“I’m certainly not preaching against Muslim people,” Graham said Wednesday on WBT-AM radio. “I am concerned about our nation, and on Sept. 11 last year, we were attacked by followers of Islam, claiming to do this in the name of Islam.” |see the artcle on ABC News
See below, my citing of the Timothy McVeigh case, and consider the invoking of Christian principles by the Klu Klux Klan. On the west Wing last fall, there was a special “post Sept. 11” episode done by the cast that featured a discussion with some students by Josh, and he made the comparison:
The terrorist are to Islam as WHO is to Christianity? Answer: KKK
Nobody asks the Church to apologize for the KKK, becuase everyone knows they are a radical racist group, and despite their claims to be followers of Christ, we easily see their TWISTING of the truth; their “hermeneutic of convenience” (meaning, they interpret the scriptures the way they see fit, as justification for their actions and goals).
No, it seems to be lost on Mr. Graham that you are falling prey to the trap of lumping a whole group into one for the actions of a few disturbed, disillusioned, self-deceived , self-proclaimed “saviors” of the Islamic world. And that’s all they are, is self-proclaimed, among their fellow “deceived”…….which are many, but still do not represent the faithful of Islam.
Graham states further:
“The silence of the clerics around the world is frightening to me,” he said. “How come they haven’t come to this country, how come they haven’t apologized to the American people, how come they haven’t reassured the American people that this is not true Islam and that these people are not acting in the name of Allah, they’re not acting in the name of Islam?”
Uh, Mr. Graham, THEY (the Muslims) did NOT do it. Did American Christians apologize to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing because Timothy McVeigh was a “Christian”? No, because what he did had nothing to do with any association with any association of himself with the Christian Church or Christian beliefs (except maybe in his own head….which is precisely the case with the terrorists). Why is this so hard to understand? Intolerance, bigotry, and hatred: that’s why it’s hard. These things are hard to see past when they blind us to the truth.
And oh, by the way, Mr. Graham , please SHUT UP!