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The Values Summit is underway in Washington, D.C., and the usual cavalcade of kooks is drumming up something akin to a religious war.<\/p>\n

The international war on terror, they imply strongly, is a war between Christians and Jews against Muslims.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/ted-cruz-values-voter-conference-111363.html?hp=f2<\/p>\n

Let’s hold on here.<\/p>\n

It is a war pitting civilized human beings against cult followers.<\/p>\n

Michelle Bachmann, the lame-duck Minnesota congresswoman, kept harping on what she called “Islamic terrorists.” So did lame-duck Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a roundtable of “experts” who contend that Muslims pose an existential threat to our way of life.<\/p>\n

Give me a break.<\/p>\n

Another conservative American president, George W. Bush, was quite astute back when this war began immediately after 9\/11 to declare that America is not waging war against Islam. He singled out the terrorists who have perverted a great religion to suit their insane political cause. Does anyone remember when President Bush visited a mosque in New York immediately after touring the wreckage of where the World Trade Center stood?<\/p>\n

The Islamic State is not a religious organization. It is a cult. It is a cabal of sociopathic murderers who seek to use religion as a pretext to commit heinous acts of terrorism on innocent people.<\/p>\n

They<\/em> are the enemy. The do not represent Islam any more than, say, the crackpots at Westboro Baptist “Church” in Topeka, Kan., represent Christianity.<\/p>\n

The task now is to persuade the goofballs on the right to quit trying to make this a religious war.<\/p>\n

It is no such thing.<\/p>\n\n

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The Values Summit is underway in Washington, D.C., and the usual cavalcade of kooks is drumming up something akin to a religious war. The international war on terror, they imply strongly, is a war between Christians and Jews against Muslims. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/ted-cruz-values-voter-conference-111363.html?hp=f2 Let’s hold on here. It is a war pitting civilized human beings against cult … Continue reading We are not engaging in a religious war<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[95,1275,1899,2347,2349,2362,3040,4537,5300],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-george-w-bush","tag-isil","tag-islam","tag-islamic-state","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-ted-cruz","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}