Who's The Extremist?
By Hsing Lee
2-19-3
Below are some quotes from the world's most hard-core religious extremists... Osama Bin Laden, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, George Bush 41, George Bush 43, John Ashcroft, Franklin Graham, and others.
If they spoke the same language and all referred to god as Allah rather than God or vice-versa, the quotes could actually be swapped and used verbatim by either side to stir up the ignorant masses.
They make the same accusations about America as Bin Laden. They make the same statements about American morality. They make the same inflammatory statements on everything EXCEPT Judaism, with the only difference being Bin Laden wants to kill the Jews, while the Christian Coalition wants to convert the Jews, and THEN kill the ones who won't convert after they rebuild the Temple of Solomon.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,820528,00.html
And while this may be childish and petty, you should ask yourself, "WHO STARTED IT?"
ON AMERICA'S CHARACTER FLAWS...
"The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'" - Rev. Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F. Harris, "God Gave U.S. 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell
"We ask you next to stop your unfair acts, lies, immorality and debauchery.
We regret to tell you that you are the worst civilization in the history of mankind:
...You run a society contrary to the nature of mankind by separating religion from your policies. So much so that people believe that even if they commit adultery, theft, and other wicked acts, as long as they go and confess, everything will be okay...
...Your nation endorses gambling in its all forms. Your companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
... And because of all this, you have been described as the nation of all kinds of different diseases -- diseases that had never existed in the past. So you have to be proud of yourself, because your evil acts have spread AIDS all around the world, especially to the poorest countries in the world, killing many millions." - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening." - Jerry Falwell (source unknown)
"Your nation exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools, calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors and strangers to increase your profit margins. You plaster your naked daughters across billboards in order to sell a product without any shame. You have brainwashed your daughters into believing they are liberated by wearing revealing clothes, yet in reality all they have liberated is your sexual desire. After all this you say that you are the nation that supports women's freedom." - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?" - Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 227, Word Publishing, 1991
"Your nation encourages drinking alcohol in all its shapes and forms i.e. production, trading and usage. On the one hand, you have made selling and using some drugs illegal, yet you so often turn a blind eye to this vice. Is it any surprise that your country has the largest drug addiction problem?" - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"Bill Clinton created an epidemic of oral sex in our nation's High Schools." - Jerry Falwell
Who can forget your previous President's immoral acts committed in the Oval office? After that you did not even bother putting him on trial and instead allowed him to wriggle himself out of the situation without reprimanding him in any way. History will remember you for all of this. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
ON CHURCH AND STATE
"And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools." ... Jerry Falwell, September 11, 2001
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!" - Rev. Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Law of Allah, choose to implement your own inferior rules and regulations, thus following your own vain whims and desires. You run a society contrary to the nature of mankind by separating religion from your policies. So much so that people believe that even if they commit adultery, theft, and other wicked acts, as long as they go and confess, everything will be okay. ... Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms." - Ronald Reagan, address, National Religious Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., January, 1984, quoted from Menendez and Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are Atheists?
Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the Atheist community. Faith in god is important to me.
Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are Atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?
Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on Atheists. - George H W Bush, to a AA reporter Robert I. Sherman in August 27,1987, while serving as vice-president and running for President
"Therefore, I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof, in official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of April, 2000." - George W. Bush, "Jesus Day 2000" Proclamation
"We receive our rights from God. The decision points up the fact that we need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God. Those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench." - George W. Bush, in statements to reporters with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Note: Putin is an atheist.) Bush was criticizing the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that references to God make reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools unconstitutional. June 26, 2002
"The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." ...William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
ON THE CONSTITUTION
"Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution... We must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours." -Jerry Falwell, March 1993 sermon
"The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews." - Rev. Jerry Falwell (source unknown)
"America has made many accusations against us and many other Muslims around the world. Its charge that we are carrying out acts of terrorism is an unwarranted description.
"We never heard in our lives a court decision to convict someone based on a "secret" proof it has. The logical thing to do is to present a proof to a court of law. What many leaders have said so far is that America has an indication only, and not a tangible proof. They describe those brave guys who took the battle to the heart of America and destroyed its most famous economic and military landmarks." - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
ON RELIGION
"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc." - Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength
"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus." - John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999, upon receiving an honorary degree at ultra-right-wing and ultra-fundamentalist Bob Jones University, also known for its anti-African-American segregationist policies.
"This is the religion that has the Qur'an, the book that has not been changed like the other books. The Qur'an is the living miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten versus like it. To date this challenged has not been met, will not and can not be met, as the Quran is the uncreated Speech of Allah." ... Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"The Bible does not contain the word of God. Listen to me closely. The Bible is the word of God..."
"...Every grain of sand, every grain of sand between the Dead Sea, the Jordan River, and, and the Mediterranean Sea belongs to the Jews..." - Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority
VIEWS ON JEWS...
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior. - Jerry Falwell, Listen, America!
As a result of this, the Jews controlled your economy and then your media and now control all aspects of your life, making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense, which is what Binyameen (Benjamin) Franklin warned you against. - Osama Bin Laden 2002
Billy Graham: "...the country is caught in a stranglehold of Jews in the news and entertainment business. This stranglehold's got to be broken or the country's going down the drain,"
NIXON: "You believe that?"
Billy Graham: "Yes sir... "
NIXON: "Oh boy," replied an elated Nixon, "So do I. I can't ever say that, but I believe it."
Billy Graham: "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something."
Billy Graham: "a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know I am friendly to Israel and so forth. They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country."...From the Nixon tape transcripts released late last year
Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people. Behind you, there are the Jews who are controlling your policies, media and economy. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"The Jews need conversion. They need to know that the Messiah is coming. And the Bible tells us what's going to happen." - Kay Arthur, US Evangelist, 2002
GOOD VS EVIL
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself. -- Rev. Jerry Falwell (source unknown)
"Those who believe fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Taguut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76] - Osama Bin Laden, quoting the Quran, 2002
"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." - Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
The most unique thing about you, is your use of weapons and power everywhere -- not for defensive purposes, but for destructive ones. It is you who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. So what is left on the list of the most heinous, evil and unjust acts that you have not done? And you call yourself the nation of freedom and justice. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
ON FIGHTING A CRUSADE
"I think Mohammed was a terrorist. He - I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and - and - non-Muslims, that he was a - a violent man, a man of war. In my opinion, and I do believe that - Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses. And I think that Mohammed set an opposite example." - Jerry Falwell, 2002
Muslims believe that all the Messengers and Prophets are from Allah, including Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. So when those who say that the Torah mentions that the followers of Musa should live in Palestine, do they not also see that the Muslims are the best suited for this position? The blood pouring out of Palestine must be treated - with revenge of equal quantity. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody.... This decade will not be for the faint of heart, but the resolute. Institutions will be plunged into wrenching change. We will be living through one of the most tumultuous periods of human history. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious." - Pat Robertson, Pat Robertson's Perspective octavo 1992
What America is tasting now is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the Islamic world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no one hears and no one heeds. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
We call you to Islam; the last religion that has replaced all the previous religions; the religion of good manners, sincerity, mercy, fear of Allah, kindness to others, justice between people, giving the rights to people who deserve them, protection of people from oppressors and unjust acts; the religion which calls upon its followers to amr bil maroof (enjoin the good) and nahi an al-munkar (forbid the evil) with hand, tongue and heart. This is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion are made Supreme. This is the religion of obligation to Allah, demanding its followers to act with justice and equality between people without differentiating between their language, sex or color. - Osama Bin Laden, 2002
"It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation." - Pat Robertson, New York Magazine, August 18, 1986
We -- with Allah's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson. - Osama Bin Laden, 1998
This is a new kind of -- a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while. And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient... - George W Bush, September 16, 2001
WHO OWNS AMERICA?
"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. "What do you mean?" the media challenged me. "You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?" My simple answer is, "Yes, they are." - Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 218
"This country was not built by Hindus, nor Muslims, nor atheists," he said. "It was built by Christian men and women." - Franklin Graham, legitimate but nevertheless complete and total Bastard son of Billy Graham
"So, we tell the Americans as people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers and American mothers in general that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews. The continuation of tyranny will bring the fight to America, as Ramzi Yousef and others did. This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and doesnot attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves." - Osama Bin Laden, Esquire Magazine, 1999 (I ask you, is this not precisely what America has done? Elected a Nationalistic madman who makes Patriotism synonymous with Nationalism? WHO DOES THIS SERVE?)
AND FINALLY, SOME VOICES OF REASON -
"The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit" - Confucius
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"It was Christians, you know, not pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ" - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches, 2000
"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) British philosopher
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain
"Suppose you were a heartless bastard, and suppose you were a Republican, but, ...I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. writer, poet, philosopher
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass." --Senator Barry Goldwater, when asked what he thought of Jerry Falwell's suggestion that all good Christians should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court
THANKS TO www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/separation_church_state.html www.csus.edu/org/democrat/cool/quotes.html
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