Louis Farrakhan gave a speech where he denigrated U.S. troops and rationalized Muslim Nidal Hasan slaughtering soldiers and civilians. I waited a few days to write about this because I wanted to see if our public officials and leaders would denounce him and destroy his life, just like they did with Terry Jones. Remember Terry Jones? If not, Diana West’s superb column on him explains who he is:
. . . That legacy begins with the reflexive, lockstep process by which an American citizen, Terry Jones, was simultaneously depicted and denounced as a raving lunatic for even conceiving of his plan to burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of demonstrably Koran-inspired attacks. . . .
. . . Even with the Constitution on his side, Jones was in effect stripped of equal standing in the eyes of his fellow citizens. Little wonder, then, that his bank actually called in his church’s mortgage; his insurance company actually canceled his church’s policy; and his Internet server actually pulled the plug on his website – all repercussions of his planned 9/11 demonstration. Inside of a week, Jones achieved a state on nonpersonhood that exceeds that of most convicted criminals, despite the fact that the only law he contemplated breaking was Islam’s.
Those who denounced Jones included the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the President of the United States and (inexplicably) the commanding general of the International Security Assistance Force.
And then there was the group of Christians who took out an ad in The New York Times to denounce Jones, saying that, “burning the Qu’ran does not illuminate the Bible.” I don’t know what offends me more: that these so-called Christians can’t figure out how standing up to evil illuminates the Bible or the fact that these so-called Christians would pay the corrupt and evil New York Times in order to display their phony self-righteousness. By the way, was Elijah guilty of failing to “illuminate the Bible” when he slaughtered the prophets of Baal? Were those who practiced sorcery in Ephesus guilty of failing to “illuminate the Bible” when they repented of their sins and publicly burned their scrolls? But here’s the ironic thing. In their attempt to appease the murderous thugs of Mohammad, these so-called Christians have lost my heart and mind, and alienated me. So I denounce the signers of The New York Times ad that denounced Terry Jones. I haven’t lost my faith, but the cowardly and dehumanizing attack on someone who opposed evil demonstrates to me just how dead the Church in America is, and how phony the so-called Christian leaders in America are.
In fact, the entirety of American society is losing my heart and mind, and alienating me. Apart from a few conservative blogs and websites, and a mention here and there on conservative talk radio, the American populace didn’t really care about what Louis Farrakhan said (or that his audience cheered him). Why haven’t our public leaders denounced Farrakhan? And where are the same so-called Christian leaders who took the time and money to denounce Terry Jones? Do they not care that Farrakhan effectively said that I am worthless scum and that the Soldiers that Hasan murdered got what they had coming to them? Are they unconcerned with what Farrakhan said simply because he doesn’t identify as a Christian? Where is the outrage from conservative leaders and why aren’t they using their bully pulpits to call to account all our public leaders for their abject failure to ruin Farrakhan’s life? For failing to ruin the lives of his cheering followers?
America’s failure to destroy Farrakhan’s life after what it did to Terry Jones is just the latest in a long line of abuses and injustices that it has heaped on loyal citizens and loyal Servicemen in order to appease the two unappeasable religions of Islam and leftism. And, ironically, as the nation continues to attempt to win the hearts and minds of its enemies (and avoid alienating them) through its abdication to evil and denigration of those of us too moral to break the law or subvert the nation, it continues losing my heart and mind, and alienating me.