To the editor:
Our President on Feb. 5 condemned all current Christians for the Spanish Inquisition of the 15th century and the Crusades in the 11th century. He also held the Christian religion responsible for slavery, even though most Africans enslaved were first enslaved by Muslim slave traders then sold to western slavers, and most Muslim nations did not abolish slavery until the 20th century, one in the 21st.
Only a politically correct president supported by the media could get away with blaming American Christians for what the Spanish did 284 years before the United States ever existed as a nation. Only the politically correct left could hold all Christians alive today responsible for the Crusades a thousand years ago. Only a politically correct extremist could make a moral equivalency to what ISIS is doing: comparing to ancient history the crucifying, burning alive, raping, and burying infidels and Muslims alive that ISIS is doing today.
The moral equivalency is so just plain stupid on the face of it that few can deny the left wing media’s blind and mute handling of our President’s insulting, outrageous and inflammatory speech.
Recruiters for radical Islam are cheering our President’s speech and no doubt handing out copies as a recruiting tool. Osama bin Laden before his death referred to you and I as Crusaders; President Obama added credibility to Osama bin Laden’s words when he placed responsibility for the 1000-year old-sins of the Crusades on all living Christians, confirming Osama’s teachings in the eyes of 1.6 billion Muslims.
Mr. President Sir, you state we cannot condemn all Islam for the actions of ISIS today, but you condemn all Christians for actions of the Crusades 1000 years ago? Please explain how that works?
Robert M. Traxler, Dorr
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