Islamic leaders decry Tea Party reference to Muslim 'monkey-god'

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) – A national leader of the conservative Tea Party movement has been strongly criticized by Islamic civil rights leaders for referring to the proposed site of a New York City mosque as a place for Muslims to worship "the terrorists' monkey-god."

Tea Party Express organizer Mark Williams blogged on his Web site last week that the mosque - to be constructed near the former site of the World Trade Center - would be a "monument ... for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god and a 'cultural center' to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult."

Williams, who also referred to "animals of Allah," was rebuked Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group issued a release Wednesday calling on other Tea Party activists to repudiate Williams' remarks.

"It would be shocking if such ignorant comments failed to elicit a strong response not only from Tea Party leaders, but from other parties throughout the political spectrum," CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor said.

For his part, Williams was unapologetic toward Muslims.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/20/islamic-leaders-decry-tea-party-reference-to-muslim-monkey-god/?fbid=VP2LgjjHQ1T

[saigon68]

1. The King has no clothes

[slackmaster]

2. It reminds me of the fight between Jimmy and Timmy in South Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWk6RgQbPVc

K&R

:kick:

[Mopar151]

3. A plague of nitwits has befallen us.

Another goober who worships AssKickin Jeebus. If this is what passes for leadership tin Teabagger circles, they'll be crushed like bugs at the polls.

[sui generis]

4. realistically, they do have the power to provoke

and they wield it with abandon.

Oh well I guess the ol' corn dog god is better. Jesus On a Stick. With Mustard.

[Speck Tater]

6. One can only provoke someone who is provokable.

We who follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster (blessed be his noodly goodness) simply cannot be provoked, so go ahead, hurl your worst insults at our Supreme Pasta Deity and watch us just shrug it off.

[sui generis]

7. my flying spaghetti colander beats your flying spaghetti monster!

:P

[NJmaverick]

5. psst... mark.... your racism is showing

[ut oh]

8. And yet the Teabaggers are still...

trying to convince the population that their movement is not based on racism...

ummmmm yeeeeaah right....

[atreides1]

9. Trying being the key word.

[CLANG]

10. I hope they don't jihad his ass. (tee-hee)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Let's all send him little monkey figures of Hanuman.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

12. All judeoislamochristians should fatwa the tea-baggers!

Since allah is yahweh is god-the-father and this one big monkey; this nut just called jesus a son of a monkey.

Who is in charge of flinging poo in that monkey house?

[whirlygigspin]

13. n/t

[Blandocyte]

14. Nice pic of Palin

I like the "palmy notey thing."

[No Elephants]

16. LOLOL, but that's not a pic of Sarah. Both eyes are open.

[chrisa]

15. Don't Islam and Christianity worship the same God?

lol

[mikeytherat]

17. Yes, they do - they both worship the God of Abraham.

But knuckle-draggers don't read books, not even the Bible.

mikey_the_rat

[No Elephants]

19. Much debated. Please see Reply 18. And the Bible doesn't tell you anything about Islam.

Mohammed was not born until many centuries after the the Old Testament was written. New Testament, too.

[No Elephants]

18. I thought so. However, the other side of that is that Muslims supposedly claim

that Jews and Christias got the Bible all wrong. Only Muslims got it right. So, is it the same God, but with different words and behaviors? Or is it a different God?

Frankly, I don't have much interest in pursuing that debate, but there is a debate.

[FLPanhandle]

20. Ape-god would have been more accurate

Since we are basically Apes and made them all up. All god myths should be refered to as Ape-Gods, but monkey-gods works for me too.