TERRORISM
Stop Pretending Islamic Terrorists And Crusaders Are Equal Threats Today
Pretending that Muslims, Methodists, and Mormons are equally likely to be inspired to violence by their faith is beyond indefensible.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At least 72 people—including 17 children—were killed and hundreds more injured in an apparent suicide bombing at a Pakistani park that an Islamic militant group said was aimed at Christians celebrating Easter.
A Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack in Lahore, a city in the eastern part of the country with a sizable Christian minority. – The Wall Street Journal
Go ahead, Mr. President—tell us about “The Crusades” again.
Isn’t that the go-to talking point for progressives in denial over the current state of Islam? Less than a month after the Charlie Hebdo attacks last year, President Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast: “Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
Really, Mr. President? Tell the families of the dead Christians in Lahore—killed by Muslims simply for being Christians—to climb off their “high horse,” that there’s no meaningful difference between Islam and Christianity as it’s practiced today.
Then maybe you can give a lecture about Jim Crow and the KKK to Asad Shah, the Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow, Scotland, stabbed to death after posting the message “Good Friday and very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation x!” President Obama will (apparently) be shocked to learn Shah’s killer was not, in fact, a pillowcase-hooded member of the Knights Templar.
The Islamic State Isn’t Islamic?
In the 10 days leading up to the Brussels attacks, there was a major attack by Muslim terrorists—a bombing, a shooting, a kidnapping—every single day, and nearly one a day every day since. Still, President Obama intones “Islamic State is not Islamic.” And our likely next president (thank you, Donald Trump) Hillary Clinton says, “Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” Cable news is crammed with commentary from lunatic liberals warning that the biggest danger to western society from Islamist violence is an “anti-Muslim backlash.”
While progressives await the long-anticipated ‘backlash,’ innocent people continue to die by the dozens from the actual ‘lash.’
Uh, no. While p.c. progressives await the long-anticipated “backlash,” innocent people continue to die by the dozens from the actual “lash”—bombings, stabbings, shootings, honor killings, rapes, and female mutilations committed in the name of Islam. And, typical Americans note, these are not committed in the name of any other faith at anything close to a similar level.
Michael Graham is a radio talk show host in Atlanta, Georgia. Follow him on Twitter @IAmMGraham.
Stop Pretending Islamic Terrorists And Crusaders Are Equal Threats Today
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