So to get this right. A christian man speaks in a christian church about christian beliefs, and his devisive how? But a leader of a country speaks of killing Jews and he's ignored?
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If you thought that when a world leader called on fellow believers to crush another religion it would be big news, you'd be wrong.The leader, in this case, was Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who told a large gathering of global Islamic leaders that the world's 1.3 billion Muslims should unite and push to a "final victory" over the Jewish threat."The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy," said Mahathir, often described by the western media as a leading "moderate" in the Muslim world. "They get others to fight and die for them."Jews, he said, "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy" — sorry Mr. Prime Minister, but at least two of those things aren't so bad — to gain control of the world. His message: They have to be stopped.He didn't stop there. He further lamented the Muslim world's technological backwardness. Not because it consigns hundreds of millions of people to lives of poverty and misery. No, this backwardness is awful because it means they have inferior firepower."We have to buy our weapons from our detractors and enemies," he said. For his hateful, anti-Semitic comments, Mahathir won a standing ovation from the Muslim "leaders."A look at major U.S. newspaper and TV coverage shows, with few exceptions, Mahathir's words weren't enough to warrant mention.Contrast that with the flap over the comments by Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin. No doubt, you heard about those. They made the front page of the Los Angeles Times and were played prominently on radio and TV late last week.Boykin, you see, is a fundamentalist Christian. He's a decorated war veteran, former commander of the Army's special forces and now a deputy undersecretary of defense. He sinned by telling a church group the real enemy wasn't Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. "The enemy is a guy called Satan." That's not all. He went on to relate that, after meeting a young Muslim warrior, "I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol." And he told his co-believers that terrorists are out to destroy the U.S. "because we're a Christian nation." For this, Boykin — unlike Mahathir — earned the media's scorn.A Times reporter called Boykin's comments "extreme and pernicious." NBC's Tom Brokaw termed them "divisive." ABC and CBS referred to him as a "holy warrior."It may come as a surprise to the media, but our Constitution gives everyone the right to worship the God of their choice. Or to not believe at all, if they so chose. We protect that right, and cherish it, for all people. That includes Boykin, a man who has actually fought to preserve those rights. It's funny the same media that ripped into Boykin for his words had so little to say about Mahathir's sickening diatribe. Maybe it's just a knee-jerk impulse by those in the media who hold themselves above such silly superstition to despise religion. Or maybe it's something else: The media's relativism puts them so out of touch with mainstream America that they find "extremism" in the routine religious utterances of heroes while excusing the hate and ignorance of others.
