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Good News: Non-Muslim Mayor in Alabama Celebrates Election with Qur’an Readings

Nov 18, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

Steven Reed has just become mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, and he lost no time showing how intersectional and woke he is. He attended a Unity Interfaith Worship Service at a Montgomery church, where the Rev. Dr. Wendy Coleman, pastor at Reaching the Remnant Ministries, said: “We just want to remind you again of our mayor’s vision of bringing all people together from all walks of life, all faiths, all beliefs to make this city better.” To drive that point home, Coleman announced: “We will be blessed now with readings from various sacred texts, including the Bible, the Torah and the Qur’an.”

How wonderful. How multicultural. How enlightened. Just wondering, however, has Steven Reed ever opened a Qur’an? Did the readings from the Qur’an include any of these passages?

“And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out; persecution is worse than slaughter. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Qur’an 2:191-193)

“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)

“They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore do not take friends from among them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, seize them and kill them wherever you find them; do not take for yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

“This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth to do corruption there: they shall be killed, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall be struck off on opposite sides; or they shall be exiled from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.” (Qur’an 5:33)

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  1. rubiconcrest says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    He just demonstrated that he is not fit to be Mayor.

    • Scott Carlson says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 5:48 am

      Agree

    • Doob says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 7:38 am

      He’s unintelligent unpatriotic and uninformed about Islamist realities. Islamists think of such people as useful idiots … They’re right!

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 5:25 pm

    FLASH for Mayor Steven Reed … there are 4,200 DIFFERENT RELIGIONS … why only quote from Islam, Mayor Reed … KEEP GOING !!! There are OVER FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED and NINETY EIGHT religions to go.

    You can fill your ENTIRE DAY quoting the sacred texts of 4, 200 DIFFERENT religions … can’t you?

    Don’t members of the OTHER religions DESERVE your EQUAL MENTION of them, Mayor Reed?

    Mayor Reed DON’T DISCRIMINATE against the other religions.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    Religion in Montgomery, Alabama
    70.2% of the people in Montgomery are religious:
    – 33.4% are Baptist
    – 1.2% are Episcopalian
    – 4.2% are Catholic
    – 0.3% are Lutheran
    – 12.9% are Methodist
    – 4.9% are Pentecostal
    – 1.9% are Presbyterian
    – 0.9% are Church of Jesus Christ
    – 9.5% are another Christian faith
    – 0.4% are Judaism
    – 0.0% are an eastern faith
    – 0.4% affilitates with Islam

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 18, 2019 at 5:44 pm

      Yes–but it is still “politically correct” to pander to Islam.

      • PRCS says

        Nov 18, 2019 at 5:47 pm

        To Muslims.

        • St. Ferdinand III says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 3:15 am

          To Baal the moon deity. Maybe this witless Mayor should re-read the OT and educate himself about Baal, or the Lord of Mecca as the Muhammadans call him.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 20, 2019 at 11:53 pm

          I doubt he knows much of anything about Islam.

    • Westman says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 1:12 am

      And what percent would fight to preserve the US in some future war that directly threatened the homeland? Count the Muslims out, the Globalists out, and the Lefties out. 1/3 of citizens will be too old and 1/4 will be too young. What percentage is left?

      Globalist-diversity only works if there are no wars that require all citizens to respond. Uncontrolled migration and globalization is the destruction of ethnic-cohesion and likely the eventual suicide of entire nations. Rome was a fine example.

      If Russia was smart it would make up with Ukraine and bide its time until the EU implodes, in bankruptcy under the weight of immigration, and then offer to help(for a political price). The EU, despite its leadership noise, cannot afford a military to equal Russia. It can’t even pay its NATO bill; its been expanding its economy by not paying it.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 19, 2019 at 1:20 am

        Westman, Russia is itself threatened by Islam, and is often responding with appeasement. They have allowed a Shari’ah state on Russian soil, and Putin just opened the largest Mosque in Europe in Moscow. I think looking to this unfree state for any help is unwise.

        • Westman says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 2:07 am

          Of course it would be unwise. However people do desperate things in desperate circumstances and Germany, France, Denmark, and Sweden are going to be in economic trouble with the costs of Islamic migration. We certainly hope they won’t cozy up to Russia when the EU army is a failure, but the very drive to create an army is an indication that the EU is moving away from the US.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 3:25 am

          I am not a fan of totalitarianism. But then there is the teaching from a group that has suffered hate, criticism and attacks for 3700 years: “There are no perfectly good OR perfectly bad people.” We are witnessing media lies as they write about Uighurs and just barely, if ever, mentioning muslims. China in its measures is dealing with a threat to its society. Germany dealt through the Nazis with the threat to its society of the Communists. Russia did not deal with the Communist threat and fell into barbaric slavery. As long as I have been writing here I have been looking for a third alternative to totalitarian slavery in order to protect liberty. Substituting one form of slavery for another should not be the only available choice.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 21, 2019 at 10:56 pm

          Westman and Frank, I still believe in freedom and democracy. Not only is totalitarianism evil, but it is seldom much of a bulwark against other forms of totalitarianism, either.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Nov 21, 2019 at 11:20 pm

          Honored GI, I have little doubt that we agree. The point I seek to make is that one form of totalitarianism has been the response to another at least twice in history, Pre-WWII Germany and present China. I have a hard time recalling good examples of the defeat of totalitarian movements by those of liberty SINCE the US Revolutionary War and those of Mexico, Central and South America, all lead by substantial numbers of Masons. Since the Masonic Lodge was turned into an object of disrespect by the Anti-Masons around the time of Andrew Jackson it seems to have lost any commitment to more than ritual. Preaching high ideals does not automatically make practice of those ideals. It takes commitment. Flowery words are poor in effective resistance to totalitarian movements armed with bricks, bottles, chair legs, or more. With the modern equivalent in every functional detail of Storm Troopers and their Communist counterparts running rampant, and uncontrolled by sympathetic police and mayors, unless some effective opposition is presented, they will win. They being all who are currently joining together to purge liberty from our lives.

      • John says

        Nov 19, 2019 at 4:07 am

        The EU has a GDP of 18 Billion US$, Russia has just 1,6 Billion. A large portion of the GDP of Russia is dependent on the oil and gas purchases by the EU. So if the EU implodes Russia will also implode and it will not be in any position to help the EU. The EU has less debt than the US and is has nearly the GDP of the US, so if the EU implodes, so will the US and China. Trump wanting a trade war with the EU weakens the US and forces the EU to become more dependent on China.

        PS: The Ukraine does not want to be a colony of Russia, and Russia will not hand back the Crimea. So how will Russia be able to make with the Ukraine? Besides oil and gas it has nothing to offer the Ukraine, which is the reason that the Ukraine wants to move closer to the EU.

        • Joe says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 5:21 am

          It’s trillion (not billion).

        • Frank Anderson says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 5:59 am

          John, there is a problem with numbering systems. In the US a Billion is 1,000,000,000. Also in the US a Trillion is 1000 Billion. In some countries what the US calls Billion, is called a Milliard, and the Billion is a US Trillion. I have seen a number of films from the Germany’s hyper-inflation where this difference appeared. Is the Milliard difference still present? In US terms, your GDP figures seem low.

        • Gea says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 1:58 pm

          Putin has PhD in economics and before USSR fell appart he worked as a KGB “translator” in Dresden, Germany, before fall of Berlin wall when he returened to Russia and was in St Petersburg. He said taht “Communism was a blind ally in human histoy”. Russia is now fast recovering from disasters of Communism…I flew though Moscow Airport from EU city to Tel Vaiv and back to Berlin… the ariprot is as nice as any in US… and from the plane you can see lost of new private hoimes built and skyscrapers painted and looking nice.

          I also met (in Las Vegas) last week, 3 young German girls who are working in Canadian cities before they go to college. They were also from Dresden which is now part of the Germany after reunification of East and West Germany. One of the girls is a daughter of Russian immigrants who was born after reunification and often goes to visit relatives in Russia. She told me that Russia is recovering fast as the creatiity of peopole had been releases…People like Putin…also in Isael, Russian Jewish immigrants praise Putin leadership…

  4. PRCS says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 5:46 pm

    Have to wonder if those he’s excluded from diversity’s ‘inclusion’ have contacted him about that–yet.

    • Gea says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 2:00 pm

      Americans had become politically correct cultural relativists patsies…need to deveop some cohones and speak out!

  5. gravenimage says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Good News: Non-Muslim Mayor in Alabama Celebrates Election with Qur’an Readings
    ……………………..

    Mayor Reed is an idiot.

    • PRCS says

      Nov 18, 2019 at 6:03 pm

      And Muslims are hoping for an eventual reelection.

    • MINAS says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 4:03 am

      A player gotta get paid.

  6. Jamers says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 7:04 pm

    Well, I would say, it is like reading from Mein Kampf at a synagogue to show how inclusive one feels. Just because George Bush thinks that Islam is a religion of peace does not mean we have to take that seriously.

    • Alexious Comennus says

      Nov 18, 2019 at 9:29 pm

      Very well said. The spiritual foundation of our nation stands on Judeo-Christian faith. If this nation will leave this behind, it will not continue as a nation.

    • Frank Anderson says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 3:31 am

      Jamers, a reading at a synagogue to wake people to the evil could help. All Holocaust Remembrance services recall the results of Mein Kampf without the words. I think the words might help make the present reality of the Next Holocaust more apparent and worthy of attention and action. I also think a reading of many passages from another work of propaganda might help some see they are hated and their deaths are intended. “There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”

  7. Gabriel Rizkallah says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    Not very wonderful.

  8. Martin says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    video – more good news – Non-Muslim pope meets his friend, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar

    • Alexios Comnenus says

      Nov 18, 2019 at 9:42 pm

      This video is very hurtful to watch because the Christianity cannot be compare with any other religion. And I am writing this with all the respect but disappointed of this pope. Pope Benedict should stayed and age on his papal throne. He could have done infinitely more than he is doing now. The Catholic Church travels through an unprecedented difficult and confusing time. Since the Vatican II, the syncretism, liberalism and inclusiveness had gradually destroy the Universal Church. It seems the missionary characteristic of the Church has been eliminated. When the Church loses its missionary attribute, it doesn’t practice the apostolic tradition to bring the Good News. Prayers are seriously needed.

    • Westman says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 1:18 am

      Ah, yes, the smiling faces of diplomacy with lies lurking in the rear shadows. Tip O’ Neill was right, it’s all politics(and all lies).

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 19, 2019 at 1:27 am

        Not all world figures are this clueless.

    • FYI says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 10:37 am

      Frankie and Ahmed make an interesting couple:Honestly?They should get married.

      They have a shared love of islam ,a contempt for Christianity and a disdain for Western values.

  9. Wellington says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    Just reflect for a moment what Steven Reed knows about Islam compared to Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Hugh Fitzgerald, Bat Ye’or, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christine Douglass-Williams, David Wood, gravenimage, mortimer, James Lincoln, Westman, et al…..

    Yeah, a long list of the well-informed versus an ignoramus. Islam profits by the ignorance of others. Steven Reed right now comes to mind. Quite the achievement.

    • Westman says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 1:47 am

      It seems today’s politicians have no moral basis with the guiding principle to only make decisions, carrying the weight of responsibility, if it’s expected that when the account for failure is due, IWBH(I won’t be here) and YWBH(You won’t be here) to accept it. The Mayor is just trying to be nice and eventually do little for the constituents. He couldn’t do less for Mongomery than Obama.

      Today’s impeachment mania, instead of doing work for the people’s actual needs, is a stark example. The attitude is: Don’t do anything significant in legislation to ensure re-election and if you do, pick something popular; unless you’re AOC, a political entertainer, and the current SJW candidates whose demands are so delusional that Obama has to go public and say, “Get realistic!”.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Nov 19, 2019 at 3:35 am

        Westman, was it Mark Twain who wrote, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe when Congress is in session.”? While they are doing their harm to DJT, they are not doing other harm. SMALL consolation.

        • Rebecca says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 12:13 pm

          You think the Democrats aren’t doing harm to the country by passing laws in congress, while everyone is distracted by the impeachment? Really?

        • Frank Anderson says

          Nov 19, 2019 at 1:44 pm

          Correction, less harm. They can’t pass anything if the Senate and President do not go along. But they can do nothing but waste time if the Republicans stop them. One part of the 3 part legislative process cannot control the others if they won’t let it.

  10. abad says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    Obviously Reed is not on the fence when it comes to Islam.

    And he should not be mayor nor in politics at all.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 21, 2019 at 12:01 am

      I imagine he just thinks he is being “inclusive”.

  11. Lydia Church says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    Ah yes… reaching them… reaching them, REACHING them….
    with the devil’s message!
    Oh so ‘relevant’ to the culture of the world!
    WOE TO THEM!
    Paving the way to the one world religion…
    the devil’s trap!

    • Scott Carlson says

      Nov 19, 2019 at 5:44 am

      Exactly

  12. Eloise says

    Nov 18, 2019 at 10:54 pm

    not a scintilla of islam could be classified as ‘sacred’; falls more along the lines of sacrilegious.
    sorry he is so dumb; if he hadnt included islam cair would have been all over his ignorant ass demanding they be included

  13. Scott Carlson says

    Nov 19, 2019 at 5:44 am

    Either this guy is a complete idiot or he’s a Muslim himself.

  14. jca reid says

    Nov 19, 2019 at 7:47 am

    Obviously this Muppet has cherry picked the “nice” verses. He ought to read out the real verses of Islam calling for the murder, rape & subjugation of the World. He being a coloured/Mixed Race fella, ought to know what awaits him. Yes, the USA has treated minorities very badly over the centuries, but it pales in front of what the Muslim Arabs have done over the centuries: 125Million black Africans enslaved. ALL male slaves castrated. Only about 20% survived. The last slave Market in Saudi Arabia closed in …… 1965 because the UN told them to. However, now there are Apps available to obtain “Domestic Servants” in Saudi. Mauritania, another ‘beacon of Islam’, closed their Markets in the 1980’s. The good news is, they’ve reopened selling sex slaves by auction. A f*cked up 1400year old doctrine is given precedence over everything that has done nothing for humanity except show how f*ckin’ stupid we really are!

  15. Rose Keeling says

    Nov 19, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    so wrong this is America, if they want to live in our country then these others assimilate to us, NOT us to them period!

    Here’s a wake up call to u and all other anti-Americans in our country: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

    “In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

    – Theodore Roosevelt

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 21, 2019 at 12:18 am

      +1

  16. Angemon says

    Nov 19, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    Steven Reed has just become mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, and he lost no time showing how intersectional and woke he is

    Bad news for the people of Montgomery – just ask Sweden. Oh, right – nothing going on there, and only bigoted, racist islamophobes say otherwise…

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