Religious Right spokesman says “tyranny is in the DNA of Islam”
Bryan Fischer, the host of the American Family Association’s radio show, Focal Point, does not think Islam is compatible with democracy. As he wrote in his blog this week:
“It’s long past time to give up our nation-building efforts in Muslim countries. It won’t work, can’t work, and never will work. Islam makes the creation of a democracy an impossibility.
Islam is not about freedom, it is about heavy-handed and punitive control. Domination is at the heart of Islam, making the Muslim faith utterly incompatible with the Judeo-Christian values on which Western civilization has been built.
Freedom is in the DNA of Christianity, but tyranny is in the DNA of Islam.
Islam is grossly and permanently incompatible with the liberty we cherish in the West. And since tyranny is deep in the spirit of Islam, only the Spirit of God can root it out.
The “Spirit of God” method that Fischer recommends involves converting Muslims en masse to Christianity with missionaries aided by marines. If that doesn’t work though, Fischer suggests a fall-back position: marines aided by missiles.
The only thing that will give us a shot at building a democracy in an Islamic land is a mass conversion of its people to biblical Christianity. If we want to see freedom come to those darkened, benighted lands, we should be sending missionaries in, right after we send in the Marines to neutralize whatever threat has been raised against the United States.
If they don’t want our missionaries, fine. Their choice. We’ll take them and our Marines home, and let them know we’ll have no hesitation about returning with lethal force if they threaten us again. This time, Marines and missionaries. Next time, Marines and missiles.
The fundamental mistake Western politicians such as George W. Bush make is thinking that Islam is just like Christianity only different. They are so accustomed to an environment shaped by a Christian worldview, which prizes such things as individual liberty, freedom of conscience and religion and equality under the law that they assume that everybody wants those things.
That is a shallow, naive and fatal assumption to make. President Bush simplistically believed that there is a hunger for freedom in every human heart. Not so. There is a hunger for human freedom beating in the breast of Christianity, but the hunger beating in the breast of Islam is for the exact opposite of freedom, totalitarian control.
He reiterated his ideas on his radio broadcast Friday (April 29) and you can hear them in the video on this page.
In an earlier opinion piece (April 8), Fischer threw out his idea for keeping freedom and democracy in America safe from Muslims: Don’t let any of them immigrate here unless they convert to Christianity first.
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The American Family Association (AFA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes conservative values such as opposition to same-sex marriage, to pornography, and to abortion, as well as other public policy goals such as deregulation of the oil industry and lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act. It was founded in 1977 by Rev. Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi. (via Wikipedia)
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