I want to look at something the preeminent jerkweed of our time, Mike Bloomberg, belched out the other day in reference to the Ground Zero Mosque:
"Every time they pass the basket in your church and you throw a buck in, [do you want someone to] run over and say, 'OK, now where do you come from, who are your parents, where'd you get this money?' . . . A handful of people ought to be ashamed of themselves."
Not only is this a classless little smear on the part of Nurse Bloomie, it's got a whiff of our old friend, Moral Equivalence. Because nothing gives a liberal a rock hard boner more than negatively comparing Christianity to Islam.
But hey, why not indulge Mayor Mike's magnificent retardation for a moment?
What would it take to make Christianity the moral equivalent to Islam?
There would have to be groups of Christians that call for violent acts in the name of Jesus. It could not just be the rare lone gunman-type with a Bible stuffed into his drawers and a raging desire to kill people for Christ wilding out. You'd need to have densely populated structures incorporated for the purpose of fomenting Jesus-inspired terror. These organizations would be populated by leaders that call for Christians to use terror to spread Christianity. The power of Christ would compel the members of these religious groups to do violence to other humans.
Ideally, the Christian terrorists in our scenario should be internationalist in scope. These Super Splodey Jesus Freaks should have sleeper cells and quasi-independent franchises in places like Jakarta, Mumbai, Fallujah, Jerusalem, Aden, London, Paris, Philadelphia and Toronto. All of them should be vocal about the supremacy of the Christian faith and how Jesus commands them to acts of violence. Along with the multinational flavor of these groups, there should be members of Christian governments that covertly sponsor our hypothetical Christian terrorists.
There would also have to be a long history of Christian terrorism in the 20th and 21st centuries. We're talking about elements of the Kooky Christian Thrill Kill Cult carrying out acts of terror over the course of many decades. As before, these atrocities should be happening all over the world.
Finally, there would have to poll after poll showing rank and file Christian opinion was ambiguous-if not supportive-over the use of terrorism to spread the word of Christ. Leaders of the Genocidal Jesus Peeps should be supported by disturbing pluralities of Christians.
Do any of these hypotheticals exist in the real world? Not even close. Not even within a light-year. But still the lefty thumbsuckers just have to make their moral equivalence arguments/slime jobs.
The truth of the matter is that our Muslim friends have a serious existential problem. Their religion has been infected by vicious life-hating cancers. The faith desperately needs to kill these tumors before it's too late. Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists cannot do this for them. We can support reformers and decry the back-asswards types within Islam, but in the end it's up to them to figure out how to exist peacefully within a multi-religious world.
There are Muslims of good faith who want to see real positive change.
In fact here's one now, talking about the Ground Zero Mosque:
“This is not a humble Islamic statement. A mosque such as this is actually a political structure that casts a shadow over a cemetery, over hallowed ground. 9/11 was the beginning of a kinetic war, it is not an opportunity for cultural exchange. It was the beginning of a conflict with those who want to destroy our way of life,” Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told The Daily Caller.
“I am in no way looking to infringe on First Amendment issues. I approach this as a Muslim that is dedicated to reform,” he said.
Jasser sees the danger inherent in the Ground Zero Mosque. He also realizes the need for a peace-loving tolerant renaissance within Islam. Because he's accepted some hard truths about his faith, he doesn't engage in bullshit moral equivalence.
We have more than enough head-in-the-sand unrealists like Mike Bloomberg.
The Muslim religion...and the rest of us...desperately need more clear-eyed people like Zuhdi Jasser.
