One sure way to shut the Right's anti-Muslim indignation up. . .

[kevinbgoode]

I do engage in discussion forums for some mainstream media outlets - and yes, they are always flooded with right wing ideologues who either don't need to work for a living, or are getting a nice paycheck for spending company time trolling the web and spouting their political propaganda.

So naturally, in the midst of all this anti-Muslim indignation and the declarations of the "sanctity" of a former Burlington Coat Factory store in Manhatten, one of them tartly reminded me to "grow up" and stop "dividing" the country by promoting a cult that is such a deep, dark threat to "Christianity."

Never mind that we all realize this is just this month's poster-boogyman for the Right, whose political aspirations are totally dependent upon the fear and smear campaign. So after one "conservative" told me I obviously lived in some utopia (and another admonished me for reminding them that conservatives sure haven't honored one gay hero who helped bring down Flight 93 from the hijackers while telling me that Westboro Baptist doesn't represent real "Christians"(hmm...fair enough, though I don't like con-artist con-servatives arrogantly assigning themselves the right to define "Christianity). . .I finally let loose with both barrels about WHO has used 9/11 for dominionist, con-artist con-servative gain. I asked them to remember how religious conservatives reacted to 9/11. . .and then said this:

"Ah, the selective memory of con-artist con-servative “Christians.” Why, I’ll just bet that in your boogyman hysteria about the radicalism of Muslims, you forgot the reaction of the con-servative Religious Right to the 9/11 tragedies:

On September 13, 2001, wasn’t it Jerry Falwell, whose organization created one of the leading “religious freedom” (for conservative dominionists) legal groups in the country, who said:

“The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. . .the abortionists got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. . .I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.”

Of course, this was broadcasted all over the world on Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, which still enjoys access to over-the-air and cable broadcasting. No conservative protests to have that circus thrown off the public airwaves two days after this unspeakable tragedy, was there? And yet here they were, two of the largest icons of the con-artist con-servative “Christian” world, immediately promoting division and assigning blame to fellow Americans for the 9/11 tragedy, politicizing the event for their own dominionist causes, trying to inflame a shocked public with fearmongering and hate, all in the name of their God.

Why yes – did conservative “Christians” have any problem attempting to capitalize on this tragedy and demonize their favorite boogymen at the time? Not at all. In fact, watching that old broadcast now, one gets the distinct impression that had America been the conservative “Christian” dominionist utopia the Right envisions, why, 9/11 would never have happened. And that is exactly the point conservative dominionists were trying to pull off immediately after this tragedy.

Nine years later this same program is still being broadcast into my home on the same station where I watched 9/11 as it happened.

Maybe I’d be more sympathetic about asking the Iman to do “what is right” if conservatives had been more willing to do “what is right” and pull that crazy-ass 700 Club permanently off the air."

:)

[rock]

1. Why don't they (the Christians)

stop "dividing" the country by promoting a cult that is such a deep, dark threat to Muslims?

[PeaceNikki]

2. Never forget...

who the religious right blamed.