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Posted by Caretaker (Member # 36) on :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,840568,00.html

Powell attacks Christian right

Oliver Burkeman in New York
Friday November 15, 2002
The Guardian

Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, condemned America's Christian right yesterday for propagating hatred against Muslims, in what appeared to be a coordinated White House campaign to confront anti-Islamic rhetoric from a constituency that includes some of the Bush administration's staunchest supporters.
Days after the televangelist Pat Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network that "what the Muslims want to do to the Jews is worse" than the Holocaust, Mr Powell told a gathering in Washington: "This kind of hatred must be rejected."

The escalation in anti-Muslim comments from conservative Christians includes a recent claim by Jerry Falwell, the country's leading rightwing Baptist, that the prophet Mohammed was "a terrorist".

Veteran evangelist Jimmy Swaggart followed that this week by calling Mohammed a "sex deviant" and a pervert and demanding that Muslim students in the US be expelled. "We ought to tell every other Muslim living in this nation that if you say one word, you're gone," he said.

As the likelihood grows of a war in Iraq there are strategic benefits for the White House in convincing Muslims that it would not be a war against their religion.

The administration's increased willingness to confront the Christian right reflects the Republicans' sweeping victories in last week's mid-term elections, reducing Mr Bush's reliance on the extreme fringes of his supporter base.

Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

The phrases, "Christian right", "conservative Christians", "rightwing Baptist", and "extreme fringes" all appear in the same article.

Posted by J23 (Member # 634) on :

Somebody said that Mohammed was a terrorist, lol. He ain't lying. A terrorist leader will breed terrorists as followers. Mohammed taught terrorism, inspired it and encouraged it. It makes perfect sense.

Collin Powell, i'd say that he was using tact to calm a situation in advance of it's occurrence, but my understanding is that there is going to be BIG trouble against Christians on it's way from the government, a treacherous government.

Have you Truly Accepted Jesus Christ? [Not only talk like it, walk like it.]

Peace & Righteousness,

J23 [Smile]

Posted by njclary (Member # 4) on :

It is interesting how politics works. I find that President Bush has thoroughly confused the Christian sector with his on again, off again Christian rhetoric. Just yesterday he speaks to a coalition of Black leaders about releasing money for 'religious projects' yet comes down on religious leaders for speaking out in defense of Christianity. Colin Powell seems to be preparing to run against Bush for the next presidential elections and has no intention of being a support for the Bush agenda against terrorists. I had hopes for Powell but I find that he is playing his own political game. and it is dangerous.

God Bless

Joel

[ and hey fella' enough with the numbers, I'm going blind]