Tolerance for the intolerant in Texas
From WorldNetDaily...
A controversial Texas imam who at one point participated in a "tribute to the great Islamic visionary" Ayatollah Khomeini, has offered a prayer to open the state Senate that excluded both Christians and Jews.
"Oh, Allah, guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have favored, not of those who have earned your wrath or of those who have lost the way," prayed Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque.
Islam, of course, teaches that Jews and Christians both have earned the wrath of Allah by failing to follow Islam, and also have lost the way by following the teachings of the Torah for the Jews or the Bible for Christians.
Apparently it's only crated a small stir, specifically among those the Imam insultingly refers to as having "lost the way".
Compare that to this that happened 11 years ago in Kansas...
Rev. Joe Wright, senior pastor of the 2,500-member Central Christian Church in Wichita had been invited to serve as the House’s guest chaplain by Rep. Anthony Powell, a Wichita Republican who was also a member of Wright’s church. Accordingly, Rev. Wright composed a prayer, read it at the opening of the legislature on January 23, 1996, and departed, unaware of the ruckus he had created until his church secretary called him on his car phone to ask him what he had done.
Reportedly, one Democrat (not "a number of legislators") walked out in protest, three others gave speeches critical of Wright’s prayer, and another blasted Wright’s "message of intolerance." House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer (also a Democrat) asserted that the prayer "reflects the extreme, radical views that continue to dominate the House Republican agenda since right-wing extremists seized control of the House Republican caucus last year." Rep. Jim Long, a Democrat from Kansas City, said that Wright "made everyone mad." But Rep. Powell, who had invited Wright in the first place, claimed that House Democrats were only trying to make political points with their criticism and affirmed that he supported the theme of the prayer.
Rev. Wright said afterwards: "I certainly did not mean to be offensive to individuals, but I don’t apologize for the truth." His staff stopped counting the telephone calls that came from every state and many foreign countries after the first 6,500. Wright appeared on dozens of radio shows and was the subject of numerous TV and print news reports, and his prayer stirred up controversy all over again when it was read by the chaplain coordinator in the Nebraska legislature the following month. Wright later explained, "I thought I might get a call from an angry congressman or two, but I was talking to God, not them. The whole point was to say that we all have sins that we need to repent -- all of us . . . The problem, I guess, is that you’re not supposed to get too specific when you’re talking about sin."
You can listen to Rev. Wright's prayer, here. (real audio required).
Funny that when a Christian pastor prays for forgiveness for sins it blasted as bigotry, yet when an Imam outright calls Christians "those who've lost the way" it's just fine.
Liberals are outraged when Christians simply pray, in Jesus' name (which as Christians is what we are commanded to do), yet have no problem when Moslem Imams pray not only to Allah, but in such condescending and insulting ways as Kavakci did.
Posted by Danny Carlton at April 5, 2007 5:34 AM