JOHN CHANE’S OPINIONS ARE NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Life sure is easy when you think in bumper stickers:

Opposition to building an Islamic cultural center near the site of the former World Trade Center springs from those “who feel threatened by what they do not understand and by what they have not had time to process,” according to the Rt. Rev. John B. Chane, Bishop of Washington.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, John.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

“Threatened by what they do not understand?” Wrong, big smacker. If people are threatened by Islam, that’s only because of what they can clearly see with their own eyes. People like you are the ones with your eyes closed and your hands over your ears, screaming “LA, LA, LA, LA, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”

John, western Islamic apologists can prattle on about the “peacefulness” of the Islamic religion until their voices give out. And I have no doubt whatsoever that there are tens of millions of Muslims the world over who are better people than I can ever hope to be and who execrate radical Islam every chance they get.

But to claim that Islam is nothing more than a slightly less elaborate Buddhism is, well, a lie. Because we’ve seen Islamic societies in action.

We’ve all read about “honor” killings as well as regular reports about religious bigotry and violence. We’ve heard about Islamic states where women enjoy a status slightly more elevated than the family pet and we’ve seen what can happen when Muslim women try to assert basic human rights that Western women take for granted.

Then there’s the whole executing homosexuals thing. Since we can see what’s right in front of our faces, John, while you deliberately refuse to, look in the mirror when you call anyone ignorant, “Bishop.”

The Bush administration’s response of “anger and aggression” toward Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 terrorist strikes left “no time for the nation to grieve at all,” Chane said. “We are an angry country.”

“Anger and aggression” toward someone who just murdered 3,000 innocent people on American soil? Damn that George W. Bush anyway! He didn’t give us time to grieve!

By the way, on December 7th, 1941, the Japanese killed a little over 2,000 Americans at Pearl Harbor. On December 8th, 1941, President Franklin addressed a joint session of Congress and asked for anger and aggression toward a declaration of war against Japan.

So I guess Americans in the early 40′s had, what, five or six hours of grief time? No wonder we dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. For the love of God, John, just shut up.

But let’s move on. Dr. Intisar Rabb, assistant professor of law at Boston College, thinks it’s sad that none of you understand what sharia law really means.

Dr. Intisar Rabb, assistant professor of law at Boston College, spoke of a misunderstanding of Islamic law by many Americans: “Rather than equating Shariah with harshness and violence … it behooves us to find out what Shariah actually is.” She said American Muslims, particularly those “most active in the public square,” see Shariah as “an ideal moral code that invites its adherents to champion the best values.”

You mean like this?

Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to stop any attempt to medically paralyse a man as a judicial punishment.

A Saudi judge is reported to have asked hospitals if it is possible to cut the spinal cord of the man, found guilty of paralysing another man in a fight.

Amnesty said intentionally paralysing someone would constitute torture.

Under Islamic law in Saudi Arabia, retribution sentences can include eye-gouging and, for murder, beheading.

I don’t know if this sentence was ever actually carried out. But the fact that it was even considered makes the Saudi entity a very wealthy outpost of barbarism.

But if you think that, believe Bishop Chane and Dr. John Esposito, a Georgetown University professor and founder of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, that’s only because you’re a moron.

Chane and Esposito recommended educating Americans on Islam. “We know so little of Islam in this country that this conversation would not play well in Defiance, Ohio,” Chane said.

Actually, d-bag, many Americans have seen the real Islamic religion in practice, in places where it is in the majority, and they are quite properly repelled and disgusted by what they see. It is only the willfully blind who continue to insist that fiction is fact.

Esposito said “a significant number of Americans have continued, year after year, to show both no admiration for, and no knowledge of, Islam.”

Tell you what, Professor. Send me something admirable about modern Islam and I’ll be the first to admire it.