Rangel: Islamofascist an Insult - 'You Never Called Hitler a Christian Fascist'

Hardball/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

August 11, 2006 - 21:47

It doesn't take much to offend liberals' exquisite sensitivities. The latest? Referring to Islamofascists as . . . Islamofascists. Chris Matthews got the ball rolling on this evening's Hardball. But Charlie Rangel upped the ante to the max, managing to impugn Christians and Jews in the bargain. Fortunately, GOP Congressman Dan Lungren had the guts to call Rangel on it.

Matthews got things started by challenging Lungren: "Would you include Hezbollah in that group [of Islamofascists]? Would you include Hamas, they are they enemies of Israel. Are they also enemies of ours? Are they also fascists because they have a dispute with Israel? Anybody who is against us is a fascist now."

Chris, are you really asking whether Hezbollah, who killed 241 of our servicemen in Lebanon, is our enemy?

Rangel sent things to the moon a bit later with this line: "You take Islamic and you call them fascists, you call them radical. You never called Hitler a Christian fascist. This is insulting to an entire religion."

Lungren wouldn't be intimidated: "No it's not that at all, and that is absolute nonsense to say that."

Rangel wasn't finished: "We got Christian killers, we got Jewish killers, and we never identify them by religion. What you're doing is demonizing."

Demonizing, Charlie? What would you call the people who wanted to blow up thousands of innocents civilians over the Atlantic this week?

[Free ThinkerNY]

Hitler had contempt for Christianity, which he regarded as pacifistic and weak. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, I saw a German neo-Nazi leader on a 60 Minutes segment. He expressed his support for Al Qaeda and said that Hitler had great respect for Islam because it was an aggressive religion. Hitler was allied with Arab Muslims, not Christians prior to and during WW2.

Islamic Fascists on Parade

[sauropod]

His "religion," if any such thing could be said to motivate him, was a hodgepodge of Gothic paganism, Germanic mythology, and Nietzschian humanism.

Quite true, with a smattering of Carterism thrown in (altruism - see the Ominous Parallels by Peikoff).

[kittymyrib]

"The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advance of science."

Oh, Hitler wrote that...I thought I'd gotten lost on another of those annoying apemen threads. Too bad Christians don't believe as fanatically in Jesus as Evolutionists believe in Darwin and his monkey business.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Sorry about my mistake. Glad we got things straightened out all around.

[sauropod]

I lost my respect for Rangel long before that.

He of the male Susan Estrich voice. And reasoning.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Rangel sent things to the moon a bit later with this line: "You take Islamic and you call them fascists, you call them radical. You never called Hitler a Christian fascist

Hitler was a Christian? Wow, I never knew that. I was always told he believed in an Aryan master race, German mythology, got his start in politics with the help of homosexual activists, and allied with the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem who helped him set up two Bosnian Muslim divisions who murdered Jews and Christians. Thanks Charlie, I always appreciate clearing up history.

[onyx eyes]

Don't you just miss, ol' Mikey Moore?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, calex, and I take your point about people posting to the first post. But there are cases of people aiming their insults directly at me - governs/Finkelstein. See #48 for example where I was called out by name. Madison and I have since worked things out amicably, but believe me, this is a recurring phenomenon.

[ConservativeStatement]

Rangel couldn't win a debate of wits against a spoon.

[Chode]

listen stooopid... Hitler never did ANYTHING in the name of CHRIST!!!

the GoatHumpers ARE doing EVERYTHING in the name of their false god... GOT IT???

[aculeus]

Charlie: Karl Rove loves ya!

[karnage]

Although many on this thread have already set the record straight on Hitler's pagan beliefs and hatred of Christianity, I simply have to weigh in:

Rangel is an imbecile. An ignorant dolt. A sad sack of shiite. Anyone in his district with enough sense to wipe his own dupa must want to tar and feather the goof.

[sheik yerbouty]

More crapola from Charlie "Rump" Rangel..

[Inspectorette]

Mark, please don't get so upset by people who post knee-jerk responses to your threads that you start to feel it isn't worth the hassle.

Believe me, there are a lot of Freepers out here who count on you monitoring these leftists. We need you and the service you are providing (although I don't know how you can stand it - just keep a close watch on your blood pressure ;-)

[GOP_Raider]

You never called Hitler a Christian fascist.

Maybe because he wasn't Christian??

[EmilyGeiger]

Wasn't Hitler an atheist?

[sheik yerbouty]

I believe there is a portrait of Her Heinous floating around to illustrate that..

[muir_redwoods]

Hitler was far less a Christian than these slime balls are muslim. So far as the muslim community is concerned, these islamofascists are mainstream muslims. No one ever called Hitler a mainstream Christian.

[dubyagee]

Are they also fascists because they have a dispute with Israel?

The problem would be that their one and only problem with Israel is their desire to eradicate Israel. I simply can't understand the moral equivalence thingy going on here.

[thinking]

I think Hitler was a Roman Catholic, hence could be classified as a Christian...but he never invoked the bible as source for his mindless atrocities...