Evangelicals' Anti-Islam Remarks Are Testament To Ignorance

UExpress ^ | May 9, 2003 | Georgie Anne Geyer

[Mamzelle]

Does she have some connection to a lobby, or personal connection?

[crazykatz]

Well, one ting for sure is that ol' geoge here shilled real BIG for tha KLA-albanian narco thugs who were given KosovO by klintoon!!

I actually HATE that woman!!

[tet68]

It's all OUR fault, it's all OUR fault, it's ALL OUR fault!

Funny, I didn't see a single quote from these so named
evangelicals, just Georgie's little rantings.

[American in Israel]

Not all Moslems are terrorists, however all terrorists are Moslems. Funny co-incidence.

[Darheel]

"after the colonial powers left the Arab world in the 1950s, and after the Koran became available to interpretation not only by clerical authorities but every preacher, a kind of Arab "Protestant Revolution" came into being."

Really, the anti-intellectualism of her arguments is appalling. Let's crack open a history book about the brutal conquest of Syria, or the siege at Vienna. I defy Geyer to find anything "Protestant" about their "revolution" except the protestations of murdered Jews and Christians. Wahabism came about in the 1800's I believe, yet Geyer "missed it on purpose" now didn't she, so she could blame "colonialism", completely absolving the House of Saud. Oh, Geyer is a foul apostate; I challenge her to name ONE thing "holy" about islam.

[American in Israel]

The difference between Moderate Islamics and Radical Islamics simply this, not all Islamics are in the Army. To the Nazi's in World War II, not all Americans were radical, just the ones in uniform. If the Moslems wore uniforms, it would be easier to tell who was radical and who is not.

[Gaelic]

Islam is a religion of peace. If you don't believe it, they'll kill you.

[Publius6961]

Evangelicals' Anti-Islam Remarks Are Testament To Ignorance...

Ahhhhh.... no.

More like a testament of the triumph of reality over BS.

The sandmaggot behavior currently and historically speaks for itself.
No amount to propaganda can change that.

[American in Israel]

I challenge her to name ONE thing "holy" about islam.

Easy, the space between the ears of someone who would give themselves over to this over-rated death cult.

[eno_]

I think you are on to something. It would take an army of scribes hundreds of years to create that many books. How did they all get there? Where did they all go? Antiquarian booksellers would be up to their armpits in ancient Islamic works if this were true.

That's about 40,000 linear feet of books. 8000 square feet stacked 5 feet high. Just barely plausible as the collection of a fairly large modern city library. The entire Harvard University library system - largest in the world - contains a bit more than 3 million volumes. John Harvard started the university's library with 400 books. Well golly, them wogs must have been a thousand times more well read.

I smell an innumerate journalist who doesn't know when to say "Now pull the other one."

[Remedy]

completely absolving the House of Saud

Amazon.com: Books: Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports ...

In the global search for culprits and causes in the rise of terrorism, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold shines a spotlight on a nation many think of as a close ally of the United States: Saudi Arabia. As he explains in Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, Gold believes that the Saudi government is greatly influenced by the Islamist sect known as Wahhabism and, he explains, that influence has lead to Saudi support of terrorism in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and around the world. The historical portion of Gold’s argument, where he traces the emergence of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the changing face of Saudi leadership, is admirably extensive and detailed. His modern research is a little more uneven, relying on statements by various Muslim clergy members, letters to the editors of newspapers, opinion pieces, and other evidence that is rarely damnable. Curiously, mentions of Israel and the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict are much more infrequent than one would expect from an Israeli diplomat and scholar. But regardless of one’s opinion of Gold’s research or his alarming conclusions, the book offers something not often found in modern political nonfiction: a coherent structure, exhaustive research, and a clear and consistent perspective on the ongoing threat of terrorism. --John Moe

 

[eno_]

Correction: Widener is 3.2M volumes. All 90 or so libraries in the Harvard system house 13M volumes, an average of about 120,000 per library.

[banjo joe]

You can see how things are coming together: re-establishment of Israel, two (inexplicable to human reasoning) terms of Clinton, who set the world stage for future events more than anyone knows at this time, and now the open warfare of Islam, which is dedicated to wiping out not only Israel, but the Jews. At whose behest is that mandate?

[Gee Wally]

Thankfully, I missed that PBS show. The one I referred to was called "Islam: Empire of Faith". http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/. Sounds like "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" was a similar propaganda piece.

[Remedy]

a similar propaganda piece

Fighting Militant Islam, Without Bias - article by Daniel Pipes The recent PBS documentary Islam: Empire of Faith is a case in point, offering, as the Wall Street Journal sharply put it, an "uncritical adoration of Islam, more appropriate to a tract for true believers than a documentary purporting to give the American public a balanced account." Islamists in New York City celebrated the destruction on September 11 at their mosques, but journalists refused to report the story for fear of offending Muslims, effectively concealing this important information from the U.S. public.

[Bob Ireland]

***the Rev. Pat Robertson, who recently said that Islam only wants to "co-exist until it can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy.***

Of course Pat Robertson didn't say this - he sent his [Arab-looking] reporter to a mosque in London and that is what the Muslims told him. I saw the interviews.

Is it 'radical Christians' that are sending their children out to die with bombs? that are raping, murdering and pillaging all over the world - and in the name of 'God'? ...like they have a divine right?

Islam is indeed a dangerous doctrine. The fact that not every Muslim is doing these things is of little consequence... they aren't doing anything to stop it either.

ptoooooey!

[thathamiltonwoman]

I like Georgie Anne but she's wrong. I live ten miles away from a huge mosque. Many of my neighbors are Muslim so I get to observe how the women and girls are treated everyday. I knew black Muslims in college (both Nation of Islam and orthodox) and read the Koran for myself from cover to cover. I don't see pointing out the plain truth about certain aspects of Islam as ignorance. You can smile at a lion and call it a kitty but that won't stop it from eating you.

[unspun]

"First of all, one has to wish they had ever bothered to read a history book on Islam.
---
Nevermind that history records Muhammed to be a religious manipulator enslaving the wills of others for his own profit and power, a terrorist, and a child molester.

[TLBSHOW]

The Rev. Franklin Graham was not there. He was in San Diego at a "mission." But his words of the last year and a half -- that Islam is a "very evil and wicked religion" -- clearly hung over the landscape.
......


OF TRUTH THAT ISLAM IS EVIL AND THE ENEMY AND FROM SATAN...........

[FourPeas]

Do evangelicals really want to appear to the world to be unschooled in the complicated histories of the great religions; to be seen as politically throwing their support to Ariel Sharon's expansionist policies on the West Bank? Do the masses of good, smart, cultured evangelical people really believe that Armageddon will be more moral than a Palestinian state?

This first sentence is the real purpose of the article. It's all about the Jews.

As someone who claims to have been raised Baptist, it's interesting that she questions the morality of Armageddon. If she's speaking about the last days prophesy as found in the Bible, anyone who payed attention while being raised Baptist would know that indeed all that God does is moral. By definition.