Posted on 05/03/2005 2:33:03 PM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
Islamic leaders demand apology for 'hate-filled remarks'
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Evangelist Pat Robertson is in trouble with U.S. Islamic organizations for saying Muslims should not serve in the president's Cabinet or as judges.
Pat Robertson
In an appearance on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday, Robertson, who ran for president in 1988, said if were elected he would not appoint Muslims to his Cabinet and that he was not in favor of Muslims serving as judges.
"They have said in the Quran there's a war against all the infidels," Robertson said. "Do you want somebody like that sitting as a judge? I wouldn't."
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations yesterday called on "mainstream political and religious leaders" to repudiate the "hate-filled remarks."
"This type of hate-filled rhetoric deserves repudiation from all who respect America's long-standing tradition of pluralism," said Rabiah Ahmed, CAIR's communication coordinator.
Ahmed said many Muslims already serve with distinction in many levels of government, including judgeships at the state and local level.
Arsalan Iftikhar, CAIR's national legal director, said Robertson "has taken his far-right-wing rhetoric to absurd levels."
"He is trying to perpetuate this notion that Islam is a monolithic entity inherently at odds with modernity and democracy," Iftikhar said. "That is absolutely false. ... American Muslims have long been contributing members of American society.
Iftikhar added: "And I guarantee to Mr. Robertson that Muslims will one day become part of the federal bench -- whether or not he likes it."
Muslims were particularly outraged by a 2002 appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program in which Robertson said about Islam's prophet, Muhammad: "This man was an absolute wild-eyed fanatic. He was a robber and a brigand. And to say that these terrorists distort Islam, they're carrying out Islam. ... I mean, this man (Muhammad) was a killer. And to think that this is a peaceful religion is fraudulent."
Robertson also called Islam "a monumental scam" and claimed the Quran "is strictly a theft of Jewish theology."
I certainly hope you're not accusing ME of anti-Muslim bigotry.
sniff...snifff. Is that lightning we smell?
No, I was suggesting a possible source of your frustration, one which I myself find frustrates me actually. I tend to dislike judging folks through the prism of religious belief or lack thereof, but I do feel free to judge organizations, including those with a religious identity.
What on God's green earth does that have to do with a whole denomination NEVER standing up and saying what the 9-11 hijackers did was wrong?
I'll tell you: not a damn thing.
No they have to hold a prime-time news conference with a microphone and make sure ever citizen hears them say they are not all terrorists?
Yes, they do; they need to speak out PUBLICLY -- and I am talking about INDIVIDUAL Muslims -- to convince the American people that they're entire religion doesn't agree with them.
So far, all we've seen is cheering.
I'm not talking about professional diplomats. I'm talking about the ones who live down the street from me.
How do these individual Muslims get a mircophone, and who provides it? Actually, I did hear some interviews with Muslims on the US street during 9-11 denouncing it. I also heard the Saudi prince in an interview express great personal anguish, and how he feared having to read the Whabbi (sp) texts taught to Saudi pupils to find what they might contain. So it is not entirely seamless, even for what comes before the microphone.
Did photos of lynched blacks in the south want to make you "nuke them all" ??
Did you have a microphone on 9-11?
On a secondary level he blamed the acceptance and promotion of decadent behavior which may remove God's protection from our country. Right or wrong, that is his view.
But, vote for people who promote the religion of Islam if that is your view and if that is the direction you want the country to head.
Just at FR.
Wait so you want the Muslims living down the street from you to halt whatever he is doing in his private life, some how convince a network to carry his message, expose himself to the public and go on TV and public state he is not a terrorists? Um isn't that a little excessive? The only type of people who can gain national airtime are seasoned professionals working for large interest groups, again they would have a polished refined message. Plus no matter how you stack it, actions always speak louder than words.
Great point
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
What I want is one of them -- any one of them -- to acknowledge what they did to this country in the name of Islam.
And your stupid little word game isn't winning you/them any friends here -- and it's pi$$ing me off.
But I do agree with one thing you said: actions DO speak louder than words, and so far, the "actions" are nowhere to be seen and/or heard.
American Muslims didn't do anything to this country.
Why should they have to acknowledge something they didn't do?
Many have. Over and over again. But when bigots are screaming "La La La La I'm Not Listening La La La!!!"...
BULLshit. They, themselves, invited the 'demonization', BECAUSE they did nothing! Not a damned thing after, ...9/11....USS Cole...Khobar Towers...the FIRST WTC bombing...OKC bombing...Lockerbie...the Philipines nightclub bombing...etc.
They DID nothing....they PROTESTED nothing...they did nothing to raise their voices in angry outrage...they did nothing to SHUN their associates who took the name of their 'religion'. NOR did they 'blow the whistle' on their associates who were plotting and planning and preaching.
we must be prudent and just and punish those responsible
LOL.... YOU go right ahead and be prudent, just, and punishing to the ones responsible. I'll even help you out, by donating a putty knife and bucket, so you can scrape up the bits and pieces of them, that are mingled amongst those of the innocents that they've butchered...all in the name of this 'religion', while their religious associates looked on and did NOTHING.
Because by NOT condemning the acts of the terrorists -- like REGULAR Americans do day in and day out -- they are silently turning their religion over to the fanatics and giving tacid approval to their actions in the name of Islam.
Oh, that's rich; call me a bigot; that's right. That really helps the cause.
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