Hanuman, Actual (Hindu) Monkey God
HuffPo | Mark Williams, Tea Party Leader, Says Muslims Worship “Monkey God”
The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god (repeat: “the terrorists’ monkey-god.” if you feel that fits a description of Allah then that is your own deep-seated emotional baggage not mine, talk to the terrorists who use Allah as their excuse and the Muslims who apologize for and rationalize them) and a “cultural center” to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult … They cloak their evil with new age gibberish that suggests Islam is just misunderstood.
Way to piss off both Muslims and Hindus, approximately 40% of the world’s population.
I wonder where he got the idea of a Muslim monkey-god. Oh, look here: Seekrit Mooslim carries one in his pocket. MUST BE TERRIST PLOT KING KONG COME FUR OUR GOLDEN WOMANZ.
Williams is obviously too dumb to see that Muslims forbid graven images of their lord to the point that people have created Draw Prophet Muhammed Day in rebellion. Even if they did worship a monkey god, though, is there something wrong with venerating a deity who signifies strength, bravery and loyalty? Guess Williams missed the lecture on symbolism the same day he skipped the one on world religions. Sadly, he does nothing to differentiate himself from fundamentalist religious leaders the world over who distort their own and others’ religions for political gain. Williams is one of the ayatollahs he so hates.
This just in: Mark Williams Apologizes To HINDUS For Saying Muslims Worship ‘Monkey God’
Moreover, Hanuman is worshiped as a symbol of perseverance, strength and devotion. He is known as a destroyer of evil and to inspire and liberate. Those are hardly the traits of whatever the Hell (literally) it is that terrorists worship and worthy of my respect and admiration not ridicule.
Too late. You already told us what you feel about people, in general, who worship god in the form of a monkey, so that primate is already out of the proverbial bag. The face that you didn’t apologize to Muslims, the non-violent, law-abiding ones who live in America and across the world, is more telling. So, don’t you dare use my religion and its god, whom you suddenly admire, to marginalize a whole group of normal humans without as much as an I’m sorry.
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Truth be told, organized religions and their buildings and icons themselves mean very little to me. The ideas behind those physical constructs are more important. The Hanuman in the picture above sits in my office to remind me to buck up when I’m down and to keep going. Similarly, a 13-storey mosque is just a building, but I’m all for placing it near the World Trade Center site. Such an act will give us faith in our better qualities. It will remind us that America is a tolerant nation who grants freedom of religion to all who seek her mercy, that we will not deny that freedom to anyone in response to reprehensible acts of extremism, that any religion is corruptible and can be hijacked by those who speak in its name and that we are smart enough as a nation to work out the difference between good and bad even when they often look the same. If nothing else, it’s an act of hope and goodwill, which we sorely need.
Update 2: Can someone confirm or deny that taxpayer money will be used for religious buildings associated with the WTC Memorial site?
A classic case of someone who sees the splinter in someone else’s eye, but misses the mote in his own. Is a deity in the physical form of an animal any less absurd than the human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism practiced by Christians? Is the religious extremism practiced by Muslims any less dangerous than the religious extremism practiced by Christians who murder medical clinic workers or who fight to make loving same-sex relationships illegal in every possible manner?
Perhaps Mark Williams should take a bite of the apple of knowledge before he makes such comments.
Peace,
Tim
Stunned, but laughing. Between your “seekrit mooslem” quote and Sepia Mutiny’s rant, I can barely type this.
Even though I grasp the gravity of this situation. Know-Nothings and Fire-Eaters never really went away, did they?
Religious ignorance in this country is astounding. Just jaw-droppingly bad. Of all your links, though, the Time caption hits home the hardest.