Christian 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.”
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Gay Marriage: WWJD
March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Why does everyone hate the Jews?
January 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
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
January 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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
January 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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
November 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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.
What I don’t like about them Muslims
October 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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.
Aurora to Islam
August 2, 2012 by 2 Comments
Consider the tragedy in Aurora. James Holmes, as far as we know, acted alone and of his own accord. He was not instructed to kill by a higher power or by a religious leader. He seems to have been acting out a scene in a Batman movie with himself playing the Joker. We will likely never know the reason why, armed to the teeth, he opened fire in a theatre and killed a dozen innocent people and wounded 58 more. Besides, what reason could he give that would make us stop and say, “Oh, so that’s why he killed twelve innocent people. Now I get it.”
Burning Mosques and Building Mosques
July 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On July 4 we celebrate our Independence — “we” being descendants of those scrappy colonists who insisted on the right to worship as they pleased. However, in this day and age, we are more likely to extol the colonial revolt against the tea tax. But many of the early colonists were escapees from religious persecution in England. Various assertions of the King’s authority on these freedom-loving Brits led to our declaration of independence. Two things have changed since 1776: coffee has replaced tea as the drink of choice, and threats to religious liberty loom large in contemporary America.
Should We Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood?
July 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
President Morsi, right, greets Coptic Bishop.
The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has caused consternation and fear across the Middle East and the world. There are concerns that this and other emerging political groups might usher in a new era of oppression, this time inspired by and based on Islam. For all of Mubarak’s vices, he at least opposed religious extremism; free and fair elections are a cheap price to pay to avoid Sharia law. The Muslim Brotherhood, banned under Mubarak, has reasserted itself since the so-called Arab spring. But how could a Muslim brotherhood be good? Muslim-terrorist-misogynist-oppressor seems redundant. Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, is a loyal son of the Brotherhood. How could millions of Egyptians have celebrated in the streets over this admittedly historic election?
