Dinner with the Devil and Several Mainline Church Leaders

It wasn't enough to host the former president of Iran, Killer Khatami, at the National Cathedral, or for a group of mainline church leaders to eat dinner with the Iranian dictator and wisher of the destruction of Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! No, now our new Administration is attempting to kiss up to the Iranian Islamic Republic in every way possible, from the "new respect" remarks of President Obama, to the attitude of Secretary of State Clinton, to the selection of the proposed new Intelligence man, Chas Freeman.

Last year the Mennonite Central Committee, World Council of Churches, Society of Friends (of Dictators), Religions for Appeasement, and others, including the Episcopal Church (natch) broke the fast of Ramadan (who knew mainline church leaders fasted for Ramadan? Glad to hear they fast for something) at an Iftar with Ahmadinejad. The auspiscious dinner delight is took place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, September 25, 2008.

Keep in mind that the Hyatt hotels are owned by the family of little Penny Pricker, Obama's chief fundraiser during the presidential campaign.


Also, keep in mind that during the 70's and 80's the majority of Christians martyred and murdered by the Islamic Republic of Iran were Anglicans. Shame on the Episcopal Church for breaking bread with such a dictator. While the American church leaders were dining with Mahmoud, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Parliament voted in favor of making apostasy a death-sentence crime. That means that if you are an Iranian Muslim who comes to Christ and leaves Islam, committing apostasy, you're sentenced to death. Pretty sucky religion that can only keep people in by force, threat of death, and death!

But, with all that said, at the anti-Ahmadinejad rally in Washington, DC, it was a lovely Iranian Muslim man who was the only speaker to not scrupulously avoid partisanship. He declared the love of the Iranian people for, wait a minute, are you ready? President George W. Bush! He said that it was President Bush who had made the distinction between the Islamists of Iran and the Iranian people. Sounds like he believed that President Bush showed respect to the Muslim people of Iran! That same old respect that Obama says he is bringing to the Islamic world for the first time.

The Iranian speaker also said that President Bush was fighting to bring freedom to the Iranian people, AS HE HAD TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ. Ahem. What? No occupation? This dear man elicted cheers from half of the participants at the rally, including me. The other half of the participants were strangely silent.

My sign at the rally, which as my friend Richard pointed out was "quite personal" said,


HEY DHIMMI: YOU CAN'T DIALOGUE WITH JIHAD. So who is the Dhimmi? The U.N.? The Episcopal Church? Obama? Hillary? the Emergent progressive evangelicals? If the shoe fits...