Christian Crusaders Also Want a Caliphate. The Gospel According to Christiane

As you read this, I will be in the hospital undergoing surgery. Fear not. Now, we all get to live as our infra-structures continue to crumble. Thus, I will have a new hip and will join the growing ranks of all the other bionic human beings. While I am away, I will be posting a mini-retrospective of some of my previously published, copy-righted work of the last few years. The work seems to hold up. In some cases, I will introduce the piece. In most cases, I will let the piece speak for itself.

But before we get in to this: CNN has continued to air the blatantly biased Amanpour series. No shame, no apology, no “other” point of view. The New York Times has just characterized the Muslim Brotherhood as “moderates” and al-Qaeda as “radically Islamist.” Yesterday, Palestinians marched in Copenhagen to condemn the “Judaization” of Jerusalem and Israel. Last week, poisonous, pro-Palestinian propaganda appeared all over the University of Santa Cruz; and at Columbia University, a handful of pro-Israel flyers posted by Jewish graduate students were completely disappeared and replaced with pro-Palestinian flyers.

On the home front: Please read Aaron Klein’s article about Pastor Otis Moss, Obama’s new pastor.

(This originally appeared as a blog on my own website. It was written before I started writing a blog for Pajamas Media. It also appeared in The Jewish Press.)

Christian Crusaders Also Want a Caliphate. The Gospel According to Christiane — August 24, 2007

In her three part series, Amanpour is far more combative and confrontational with both Jewish and Christian religious leaders than she is with Muslim leaders. She is warmer, softer, more “at home,” with even the most extreme of Islamist leaders, perhaps even more respectful, than she is with their allegedly Jewish or Christian counterparts.

Amanpour completely fails to make the distinction between Islamists who teach hatred of infidels and women and who blow infidel and Muslim civilians up (as well as honor-murder their own women); Israelis who are under perpetual terrorist siege and who are trying to defend themselves against Islamist attacks; and conservative Christians who are trying to mobilize votes, change laws, or win hearts and minds with words, not bombs (although she certainly has lots of footage of the bloody bombings at abortion clinics–bombings I personally abhor and mourn–as do many Christians).

Amanpour wants us to like Muslims–even the most extremist among them. They are human, prick them will they not bleed? But she does not want us to like Christians or Jews, especially those who are Zionists.

Amanpour does not seem to show the same respect towards conservative Christians who wish to dress modestly, remain chaste until marriage, and avoid a secular culture of rampant pornography and rape as she shows their far more extremist counterparts in the Islamist world or than she shows, at great length, one well-spoken Muslim-American woman who decides to “cover.”

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