An ear to the enemy...

I wanted to post this the other night, but never got a chance. On Tuesday I went to the gym and on the way there I was trying to find some new radio stations to break up the monotony of my drive home. I found this Jesus station that was having a call-in conversation about a US Representative that wanted to swear his oath on the Koran instead of the Bible. Fascinating - they actually structured an hour of radio time on this subject. They had a Christian lawyer call in and confirm to the shock of the DJ that it is actually within the framework of the constitution to allow someone to make an oath on anything they want since the Bible is not mentioned at all. Wow. So then people were calling in and telling this guy whether or not they thought it was hurting the culture of this country having someone swear an oath on the Koran....warning - what I am about to tell you is actually true....a young girl called up the show and was very passionate about her belief that this act was very very wrong and was bad for our country. "How can he do that" she stated. "Right now our nations are at war with each other." Now I have to give the DJ credit here - he said "What nation exactly are we at war with" and she responded "Well, the nation of Islam." To which he replied "well, you know Islam is not a nation." She backtracked and he realized that he had made a mockery of his show by having her call in and made some comment about how it was a war of ideas blah blah blah - but here is the scary thing....Islamic nations (there is a difference thank you) are stating that we are at war with Islam - we say "No, we are at war with terrorism." but the message is quite clear when young, ignorant Americans are on the same side of the argument as defensive Muslims. I am sure it was a lot funnier (in a dark sense) when you heard it directly on the radio, but I hope you get the idea here. What a shame that so many people in this country are so afraid of anything different from themselves. When the lawyer and the dj were speaking they both seemed open to the idea that a politician could swear an oath on the Koran, but then they added that they pray that he finds Jesus. That is not what the fucking constitution is all about - and if they knew anything about Islam, they would know that he already has, as one of the prophets along with my man Moshe. This country is founded on the fallacy of religious freedom - where a group of persecuted peoples travelled and risked disease, starvation and the guilt of torturing and infecting beautiful, indigenous cultures so that they could practice their form of Christianity freely.

OK - I am going to stop my rant now. I guess I should go do some work.

Have a great day - feel free to comment - hope I didn't offend anyone. This is what happens when you work in a small room everyday with no one to talk to.

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