Condemning the Wrong Religion

WE, INCLUDING THE OFT MALIGNED President Barack Hussein Obama, are admonished by our conservative colleagues to use the term "Islamo-fascism", or "Islamic terrorism". By so doing, conservatives can more closely associate terrorism the one point billion Islamic faith, although their stated intent is to enhance accuracy. Conservative Christians have the utmost disdain for the Islamic faith, as they do for anyone who is neither conservative nor Christian. This ignores the fact that Moslems overwhelmingly, like everyone else, condemn all forms of violence. Every white American slave owner was a self described Christian. Only the native Americans who owned slaves, and there more than a few, were not. A large majority of Christian Americans either owned slaves, advocated slavery, or accepted it without a whimper of protest. The Bible was incessantly used to justify slavery, because the Bible condones slavery. Today we have black churches, and we have white churches, and seldom do the twain meet. Post Civil War segregation and racism, which continues in somewhat diluted form to this day, is a christian conservative phenomenon. The atheists and agnostics. mostly liberals, are missing in action. Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, so he said, and we are all free to self identify. Every member of the KKK, from Nathan Bedford Forrest to the present, is self identified Christian. The Klan did not and does not accept non Christian members. Thus in America we are confronted with our demonstrated history of Christian based racism, and Christano-fascist slavery. Make no mistake, conservative christian colleagues; Islamic terrorism is a distortion of fact, a lie, Christian racism is not. Ted Cruz, a veritable fountain of bad ideas, wants o to enhance police surveillance in American neighborhoods populated by Moslems. President Obama does not. Here we go again. A conservative strategy predicated on religion. Throughout American Islamic neighborhoods, all terrorism is condemned outspokenly, but we tend not to notice. Cruz has probably not considered that enhanced police surveillance of Islamic neighborhoods would most likely serve only to greatly enhance the alertness and secrecy of anyone who might be making bombs in the bedroom. Of course, how could he possibly be expected to understand that?