Posted on 06/09/2009 4:42:41 PM PDT by GAB-1955
On Easter Sunday this year I was attending a church in Clarksville, Maryland. (I would have gone to my regular church in Laurel, Maryland, but I’m severely allergic to lilies*.) At that service, there was a short play demonstrating the Easter story from the point of view of Heaven. Two rows to my left, a Muslim woman who had been invited to see the play was in shock. She was rocking back and forth in fervent prayers. In her eyes, blasphemy took place. In my eyes, the Gospel was being preached.
President Obama made two statements on June 4, 2009. The first, and most publicized, was his speech at Cairo University. The second was a quiet statement two days after Privates William Andrew Long and Quinton I. Ezeagwula were murdered by a jailhouse convert to Islam.
The President is taking a position on Middle East peace that most Americans who care about Middle East peace don’t want. Most Americans want a State of Israel that is strong enough to defend itself against the threat of annihilation. They want peace between Israelis and Arabs. Whether or not they agree on whether Israelis should have settlements in place in the West Bank and Samaria, most Americans think that it’s a matter that the U.S. can’t impose from above.
At the same time, most Americans don’t want to live with a militant Islam, especially since the forms of Islam they face on a regular basis are the Black Muslims, who believe whites are the children of the devil, and the Islamic terrorists who murdered over 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, or 7 B.B.O. (Before Barack Obama). Politicians on both parties have said that these terrorists are not the true face of Islam, and that most Muslims want to live in peace.
I believe the latter. I know many Muslims who want peace and oppose terrorism. They aren’t the religious fanatics. However, even at its most peaceful, Muslim societies don’t accept people of other faiths as political equals...
I corrected the post regarding who was wounded and who was killed.
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