The Anti-Christian Liberal Union

The Anti-Christian Liberal Union
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor

August 19, 2002

"The Heretical Housewife"

Senior Editor Jennifer King As noted in a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, the ACLU appears to finally have found a religion it can tolerate. The organization is jumping into the fracas at the University of North Carolina, where incoming freshmen are mandated to read the Koran - or, at least part of it. Objectionable parts, like those used by Wahhabi madmen to justify mass murder, have been delicately excised.

The students are also given liturgical CD's and asked to contemplatively reflect upon Islam and its teachings. Can anyone doubt the hysterical reaction of the atheistic Left if Bible study was a required course? Especially if accompanied by CD's of Gregorian chants and songs extolling Jesus Christ. On the surface, at least, it appears a tad odd that the ACLU - which files suit at a whiff of Christianity - should side with the University on mandated Islam.

The alignment of the Left with the Islamists is really not a strange one, though, because they share a defining characteristic - a virulent hatred of America and the West. Although President Bush keeps assuring us that Islam is a religion of peace, everywhere we look we find evidence to the contrary. Palestinians pour out into the streets, frenziedly dancing and throwing candy exuberantly to youngsters every time an Israeli grandmother or infant is killed by an Islamakazi murderer. Arab children, in an odd travesty of summer camp, were photographed last week wearing matching Tshirts and camouflage face paint while proudly brandishing automatic weapons. Other photographs showed the children painstakingly demolishing a replica of an Israeli settlement, and burning a trumped-up American flag - with stars of David replacing the usual ones. The same week, at a support rally for Saddam Hussein held near Nablus, ranting participants pledged to “kill every American.”

On the 9th of August, Sanaa Republic of Yemen Television broadcast a sermon live from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa. Shaykh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi prayed to Allah, “O God, destroy the Jews…; O God, destroy the Christians….freeze the blood in their veins.” On the same day, in Saudi Arabia, Saudi TV carried a different sermon - this time from Shaykh Usamah Abdallah Khayyat. Khayyat prayed, “O God, help the mujahidin in Palestine, Kashmir and Chechyna. O God, destroy the tyrant Jews.” In Quatar, the official TV station carries yet another sermon, delivered live from the Umar Bin-al-Kattab Mosque in Doha. Shaykh Anwar al-Badawi prayed to his God, “Islam does not know terrorism….it encourages martyrdom against aggressors…O God, destroy the Jews; O God, pour out your anger on them. O God, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians.”

Don’t these words resound with love and goodwill towards their fellow men? Don’t they bespeak a willingness to live tolerantly with people of other faiths? What’s more, the words and the open actions bespeak a kind of mental disconnect with the real world. Don’t the Palestinians realize that the bloodthirsty celebrations at the murder of noncombatants look positively bestial to civilized people? Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, realizing that the wholesale machine gunning of unarmed naked women and children might just be considered a wee bit savage. Apparently, they don’t teach that etiquette at terrorist summer training camp.

In many ways, it appears the West has failed to plumb the depth of the fanatical hatred directed towards it. The Reverend Franklin Graham recently asked a serious question about why - if the terrorist’s view of Islam is wrong and they are indeed “hijacking” the religion - there aren’t more Shaykhs speaking out about it. For this, Graham was excoriated by those on the Left. But Graham is right. The silence from the Muslim world on atrocities perpetuated in the name of Islam has been deafening, even before 9/11. After the intention murder of 3,000 American citizens, many of whom were immigrants and a group of whom were Muslims, it stands in stark relief.

There are some who postulate that the Arab behavior is geared towards provoking the West into waging war against it - thereby igniting Osama’s wished for worldwide conflict. Nevertheless, today’s civilization cannot stand back and let a bunch of crazed fanatics take over the world and kill all the Jews anymore than it’s predecessor could in the 1940s. Anyone who poses a threat to freedom, peace and worldwide stability must be deprived of the power to do so. Perhaps then, a message of tolerance and peace - rather than hatred and divisiveness - can be preached from the mosques and madrassahs.

Wonder whose side the ACLU will take then? ***

Photo of Jennifer King courtesy of staff files