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Home Front: Culture Wars
Pat Robertson badmouths Islam again
2006-03-16
Pat Robertson, the dingbat evangelist favoured by the Republican and Christian evangelist establishment as one of America's leading idiotarians, has once again offended American Muslims by denigrating Islam as a religion of violence.
Oh, dear. What terrible thing did he say this time?
He told '700 Club', a television show, on Monday that the goal of Islam is world domination and, further, that it is not a religion of peace.
Ummm... Both of those are true statements.
Most Muslims would even agree with the first statement ...
Referring to the blasphemous Danish cartoons, he said, "The fact that this elicited this incredible outpouring of rage, just shows the kind of people we're dealing with. These people are crazed fanatics, and I want to say it now."
Usually I disagree with Pat Robertson, if only on principle. In this case, he's merely stating the obvious ...
Makes me darned uncomfortable to be agreeing with him, it does ...
Roberts said the goal of Islam is world domination and "why we don't wake up to the fact we're dealing with," he could not understand. He added, "And by the way, Islam is not a religion of peace." In 2002, the controversial evangelist said that Islam "is not a peaceful religion" and it wants to "control, dominate and then destroy."
Posted by:Fred

#22  I'm with most of you all too here. Being one of those hated, dispised groupies of the "religious right" (I always note the MSM doesn't paint a group as the secular left, do they?), I even cringe now when Pat gets the mic. However, we must praise him when he gets it right. I truly believe he sees Islam for what it truly is, and will "speak truth" to that fact. After his last snafu, though, it hurt (about Sharon getting just desserts for trying to give away God's land). While many Christians may even think that way, we'd never say it...Pat does, lol!
Posted by: BA   2006-03-16 23:05  

#21  Oooh, triple win. Out in the open for discussion in the west, fatwa on Pat and riots of offended muslims across islamania. Three birds - one stone!
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-03-16 20:03  

#20  We get it. Always did. We're on the same side, sort of.

Thank you, GT. Message confirmed, I'll tone that one down. I have no intent of spamming this board with any sort of message, no matter how meaningful.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-16 16:25  

#19  Tell it like it is Pat! 700 club news and docs are getting better and their work is amazing.
Posted by: Johnnie Bartlett   2006-03-16 15:34  

#18  You've got a spew problem too - such as your endlessly repetitive:

Collect the GPS coordinates of every imam and mosque issuing these death fatwas and the instant a single one of the cartoonists (including their loved ones) are harmed or killed, bomb every single stinking one of the cesspits back to the stone age.

We get it. Always did. We're on the same side, sort of. When someone joins us and spreads the message to millions, be happy. Be gracious. Be generous. It doesn't cost you anything. As I said at O'dark-thirty this AM in #4, yeah - finding yourself in agreement with PR is "discombobulating". And I left it at that because it serves no useful purpose to dilute the message. That's free advice, lol. Don't want it or whatever? Fine. You come across obsessed. Sad, that.
Posted by: Glert Thetch2165   2006-03-16 15:03  

#17  Or he's smarter, more honest, and free to tell the truth - and happens to reach tens of millions of people when he speaks - than you give him credit for. I think you're jealous, lol.

Ummm ... no. I just see his spewing (retracted or not) about how 9-11 (or the shuttle catastrophe) was America's just punishment for our straying from the path as abetting the enemy's morale. Yes, he's on the right track now (ergo, the strikethroughs in my previous comments), but who knows what or where this loose cannon will blunder into next?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-16 14:18  

#16  "I guess he sees his meal-ticket being threatened."

Or he's smarter, more honest, and free to tell the truth - and happens to reach tens of millions of people when he speaks - than you give him credit for. I think you're jealous, lol.

Cut him, and the others who come from different points of view but have the threat correctly nailed, the slack that honesty deserves. Diatribes, whether his or yours, sound eerily alike to the neutral observer. Don't turn off the audience you (obviously) seek by doing precisely what you ridicule him for.
Posted by: Glert Thetch2165   2006-03-16 13:37  

#15  Makes me darned uncomfortable to be agreeing with him, it does ...

I second the emotion. Too many of his messages have been totally screwloose well off the beaten track. How sad that he is one of the few wingnuts individuals with sufficient intestinal fortitude to call a spade a spade. I guess he sees his meal-ticket being threatened. No tele-evangelism buckaroos once mullahs are running the tent.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-16 13:28  

#14  I've always thought ol' Pat a dingbat. But... now I'm beginning to wonder. When surfing channels I used to wind up on the 700 clubs world news and it often had the best news reporting I have ever seen. Great heartwarming stories about Christian works and other good works being done world wide re: orphanages, medial help being provided and Christian persecution. Had one of the best documentaries I've ever seen about Jewish doctors helping Palestinian children for free. It covered the dilemma of the mommies allowing Jewish doctors to help their children and the goodwill created between the two.

Darn, maybe I've misjudged him.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-16 13:17  

#13  Pat isnt very good with his words these days... but I fail to remember the last time that Jewish or Catholic hijackers flew planes in U.S. buildings in the last 10 years...
Posted by: bgrebel   2006-03-16 12:25  

#12  We need Pat at this time. No politician is going to make such statements, no matter how true. And, we need the public to become aware of the religion of blood. Welcome Pat and anyone else who stands before a microphone and slams Islam for it's continued lunacy. Wake up America. Wake up Europe. If we wait for them to come after us, they will and they will overwehelm us. We must act now. We must take the offensive. We must put a stop to Islam, NOW.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-03-16 11:40  

#11  Novus Ordo Mundi
Posted by: Bystander   2006-03-16 11:24  

#10  

I dunno, I think he's on the Kos' payroll.
Posted by: macofromoc   2006-03-16 11:23  

#9  I'm a Christian evangelical, albeit not one of the establishment, and I've long wished Pat would become a Trappist. He's got a bit of a handle on the facts this time, and I hear that behind the scenes he's done some quiet good work, but when he opens his mouth I cringe.
Posted by: James   2006-03-16 10:58  

#8  Then words did rise and honest doubt
And four grave ministers sat about
Whether the blow that left him dead
Cut off his body, or his head.
Posted by: Phil   2006-03-16 10:57  

#7  I don't, mmw, but beheading sounds pretty much like dismemberment to me.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-03-16 10:53  

#6  ZF

you said, "Just as the remarks of a number of mullahs are straight out of the Koran... clerics are urging their followers to go forth and tear the infidel limb from limb."

No clerics have called for dismemberment for the cartoonists. In Islam apostasy=blasphemy and the punishment is death. Various schools of Islamic law prescribe stoning or throat slicing or other ways of carrying out the death penalty but no schools prescribe dismemberment (although dismemberment could arguably be a tactic in jihad if it causes fear in the kafr)
Posted by: mhw   2006-03-16 08:33  

#5  Say what you will of Pat Robertson, but he hasn't put out a $1m bounty on anyone for desecrating Christian symbols. And his 9/11 remarks were straight out of the Bible.

Just as the remarks of a number of mullahs are straight out of the Koran. The problem isn't that they're quoting their respective holy texts - it's that Moose Limb clerics are urging their followers to go forth and tear the infidel limb from limb.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2006-03-16 07:00  

#4  LOL. Dead right. Love the smear attempt, lol. Too funny... and discombobulating. I need to lie down.
Posted by: Glert Thetch2165   2006-03-16 01:33  

#3  A blind squirrel...
Posted by: Pappy   2006-03-16 00:35  

#2  even a broke clock...
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-16 00:31  

#1  MY GOD, What if he is Right?
Posted by: newc   2006-03-16 00:11  

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