Franklin Graham Sparks Firestorm With Thoughts on “Religion of Peace”
The Rev. Franklin Graham, no stranger to controversy, stirred up another internet firestorm after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, by posting a message to Facebook regarding his thoughts on the so-called “religion of peace.”
Quoting a column published a day earlier by former CIA ops officer Bryan Dean Wright, the 65-year-old evangelist noted that Wright
“says our politicians should make it clear that our fight is ‘against a religious ideology rather than a random group of fanatics’ and should stop saying ‘Islam is a religion of peace.'”
“He’s right,” Graham added, “we are making a mistake by allowing the operation and spread of the dark and dangerous teachings of Islam.”
By Monday morning the post had already accumulated 15,000 “likes,” nearly 1,000 and been shared almost 5,000 times.
A similar message posted to Twitter also drew wide notice:
Politicians should stop saying “Islam is a religion of peace.” #Barcelona facebook.com/FranklinGraham…
Underlying the reverend’s message was the belief that radicalism isn’t a bug of Islam; it’s a prominent, integrated feature.
“While there are millions of Muslims who don’t agree with or participate in the violence of Islam, they can’t leave the religion because their families would be obligated to kill them,” Graham wrote. “Islam reigns in lives through fear and intimidation.”
He may have been right. A poll conducted last year by British broadcaster Channel 4 found that a full two-thirds of British Muslims would not tip off the police if someone “they knew was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria.”
The results of the poll wound up even shocking Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
“For a long time, I, too, thought that Europe’s Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoning their ancestral ways, wearing their religious and cultural baggage lightly, and gradually blending into Britain’s diverse identity landscape,” he told the U.K. Daily Express in an April 2016 interview.
Apparently, he thought wrong, though he wasn’t alone. Liberal politicians throughout Europe and the United States have fallen for the same myth about the so-called “religion of peace,” and the results have been disastrous.
Just last week a suspected terror cell of radical Islamists orchestrated an attack in Barcelona, Spain, that left at least 15 innocents dead.
And by Monday coverage of the attack had already mostly faded from the news, just going to show how sickeningly accustomed the world has become to radical Islamic terrorism.
Things clearly need to change, and perhaps the change that’s needed is exactly as Graham said — that the world, and especially politicians, need to stop referring to Islam as a “religion of peace.”
H/T Breitbart
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about Franklin Graham’s belief that politicians should stop calling Islam a “religion of peace.”
What do you think about radicalism in Islam? Scroll down to comment below!
http://conservativetribune.com/franklin-graham-ignites-firestorm/?
My comments: Islam is a False and Evil Religion based on the Koran, that Incites Violence against Everyone, including its own. It is the Gross, Wilful, Ignorance of the West, that Refuses to acknowledge the Inherent Evil of Islam, that will be its Undoing. Here in America we have the National Security Advisor that advocates KISSING the Koran. This is the Action of an Anti-Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ, will be held Complicit, before the Living God, in the downfall of America for its Failure to call out Islam as a False religion--A Religion against God and His Word.
No comments:
Post a Comment