Posted on 09/17/2012 6:11:39 PM PDT by Steelfish
Muslims, Mormons and Liberals Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another? By BRET STEPHENS
'Hasa Diga Eebowai" is the hit number in Broadway's hit musical "The Book of Mormon," which won nine Tony awards last year. What does the phrase mean? I can't tell you, because it's unprintable in a family newspaper.
On the other hand, if you can afford to shell out several hundred bucks for a seat, then you can watch a Mormon missionary get his holy book stuffedwell, I can't tell you about that, either. Let's just say it has New York City audiences roaring with laughter.
The "Book of Mormon"a performance of which Hillary Clinton attended last year, without registering a complaintcomes to mind as the administration falls over itself denouncing "Innocence of Muslims." This is a film that may or may not exist; whose makers are likely not who they say they are; whose actors claim to have known neither the plot nor purpose of the film; and which has never been seen by any member of the public except as a video clip on the Internet.
No matter. The film, the administration says, is "hateful and offensive" (Susan Rice), "reprehensible and disgusting" (Jay Carney) and, in a twist, "disgusting and reprehensible" (Hillary Clinton). Mr. Carney, the White House spokesman, also lays sole blame on the film for inciting the riots that have swept the Muslim world and claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff in Libya.
So let's get this straight: In the consensus view of modern American liberalism, it is hilarious to mock Mormons and Mormonism but outrageous to mock Muslims and Islam. Why? Maybe it's because nobody has ever been harmed, much less killed, making fun of Mormons.
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I guess that's Romney's problem. He needs to start burning flags and call for Jihad and the press with trip over themselves falling in love with him. Chris Matthews might get that tingle back in his leg again.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid counts his cash.
What a childish post, please don’t waste my time with nonposts.
And don’t waste my time with your childish posts.
Do you have any adult response to post 40?
It was a straight forward statement of fact, do you have anything other than an emotional response to it?
It's been 3 hours.
If he'd had anything, I think it would have appeared by now.
Validity or veracity was not the issue. Reread the post I was responding to, particularly the quoted material she was responding to herself, and you’ll see where I was coming from. Notice there was no response? That’s because she was trying to tar an entire religion and its present followers by implication and utterly without justification. I was just giving her an opportunity to expose herself by bringing up the one event the Mormon haters always do, even though it happened more than 150 years ago (and as far as anybody knows, it wasn’t because people were “making fun” of” Mormonism). Contrast that record with the conduct of modern adherants to Islam and you the two religions are entirely different animals.
Nana; exposing herself?
She needs no opportunity to be presented, as she can find false teachings all by herself.
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
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Oh?
You mean what was shown in post #43?
BTTT!
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