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PENNSYLVANIA MUSLIM LAWMAKER: PRAYER IN NAME OF JESUS IS “ISLAMOPHOBIC"
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| 03/28/2019
| Robert Spencer
Posted on 03/28/2019 7:26:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ibrahim Hooper, call your office: there was an outbreak of Islamophobia Monday at the Pennsylvania State Assembly. Luckily, Muslim state Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell was there to blow the whistle on this bigotry and hatred.
The Islamophobia, according to journalist Todd Starnes, was committed by another state Representative, Stephanie Borowicz, who prayed this to open a legislative session: Jesus, you are our only hope. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus, that you are Lord.
Johnson-Harrell was livid. The prayer, she declared was highly offensive to me, my guests, and other members of the House. In a statement, she added that the prayer blatantly represented the Islamophobia that exists among some leaders leaders that are supposed to represent the people. I came to the Capitol to help build bipartisanship and collaborations regardless of race or religion to enhance the quality of life for everyone in the Commonwealth.
There may be a real point in there. Rep. Borowiczs prayer may have been inappropriate in a setting in which not everyone present was Christian. We have, however, seen many imams say prayers at various legislative bodies that are not non-sectarian, but manifestly Islamic and even condemning of Jews and Christians, while the non-Muslim lawmakers stand with oblivious heads bowed.
But Islamophobic? This illustrates how absurd charges of Islamophobia are, and how any manifestation of faith other than Islam is sometimes seen as offensive to Muslims. We have seen this before. Buried in the concluding paragraphs of a Christmas Eve 2018 Washington Times report about Muslims in Uganda forcing Christians to convert to Islam was the extraordinary revelation that in that country, Muslims now consider any public statement of the Christian Faith to be a calculated insult to Muslims, for which they can justifiably exact revenge.
In June, the Times reported, a group of Muslims attacked Christian preachers in eastern Uganda during a crusade, where Christians publicly profess their faith and invite others to join. Muslims in the town accused the Christians of mocking Islam by publicly saying Jesus was the Son of God.
In response, said Christian pastor Moses Saku, the Muslims became violent: They became very angry and began throwing rocks at Christians, chanting Allah akbar. Many Christians were injured during the incident.
The Christians appealed to the Muslims to have respect for those of other faith; the Muslims responded with contempt. One Muslim, Abubakar Yusuf, declared: We have now declared a jihad against them. We are not going to allow anybody to despise Islamic teachings at their church or crusade. We will seek revenge.
How did the Christians despise Islamic teachings? By preaching aspects of Christianity, such as the divinity of Christ, that Islam denies. The Christians, knowing how delicate their situation was, would never have dreamed of actually saying something critical about Islam itself; but to the Muslims who heard them, just enunciating the tenets of their Christian faith was criticism enough. And they refused to stand for it.
That incident, and now Johnson-Harrells Islamophobia charge, are, or should be, sobering news for the comfortable Christians of the West who have made an idol out of interfaith dialogue and fastidiously avoid saying anything remotely critical about Islam, even as the Muslim persecution of Christians continues worldwide.
A few years ago, when jihadis attacked AFDIs Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas, some Christians castigated me for co-sponsoring and speaking at the event. They said that we were being needlessly provocative, poking Muslims in the eye, goading them, etc.
These charitable and enlightened Christians said that Christians should instead be deferential to others religious sensibilities. At the time, I responded to these people by explaining that giving in to violent intimidation (our event was a response to the jihad murder of the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoonists in Paris) would only encourage more violent intimidation, and that given the fact that Muslims frequently found even basic expressions of Christian faith to be provocative, they were effectively cutting the ground out from under themselves and their children, making it impossible for them to practice Christianity in the future.
Movita Johnson-Harrell has now provided more proof that this was correct. By calling Borowiczs prayer Islamophobic, she is in effect saying that the public expression of the Christian Faith mocks Islam and despises Islamic teachings.
The lesson is clear. If the advice of the cosseted, suburban Western Christians who were excoriating me for the Garland event is to be heeded, Christians should make no public expression of their faith at all, and convert to Islam, so as to avoid mocking, provoking, and offending Muslims, and poking them in the eye.
And when it comes to it, that is most likely the exact thing that those Christians will do. Its already beginning: Pennsylvania House Minority Whip Jordan Harris, a Democrat (of course), stated: Let me be clear. I am a Christian. I spend my Sunday mornings in church worshiping and being thankful for all that I have. But in no way does that mean I would flaunt my religion at those who worship differently than I do. There is no room in our Capitol building for actions such as this, and its incredibly disappointing that todays opening prayer was so divisive.
So Harris says that Christians must not flaunt their religion. Not coincidentally, that is exactly what Islamic law says about Christians: that they should carry on their worship quietly, behind closed doors, and never make public display of it. Oh, and by the way, speaking of flaunting ones religion, Movita Johnson-Harrell wears a hijab. Harris is not on record objecting to that kind of flaunting ones religion.
The Christian Harris who deplores Rep. Borowiczs prayer should calm Movita Johnson-Harrells rage by converting to Islam and thus removing the source of her feelings of offense. Watch for it.
TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: islam; islamophobia; jesus; prayer
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To: SeekAndFind
This POS offends me by breathing...
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:29:42 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
Prayer in the name of “allah” is Christophobic...
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:30:29 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: SeekAndFind
Im not Islamophobic. Im islamonauseated.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:30:32 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Like a Japanese soldier still fighting WWII in '71, the Collusion Crusade continues.)
To: SeekAndFind
How come we have to be tolerant....but these ............ can cut off any religious rights we have..
To: SeekAndFind
The prayer, she declared was highly offensive to me, my guests, and other members of the House. Tough.
You want a secular environment? Take that rag off your head.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:32:50 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: Sacajaweau
The Left that wants dechristianization thinks the Mohammadans serve their interests and so ar eager to import them and tolerate them; but, the Mohammadans are looking to put all the secularists under the boot of Sharia too.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:35:48 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: SeekAndFind
Then go back to your 3rd world country were there is no “Islamophobia”. That way, woman, you’ll be caned for daring to open your mouth without permission in a public forum.
To: WKUHilltopper
RE: Then go back to your 3rd world country were there is no Islamophobia
I think Movita Johnson-Harrell was born in this country.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:46:13 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
Only could have been better had she invoked exorcism and ordered the demon to leave. That would have been a good time in the chamber!
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:47:12 AM PDT
by
dware
(Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
To: grobdriver
If Movita thinks anyone else is under an obligation to only say and do that which she approves of, she has a lot to learn about living here.
Actually, that’s too stupid for her to believe. The real objective is to demand everyone else stroke their swollen egos by consenting to be controlled and manipulated.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:47:36 AM PDT
by
Ford4000
To: samtheman
Sounds like you are infected with ISLAMOMISIA, a revulsion or disgust of all things islamic. Same for homomisia.
To: SeekAndFind
Just what kind of nitwits elect these anti-American losers? How pathetic.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:49:56 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: grobdriver
I want names of the other members of the House. Prove it by giving names, otherwise it is just a blanket statement with no facts to back it up.
The prayer, she declared was highly offensive to me, my guests, and other members of the House.
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posted on
03/28/2019 7:54:08 AM PDT
by
Dacula
(Be a better today than you were yesterday and an even better person tomorrow.)
To: SeekAndFind
Her paradise lies to the east.
To: SeekAndFind
Every morning,
make some mohamed
flush twice,
it’s a long way to mecca
To: jeffc
Prayer in the name of allah is Christophobic...
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And the Muslim cry of “Allahu Akbar” (god is greater or god is greatest) is an affront to any and all those who don’t believe in the moon god.
Islamophobia is defined as the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam.
Since when is fearing Muslims’ direct obedience to the commands called for in the Koran “irrational”. The Koran calls for the conversion or killing of all non-believers. Its followers act on these words and demonstrate that true followers are dangerous.
So Muslims want to call loudly for everyone to convert to Islam, while decrying and condemning those who follow Yeshua who calls for loving your enemies and turning the other cheek.
Christians are told to take up a sword, but only for defense, while Islam calls to take up the sword to slay all to refuse to submit to Islam. After all the word Islam means submission.
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posted on
03/28/2019 8:01:40 AM PDT
by
Yulee
To: jeffc
I was going to say something similar.
The Moslem call to prayer five times a day is Chrtiophobic.
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posted on
03/28/2019 8:19:24 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: JBW1949
she added that the prayer blatantly represented the Islamophobia that exists among some leaders leaders that are supposed to represent the people...
ALL OF A SUDDEN MUSLIMS CARE ABOUT “THE PEOPLE” :)
You can’t make this stuff up! :)
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posted on
03/28/2019 8:23:48 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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