My latest at the Geller Report:
Three days before Christmas, the New York Times ran a piece by the sinister propagandist Wajahat Ali, entitled “What a Muslim Could Teach Trump Supporters About Jesus.” What he could teach them, in short, is that Jesus was an open-borders globalist Socialist, and if they aren’t, either, then they just aren’t good Christians.
Just imagine the New York Times publishing an article entitled “What a Christian Could Teach Supporters of the Saudi Crown Prince About Muhammad,” or “What a Christian Could Teach Supporters of the Ayatollah Khamenei About Islam.”
This is not to compare Trump either to the Saudi Crown Prince or the Iranian Supreme Leader, although many Leftists are so deranged regarding Trump that they would endorse such comparisons with relish. The point I’m making, on the other hand, is that the New York Times editors would rather have their teeth pulled out with rusty pliers than ever to publish an article by a Christian telling Muslims what they should think about anything, but they don’t hesitate to publish this self-righteous and disingenuous propaganda by Wajahat Ali lecturing Christians and trying to shame them out from supporting Trump.
Though he tries to maintain a respectful tone, Ali can’t help but show his contempt for Christianity and Christians: ever the victim, he was “often the token Muslim” at “Bellarmine, an all-boys Catholic school in San Jose, Calif.,” where he “began freshman year thinking the Eucharist sounded like the name of a comic book villain,” only to find that “it’s a ritual commemorating the Last Supper. At the monthly Masses that were part of the curriculum, that meant grape juice and stale wafers were offered to pimpled, dorky teenagers as the blood and body of Christ.”
He adds that while at Bellarmine, he “also read the King James Bible and stories about Jesus, learned about Christian morality, debated the Trinity with Jesuit priests and received an A every semester in religious studies class.” Of course: those Leftist Jesuits would have considered themselves “Islamophobic” if they had given him anything less than an A.
Ali doesn’t know as much about Christianity as he wants you to think he does. His claim to have read the King James Bible while at Bellarmine, suggests that his memory here has been aided by some Internet searches for what the most common translation of the Bible is. Maybe he read it on his own, but apparently graduated from high school in or around 1998. Few, if any, Catholic schools ever used the King James Bible, which was a Protestant translation first published in 1611 and rejected by the Catholic Church. Because of its archaic language, it was widely discarded in the mid-twentieth century. The idea that a Catholic school was using it in the 1990s is ludicrous. If he read the Bible at school, Ali almost certainly read the translation known as the New American Bible, and if he read the King James Version on his own, it’s unlikely he understood much of it, unless he had mastered Shakespearean English by the time he attended high school.
Even less plausibly is Ali’s witheringly contemptuous “recollection” that “at the monthly Masses that were part of the curriculum, that meant grape juice and stale wafers were offered to pimpled, dorky teenagers as the blood and body of Christ.” No Catholic school in the 1990s anywhere would have used grape juice for communion. No Catholics use grape juice for communion, as it is considered that if wine isn’t used, the sacrament is not valid. Ali’s attempts to provide atmospheric verisimilitude to buttress his arrogant lecturing of Christians slips on the comic banana peel of his ignorance.
More importantly, Ali in this article continuously confuses socialism and state control with Christian charity, as if having the government confiscate citizens’ wealth and redistribute it to those it sees fit is the only way Christians can love their neighbor today. He also tells his Times-reading marks that Jesus would want open borders, with no apparent regard for the Christian obligation to love one’s neighbor at home — is inundating a country with migrants who will raise the crime rate and saturate the welfare rolls really charitable to those who must suffer as a result of this inundation?
The arrogance of it all is what is overriding. Bringing in a cynical and deceptive Muslim who endeavors to shame Christians by claiming they’re bad Christians for rejecting a globalist, socialist agenda — that epitomizes the New York Times today.
alex Reid says
How pathetic can you get? Comparing a Jewish hippy to a murdering, thieving, paedophilic, lying, necrophilic sonofabitch! Got a lot in common. The only thing they’ve in common is a b it of a talk about their ‘imaginary friend’.
LytchZam says
Yeah! No way the Creator of consciousness could possibly also be conscious. Maybe it’s you who’s imaginary. You’re all in your head.
August West says
What if the pope reads the NYT article and concludes that teenagers reading the King James Bible and grape juice at communion will product socialist globalists…
Maybe we will see changes at Catholic Schools?
SAE says
Good point August. Heaven help us.
CogitoErgoSum says
So tell us all about the Muslim version of Jesus. Tell us how wrong it is to claim that Allah has a son and that it’s a crime deserving of death if you do. Tell us how Jesus was never really crucified but Allah tricked everyone to make it look that way by having someone else take the place of Jesus on the cross. Tell us how Jesus was a total failure as a prophet the first time Allah sent him but that Allah is going to give Jesus a second chance by allowing him to come back and kill all the Christians and Jews if they don’t submit to becoming Muslims. Yes, tell us everything we need to know about Jesus so we can see that the Muslim version of Jesus completely contradicts everything we Christians believe about Jesus. Teach us what the love of the Muslim Jesus really looks like — oh, but wait, we can see that from the life of Asia Bibi.
gravenimage says
Spot on, CogitoErgoSum.
Terry Gain says
Yes, Muslims believe that Jesus faked his death on the cross with the help of Allah – thus creating the world’s largest religion. Allah The Deceiver. Some God. Login and rationality are in short supply in Islam.
Dave says
Terry, why would Allah help Jesus? If that was the case then the Muslims must believe it is the will of Allah, and therefore a good thing.
Allah is not the same entity as a Jehovah. I believe that Allah is Satan. He has all the characteristics you would expect.
staffsgt7 says
I wonder how many religious leaders are upset about this? How many want to confront the guy in a debate? Or anything?!?!?
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer: New York Times Features a Muslim to Lecture Trump Supporters About Jesus
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As I noted when this article first came out, we see this from Muslims all the time–the essential claim that Christians are supposedly not behaving like “real” Christians unless they are supinely rolling over for Islam.
This is intended to instill guilt in Christians for not being passive enough. If Muslims can make Christians believe this, of course, it will make conquering them all the easier.
Of course, Muslims never reveal the *Muslim* conception of Jesus in the context–a figure whose role in the last days is to *murder Christians*.
Terry Gain says
Of course, Muslims never reveal the *Muslim* conception of Jesus in the context–a figure whose role in the last days is to *murder Christians*.
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If only someone would tell the Pope, or your average Catholic Bushop.
dan christensen says
“What he could teach them, in short, is that Jesus was an open-borders globalist Socialist, and if they aren’t, either, then they just aren’t good Christians.”
Open-borders globalist socialism is precisely the new trend promoted by precisely the people who will benefit from open-borders globalism. The UN also, with its “Global Compact for Migration”, attempts to impose open-borders globalism on the world’s population. Many incredible naive (or cunning) people in the Western world supports the notion.
The concept of open-border globalism is only a ploy to make countries surrender their national sovereignty to mass migration.
This will surely recreate the medieval migration period from around 600 a.d..
As was said: “He taketh away the heart of the chief of the peoples of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.”
Tody it would be: He taketh away the heart of the chief of the muslim peoples of the earth, and causeth them to wander to rich areas where there is plenty to take way.
Migration destroyed the Roman Empire and muslim migration destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
Is the Western culture to be devoured and destroyed by vagrants with a primitive mindset?
David Longfellow says
Next the NYT will give us an article titled “What a Serial Rapist Could Teach Men about Having Respect for Women.”
Terry Gain says
Longfellow
Great comment. Precise, pithy and poetic. Thank you.
Joel Johnson says
the NYT is only good for wrapping the garbage.
Bezelel says
We’re supposed to be good doormats.
Kepha says
King James Bible read at a Catholic school? Doesn’t add up.
Then again, neither Mr. Ali nor his employers at the NYTimes know anything about Jesus except a few liberal platitudes.
N Dixon says
With so many dedicated Muslim countries around the world offering a devote Muslim every conceivable, fundamentalist, devote lifestyle benefit, why, why, why are they all streaming into countries that represent the complete opposite is values? I think we all know the answer.
KWJ says
Right. Jesus is for open borders since in Islam he’s coming back as a warrior to help eradicate the Jews and destroy Christianity and all religions except Islam. The jizya is wealth redistribution. Hijra happens first and then Iesa (fake Jesus) comes to help the Muslims…except he won’t because Jesus is a Christian. The Qur’an mentions “baptism” once in a vague-ish way since Muslims don’t have baptisms. Jesus was baptized in Christianity only.
Besides he has no idea what Christian Jesus would think, there areb’t A zillion hadiths about him, but I don’t think he would think it a great idea to have open borders for those who think he will eradicate his own kin. Charity comes in many forms. Why does the NYT print this garble?
True, no King James Bible in Catholic school nor grape juice. Non-Catholics weren’t required to attend Mass. The school didn’t provide Bibles, students had to buy their own and it’s the modern ones. I’m surprised he would go to Mass because they would not have forced him to.
Frederick King says
Pelosi and the new dim majority might add his to the new budget to exclude broder wall funds .
Joe says
He must have forgotten to read the 10 commandments. One of those states, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods.” That is exactly why most Muslims and other migrants want to come to America. Legal immigration is the same as charity, but illegal immigration is the same as stealing.
Spiro says
I guess the NYT will now have a Christian tell the Moslems about
Mohamed
After all I’m sure the want to be inclusive