Gary:
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RELIGION IN THE NEWS
Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media. This week’s item is from Rocky Mountain News, November 22, 2006, with a headline: Muslim group leads interfaith Thanksgiving service. The following are excerpts: “The Qur’an may figure more prominently than pilgrim sayings at Denver’s interfaith Thanksgiving service this year. For the first time in the event’s one hundred plus year history, Muslims are hosting and planning the service. It will give it a different flavor, not truly a Protestant structure where we have hymns and prayers,” said Abraham Cosoruni, a Muslim leader who heads an interfaith group. “The one hour service will feature three imams reading from the Qur’an and offering benediction, Muslim children singing religious songs and music by Muslim musicians. One of the imams will offer the main sermon which will talk about Thanksgiving in the Islamic tradition. Thanksgiving may have had some historical context when it started, going back to the Puritans, but when it comes to making it the only way to celebrate it, the concept is no longer valid,” Cosoruni said.
Tom:
Dave, I’m sure this program will air, probably some time in January, so people are thinking, Well, what’s a news alert related to Thanksgiving? Now, we get our news alerts, many of them, because people send them to us, and I’m on the selection committee, actually I am the selection committee, and I usually try to pick out the ones that get a little vein-popping. You’re sitting across from me, which our viewers can see, but for our listeners. So, this is the fear of the absurd, this is absolute insanity. You know, we have a subtitle for this News Alerts segment of our program, we call it News and Quotables Related to the Coming Apostasy. I mean, this is insane!
Dave:
Well, it’s apostasy all right when this interfaith—that’s apostasy right there.
Tom:
By the way, it also includes Buddhists, to me it’s possible, it’s not just Muslims along with professing Christians.
Dave:
Yeah, I could go on for an hour about this, Tom, but we don’t have that much time. But interfaith, first time, Muslims, they are going to host it! Thanksgiving? Yeah, it had some reason for it back at the beginning. Wait a minute! He forgets he’s in America. This is the United States of America. We are offering a remembrance of a Thanksgiving event that took place in America. So you can see how history is being rewritten, it doesn’t matter anymore.
Tom:
And who are they giving thanks to? Allah?
Dave:
Well, we’ve had a lot of that, of course, along with evangelicals pretending that it’s the same God.
Tom:
No, Dave, I mean the Pilgrims, who were they giving thanks to?
Dave:
Oh, of course, they were giving thanks to the Lord God, the Creator of the universe, the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And the Muslims deny that God is the Father. The Qur’an says He’s not a Father, He has no Son, sixteen times it says that in the Qur’an. You believe in the Trinity you go straight to hell. Okay, and these guys are here now, we’re all just going to let bygones be bygones, in fact, we won’t even believe in what happened at Thanksgiving time originally. And what do they have to give thanks for, Tom? If you lived in Palestine or Iran—Iranians have had a lot of suicide martyrs—what do the parents, the survivors give thanks for? He’s in paradise now, with all these virgins and they literally have parties and they pass out sweets. There’s a mother of a recent suicide bomber, she’s out on the street passing out sweets in celebration. So that’s their Thanksgiving! That somebody killed a lot of people and Allah rewarded him with that. And I might say, Iran, which is our big problem for us right now, in one mine field they lost—this is in the war between Iran and Iraq—they lost 5,000 school boys of various ages whom the Ayatollah Homani promised paradise for walking across the mine fields and blowing themselves up—
Tom:
Clearing the way for their trip!
Dave:
Yes, Tom, and these people are going to sing psalms! What kind of psalms, what would the psalms be about? These are Islamic psalms—I don’t know about Allah, about Muhammad’s exploits in slaughtering Jews. The exploits of the Muslims? They went all the way from France to China, the bloodiest story in history, we talked about it on this program. Historians tell us the take-over of India, they killed more than Hitler killed. Okay. They built the Taj Mahal with 20,000 slave laborers, slaughtered thousands, is this what we are going to give thanks for, or the Turkish Ottoman Empire that slaughtered a million Armenians? What is this Thanksgiving about? Well, it’s not going to be about those pilgrims back there, you know. That used to be what it was, but now you can’t just be so narrow-minded as that. Tom, It’s another problem that they are finding out in France and in England. Those were British boys that blew themselves up on those trains! These are not recent immigrants from North Africa and France that are doing the riots. Okay. What is going on? They are finding it out in Denmark, in Holland. Holland is changing their laws now. You want to live in Holland? You’re going to study Dutch and you’re going to speak Dutch and you’re going to integrate yourself into our society. We’re not having you come in here and start a new society that would eventually take us over. This man? He wants to do away with Thanksgiving! How about that! You forget, buddy, that you’re living in America, this is our country. You want to live here, then you become an American. We don’t want you to import your disloyalty to our God and bring in your false god and your suicide attackers, don’t bring them here!
Tom:
Dave, I was on a short flight from Redmond, Oregon to Portland, and I was sitting next to a woman who had gone to a conference here in which they had a Muslim cleric and she was explaining to me how this individual said that we were misinformed, that Islam really is peace, and so she went on. So all I did was say to her, Well, could I explain a few things to her, and I just wanted to lay out some facts. Her response was, I perceive some hostility in your voice. Now Dave, we have some listeners out there who are perceiving some hostility in your voice. Okay, what do you say to that?
Dave:
I’d say there’s a lot of hostility in my voice because—
Tom:
But you’re laying out facts, that’s what I tried to do with this woman.
Dave:
Tom, if we don’t wake up, I mean, they are going to do us in. This is their goal, this is what Muhammad said, this is what the Qur’an teaches, this is what Allah said: You’ve got to take over the whole world, and if they won’t submit you kill them! It’s that simple, and Tom, if we don’t wake up to that and begin to do something about it we are doomed, and I mean that seriously.
