Posted on 05/08/2015 1:23:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite. We live in strange times when MSNBC’s 8 p.m. guy is more likely to defend Pam Geller for goofing on Mohammed than Fox News’s is.
Touche:
@allahpundit @JohnEkdahl Jesus also wouldn’t point his pen holding finger at guests on a talk show either. WWBD?
— Danger Zone (@dtom_molonlabe) May 8, 2015
Yeah, the “I’m more like Jesus than you are” game is a hard one to win. But his point here is mainly tactical … I think. If you want to convince Muslims to accept values like free speech that are championed by the Christian west, the Golden Rule is a better approach than mocking their prophet until they grudgingly agree to tolerate blasphemy. Do unto them as you’d have them do unto you. He’s not saying Jesus would refuse to offend religious or cultural orthodoxy — I hope, given the many Biblical passages to the contrary. He just prefers a less antagonistic pitch in a hearts-and-minds campaign and, O’Reilly being O’Reilly, can’t resist calling Jesus as his first witness. Overturning the money-changers’ tables may have been righteous but the Sermon on the Mount did more to make believers of the unfaithful. And if there’s anyone in media who eschews combativeness for tender persuasion, it’s … Bill O’Reilly.
All of which is fine, I guess, if you believe that Christians abiding by Islamic norms on images of Mohammed would make Muslims more likely to abide by broader western norms on free speech. I don’t. I think self-censoring blasphemy actually teaches that intimidation works and that jihadis can and should get to work on threatening people over other aspects of western culture that offends them, like gay marriage or educating women. Defending blasphemy is as much about holding the line against further deterioration of the west’s cultural influence as it as about the virtues of blasphemy itself. And I’m curious to know after watching this: What else wouldn’t Jesus do in the name of not offending Islam? Muslims may find mocking Mohammed offensive but it wouldn’t surprise me if you polled them and discovered that U.S. military adventures in the Middle East offend them more. Doves like to taunt right-wing hawks by asking “Who would Jesus bomb?”, but I think that’s actually a fair question to ask O’Reilly after this. Who would Jesus bomb? If drawing cartoons is a bridge too far for JC, how about drone strikes?
Or at least Jesus would have tossed Mohammed into Gehinnah.
Wikipedia is your friend: "Born approximately in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca..."
Bill O’Reilly (and many other FoxNews “personalities” such as Martha McCallum) have descended into becoming “But-monkeys” (as in “Yes, I believe in Freedom of Speech BUT”) when it comes to Islam. They are slip-sliding away into dhimmitude and submission to the dictates of the Islamists and Muslims generally.
Whenever it is pointed out that they are no longer advocating true Freedom of Speech they respond “No, no, no, no, I believe in the First Amendment BUT” as they proceed to, in essence, self censorship as it relates to Muslim demands for restriction. And they ATTACK those such as Pamela Geller who refuse to engage in this new politically correct self-censorship.
It’s sad to me to see folks such as Martha McCallum participating in this attempt to suppress Freedom of Speech regarding Islamists.
I can’t get this picture of a leather jacket, water skiis and a shark out of my head...
Aaaa
POST OF THE AFTERNOON!!
(Trying to be as “nice as possible” about it. Jesus had NO patience for satan or satan’s mouthpieces
Is he thinking of the same Jesus who rampaged through the Temple of Jerusalem attacking the merchants and moneylenders?
:”now go forth and smoke hashish no more”......
And you know who would have a ‘chop the head off of a Jew’ contest? Mohammed, that’s who.
Yeah, I was so far off, teacher.
Perhaps we can get Geraldo and Bill O-Really together and get em interested in a long boat ride somewhere!!
Bill, just proclaim your government connection. You fkn liar.
Micheal Malkin was a regular on Bill O’Reilly and she substituted for him. Whorealdo went nuts on her so often on immigration that she quit. Michelle could not handle the abuse
WhoreAldo is a nasty pos
I think it’s a tipping point of some kind, perhaps a new low, when a person antagonizes the conservative body (aka Free Republic) when they are depicted with a cold refreshing bottle of Panther Whiz. Approved!
Seems to me that our Lord and Savior was not above getting a little provocative Himself:
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”
Matthew 21:12
“brood of vipers”
“whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones”...
very “tolerant”, eh?
ahahaha That’s a FACT!!!
How many countries have we “seen” ISLAMIC beheadings in to date?
WAY WAY TOO MANY!
throughout the middle east...Europe.. America... Africa!
NO MO..NO MO
Wikipedia is your friend: "Born approximately in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca..."
Sorry! Hair trigger. I was going to add "...Another two centuries earlier it would have made a grand prophesy, but I hit [ENTER] just before line wrap. Stupid comment of mine, just the same. ;-D
Yes it represents the final straw ..Indeed!
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