Does This Lady Need A History Lesson ?

It would be a small stretch, but you could say that Christian radicals founded this country.  When you look at the Mayflower Compact and also the history involving the settlements in Virginia, there is little doubt as to the faith of those who crossed the Atlantic to come here.  You really did have to have a lot of faith to cross the Atlantic at that time!  But things have changed.

CNS News reported today on the congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons. 

The article reports:

“Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to “bring down the country.””

I suspect that might be news to those who study the lives of George Washington and some of the other early patriots. 

The article reports the conversation:

“In an exchange with witness Patrick Dunleavy, the former deputy inspector of the criminal intelligence unit, New York Department of Correctional Services, Rep. Jackson Lee mentioned the case of a man who blew up an abortion clinic and proposed that this perhaps was an attempt to undermine U.S. law that allows a woman to procure an abortion.”

“Rep. Lee then said, “As we look to be informational, we should include an analysis of how Christian militants or others might bring down the country. We have to look broadly, do we not?”

“Dunleavy answered:  “I don’t know that Christian militants have foreign country backing or foreign country financing.”

“Lee then said, “I don’t think that’s the issue. The issue is whether or not their intent is to undermine the laws of this nation. And I think it is clear that that is the case. So it’s not — your distinction is not answering the question.””

I guess Rep. Lee believes Christians are as much of a threat to this nations as Muslims.  How far we have traveled from the day when our founding fathers wrote:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

It’s time to remember that Rep. Lee and her colleagues do not give us our rights–those rights come from God.  When our founding fathers spoke of God, they referred to the God of the Bible.  That God is not a threat to our nation–He is part of our nation’s foundation.

The bottom line here is that Muslim radicalization in prison is a problem.  Many of the approved Muslim prison chaplains have ties to militant Islamic groups.  I am glad that Rep. King has the courage to go forward with these hearings.