> Charles: Pat (700 Club)Robertson and Jerry (I've Got A 'University' Now) Falwell have an arrogance that is surpassed only by their arrogance. To suggest the things that Robertson averrs on his TV show proves that. If-and it is a big if-Bush will jettison the right wing Fundamentalistic Puritans that got him into the White House that could only be a good thing. Broadbrushing Islam is another example of what I have said before about insulting Arabic peoples (most of whomare Muslims) though the majority of Muslims worldwide are not Arabic, do not speak Arabic and have little in common with them. Blessings GDVW+ > Powell Attacks Christian Right > Oliver Burkeman in New York > The Guardian UK > > Friday, 15 November, 2002 > > 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. > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to > <faithandlife-unsubscribe@...> ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. Please tell your family, friends and children about COL Webmail! http://webmail.catholic.org/