Posted on 07/19/2007 4:26:07 PM PDT by Bladerunnuh
The caller began: "Sir, I'm calling because of some statements you've been making in the past week about the religion of Islam and … "
Boortz interrupted: It's a cult, it's not even a religion. … "
After a long list of crimes perpetrated all over the world in the name of Islam, the talk host told the caller, "You don't have a word of condemnation in you until the non-Islamic world rises up and starts to make it clear that we are fed up with your damned religion. We've had it up to here.
"And somebody, like I said yesterday, somebody needs to grab the Muslim world by the shirt collar, backhand it a good one, knock it into the damn corner and say straighten up or we're gonna eradicate you beetles from the face of the Earth. … "
CAIR asked its constituents not to contact Boortz, because he "can and will use any comments to further defame Islam and Muslim."
"This clip was offered only to demonstrate
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“”By this definition the Roman Catholic Church, at least in some areas of the world, was a cult up through the mid 19th century. Had you been around then you presumably would have joined the Know-Nothing Party, which was opposed to the influence of the Catholic “cult” in America.””
Probably not, given that I was raised Catholic.
My, but the ad hominem starts early here
Once again, you have been refuted!
Shall I list a few of the religions that have been classified as cults using this definition, down through the centuries? As can be seen by legal and mob persecution against them.
Christians, Jews, Mormons, Catholics (in Russia and elsewhere), Orthodox Christians (in Poland and elsewhere), Hugenots, Waldenses, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hasidim, Unitarians, Anabaptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mennonites, Christian Scientists, Quakers.
That's just off the top of my head.
BTW, I don't object to Boortz believeing Islam is a cult. I object to his stating his personal opinion as a fact. "Islam isn't a religion, it's a cult."
Looked at a calendar lately?
History is very wonderful tool. One needs to learn from it.
And not use it as an excuse or justification.
Islam did not quite catch on to that, "we are done with holy war's now", like the rest of the world did.
Hmmmm......
Good for you.
I know Protestants who call Catholicism a cult.
Guess we should elect a religious Govt that "eradicates" all the religions we consider "cults"?
No sir, you are the misinformed one (notice I didn't call you what you called him).
Islam is a cult, and one that only God Almighty will be able to wipe out. The governments around the world don't have the backbone to take on this murderous CULT and eradicate it like it needs to be.
Nothing in the Constitution tells me I have to tolerate anything, including idiots and terrorists and cults of death. Go back to the library and look it up. The big words aren't that hard to figure out.
Islam is a cult, pure and simple. Anyone who doesn't have the reasoning skills to figure that out is blind, very blind. And that kind of religious system is not guaranteed any rights except the right to be jailed or wiped out.
It is too bad that you think Islam actually can co-exist with our society. It cannot.
I was hurt, deeply hurt when I learned that. I simply could not accept it - that there was a philosophy that could not simply live in our society. I was aghast at the implications.
But on reflection, there are a lot of “religions” which cannot be in our society. One is that of the Aztecs. Don’t laugh. We cannot and will not accept a movement which requires the ritual murder and consumption of human flesh of prisoners and volunteers as a form of religious devotion. That’s obvious, isn’t it?
We similarly cannot have a king who rips the hearts from living people and eats them (Olmec religious tradition). That tradition as well is not able to exist in our society. It is a sickness, an aberration of serial killers and death-worshipers. Plus, we are not a monarchy.
We also cannot have a government which is REQUIRED to treat all but one religion as illegitimate and classifies all but the adherents of that one religion as subhuman. (Islam).
Islam cannot in its present state, be anything but our eternal and complete enemy. That’s the heartbreaker, because it follows that our recent idealism about the First Amendment (recent in historical terms) cannot exist on the same planet as Islam. Islam cannot treat others as it is treated. It has no tradition of “Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar, render unto God what is God’s” in any fashion at all.
It cannot BE if we are to be. We cannot exist without being a deathly insult to Islam. This is an inescapable truth IF islam cannot reform as did Christianity.
Anyone not from South Carolina is a YAAANNKEEE, and that includes North Carolina! LOL.
And how do we do this?
Are we going to outlaw Islam and arrest everybody wearing a burka or found in a Mosque?
Are we going to lock up millions of people? Kill them all?
You seem to share with Neal a talent for stating your opinion as if it constitutes a fact.
The official position of the RCC was strongly opposed to religious freedom right from the time it gained political power through the late 19th century. I believe it did not officially accept the concept of religious freedom till the 1960s.
So was it a cult all that time?
BTW, I'm not trying to be ad hominem. I'm trying to get someone to come up with a rational definition for "cult" that would include Islam but not a great many religions, now or in the past, that are widely accepted in America today.
Nahh. We'll just denounce their religion as being inherently an evil cult and drive them all to take up common cause with the terrorists in self-defense.
Can't do anything to drive a wedge between the terrorists, who are indeed, IMHO, practicing a cult, and Muslims who have no desire to kill others. Got to do what we can to make unnecessary enemies, ya know.
I define cults as religious doctrines that are not completely biblical or overtly anti-biblical.
Do you have another, objective definition that would cover Islam that wouldn’t apply equally to other religions that have been widely accepted now or in the past?
See above. Read the Bible and then go read the Suras.
Tell me then that they refer to the same moral code.
Bet you can't.
Hitler was busy planning the demise Prime of Great Britain while he was signing a peace pact with Neville Chamberlain. Why you're busy attempting to appease the cult of Islam they will lop off your head for being a dhimmi.
With all due respect, your attempt to compare our American Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion to "appeasing" Hitler is a weak one.
Guess you think Congress should outlaw Islam? What other beliefs would you like to outlaw?
How about Islam is a 7th century version of Nazism and Stalinism with a healthy dose of cultism!
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