[rintense]

Hmmmm. I didn't see anything in that article that condemns all Christians. He was refering to Pat Robertson and the like. And if you think all Christians are like Robertson, I've got news for you- they aren't.

[swarthyguy]

PoWell >>"This kind of hatred must be rejected."


Which is precisely what Bush could do by saying the magic words, "radical islamis" or "militant islamis".

Single out the nutcases from all the mythical others.

The sugarcoating is wearing rather thin.

And why not invite the imams to the XMAs tree ceremony so they can participate in a national ritual.

Bet they wouldn't have showed.

[TLBSHOW]

Powell Creates Stir Among Christians Again


Secretary of State Colin Powell is making enemies within the Church again. This time the criticism is over his verbal attacks on those who disagree with Islam.

Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's trying to expand programs that would bring Muslim political and religious leaders to the United States in an attempt to bridge the ideological gap between Western culture and Islam. But some of his comments have caused quite a stir.

During a recent speech to a gathering of Muslim Americans, Powell said, "We must not listen to the siren song of the bigots, extremists who cloak themselves in false spirituality in an attempt to divide and weaken us."

Powell seems to be taking on social conservatives like the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Dr. Pat Robertson, who have spoken out against the dangers of Islam.

Bill Lind, of the Free Congress Foundation, isn't surprised by Powell's remarks, but he is disappointed. He believes it's Powell's vision to essentially wipe Western culture off the map.

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0023371.html

[TLBSHOW]

LITTLE WHITE LIES

by Thomas Fleming

"From the mountains of Afghanistan to the valleys of Bosnia to the plains of Africa to the forests of Asia and around the world we are on the ground working with our Muslim partners to expand to the circle of peace, the circle of prosperity, the circle of freedom." Secretary of State Colin Powell, in pronouncing these glorious phrases (we hope he did not actually break precedent and write them himself) sounded like a Fourth of July orator invoking the rock-bound cliffs of Maine and the sunny shores of California.

Secretary Powell is apparently unaware that there are forests in Africa and plains in Asia, but the myopia is pardonable when you are running circles around the rest of the world. What the secretary would prefer not to bring up is the fact that in both Africa and Asia Muslims, many of them funded by "pro-Western" governments and oil sheiks, are engaged in a genocidal massacre of Christians. Presumably the genocide in Nigeria and the Sudan is not the partnership Secretary Powell envisions, presumably the Islamic terrorism in Indonesia and the Philippines is somewhat outside the circle. In Bosnia, where the United States supported an Islamic that wanted to impose Islamic law on a Christian majority, one of our Muslim partners was none other than Osama bin Laden.

Not content with repeating the palpable absurdities that are the staple of the multiculturalist left--a critic of the administration would use harsher language--Powell went on to describe plans to bring more Muslims into the United States and to excoriate those who sing "the siren song of the bigots, extremists who cloak themselves in false spirituality in an attempt to divide and to weaken us." Whether he was talking about Osama bin Laden or Pat Robertson (guilty recently of hinting that Islam may not be entirely a religion of peace), was not entirely clear upon the first reading of the AP report of Powell's address to a group of Muslim leaders. But if by "bigots and extremists," Powell means Muslims who claim religious support for terrorism against Christians, then he should have named the man who introduced this belief into Islamic thought: Muhammad himself.