{"id":2602,"date":"2011-01-19T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2011-01-19T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T13:47:04","slug":"sometimes_reality_just_isnt_ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Reality Just Isn’t Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line<\/a> posted an article entitled, “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”  The article refers to an article submitted to the Washington Post in response to a discussion topic on Muslim-Christian relations posted by Elizabeth Tenety of the Post.  The article was submitted by Willis Elliott, a contributor to the Washington Post’s “On Faith” Blog.  The Washington Post refused to publish the letter–it was published at Pajamas Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The discussion topic posted at the Washington Post asked how political and religious leaders in America should deal with the recent attacks on Christians in Iraq, Nigeria and Egypt and the Pakistani government’s enforcement of its blasphemy law, which threatens minorities.<\/p>\n

Mr. Elliott points out in his response:<\/p>\n

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“Blasphemy (irreverent speech or action against a deity or religious person\/belief\/object) is currently in the news only when Muslims become violent, or threaten violence, when they feel offended: when we Christians feel offended, almost never do we become violent, and almost always we suffer the disrespect in silence.<\/em><\/p>\n

“In the New Testament (and other early Christian literature), much is said about nonviolence, never is violence commanded or even suggested; it is forbidden. Not so, early Muslim literature. The contrast is to be expected: Jesus was anti-violent, Muhammad was violent (a military leader as well as a religious leader). …<\/em><\/p>\n

“…Islam was, from its start, majority-minded; and Muslims don’t know how to behave when they are not in power: it enrages them, makes them thin-skinned to “blasphemy,” drives them to achieve power and impose sharia, even motivates some of them to martyr-suicide in killing any they consider enemies of Allah.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These are horribly inconvenient facts, but they are, in fact, true.  There are moderate Muslims who do not believe in the call to turn all the world into dar es salam<\/i> (a peaceful world under Allah), but they have been threatened into silence by the actions of the more radical elements of the religion.  Until the Muslim religion polices itself and gets rid of its radical element, there is no room for cooperation between Christianity and Islam.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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