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Christian group promotes anti-Islam video; call to act on the Great Commission or Final Solution?

 

The statistics suggest that the West will become Muslim in a generation at current rates, but some seem implausible and are not clearly sourced. Robert Parham, executive editor of EthicsDaily.com and executive director of its parent organization, the Baptist Center for Ethics provides a good statistical analysis of the video’s claims.

 

While the video could be dismissed as just another anti-immigration screed, common among the right wing, it appears to suggest that the takeover cannot be undone simply by limiting immigration. It is on this point that the message appears to be one of ethnic cleansing against Muslims, suggesting that the only way to undo the purported demographic shift is through conversion or elimination. The tone of the video clearly is not designed to proselytize Muslims; after all who is drawn to join a group that hates them?

 

Research to determine the video’s origin led to the right wing Christian group The Thomas More Law Center. The group was established by Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan and its advisory board includes extreme right wing gadfly Alan Keyes. The video was spotlighted on the group’s website on its front page under the heading ‘Featured Video” followed by the link “View more TMLC videos.” Clearly the group endorses the Muslim Demographics message by giving it such prominent placement but does not necessarily mean that the group produced each video it features. This report was held for one week in an attempt to receive a response from TMLC on the video’s origin. No response was received but the video was removed from the website. The removal could be taken as a repudiation of the content without comment, but a further exploration found the group promoting Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.

 

According to the civil rights organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Wilders along with Rep. Adam Hasner, the head of Florida’s House Republicans, recently co-hosted an event at which Wilder said Islam should not be recognized as a legitimate faith and Muslims should not have religious freedom.

 

 According to CAIR’s report:

 

 

So the video’s removal does not seem to indicate a sanitizing of all anti-Islam propaganda from the TMLC website.

 

The self-described pro-life movement has long used the tactic of dehumanizing death row inmates, abortion providers and foreign soldiers among others, as permissible even biblically approved kills. The recent murder of health care provider Dr. George Tiller is just one recent example. The video concludes with the statement “This is a call to action.” So the question remains: how do right wing Christians respond to this video? Will they feel moved to follow the Great Commission of the Final Solution?