I'd say that Reverend Graham is foolish for inviting ritualistic denunciations as an "Islamophobe" if not for the fact that (1) such invitations are quite unnecessary to elicit such slurs and (2) he's absolutely right:
The Reverend Franklin Graham on Friday called for the banning of all Muslims from entering the United States following the shootings in Chattanooga that left four Marines and a Navy sailor dead.
Noting that the shooter, twenty-four-year-old Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, immigrated with his family from Kuwait, Graham wrote on his Facebook page: "We are under attack by Muslims at home and abroad. We should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled."
Which is to say, until all of our Islamic Fundamentalist enemies have been wiped out.
And behold, my friends, the latest instance of JASmius Echo Syndrome:
Every Muslim that comes into the United States has the potential to be radicalized, Graham said, adding, "they do their killing to honor their religion and Muhammad." [emphasis added]
That's almost word for word what I wrote on Friday:
[I]t's the Muslims you have to watch. ALL of them. The most likely scenario is that Mr. Abdulazeez was originally an American kid of Muslim extraction who was "devilized" back to his Islamic Fundamentalist roots by the global social media reach of the Islamic State. Which means that ISIS doesn't need, as al Qaeda did in their 9/11 plot, to send sleeper agents to the U.S. to set up attacks of various sizes, because, as the Muslim population of the U.S. continues to skyrocket thanks to the Obama Regime, ISIS has millions of potential sleeper agents here already, just waiting to be "radicalized" and sent on their next murderous "anti-infidel" mission.
I must say I'm honored to be seconded by such an esteemed Christian figure.
He pointed out that during World War II, the United States didn't allow Japanese or German immigration.
"Why are we allowing Muslims now?" he asked. "Let your Congressman know that we've got to put a stop to this and close the flood gates. Pray for the men and women who serve this nation in uniform, that God would protect them."
"We" are allowing Muslims now because Barack Obama is "fundamentally transforming" this country into, among other things, an Islamic Fundamentalist sheikhdom in which outnumbered Christians and Jews will be reduced to second-class status at best as Mohammedites become a large and loyal constituency of the almighty Democrat Party, along with all of depopulated and relocated Latin America.
Or at least that's how King Hussein envisions it. Our jihadist overlords might, just might, have other ideas about serving as Uncle Barry's weak horse.
I really wish Reverend Graham hadn't mentioned bringing Congress into this, as Congress has no power to do anything, and The One who has all the power is, to euphemize recklessly, not listening to anything we have to say. Indeed, the media, which typical viciousness, is trying to pit him against his father, the legendary Billy Graham:
Some have noted that Graham's tone is far different than that of his father, the Reverend Billy Graham, now in his nineties....
Graham was criticized by some Christians after his Facebook post, but others stood with him.
"This post is so disappointing. Is that what Christ would do? Shut people out because of fear?" one commenter wrote. "He has already defeated the grave. And we are called to share the love of Christ with these people. You have a big platform here Mr. Graham, perhaps you should use it to tell the truth in grace and love."
But remember something, "commenter": The Apostles went to where the pagans were to preach the Gospel to them. They put their own lives on the line because that's what Christ called upon them to do. They didn't invite pagans in to overrun their homes and churches, take them over from within, and massacre their brethren. Heck, that was taking place more than enough already.
The Great Commission, in other words, was a suicide pact for the Apostles; they weren't conscripting all of their fellow believers to join them in certain death. If you feel called to share the love of Christ with "these people," you're free as the wind to journey to the Middle East and do so, for however long you last. But the rest of us do not choose to be gunned down by the enemy in our own country - at least not without the opportunity to shoot back.
Unfortunately, we're not being given that choice. And that is the essence of Reverend Graham's "lamentation" of our self-imposed defeat at the hands of what he accurately describes as "a very wicked and evil religion".
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