The following comes from an August 2 Christian Post article by Brandon Showalter:
A California lawmaker is asking the state legislature to recognize August as “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month” but some pastors and national security analysts are criticizing the move, saying it promotes a false narrative.
Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) who introduced House Resolution 59 on Monday, said in a statement posted Friday on the Council on American Islamic Relations’ Facebook page that he was “proud to celebrate the first ever Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month by honoring generations of Muslim Americans for their many social, cultural, and economic contributions to California.”
In a Monday interview with The Christian Post, Pastor Jim Garlow of San Diego’s Skyline Church said, “We are told that most Muslims are peaceful. We are not arguing that point. In fact, those are the only Muslims that I know and would want to know,” but noted that there have been thousands of deadly attacks carried out by Muslims since 9/11.
“With exception of some attacks from a few extremist Hindus I am not aware of consistent violent attacks by other religious groups, such as Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs or Chinese folk religionists … In the call for California to recognize the contributions of Muslims in our state will they reference that 3 of the 19 hijackers came from California, specifically from San Diego, and will they reference the painful Christmas massacre in San Bernardino?”
“I am curious what the legislators plans are for honoring Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists and others. Or did these groups make no contribution to California life?” he asked.
You can generally be confident that if leftists want to have an appreciation day or month for a group of people, that group of people probably hasn’t accomplished nor contributed much to American society; they might even be destructive.
Think about all the identity groups that have their appreciation months, and then think about what I wrote above. Such designations are pure propaganda; an attempt at indoctrination.
And while the state will have an official Muslim appreciation month, a tiny cross is deemed illegal on the L.A. County seal. How much sense does that make? Christians contributed more than Muslims to the state.
Leftists don’t care about truth nor history; they only care about brainwashing.
S is right. More progressive, platitudes placating the latest Politically Correct flavor of the month flowing forth from the fountain of BO’s government. Rather than a true acknowledgement of sorts it is also meant to be a slap in the face of …well…everybody else that really, truly, made this country. A double whammy.
Those that want to vote in more of the same are not thinking. They have been brain washed by too much PC, all the time with the results, they no longer ever really think before they accept the next PC mantra. Sad.
Continued…………PC stands for Political Correctness but it also equates to the Perpetually Confused. Because the first state of mind creates the second.
The Constitution prohibits favoring one religion over another. This will be challenged and won’t fly.
Right… & I hope this prevails AS IT SHOULD!!! BUT, who has ever challenged BO & his ilk, & won in the last 7 1/2 years? Anybody? He uses the constitution, civil rights law, well….everything (climate change) against the people & makes up his own rules/law as he goes along…like letting felons go free & not jailing/deporting illegal aliens that commit crimes. So this could happen in spite of the Constitution. NO ONE has won against him & his ilk very often. The only person who speaks against BO & is Mr. Trump & look how that is going with everybody against the one that dares to speak the truth. Watch out for the ELITES. SADLY they are not on the side of the Constitution or little people.
I guess I missed the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant Appreciation and Awareness months.
Amen!
If we have “Catholic Appreciation and Awareness Month” (and we should) will Holy Roller pastor Garlow also want to know if we’ll “reference” the horrible crimes of the IRA during the “troubles” Bombings in London, people burnt alive, the mortar attack on 10 Downing Street?
What Did the Saints Say about Islam? – OnePeterFive
https://www.onepeterfive.com/what-did-the-saints-say-about-islam/
Who cares? Are the saints infallible?
Who cares? We should, Anonymous. As for infallibility, what should be noted is that nobody has the ability, even modern man, to assert that Islam is a religion of peace without demonstrably putting themselves above the reality of what the Koran actually requires of a good Muslim.
What is infallible is the truth. Try to cover it or deny it, and much like ISIS, it will rise to set you straight about what reality really is.
I do. Actions speak louder than words. The radicals kill. The moderates say nothing. We should honor the dead!!
Sure but equating all Muslims with their radicalized subset is not just. And the “saints” weren’t even talking about 21st century Islam. So if you care what a 7th century saint says about a 21st century problem, someone who probably never even met a Muslim, and you pretend that Christians have not also had their share of radicalized warriors, then you are doubly unjust.
Those crimes weren’t based on scripture, C&H. Sorry. The comparison doesn’t fly. Although it does, in less educated company, make one sound impassioned and sympathetic.
Ann…Both sides in the Northern Ireland conflict killed because the beleved they were being persecuted for following the true teachings of our Lord. Just like Sunnis and Sheites killing each other.
Do we really want to recognize a people who are the sworn enemies of our country and our way of life? A people who are ruled by a false religion and subscribe to a so-called “holy” book that demands the conquest,conversion or death of all who are not moslem? A people who have contributed nothing to civilization except death and destruction to the world since its’ invention by a pedophile caravan robber? Another lefty madness that will be forced down our throats. Not I,nor anyone I know.
Perhaps some commenters would be well advised to check the factual contributions over the centuries from Moslem scholars and institutions to mathematics, science and art. Then they can unload the hot air broadsides. I’m not suggesting that religion is perfect. None has been. Just read European history since 600 AD.
All of the so-called “contributions” made by Islam are as nothing when you consider the destruction caused by this false “religion”. The driving factor is the Koran, which rules every facet of a “good” moslem’s life. If you do not subscribe to every tenet of this “holy” book, you are not a “good” Moslem. It justifies every atrocity, and allows enslavement, taxation, forced conversion and murder of non-Moslems. Hot air? May you be subject to Moslem “civilization”.
Most of their supposed advances in science, etc., were not new, the Muslims merely improved on what others found. Even the Koran is a mish mash of the Old and New Testament, Gnostic heresy and a few additions by Mohammed himself, such as replacing Ismael with Isaac as the one Abraham was going to sacrifice. There are even blatant errors in the Koran as Mohammed go Mariam the sister of Aaron and Miriam (Mary) the mother of the Lord Jesus totally mixed up. Mohammed ruled by terrorism as, why would anyone believe or do anything he said just because he said so without witnesses. They were no witnesses to any so-called miracles that the Koran mentions, just Mohammed saying he flew on a flying horse-like creature, etc., to Mecca. No one saw any…
A correction: Mohammed mistook in the Koran Miriam the sister of Aaron and Moses for Miriam (Mary) the mother of the Lords Jesus when they were two different women historically and eras apart.