I don’t like about them Muslims

Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American columnist and criminal mastermind, was arrested this week for vandalizing a legally protected poster in the Times Square subway station. The poster declared: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” The ads were paid for by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative. While the Metropolitan Transportation Authority attempted to block the adverts, good sense prevailed in federal court. Fox News, sadly, lacked the courage to display the entire poster in its coverage of the posters.