America's Taliban
Falwell and
Robertson Anne Coulter/National Review Fred
Phelps Family Research Council Dr.
Laura Michael Reagan Andrew
Sullivan Franklin Graham Paul
Weyrich Charles Krauthammer
Falwell and Robertson
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT of comments from the Thursday, September 13, 2001 edition of the "700
Club"
JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has
protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812,
this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and
by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the
Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is only the
beginning. And with biological warfare available to these
monsters - the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats - what we
saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in
fact - if, in fact - God continues to lift the curtain and allow
the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just
seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see
what they can do to the major population.
JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.
JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this.
But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal
court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the
schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this
because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million
little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that
the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the
gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an
alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -
all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the
finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we
have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our
government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what
the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court
system.
JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all
the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were
totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both
houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out
on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let
the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its
knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is
what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.
PAT ROBERTSON: Amen
Anne Coulter
In a country full of people eager for vengeance and with an ample supply
of commentators, Ann Coulter can safely take the prize for the most
hateful reaction to appear in print. Her column, which appeared on the
right-wing National Review Online, ostensibly is a tribute to her friend
Barbara Olson -- another frequent on-air commentator and writer who died
in one of the hijacked airplanes on Tuesday -- but quickly devolves into
something more akin to a call for a Crusade (or is that jihad?). "We know
who the homicidal maniacs are," she wrote referring to the Muslim states
suspected of harboring those responsible for the attacks. "They are the
ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries,
kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
And as inflammatory and outrageous as these sentiments certainly are, the
National Review's editor said he was more or less OK with what she had to
say.
"The column was obviously written with some degree of anger, rage, and
grief and she probably went a little far on certain things but the
essential point I think is accurate that the most drastic possible
measures are called for," says Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review.
"What Ann is expressing is something a lot of Americans feel in such
situations which is ... once the country is aroused we're in for the full
pound."
Such extreme sentiments, like Coulter's, are hardly in short supply.
Thursday's New York Post offered this assessment: "This is war. It needs
to be prosecuted as such. The men behind the men who rained havoc on New
York and Washington need to be called to account. The heavens need to fall
on their heads. They need to bleed. Not next month. Not next week. Now.
Who are they? Who cares? Cast a wide enough net, and you'll catch the fish
that need catching."
by Joseph Gomes Inside.com Thursday, September 13, 2001
"The largest terrorist attack
in United States history occurred on September 11, 2001, killing thousands. God
uses these kinds of tragedies to punish evil nations for their monstrous sins
against Him. God once blessed this country and made it great, and now He is
punishing it. Just like He punished ancient Israel with Nebuchadnezzar,
the wicked Babylonian king. The shameful religious groups across America are
lying to you by saying such things as "God wouldn't do anything like
this" and pretending that they don't understand why this horrible event
happened. The prayer meetings that they are holding are worthless because
"when [an evil nation] makes many prayers, I will not hear" (Isaiah
1:15)."
Family Research
Council
The Idolatry of Self
Examples of courage and self-sacrifice by police, fire, and rescue teams in New
York and Washington abound in times like these. Military officers and civilians
risked their lives in the Pentagon to save their fellows. Recruiting offices are
reporting abnormally high calls from motivated young people. Americans are
flying their flags, kneeling in prayer, asking God to heal our land. There is a
terrible beauty in the bond that draws
us together as Americans. How different is this spirit from the idolatry of self
that has been preached by some for far too long. Americans
are not rising up to defend the right to slaughter the unborn. They are not
sacrificing their lives so homosexuals can marry. They are not paying the
ultimate price so pornographers can peddle their smut. In such difficult days,
Americans are sacrificing for those things that promote the common good-faith,
family, freedom. Now is the time for Americans to summon the best that is
within us. We need that strength that comes from placing God first, others
second, and self last.
Let there be an end to the idolatry of self.
Dr. Laura
Schlesinger blamed the bombing on the decision to allow women to
serve in the American military and then had her staff deny she made the
statement.
Michael
Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, posted a Guest Column on
his website calling for
the arrest of Bill Clinton as an "International Terrorist."
David Talbot, "Andrew
Sullivan's Jihad" Salon
Muslim
Group Seeks to Meet Billy Graham's Son" New York Times November
20
Mr. Graham
said Islam had
attacked the United States on Sept. 11. He said that Muslims worshiped a
different God than Christians and that he believed Islam to be "a very
evil and wicked religion."
"Stamp
Backlash Worries Muslims" Washington Post Nov. 23
Last weekend, the
Free Congress Foundation, a conservative policy group, asked Republican
congressional leaders to retract the stamp [commemorating to Muslim
holidays]..
"I am
writing to suggest that the current stamps be withdrawn, to be overprinted
with the image of the Twin Towers and then reissued," foundation
President Paul M. Weyrich wrote in letters to House
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.)
and Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.).
Eric Boehlert "Krauthammer's
vendetta" Salon Premium
Why does the conservative pundit keep
insisting a Muslim spiritual leader won't condemn the Sept. 11 attacks, when
it isn't
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