It's easy for anybody to say that any religion other than their own is a "cult".
However last time I checked we live in a nation that guarantees and protects freedom of religion, and tolerance of different beliefs is a hallmark of that virtue.
This Neil Boortz' rant is nothing but divisive and inflamatory.
I can't decide whether I agree with what Boortz did or not.
On the one hand, he IS right in that Islam is a cult - It never ceases to amaze me how singular Islam as a belief system, and Muslims as those who follow that belief system, are about their devotion to Mohammed. They get annoyed when you question them about Allah and perhaps even suggest that Allah was merely a monotheised 7th century Arabian moon god. But one word against Mohammed, and they fly into a rage. Those Danish cartoonists could have sketched pictures of Allah sitting on the throne with a newspaper (you know which throne I mean), and we wouldn't have seen nearly the response as the Mohammed cartoons created. Clearly, Islam is a personality cult - Mohammed was just Jim Jones times a billion.
But, all the same, Boortz says what he says not, I don't believe, out of any real knowledge of Islam, but merely because he doesn't like religion in general. Islam merely provides him a convenient way to say what he'd really like to say about Christians, without losing 70% of his listeners. Boortz is a snake in the grass, and even when he throws red meat out there about Islam and Muslims and terrorism, never forget that he probably thinks that the Christians out handing out Gospel tracts are as "dangerous" as Muslims flying airplanes into buildings.
I call absolute BS on this statement. I have been listening to Boortz for years. Am a Roman Catholic. And have never gotten an anti-Christian feeling from him.
He does however correctly go after some of the nut jobs who do want a christian government, boardering on, if not a full blown monotheistic government ruling the United States.
“Mohammed was just Jim Jones times a billion.”
Bump!