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Ease Up on Islam

By Bill Zahren
(Posted 09/24/01)

You’d think after someone drives three airliners into American landmarks to kill people simply for being American, we’d get the clue.

And I think 99.9% of America does get it. We know that the enemy most certainly is not the religious belief of Islam.

People who follow Islam are called Muslims. Some of the people who we believe orchestrated, funded, encouraged, and enjoyed these attacks claim to be Muslims.

Please. These freaks are about as Muslim as my desk. My guinea pig has more Muslim in him than these guys. These guys are not Muslims. They may claim to be, but -- here’s a tip -- they lie. It’s part of the job description for “terrorist.”

Islam does NOT stand for killing anyone. Real Muslims around the world were as repulsed by the attack as everyone else. Maybe a little more, since the filth that did it often claims to kill in the name of Islam.

Put yourself in their shoes. I’m a Christian. If some whack slits the throats of women and children, blows up 6,000 people in the name of Jesus Christ and then is referred to as a “Christian extremist” -- I got a major problem with that. I’m spending about a day in the bathroom hurling my brains out, I’m so mortified by it.

Not only has this fictitious guy killed innocents, but he’s blasphemed my Lord and shat all over true Christians everywhere. No need to come around and yell at me about what this “Christian” did, ‘cause I want him worse than you.

Oh, the terrorist would love it if we rounded up all Muslims and put them in concentration camps. That would be a gift-wrapped present for them to use to convince the world that Americans do hate all Muslims.

So here’s an idea: why don’t you give the terrorists what they want? How ‘bout that, Sparky? How about we start smacking people around just for looking Arabic? Maybe shoot a guy in an Arizona gas station because wears a turban! Never mind that he’s a Sikh, a religion that’s not even close to Islam. That would help our cause a bunch! No, wait a minute, I guess it might, instead, play right into the terrorists’ hands and be using the Constitution and American flag for butt wipe.

Here’s another tip: attacking, berating and discriminating against any person solely based on religious belief, skin color, nation of origin, fluency in English or any combination thereof is both a sin in Christianity and stupid in general. Two of my least favorite things -- sin and stupidity. Jesus Christ, remember, was not a pasty white American. He was a Middle Eastern Jew who spoke Aramaic. He was born in a barn, never went to college and did his best work as an itinerant preacher who lived off others and kept saying “love your neighbor as yourself” -- striking.

Enter the 0.1% of America -- that’s still 300,000 people -- who have no clue. They have brains the size of grape nuts. Like everyone else, they long to do something to answer this attack. “All those Arabs are in it together. You know they are,” the idiots think, often after large quantities of beer. “Saaaaay, isn’t the guy who owns the grocery store an A-rab? He has to be in on it! Let’s go burn his store!”

Idiot. You deserve to spend multiple years in prison. Tim McVeigh proved that terrorists also come in white. Adolph was a white German, David Koresh claimed to be Jesus Christ, and Jim Jones used the name of God to get people to swill the Kool-Aid in Jonestown. Evil comes in all skin colors. Perversion of religion is an old trick that started long before the freaks used a false version of Islam to whip up their followers. Evil has disguised itself as Christianity many, many times.

Islam is not the enemy. Real Muslims do not hate Americans or Christians or Jews or anyone else. The terrorists want to see us locking up our own people. They love turning Americans on themselves. They love it when we kill innocent Arabs. Just adds credibility to their lies about us.

Don’t betray your God and country with a lot of stupid racist crap. We can all contribute to defending America by speaking up for Arab Americans and Muslims and dealing harshly with the 0.1% who thinks it’s OK to attack them. As a Christian I do not believe in Islam, but as an American, I mean to defend those who do.

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