Hello — thanks for responding to my comment. Since you clearly have studied something about the religion of Islam, then you should also know that the religion itself is indistibguishable from the government itself or the judiciary branches within Islamic societies. In this sense you’re perpetuating an extremely false equivalence between a so-called Christian society such as ours, and any of the 57 or so “Islamic nations”. They openly profess to take Islam as their blueprint for their societies. In the West we have long had a separation of Church and State – many attribute this to the Christian edict (not always perfectly practiced) of ‘Render unto Caesar that which is his due…’. In any event, this splendid arrangement of separating the secular institutions within our society from the clutches of the clergy has enabled us to become the most successful society in human history. But when Muslims use this false equivalence that their religion is the same as ours, or that we too have committed violence, (a thousand years ago..) so that current Islamic perfidy is no different, it is a grave distortion of the truth. Why perpetuate their sinister propaganda?
Also, it strikes me as foolish in the extreme to simply assume that their mentality is anything like our own viz. religion. Islam has always been spread by the sword with the ultimate goal of conquering the planet — that’s not a distortion of Islam — it’s a purist expression of it. In those periods in the past when Christianity was spread by force, it’s extremely difficult to claim such behavior was in any way “Christ-like”. But when Muslims wage violent Jihad, when they gouge eyes, chop hands and heads, enslave, or wage widespread genocide, they are following the living example of their heinous vicious madman “prophet” Muhammad.
For these reasons, and many more, it’s wrong to assume that those who are DEEPLY worried about Obama’s possible Muslim associations could only be motivated by a bigoted animus, as I maintain Mr. Rick Moran does above. As I stated above, I don’t think he’s a Muslim, but I suspect he’s extremely incapale of looking at Islam critically in every sense of the word. As for “Islamic associations”, I find his long standing associations with various criminal Muslims and Arabs, and his long standing and close friendship with the notorious Ialamist Khalidi to be very disturbing.
Finally — I am not a religious believer, but I think our society has benefitted immensely from our Christian past. I maintain that we have benefitted far more than we have suffered. I don’t consider Islam to have conferred much that is worthy, accirming, or good within any society it has infected. It has destroyed many former great nations and reduced them to wastelands – think Byzantium ( now Turkey), Persia (now Iran), Egypt, etc.
