Christianity Bad/ Islam Good

Doug Giles' latest column is today's must read. It's titled, Christianity Sucks and Islam is Awesome? and it's available at Townhall.com. I'm a pretty regular reader of Giles' columns and I really think this is one of his best.

Sadly, he's right on when he characterizes secularists and the dinosaur media as kissing up to radical Islam or at least giving them a pass, while demonizing Christians and Christianity:

Man, don’t cha love how mainstream media and their soft-brain disciples make Christians out to be fish-stickered, bug-eyed equals to incensed Islam? If you were to accept as true what some atheists, secularists and prattling gay activists say about Christians, you’d think the church is chomping at the bit to chop off some heads of unbelievers, glory to Gawd!

Yep, if you were to believe the barf belched out by the BS brokers on the Left, you’d stagger away Kool Aid drunk with the belief that there is little disparity between conservative Christians and militant Muslims.

As a matter of fact, you probably would be bamboozled into believing that Islam is a peaceful, Little House on the Prairie religion being temporarily hijacked by jihadist renegades, and Christianity . . . Christianity is the real charity-vacant, vicious cult that’s vying for the opportunity to seize the whip and whip us good.

I'm sure there are a lot of so-called religious people who don't cotton to Giles' colorfully blunt style of writing, but I think his tone is refreshing. He's got the attitude of a fighter and if there's one thing this world desperately needs, it's an army of fighting Christians (Soldiers, as it were!) who legitimately exemplify the real religion of peace by living it...not just preaching it!

Corner cowering Christians, as never before, need to stand up and let themselves be seen and heard, but not like some embarrassingly shameful televangelists who do more damage to Christianity than anything else. You know the type.

Giles refers to and quotes from Robert Spencer's new book, Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't. Here are a few points Spencer points out in his book:

• The Koran does not invite interpretation, and Muslim leaders refuse to discuss how to fit their beliefs into modern society.

• Political differences and unwanted international interference are not, in fact, the cause of the turmoil in Iraq and Middle Eastern antagonism towards the west.

• The most determined enemies of western civilization may not be the jihadists at all, but the leftists who fear their churchgoing neighbors more than Islamic terrorists.

No doubt Spencer's new book is also essential reading, but for now, go to Townhall.com and read Giles' entire piece.

By the way, he also did the above caricature. What a guy!