We will be interviewing Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and author of the new book “Religion of Peace: Why Christianity is and Islam Isn’t.” cIurrently ranked #129 at Amazon.
Spencer has this to say of CNN’s 6 part series on “religious fundamentalism” this week:
CNN pretends that Judaism, Christianity, Islam all equally likely to incite violence
Just as my book Religion of Peace? confronts this very notion. Ms. Amanpour, I am available to provide for you an alternative view.“CNN explores religious fundamentalism,” by David Bauder for AP (thanks to all who sent this in):
NEW YORK – Christiane Amanpour’s work on the documentary series “God’s Warriors” took her directly to intersections of extreme religious and secular thinking.
She watched, fascinated, as demonstrators in San Francisco accused teenagers in the fundamentalist Christian group BattleCry of intolerance in a clash of two cultures that will probably never understand each other.Amanpour was one of the last reporters to talk to the Rev. Jerry Falwell. She interviewed him a week before he died about the legacy of the Moral Majority, the organization that thrust evangelical Christians onto the political stage.
The segment on Christians explores BattleCry in some depth, digging at the roots of an organization that fights against some of the cruder elements of popular culture and urges teenagers to be chaste. In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group’s leader how it is different from the Taliban.Well, uh, Ms. Amanpour, one might note the absence of AK-47s, the lack of opposition to the education of girls, the absence of burqas, the absence of divine sanction for wife-beating, and sundry other things. Unless you’re too blinded by political correctness to notice, as is evidently the case.
In a non-judgmental way, she visits a family that is home-schooling its children and explores the influence of Evangelicals on the courts.
Homeschooling is evil too? Sheesh. Over 9,000 terror attacks committed in the name of Islam since 9/11, and Christiane Amanpour is spending her time demonizing homeschoolers.
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