Santorum is out of the race now, but the moral equivalence and obfuscation regarding the real evil of the Taliban that this exemplifies are still very much with us. And yes, Santorum is the American Taliban. No doubt he wants to mow down his own people who dare to dissent from his policies, blow up girls’ schools, throw acid in the faces of women who get out of line, imprison and torture rivals and those who disagree with him, amputate the hands of thieves, murder apostates, stone adulterers — you name it. Of course, Leftists probably really do believe that Santorum wants to do those things, and are attacking him on that basis, even though it doesn’t seem to bother them all that much when the mullahs or the Taliban actually do them.
Obeidallah is not original in this: the clownish boy and jihad terror apologist Reza Aslan has made a very similar comparison. Obeidallah, meanwhile, hotly denies being an Islamic supremacist himself, although he doesn’t seem to know what the term means, and is energetically pushing the manipulative Muslim Brotherhood invention “Islamophobia.” I don’t know whether he is an active stealth jihadist or simply an exceptionally dimwitted Useful Idiot, and he refused to answer any of my questions.
“Muslim Comedian Claims Santorum Sounds Like ‘the Taliban’ When Talking Church and State,” by Matt Hadro at Newsbusters, April 9 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
According to Muslim comedian and CNN regular Dean Obeidallah, Rick Santorum speaks the language of “the Taliban” when he talks about the intersection of church and state in America. On CNN Sunday night, liberal host Don Lemon decided to have a religious discussion for Easter Sunday, and his first question was about the separation of church and state.
Obeidallah has attacked Santorum in the past, and found a way to bring him into the discussion. He referred to Santorum “saying the Bible and our laws must comport,” adding later that “He was saying the same things honestly that the Taliban would say, that religious scripture and the laws of that state must agree.” [Video below the break. Audio here.]
First of all, Santorum had said he was opposed to homosexuality because of “Judeo-Christian values that are based on biblical truth,” a quote which Obeidallah used as fodder for his argument that Santorum wants the Judeo-Christian equivalent of Sharia law in America. He also knocked the candidate for insisting that civil law must comport to “God’s law.”
However, Santorum could well have referred to “God’s law” as the same concept that appears in Martin Luther King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” where he argued man-made laws must conform to the “law of God,” or natural law, in order to be just. And, in fact, Santorum has made this exact point before.
However, Obeidallah remains insistent in pushing this outlandish theory that Santorum wants something like a Christian theocracy — and Don Lemon was content to let him spout it….
DEAN OBEIDALLAH, political comedian: I think — I don’t think most people have a problem with faith or a candidate that’s got moral and convictions. That’s actually a good thing. I think the difference is when it doesn’t — when it no longer maybe influences your decisions, but actually your decisions, your policy decisions, are based on Scripture. Like Rick Santorum’s saying the Bible and our laws must comport.
To me, that went beyond any kind of accepted view of politics and religion. There was no longer separation of church and state. He was saying the same things honestly that the Taliban would say, that religious scripture and the laws of that state must agree. So, I think that went too far. But, of course, people — if morals and ethics are what religion’s about, and (Unintelligible) to be a better person, that’s a great candidate. It’s a great elected official for us to have.