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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1250168)	7/29/2020 3:43:33 AM
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Iran: Qom Friday Prayer Imam calls covid-19 ‘secular virus trying to lead religious countries astray toward atheism’ July 28, 2020 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Here we see yet again a Muslim cleric framing the coronavirus crisis in Islamic terms, holding out devout observance of Islam as the only true antidote. This will get people killed, not just from coronavirus, but from devoutness in Islam leading to involvement in jihad activity, as we have seen in so very many instances around the world. “Prayer Imam In Iran Says Coronavirus Is Secular, Corrupting Religious Countries,” Radio Farda, July 24, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Qom’s Friday Prayer Imam, Abbas Mousavi Motlaq, says some people are unduly warning that the coronavirus outbreak threatens upcoming Muharram religious ceremonies, and commemorating third Shiite Imam in October. Dismissing coronavirus as a “secular virus,” the mid-ranking clergy reiterated, “With its destructive effects coronavirus is trying to lead religious countries astray, and toward atheism.” The Friday Prayer Imam of Qom, the largest center for the Twelver-Shiites seminaries in the world, insisted that coronavirus is “secular,” and people should only follow religious experts’ instructions for holding Muharram ceremonies. In recent days, several clerics have criticized the continuation of coronavirus-related restrictions as the Shiites’ holy months of Muharram and Safar approach. This is not the first time religious leaders in Iran have spread strange conspiracy theories about the pandemic. A hardliner cleric claimed in March that “over-rating the threat of the epidemic is a conspiracy by enemies.” He added that the coronavirus epidemic is part of “the clash of civilizations” instigated by secular Western powers against Islam and Muslims….

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1250168)	7/29/2020 3:45:23 AM
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A Few of the Democrats Biden Missed When He Called Trump Our First Racist President July 28, 2020 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER My latest in PJ Media: If President Trump is really a “racist,” as Joe Biden claims, he is one of the strangest racists who ever lived: before the coronavirus hit, black and Hispanic unemployment was at record low levels, the president has repeatedly hailed the achievements of black Americans, and Trump himself, before he entered politics as an unapologetic, non-establishment Republican, was widely respected even by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for his work for the black community. But none of that matters to Joe Biden or whomever is putting words in his mouth: they want us to believe that Trump is a racist, indeed, the first racist president, because for years they’ve been destroying Republicans with this charge, however false it may be. Why stop now? But Biden has missed a few Democrats. Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster recounts that progressive hero Woodrow Wilson, for example, was born in Virginia a bit more than four years before the Civil War broke out. Throughout his life, he retained the racist attitudes he learned in his youth, and when he became president, he made them U.S. government policy. In 1915, the notorious film The Birth of a Nation became the first motion picture to get a screening in the White House; the film portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroes, denigrated blacks in numerous ways, and quoted Wilson as a respected authority. Wilson was also quoted decrying the supposed “policy of congressional leaders” to “put the white South under the heel of the black South.” In response, Wilson went on, as quoted in the film: “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation… until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” The showing of The Birth of a Nation was indicative of Wilson’s attitudes: during his administration, government departments in Washington were segregated. Rating America’s Presidents also shows how another Democrat, James Buchanan, presided over the dissolution of the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War, appealing to the South not to secede by adopting a full-hearted, enthusiastic endorsement of slavery and all it represented. On March 6, 1857, two days after Buchanan took office, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, published its infamous ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case that had been brought by Dred Scott, a slave who had been taken into free territory and argued that, as a result, he was now free. The court voted 7–2 against Scott. In his opinion, Taney wrote that blacks were a “subordinate and inferior class of beings” who “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.” There is much more. Read the rest here.