Jeff Jacoby writes a stinging column in the Boston Globe regarding the attempt at moral equivalency in Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech.
One paragraph from it struck me in particular:
Were my rabbi to gloat that America got its just desserts on 9/11, or to claim that the US government invented AIDS as an instrument of genocide, or to urge his congregants to sing “God Damn America” instead of “God Bless America,” I would know about it straightaway, even if I hadn’t actually been in the sanctuary when he spoke. The news would spread rapidly through the congregation, and in short order one of two things would happen: Either the rabbi would be gone, or I and scores of others would walk out, unwilling to remain in a house of worship that tolerated such poisonous teachings. I have no doubt that the same would be true for millions of worshipers in countless houses of worship nationwide.
What went through my mind while reading this was that Black Liberation Theology appears to have common cause with many of the radical Muslim imams who cheered when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11 (and every other time as well).
What dismays me about this is to watch how blindly the members of Wright’s and other Black Liberation preachers’ congregations accept their preachings as gospel. Have they no idea what would happen to them if the radical Muslims prevailed in this war of conquest they conduct? As followers of Jesus, they would be Dhimmi in the Muslim caliphate - second class citizens.
Why on earth would they share common cause with those who would seek to re-enslave them?
It’s still a question of Wright and wrong - The Boston Globe
