Posted on 06/03/2010 4:52:36 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "PBS’s Tavis Smiley recently claimed that “every single day in this country” Christians commit terrorist acts. Interviewing the heroic ex-Muslim freedom fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Smiley repeated common leftist dogmas about how Christian terrorists are more numerous and violent than Muslim terrorists, and have committed more terrorist acts inside the U.S. than Muslims have. Smiley’s views are silly, but they’re also ultimately misleading and dangerous, as they divert attention from the genuine threat from Islamic jihadists and, by sapping our civilizational self-confidence, weaken our ability and will to resist those jihadists.
On the show, Hirsi Ali was speaking about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Islamic jihadist and U.S. Army psychologist who, shouting “Allahu akbar,” murdered 13 people at Fort Hood last November; and about Faisal Shahzad, the jihadist with ties to the Pakistani Taliban, who attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square just weeks ago. “Somehow,” said Hirsi Ali, “the idea got into their minds that to kill other people is a great thing to do and that they would be rewarded in the hereafter.”
Actually, there is no mystery about how they got this idea. The Koran guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). Recruiters for suicide bombings the world over use this verse to promise Muslims troubled by a guilty conscience that they can be free of fears of hell if they kill some infidels and die in the process. But instead of asking Hirsi Ali to elucidate the motivations of such people, Smiley played the moral equivalence card, asserting: “Christians do that every single day in this country.”
Hirsi Ali, an atheist, but realistic and clear-eyed enough not to fall for Smiley’s moral-equivalence con job, was incredulous, and asked Smiley: “Do they blow people up?”"
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Previous threads on this topic (under different titles):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2524610/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2523083/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522942/posts
And our tax dollars pay for this crap.
You can always count on Public*BS /s
Good point Ms. Ali.
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I had a relative that tried to pull this garbage on crapbook last year.
He basically compared Al-Qaeda to the Skin heads and the KKK but used their more formal names.
I’m sorry, as much as I don’t like the KKK and the Skin heads I DO NOT see them fighting another country’s military with bazookas, suicide and road side bombs.
I threw it in the garbage.
i’m trying to remember one in the passed 10 years...
umm... nope, drawing a blank
pbs? says it all..left wing crap
What no mention of the Amish? We all know this is the biggest terrorist group going!
Excuse me!
Prove it!
Muslim terrorist killed over 3,000 in one kill.
That counts as 3,000 kills, not 1 kill.
Christians have done more then that?
Prove it!
Let’s see:
John Kennedy killed by an athiest commie.
Robert Kennedy killed by a MUSLIM.
Twin Towers brought down by MUSLIMS.
Soldiers murdered at Ford Hood by a MUSLIM.
D.C. Sniper killed at random and was a MUSLIM.
Yep...those Christians are out to get us all right.
Is Tavis Smiley going to show us some video of these terrorist acts by Christians?
I don’t know who/what a Travis Smalley is but I just finished Ali’s new book, Nomad & I can give it my highest recommendation. She is an exceptionally good writer & her perspective is unique.
She is a fascinating & courageous lady. She works for AEI now—so going on PBS has got to be outreach to the stupidest among us.
Nomad is definitely a worthy read.
Western civilization can talk about the “Christian Crusades”, but India has had its turn as well over the last 1400 years.....for your viewing pleasure...look at it from their perspective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8
Here’s another point for you: I’ve never heard of KKK and skinheads killing people if they don’t join up and become white supremacists too.
There aren’t enough of them to make a difference, even counting the KKK member serving in the senate as a DEMOCRAT.
With well over a billion muslims in the world, even if only 1% practice overtly violent jihad, that’s a lot of carnage.
The same place where the Rino/'Rat agendas belong.
Liberalism of the more goofy variety can’t survive without government subsidies. That’s why we have PBS.
He’s right. And more people die from falling in bathtubs than from terrorists. So I guess that’s where he wants the government to concentrate.
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