Irony of the Day

Cal Thomas chastises Muslims for cutting and pasting the Koran for their extremist purposes.

"This kind of tactic of taking verses out of context can be used against any religious faith," says Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic civil-rights and advocacy group. "It can and has been used against the Bible and has been used against the Koran."

"These verses deal with the real experience of the Muslim community at the time when they were under attack. It's not a general injunction to go out and harm people. The only people who take it that way are those who want to promote hostility toward Islam and Muslims. They would object if the same thing were done to their faith."

Yes, but virtually all Christians and Jews denounce the infinitesimal few who claim to be Jewish or Christian and use their "holy books" to justify violence against others as a direct command from God.

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Americans must see past their natural reluctance to paint all members of a group with a broad brush and realize our failure to act now against this clear and present danger...

Unless, of course, you're quoting Leviticus and bashing the queers. Then all bets are off.