Tavis Smiley: Your daily dose of stupid

I'm sorry. It's rather difficult to be polite to someone who makes a good, publicly-funded salary in order to spout this nonsense.

"But Christians do that every single day. In this country" - Tavis Smiley.

The only point I can think that Smiley may be trying to make is to equate Americans with Christians and point to the murders in our country as, by definition, "Christian murders." But then the same case could be made for murders in nations that are predominately Muslim, Buddhist, or secular.

That is giving Smiley the benefit of the doubt, but he gives specific examples of Christians walking into "post offices and schools," specifically referencing Columbine. Anyone name the last time someone walked into a post office wearing a suicide-bomber vest shouting "Jesus is Great!" Those Columbine boys sure did hide their Christian faith well under Eric Harris' "Natural Selection" shirt.

What makes the clip even more unbelievable is that Smiley is talking to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She has lived in both Muslim and, for lack of a better term, Christian nations. She has disagreed with both Christian and Muslims. She has had consistent death threats from only one of those groups - the one Smiley defends by defaming his professed faith.

Comments

[Lawanda]

1.

Yeah. That was stupid.

[Robin Lionheart]

2.

Agreed, Tavis is making no sense.

Tavis could have made a point if instead of "post offices and schools", he'd said "abortion clinics and mosques". But then he goes on to cite Columbine? Seriously?

[Aaron]

3.

I'm glad you agreed, but I would ask you to cite daily or even regular American Christian killings at abortion clinics and especially mosques.

I will grant that, unfortunately, some Christians have contradictorily killed in cause of being "pro-life," but that is not and has not been a regular occurrence. I could not name any time Christians have walked into a mosque to kill someone.

[Robin Lionheart]

4.

"Every day" is also a gross exaggeration by Tavis; domestic terrorism is not an everyday occurrence in the US. I am aware of terrorist attacks on American mosques, but not ones where the perpetrators have been identified as specifically Christian.

Most recently, on May 10, an unknown middle-aged white man went to the Jacksonville Islamic Center in Florida while about 60 people were there for evening prayers, carrying a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb, which he planted on the outside of the building and detonated. Parts of the explosive were found 100 feet away on Route 9A. Fortunately, no one was injured.

The next day, the Council of American Islamic Relations offered a reward for information leading to the terrorist's arrest. To their credit, among other groups, New Covenant Ministries, a church across the street from the mosque, has contributed $5,000 more to the reward, which is now at least $20,000.

The September 26, 2008 terrorist attack on an Ohio mosque got more press. A gas was sprayed in the window of the day care room of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. In the room were the babies and children of the parents who were engaged in prayers. Terrified mothers ran to collect their babies and flee the gas as it burned their eyes, throats, and lungs.

[Yaolz88]

5.

Although it was stupid.But it looks so lovely.