UNITED STATES
Telegram & Gazette
By Carlo Baldino
Dec. 8, 2015
We hear this all the time. Muslims who claim to be members of a religion of peace don’t do enough to vocally condemn the terrorists who have hijacked the faith and commit mass murder using their own twisted interpretations of the Koran.
With regard to fairness and consistency, this constant invective is quite baffling.
For example, when Republican conservatives are accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic they vehemently protest being generally profiled. They claim they’re all not like that. They say they have gay friends, Black friends, Latino friends, they’re not racist or sexist, and they like Mexican food (OK, I made that last one up).
But these same people support a political party that includes in its platform the passing of a constitutional amendment to make marriage between a man and a woman and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, i.e., a woman’s right to choose. Next year they’ll vote for GOP presidential candidates who promise to achieve these goals. …
In 2004 when the pedophile priest scandal in the Catholic Church made national news, there was no condemnation of those priests by good Catholics, and no punishments inflicted on them by church officials. Devout Catholics would get up and leave the room in a huff when someone brought up the topic. The Holy Mother Church covered up for these priests and stonewalled investigations. They transferred the guilty clerics from parish to parish with the hope they’d stop raping young boys. Donald Trump called the Mexicans ‘rapists.’ He was addressing the wrong group of individuals. Anyone who criticized these pedophiles was accused of being ‘anti-Catholic.’
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