a tract that came from a Christian chaplain, allegedly. The Rockland
County Muslim community has taken up the cause, and has been
briefed by the prison officials. This seems backwards though, because
if any community is briefed, it ought to be the Christian community.
The reason is the US Constitution safeguards the free expression of
religion, but there is no right outlined whereby anyone is safeguarded
from disagreeable religious literature.
Now the NY Human Rights Commission is looking into the matter. Why
is that? Adrian Morgan (aka Giraldus Cambrensis) at Western Resistance explains:
If only unintentionally, such Muslim 'representatives' actually partake in a two-pronged attack upon Western values. One prong of this front against freedom is made up of terrorists like Bouyeri and others who support death for Islam's critics, while the political Muslims intimidate government, media and educational bodies to remove any hostility against Islam, disguising their mission to erode Western values under the cover of 'protecting religious minorities.'If the commission, being politically correct, decides that all literature
is to be vetted so Muslims are not offended, all prisons in America will
be safe for the propagation of Islam and Prislam (Prison Islam). Muslim
gangs, aka support groups, will grow, and Muslims will readily "revert"
(convert) others into Prislam, especially when gang and peer pressure
are applied. None will be converted out of Islam or Prislam since nary
a word critical of Islam will be allowed in prison. Prisons in America will
become taxpayer-supported mosques and madrasas, which they
are already in danger of becoming. Prisons will be island countries
under Sharia law dotting the American landscape among the purplish
wavy sheaths of grain, and a factory that puts more and more radical
Muslims back on the streets of America.
Ironically, if any literature ought to be restricted, it ought to be
material that promotes the fighting and killing of others.
The Koran-based material that Muslim chaplains hand out in prison
is likely far from respectful of Christianity and Judaism. This is so
despite any Muslims protestations that Islam is a religion of peace
and tolerance. That last bit of Islamic propaganda doesn't even pass
the laugh test anymore.
The Koran itself, much less derivative material, is very caustic
toward Christians and Jews, and promotes fighting, killing, warfare
and hegemony over pagans, Christians and Jews, and ought to be
banned (see the Calcutta Petition) . That the Koran is effective
in causing fights, murders, terrorism and war is plainly evident
to anyone who reads newspapers and history books--unless that
person is willfully blind and wants to believe something else, which
is his right, of course.
Prislam (Prison Islam) is known for being exceptionally
fundamentalistic and radical. Islam is very popular in US prisons,
and indeed prisons around the world, and is worrying to prison
officials. In Europe many prisons hold 50+% Muslims, even
though Muslims are only a small percent of the population--
all thanks to the Koran's insidious influence.
The NY Human Rights Commission is way out of line for even
agreeing to look into this matter, and the jail warden is way out
of line for suspending the chaplain. That's because issues of whether
Allah is a moon-god and a demon (Deuteronomy 32:17; Psalms 106:37),
or whether Yahweh is Trinitarian, are matters of belief, and as such
are beyond the purview of their office to assess or scrutinize. What
are they going to decide on next--that tracts promoting baptism
by sprinkling ought to be banned because they might offend Baptists?
Or that tracts arguing against Transubstantiation must be banned
because they might offend Catholics? If the Human Right Commission
or the warden restrict religious literature in jail or elsewhere--even
indirectly, this ought to go straight to the US Supreme Court on the fast track.
Yoel Natan
Related links:
Here are the tracts that landed a NY prison chaplain in hot water:
Jack Chick "Men of Peace? tract
Jack Chick "Allah Had No Son" tract
This latest incident reminds me of two other incidents dealing with Allah is a moon-god literature:
- A Scotland doctor was suspended over writing a 48-page Allah was a moon-god pamphlet:
- CAIR wants the head of a North Carolina public school teacher over inviting a Christian group to public school that gave out tracts critical of Islam: http://yoelnatanbooks.blogspot.com/2007/02/cair-wants-head-of-north-carolina.html
hat tip: US: NY Chaplain Suspended For Insulting Islam
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003694.html
Anti-Islam books get chaplain suspended
Cartoons described Allah as the devil, Muhammad as a dictator
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:46 p.m. CT April 13, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18094396/print/1/displaymode/1098/
NEW CITY, New York - A jail chaplain in New York state's Rockland
County has been suspended after she distributed religious booklets
that condemn Islam, contain derogatory depictions of God and refer to
the prophet Muhammad as a "religious dictator," jail officials said.
Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister and a chaplain at
the jail since 1994, was suspended with pay on Thursday pending the
outcome of an investigation to determine possible disciplinary action,
the jail's chief, William Clark, told The Journal News in Friday
editions.
The booklets characterize Muslims as worshipping an "idol" and devil
called Allah, and portray the prophet Muhammad as a criminal and a
"religious dictator." Allah is the Arabic word for God, and Muslims
believe they worship the same God as Christians and Jews.
In the cartoon panel stories, a tract titled "Men of Peace?" says
Islamic fundamentalists who commit terrorist acts are not "bad
Muslims" but "very good Muslims" who act in accordance with their
religion. Another tract, titled "Allah Has No Son," says Allah is not
God, Muhammad was no prophet and the Quran is not the word of God.
The title of that tract bears a resemblance to one of the Quran's
shorter chapters, which says that God has no creator and has not
begotten anyone. Unlike Christians, Muslims believe that Jesus was a
prophet, like Mohammed and Moses, and not the son of God.
Both cartoon stories end with people being convinced that Islam is
false. In one ending, a Muslim is contrite on learning he is
worshipping a false idol and converts to Christianity.
Attempts to reach Clapp at her home in Spring Valley were
unsuccessful, the Journal said. She worked as a correction officer
before becoming the jail's chaplain in February 1994.
The Journal said the booklets were from Chick Publications, a company
that produces gospel tracts and other media to advocate Christianity
and condemn religions it deems false, including Islam and Roman
Catholicism.
Muslim inmates said they found the tracts offensive, adding that other
inmates' belief in the information has led to verbal altercations and
to inmates labeling Muslim detainees devil worshipers, the newspaper
reported.
"You think it's depressing being an inmate," said Kenny Kidd, 48, who
is in jail on burglary charges. "Try putting 'Muslim' before 'inmate.'
"And to add salt to a wound," Kidd, said, "we have a chaplain passing
out pamphlets calling our God the devil and our prophet a dictator."
Clark said in the future, any literature that is to be distributed to
inmates will be vetted by a jail captain.
Clapp's suspension came more than a year after worldwide Muslim
protests in January 2006 over cartoons first published in a Danish
newspaper. The cartoons, among other things, showed Muhammad wearing a
turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
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Read about Allah's being a pagan war- and moon-god in Yoel Natan's Moon-o-theism book online at Google Print. See http:\\www.yoel.info for the links or click here:
http://books.google.com/books?q=Moon-o-theism&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0
Read the 164 Jihad verses in the Koran:
http://www.angelfire.com/moon/yoelnatan/koranwarpassages.htm
1. http://youtube.com/watch?v=cW30pWHXFPo
2. http://youtube.com/watch?v=TrFbjGJOpos&mode=related&search=
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcB3xTvPow
Chaplain Faulted for Anti-Islam Booklets, Friday April 13, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6555153,00.html
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Muslim leaders call for Rockland jail chaplain's dismissal
(Original Publication: April 16, 2007)
NEW CITY - Local Muslims outraged that the Rockland county jail chaplain distributed anti-Islam tracts to inmates are calling for her dismissal.
Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister, was suspended Thursday for passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions of Allah and the prophet Muhammad, including characterizing Allah as an "idol" and the devil and Muhammad as a criminal and a "religious dictator."
"Our congregation was very shaken. We are very upset about these false allegations against our religion," Azra Fasihuddin, a West Nyack resident and member of the Islamic Center of Rockland, said today. "She should be let go. And why is she being paid while she is suspended? I don't understand this."
Others have said they tried to volunteer at the jail but Clapp had been uncooperative.
Read more about this story tomorrow in The Journal News.
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Latest on this issue from Google News: Teresa+Darden+Clapp
Brother Nathanael, a Greek Orthodox monk wrote on the "Chick Tract" case:
# Br Nathanael: Muslims have no right to inhibit the free speech of Christians. These Muslims are in America now, not in Saudi Arabia or Turkey. Let them shut up and appreciate the freedoms granted them in our Christian-informed nation. And why was the chaplain even suspended? We should not kowtow to these Muslims. For if they had their way they would put us all under their heretical sharia law.
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Christian Minister at Jail Replaced With Imam
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/christian-minister-at-jail-replaced-with-imam/
New York Suspends Female Chaplain For Anti-Islamic Tracts
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/new-york-suspends-female-chaplain-for-anti-islamic-tracts/
Beyond Parody: Jail Hiring Muslim Chaplain After Uproar
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/05/09/beyond-parody-jail-hiring-muslim-chaplain-after-uproar/#comment-5445
PROMOTING ISLAM IN PRISON
http://www.realclearreligion.com/index_files/a0b548b34952d87fdd940a931882b58f-71.html#unique-entry-id-71
