Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A great religion?

He really can't be serious!

Obama is calling islam a "great religion" with a commitment toward justice and progress?

The religion who is keeping women in subjugation is progressive? Torturing women who are raped as "adulterers" while their husbands screw around with impunity is justice?

I wonder if he would have called Catholicism a "great religion" during the Inquisition or during the forced conversion of Jews and American Indians?

I was born a muslim. My mother and I converted to Catholicism. Although I am a faithful Catholic, I can recognize the evil which permeated the Church during the Middle Ages.

In some respects, the violence of Catholic nations was justified for self-preservation against invaders, e.g. the Crusades and the Reconquista. In other cases, their acts were heinous and inhuman cruelty, murder, genocide, and conquest.

I'm sure at the time, barbarism was commonplace and converting others to your religion was rationalized as God's work. I will not fall into the mindset of moral relativists, though, and say that the evil and cruelty was justified because it was common for the times. Wrong is wrong. Evil is evil. Jesus didn't preach about threatening to kill someone if they didn't accept him as their Lord and Saviour.

Catholicism learned its lessons the hard way: the Great Schism, the Reformation, and centuries of warfare. Today it is truly a religion of peace.

islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of evil, of conquest, of subjugation, of murder, of oppression. It's very name means "submission" and the religion of evil men has supplanted any vestige of submission to God's Will.

Certainly you can look through the qur'an and find passages of peace, love, and beauty. I'm sure many followers embrace those teachings. The problem is that too many other passages are filled with hatred and violence and too many people use those as their guiding lights.

There are terrorists and dictators who stand upon the qur'an. There are sympathizers who, although not murderers themselves, cheer for the actions of terrorists and dictators or at the very least wink and nod in agreement.

Piss on islam! There is no need to cow tow to this cult of death. Obama, himself a proclaimed apostate (the greatest crime of islam), ought to call evil by its name. If he cannot do that, he's not fit to lead.

A lowly cadet in Army ROTC can see that. Why can't the Commander in Chief?