Reply #7: Muslims... [View All]

[David Ippolito]

David here.

No... actually in the original draft, the lyric in the first verse read...

"...tolerate the Muslim and the Jew."

Until it occurred to me that these hard-line, so-called Christians in the right wing actually HATE Muslims, and understand nothing about Islam. So, I addressed it by suggesting they "tolerate" atheism and Judaism, but...

" ...think the Bible should be taught in every nation,
And, we'll bomb anyone who doesn't feel the same."

Yeah, I'd say bombing someone constitutes hatred, don't you?

Not a case of ignoring your point. Just an artistically different way of getting at it.

- - David