Dallas church's sermon offers dangerous distortions of Islam

[TexasTowelie]

By Steve Blow

A reader emailed me with a basic “Muslims bad” message. And I replied that a few certainly are, but more than a billion live in peace every day.

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To my dismay, a preacher I have known and admired spent about five minutes running down all of Islam. He began: “One of the biggest lies in the world today, that’s being told over and over again, to where you are almost uninvited to social events if you don’t parrot this lie, and the lie is that Islam is a peaceful religion.”

He went on: “It’s getting harder and harder to defend that statement as Islamist militants around the world are crucifying Christians, beheading their children, burying people alive.”

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“This sermon is exactly what ISIS wants. This is a victory for ISIS. When you are a terrorist, you want people to feel terrorized. And this spreads it,” he (Robert Hunt, professor at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology) said.

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