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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Janice on December 28, 2010, 04:55:26 PM
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If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims
Human Events
by Gary Bauer
Few Americans would deny that Judeo-Christian beliefs and values informed the Founding of this country and that they continue to shape much of American life today. Nor would many of us deny that Americans who embrace Islamic values are a distinct minority here.
I raise these two facts because of an emerging reality: that, in a variety of contexts, American Muslims are treated better than American Christians. That might seem like a bizarre assertion, so think about it in another way: What if the Christians were treated like Muslims in America, and Muslims like Christians?
If Muslims were treated like Christians in America, Muslims would have to tolerate the defamation of their holiest images in our national museums, acts which would be called "artwork" -- and, if particularly provocative, even given taxpayer-funded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. They would also have to accept Korans being burned and thrown into toilets, which instead of inciting worldwide outrage and retribution would provoke a collective shrug of the shoulders.
If Muslims were treated like Christians, Muslims would be mocked by late night TV talk show hosts and lampooned in crude cartoon parodies. If Christians were treated like Muslims, conspicuous Christianity would be celebrated by our elites as a sign of our diversity and open-mindedness, not disparaged as an embarrassment, a nuisance and a breach of the law.
If Christianity were treated like Islam, our students would be taught a white-washed version of Christian history, with the troubling bits miscast or omitted from textbooks and lesson plans.
MORE (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40839)
There is a common thread between the elites, hollywood, radical islamists and hard core leftists. That being the underpinning of all judeo-christian civil society. Moral relativism is crucial to this unholy alliance.
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Christians should demand foot baths at airports and places of employment.....and prayer breaks 5 times a day....and ....and I'll think of something else in a minute.
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So true. When did safeguarding the rights of minorities become license to trample upon the rights and sensiblities of the majority?
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Good find. COMMENT SECTION GOOD READ!!
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Paulmtmorris [Moderator] 5 hours ago in reply to Brigade
Muslims established the first pharmacies and were the first to require standards of knowladge and competance from doctors and pharmacists, enforced by an examination. At the time of the fifth Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid(763-809), the first hospitol was established in Baghdad, and many more followed.
Yet it was not a Muslim, but a Belgian physician and researcher, Adreas Vesalius(1514-1564), who paved the way for modern medical advances by publishing the first accurate description of human internal organs, De Hunai Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) in 1543. Why? Because Vessalius was able to dissect human bodies, while that practice was forbidden in Islam. What's more, Vesalius's book is filled with detailed anatomical drawings- but also forbidden in Islam are artistic representations of the human body.
In mathmatics, it's the same story. Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780-850) was a pioneering mathematician whose treatise on algebra, once translated from Arabic, introduced generations of Europeans to the rarified joys of that branch of mathmatics. But in fact, the principles apon which al-Khwarizmi worked were discovered centuries before he was born-including the zero, which is often attributed to Muslims.
Even what we know today as "Arabic numeral" did not originate in Arabia, but in pre-Islamic India- and they are not used in the Arabic language today.
Islam's "great acomplishment" was the Crusades that started in 632A.D.- two years before Muhammad's death from poisoning. It was not until 1095 that Pope Urban preached the first Christain Crusades to take back and secure Christian lands conqured by Islam.
It was Muslim invasion that opened up the Americas to Europeans. Everyone know that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America while searching for a new, westward sea route to Asia. Why? Because of the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims in 1453 closed the trade route to the East.
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Christians should demand foot baths at airports and places of employment.....and prayer breaks 5 times a day....and ....and I'll think of something else in a minute.
And be able to sue if they don't comply to our Catholic religion, if we want to pray every 15 minutes.
The troglodytes do it and the ACLU and CAIR back them up. And the liberals bow down to them empowering them even more. :argh:
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If Christians were treated like Muslims there would be no talk of separation of church and state.
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Christians should demand foot baths at airports and places of employment.....and prayer breaks 5 times a day....and ....and I'll think of something else in a minute.
You people pray 1 hour out of 1 day of the week and you're already annoying.
Let's not push things.
:-) O-)
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You people pray 1 hour out of 1 day of the week and you're already annoying.
Let's not push things.
:-) O-)
:lol:
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Libs pray alright ... their version of god is Govt. Therefor liberal govt employees (politicians) worship by the act of showing up for work.
Same as Islamists I suppose since govt and religion are inseparable for them too. A common thread between these 2 groups.
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You people pray 1 hour out of 1 day of the week and you're already annoying.
Let's not push things.
:-) O-)
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
You make me smile.