Posted on 05/28/2010 8:48:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier this week Ayaan Hirsi Ali was on Tavis Smiley’s PBS show to discuss her new book, Nomad: From Islam To America, A Personal Journey Through The Clash Of Civilizations. In a back and forth about Islamic extremists, Hirsi Ali mentioned how some Muslims believe that “killing other people is a great thing to do,” to which Smiley shot back that Christians are more violent, saying “Oh, Christians, every day, people walk into post offices, they walk into schools, that’s what Columbine is.”
The full quote from Smiley (transcript from Breitbart.tv):
“Oh, Christians, every day, people walk into post offices, they walk into schools, that’s what Columbine is – I could do this all day long. There are so many more examples of Christians – and I happen to be a Christian. That’s back to this notion of your idealizing Christianity in my mind, to my read. There are so many more examples, Ayaan, of Christians who do that than you could ever give me examples of Muslims who have done that inside this country, where you live and work.”
For some context and background on Smiley’s guest, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalia-born writer and filmmaker who was raised a strict Muslim. After surviving civil war, she earned a political science degree and became an outspoken critic of Islamist oppression. Hirsi Ali is now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and has written several books, including The Caged Virgin, Infidel and Nomad.
Certainly there has been more violence by Christians in the United States because it is largely a Christian nation. But Smiley appears to be comparing apples to oranges. The fundamental jihad that’s lead to the recent car bomb attempt in Times Square appears to have been inspired by drone attacks in Pakistan. Post Office shootings are a tragedy of another color entirely.
To be fair, the conversation was very interesting, and went far deeper than the section excerpted below (the full segment can be viewed on the Tavis Smiley website.)
(h/t townhall.com)
Muslims have lied to non-believers so long even they believe their falsehoods.
Hey Smiley ... on the day of Columbine refusing to denounce Jesus Christ got you killed. As usual your rhetoric is in conflict with the facts.
What an idiot.
I doubt many killers were screaming “Glory to Jesus Christ” at the time.
Jim Jones was no Christians, he was a leftist
Duh. Christians are ruthless.
Everyone knows the Trench Coat Mafia kids at Columbine shouted “Jaysus SAVES!!!” when they opened fire at the school. Just like allahu ackbar... /s
Lol...beat me by 30 seconds...
Just for starters, how about this: For Christians, murder is a sin. For Muslims, the murder of the unbelievers is a religious duty.
Putting a nice suit on a buffoon makes him a buffoon in a
nice suit!
If there are 100 Christians for every Muslim, and the number of killings by Christians is 2X that of Muslims, that proves the Christians are more violent. Makes perfect sense to an America hater.
Many of those Christians doing the killing aren’t really Christians at all and just inner city youths, thugs, miscreants who worship Satan and all the trappings he has to offer.
Here in L.A., his idiotic show is broadcast in public transit buses, believe it or not.
PBS?
Well then the worst part of it is, we are FORCED to pay to give a national, public platform to the lies of this ignorant, racist buffoon.
Tavis Smiley, prove it or STFU! Who is this clown anyway? With statement like this watching him will cause mental illness.
How do people as dumb as Smiley get a show to begin with?
The Columbine killers were anti-Christian psychos. They made a video tape shouting it out. They even targeted Rachel Scott specifically for her open display of her Christian beliefs. This is a Blood Libel by Smiley.
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(B) astards/_itches
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And our tax dollars help support this ‘stuff’.
Why? We had both houses of Congress and the White House.
If we only had it for two days, that should have been enough.
PBS, NPR, stop funding these communist entities.
He conveniently forget the “for religious reason” qualifier. Dumb #4%%^
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