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Moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to characterize in a negative way the claim that there can be no moral or ethical hierarchy decided between two sides in a conflict, nor in the actions or tactics of the two sides. –from Wikipedia.

So many of our progressive “friends” lean heavily on the notion that there is moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam.  As soon as anyone has the poor taste and ignorance to mention Islamic bloodlust (contemporary, historic, whatever…it’s always been part of Islam) some all-knowing progressive will assume an elitists posture and begin regurgitating their droning mantra.  “Christianity is just as violent,” they spew.  Pretty soon some loner clinic bomber from 20 years back is lumped in with the Spanish Inquisitions (and, oh Lord…the Crusades!) and the leftist intelligentsia bask in the smug assurance that they have proved again that Americans are the real terrorists.

Recently, two events took center stage, one offensive to Muslims and one offensive to Christians.  Lets see how the moral equivalence argument holds up. 

*NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED IN RIOTS:

  –Against Da Vinci Code:  0

  –Against Muhammad cartoons: 146 are known so far (some estimate over 300)

*NUMBER OF EMBASSIES BURNED:

  –Against Da Vinci Code:  0

 –Against Muhammad cartoons: 2

*NUMBER OF CALLS FOR BEHEADINGS AND HOLY WAR:

 –By Christians:  0

 –By Muslims:  Countless millions on four continents.

Yep, I’d say they’re about the same…

THE TOP TEN LIST OF MOST POPULAR SEARCHES ON YAHOO F0R 2006

Could it be the war in Iraq, the elections, President Bush, the Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, North Korea…

Nope, none of the above…can I have a drum roll please?

10.  Lindsay Lohan

9. Pamela Anderson

8. Chris Brown

7. Beyonce Knowles

6. American Idol

5. Paris Hilton

4. Jessica Simpson

3. Shakira

2. WWE

1. Britney Spears

The Art on this page is provided by the brilliantly satirical mind behind the GalleryoftheAbsurd.com

(for my fellow Methodists…)

“Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it…have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries that were once as the garden of God are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth!  Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge of these destroyers of human kind.”–John Wesley

–from “The Doctrine of Original Sin”  Works, 1841

Art by D. T. Devareaux from his blog: THE STUDY OF REVENGE

“Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.” — Rosie O’Donnell

“I’m gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.” — Tom Cruise to GQ magazine in what may or may not have been a joke.

“I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president. The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.” — Kurt Vonnegut

 ”F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?” — Mel Gibson in a drunken tirade, after he’d been pulled over by the police

“The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country; I don’t see why people care about patriotism.” — Natalie Maines

“(George Bush) is ten times the terrorist that Osama ever was.” — Cindy Sheehan

“Quit supporting my country and supporting crimes against humanity.” — Cindy Sheehan in Australia

“Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don’t pay attention.” — Bill Maher

HATRED’S KINGDOM by Dore Gold

I am embarrassed to realize the extent of my own ignorance regarding the Wahabi menace. As a lover of history and one who could draw a fairly accurate survey of the events that shaped the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I was grievously unaware of the monstrous theology and murderous campaign of Ibn `Abd Al-Wahhab. One wonders how the terrors of the crusades could compare to the genocidal murder of “impure” Muslims by the fanatical armies of Wahab. One wonders still why the West fails to see the ever-present and growing threat posed by the Wahhabi poison which spans out from Saudi Arabia (our allies?) to infect Muslims around the world.

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This documentary shows the dichotomy between Israeli and Palestinian response to the Oslo Accord.  This is important because most Islamic voices and their progressive American cheer leading squad assert that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians (and indirectly the US’s) is the antecedent of Islamic violence.  This is a smoke screen thrown up by the House of Islam that could win the Misinformation Award from the KGB.  In fact, violence is endemic to many schools of Islam and is required by the Quran if a literal interpretation is taken.  Of course, all Muslims aren’t violent (that is, faithful to true Islam.)  Most Muslims are, however, complicit by their silence if not secretively supportive both morally and financially.  How can the run of the mill Muslim dude participate in Jihad against the people who shop at his convenience store?  He can participate by writing a check to killers (one of hundreds of “charities” with terrorists ties).

 RELENTLESS

Middle East Forum
To understand why the Palestinians and Israelis seem to be interminably engaged in violence, watch “Relentless,” a film with searing insights into the origins and ongoing nature of the problem. Expect to be unsettled - and to come away an hour later knowing how to apportion blame.
Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
Appointed by President Bush to the US Institute of Peace
Author: “Militant Islam Reaches America”

 ”Make war on them [infidels] until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme.” (Sura 2:193) “Seize them and put them to death wherever you find them.” (Sura 4:89)

“Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you.” (Sura 9:123)

When the sacred months [Ramadan] are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them; besiege them; and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent [convert to Islam] and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way.” (Sura 9:5)

“Strike off their [infidel’s] heads. Strike off their finger-tips!  Because they defied God and his Apostle [Muhammad].” (Sura 8:12-13)

These people are not extremists; they are true followers of Islam.  They are obedient to the Quranic injuctions to murder unrepentent non-Muslims.  They are simply following the tenets of their faith.  THIS IS ISLAM!

WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis is always described as the “imminent historian and commentator on the Middle East” and I suppose I can concur.  However, I have come to believe that the answer to the question posed in this little volume is best answered by theologians and psychologists, not historians.  What went wrong is Islam itself. Islam went wrong. Islam is wrong. Islam is an inherently violent belief system that vehemently silencing the moderating voices of modernity. Until Islamic scholars have the freedom to condemn violent and bigoted ideology, Islam will be a force for evil on planet earth. –Mr. Burke

Amazon.com Editorial Review
Bernard Lewis is the West’s greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as The Middle East and The Arabs in History are required reading for anybody who hopes to understand the region and its people. Now Lewis offers What Went Wrong?, a concise and timely survey of how Islamic civilization fell from worldwide leadership in almost every frontier of human knowledge five or six centuries ago to a “poor, weak, and ignorant” backwater that is today dominated by “shabby tyrannies … modern only in their apparatus of repression and terror.” He offers no easy answers, but does provide an engaging chronicle of the Arab encounter with Europe in all its military, economic, and cultural dimensions. The most dramatic reversal, he says, may have occurred in the sciences: “Those who had been disciples now became teachers; those who had been masters became pupils, often reluctant and resentful pupils.” Today’s Arab governments have blamed their plight on any number of external culprits, from Western imperialism to the Jews. Lewis believes they must instead commit to putting their own houses in order: “If the peoples of Middle East continue on their present path, the suicide bomber may become a metaphor for the whole region, and there will be no escape from a downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, [and] poverty and oppression.” Anybody who wants to understand the historical backdrop to September 11 would do well to look for it on these pages. –John Miller

Actually this map is all wrong.  Although the green section is the “Islamic Block”, much of Europe should be partially green as well as some of the USA.

Goodbye Europe, Hello Eurabia
More depressing editorial on the death of Europe. They are letting it all go…

Europe’s botched civilization, perverted by socialism and lost faith, seems to have lost the will, the passion to sustain itself. If it continues to practice today’s multiculturalist leftism, Europe’s demographic doom will be sealed. Some harbingers:

In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name for baby boys is now Mohammad. Sustaining the population of a nation requires that on average each couple gives birth to 2.1 children. The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to 3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe. Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into Muslim families.
In France at least 12 percent of the population is already Muslim, the fruits mostly of immigrants from former French colonies in North Africa. If present birth trends continue, by 2030 a quarter of France’s people will be Muslim, more than enough to determine who controls the national parliament and executive. As this columnist recently noted, the nuclear-armed French military is already 15 percent Muslim. Adjacent Switzerland is now 20 percent Muslim.

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Ain’t Islam grand!