The Islamic State has said, “Secular
statists are destroying America,” and that “God is not finished with the
U.S. yet.” When religious extremists make such proclamations we should
take them at their word. Equally we should demand “moderate Muslim”
voices to denounce such affronts to America’s secular values.
The above paragraph is true except for
one notable exception: the above proclamations are not attributed to
Islamic extremism or the Islamic State. They’re respectively owned by
the 2012 GOP nominee runner-up Rick Santorum, who provided the first
quote, and potential 2016 GOP front-runner Ted Cruz, who gave the second
- on day one of the 2014 Value Voters Summit.
America, your religious extremists are already inside the “Homeland,” so what are we going to about it?
To dismiss America’s Christian fascists
as a loony fringe is to repeat the mistake made by liberals when fascist
impulses first emerged in Weimar Germany. To equivocate the Christian
Right with ISIS risks having such claims dismissed as partisan
hyperbole. It’s not hyperbole. Family Research Council vice president
Jerry Boykin wondered why “cowardly” American Christians do not display
the same bravery as ISIS. “Think
about this, what if we had Christians that were that committed to what
they believe? I mean, here’s a guy who stands up and says, ‘I’m willing
to die, I’m willing to die for it.’ And what about the Christian church
these days? We’ve got Christians that are more cowardly than, I think,
at any time in the history of America because they won’t stand up to
evil.”
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