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CHICAGO - Catholic League's Bill Donohue is calling for President Obama to apologize to Catholic Americans for his comments Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C.:
In an attempt to deflect guilt from Muslim madmen, President Obama said, "Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." Obama's ignorance is astounding and his comparison is pernicious.
The Crusades were a defensive Christian reaction against Muslim madmen of the Middle Ages. Here is how Princeton scholar and Islamic expert Bernard Lewis puts it: "At the present time, the Crusades are often depicted as an early expansionist imperialism—a prefigurement of the modern European countries. To people of the time, both Muslim and Christian, they were no such thing." So what were they? "The Crusade was a delayed response to the jihad, the holy war for Islam, and its purpose was to recover by war what had been lost by war—to free the holy places of Christendom and open them once again, without impediment, to Christian pilgrimage."
Regarding the other fable, the Inquisition, the Catholic Church had almost nothing to do with it. The Church saw heretics as lost sheep who needed to be brought back into the fold. By contrast, secular authorities saw heresy as treason; anyone who questioned royal authority, or who challenged the idea that kingship was God-given, was guilty of a capital offense. It was they—not the Church—who burned the heretics. Indeed, secular authorities blasted the Church for its weak role in the Inquisition.
According to St. Louis University and Crusade scholar Thomas Madden, "All the Crusades met the criteria of just wars." How many ISIS atrocities, Mr. President, have met the criteria of just wars? The ones where they buried people alive, stoned children, raped women, and crucified men? Moreover, according to Henry Kamen, the leading authority on the Inquisition, a total of 1,394 people were killed during the Inquisition. Today, Muslim madmen kill more than that in a few months.
The President should apologize for his insulting comparison.
There is no "President Obama"
ReplyDeleteThe Obama "Presidency" is nonexistent. The media refers to Barack Obama as "President Obama" I have said it
many times in the past and will reiterate it now: Barack Obama has never been the President of the United States.
I hope I am not wrong and that we still live where:
No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 220, 261 (1882).
I truly believe that Barack Obama will someday be regarded as one of the greatest con men of all time.
concerning the Crusaders. they kept Islam from enroaching into Europe and defeated their aims to do so.looks like we could use them again today.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention separation of powers, upholding the Constitution...there was an oath he took to do so, and the same goes for the pooch Eric Holder.
ReplyDeleteHe goes out of his way to be provocative with insulting remarks. I have lived thru 9 maybe 10 presidents and this is unique to say the least. All of the others supported policies that were indeed controversial, but the tone was civil and the rule was always cordiality in the public sphere. He's not alone. At a recent House Committee hearing the two Congressional AA's on the subcommittee engaged in insulting commentary before witnesses who were professional experts in their respective fields. It seems that the far left with Obama at the helm has geared up for the last two years in a desperate attempt to solidify their base of gays,immigrants,folks of color and radical fems. Perhaps the leader of the insulting class is none other than Little Luis from our Congressional Delegation.
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