Catholic Standard's Attempt At "Guilting" Us

In today's Catholic Standard (page 4 of the print edition) we read "Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Catholics Say It Reminds Them of Own Experience".  I linked to the online version as it appears in Catholic News Service because it does not appear on the Catholic Standard's page (at least I couldn't locate it).  I've a number of problems with this article.

First we hear of testimony from such "stellar" Catholics like Richard Durbin and Patrick Leahy.  Both these men have spent their political careers advancing positions in direct opposition to the Catholic faith: legalized baby-murder, promotion of gay lifestyles, perversion of marriage.  Whatever "experience" they're relating, it isn't authentically Catholic.
There is in this article much ballyhoo about "persecution" and "violence", but no specific examples are given.  Are the details being kept nebulous for a reason - such as "they don't exist to a relevant degree"?  However there is just the slightest hint of an agenda from Thomas Perez, when he alleged "instances of religious intolerance in the workplace, harassment of school students, threats of violence, disputes over Mosques and other actions of bigotry in the past decade."     

BINGO!!

Is this an attempt to get good people to simply shut up about the Ground Zero Mosque?  Much has been written about the folly of that proposed mosque.  I needn't rehash that here.

Let's be honest about something else.  There is no doubt that Muslims, just like anyone else, deserve the respect and dignity due to any human being, simply because they are created in the image and likeness of God, who wants their salvation as much as anyone else's.  However, while all people  are created equal in God's eyes, the same cannot be said for religions and other subordinate ideologies.  Some are clearly dangerous - as is Islam.  It is the willfully (and thus sinfully) naive that insists that all faiths are equal.  That's called indifferentism, folks.  That's a heresy.  On the right sidebar are links detailing the dangers of Islam; some of those are created by former Muslims (at great risk to their own lives, I might add).

Yesterday I posted  Ann Barnhardt's video.  Please watch it.  Notice that as she tears out a page, she quotes from that page Islamic passages that justify rape, pedophilia, beheadings and other manners of violence.  Actually, "justify" isn't the right verb; what would be more accurate is "command".  Some might take umbrage to her tactic; this is probably a matter about which good people - even good Catholics - can disagree.  For an interesting treatise on the matter, read this blog article.

Ann Barnhardt Tells It Like It Is!

Don't you wish our bishops had half of her courage?  She is a Catholic (note her correct use of the term "Church Militant") who is not going to be complicit in the politically-correct boot-licking in which Lindsey Graham is engaging.  Hear him, in this clip, say that "freedom of speech is a great idea, but.."   Click here if you can't see embedded video.



No, Senator!  Freedom of speech is more than a "great idea".  It's an integral part of the United States Constitution.  You do remember what that is, right?  Do you remember your oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution?   Try to understand that "uphold" and "subvert" are not synonyms!

Let me ask this question.  When is the last time you heard of Christians running amok when Bibles were burned?  When is the last time that Catholics went on looting and murdering sprees when the Eucharist was desecrated or the Blessed Mother's pictures were profaned?  I haven't heard, either.  So why is it that when the Qu'ran is burned, that we expect the jihadists to wet their pants and go on killing sprees?  Where are the so-called "moderate" Muslims on this?  Why aren't they condemning their more violent members?

Watch Ms. Barnhardt here.  Click here if you can't see embedded video.

First The Koran Is Being Burned - And Now, This????

The Horror!  The Shame!  What are we coming to?  Ladies and gentlemen, some crazed fiend is planning to burn (I can hardly bring myself to say this!) The National Catholic Reporter!  Read about the planned travesty here!  Oh, No!   Say it isn't so!
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't figured it out by now, this post, and the linked post, were parodies.  Why burn that newspaper - and waste perfectly good kitty litter-pan liner?

Koran Burning - Off, But May Be Reinstated

Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville FL had announced a cancellation of the planned Qu'ran burning on 9/11, believing that there was a deal with the ground zero mosque imam to relocate the mosque.  Now, claiming he was "lied to", Jones may reinstate the burning.

During these past few weeks, many people were quite atwitter about the whole affair.  The Messiah Most Miserable warned that Jones' planned actions would "endanger US troops".

Let's go back to May 2009, to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.  A church sent some Bibles there.  Since "proselitzing" was forbidden to US servicemen, the Army higher-ups took it upon themselves to confiscate and burn the Bibles.  Do we recall anyone in the administration, or anywhere else for that matter, worrying about the ramifications of that draconian move?  Neither do I.

One Pentagon official did recognize the insult.  From the article: However military analyst and Pentagon adviser, Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, criticized the move. "There is no need to burn the Bibles. They could have been shipped back," he said. "Just imagine if we, the same the United States military, were to take a bunch of Korans and burn them. I can imagine the ramifications across the world."

Boys and girls, can we all say "double-standard"?

"Burn A Koran Day"

The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville FL is spearheading an event called "burn the Koran Day" on September 11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks - and yes, it was a muslim attack.  Now as you read articles on this planned event, notice that there are warnings that if this event is held as planned, that there will be "escalation of tensions."  One muslim devotee wrote that he wanted to bomb himself in the DWOC church.  This is because Islam is a "religion of peace"?   Then of course there are the obligatory digs at Christians for being "intolerant".

My purpose in this post is not to comment on the merits or demerits of the planned burning, but to make plain that once again there are massive double standards being employed.  Conservative Christians, and Catholics in particular, regularly find our beliefs and sacred symbols mocked.  For examples:

• Locally, in Baltimore City and Montgomery County, politicians unabashedly in the back pockets of NARAL have imposed onorous requirements upon Christian pregnancy centers for the sole purpose of burdening them.  See this blog's archived December posts for greater detail.
• Last week, Archbishop Chaput of Denver outlined some ways in which civil government is attempting to muzzle Christians as they express their beliefs.
• Students in public schools are routinely harrassed by school administrators for wearing pro-life and Christian tee shirts, although they contain no "graphic" pictures.  They are vindicated only when legal redress is sought and obtained.  See here and here.
• Who can forget the stunt pulled by atheist professor PZ Myers from the University of Minnesota when he, with great fanfare, drove a nail through a stolen Consecrated Host?  Oh, by the way - with that same nail he impaled several pages of the Koran (an "equal opportunity" lout).  Sadly, that drew not one peep from the local bishop, but that's its own story.

This list could go on and on, but you get the gist of what we are enduring, and why I believe we are being relegated to the status of "niggers of the new age".  Now have you noticed any threats of Catholics or other Christians to riot in the streets or commit other acts of violence?  Neither have I!

I for one have had enough of politically correct double standards.  While I see no merit in what the Dove World Outreach Center plans to do, I look askance upon all the kvetching that the liberal elites are spewing forth on one hand as they treat traditional Christians like dirt with the other hand.