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Gawker reports on a dogwhistle code passing around the Internet for extremist paraphernalia wishing death upon the president. An out-of-context piece of a sacred text is cited as justification.
If this were a different religion, the individuals responsible would the subject of massive government surveillance and possible prosecution. The Qu’ran would be cited as a blueprint for murder, as Pat Robertson implied earlier this month. Instead, this will be treated as a harmless joke.
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Amen, Spencer.
109:8 doesn’t say anything about death, just leaving office. Possibly the person who came across it just saw the one line. And people are already taking it seriously.
Also, those pesky Christians didn’t blow up New York, blow up buses in Jerusalem, trains in Spain, the USS Cole, or shoot up Fort Hood. At least not lately. So we can consider their extremists less “dangerous” than some others I could mention.
At the very least, I’m sure various clergy are upset at taking the Bible too lightly. So I don’t think this slogan has legs.
Fred, you might want to take a gander at the next two lines of that Psalm before stating that “it doesn’t say anything about death, only leaving office”
No, Christians haven’t blown up NYC or Jerusalem. But they have blown up Oklahoma City’s federal building, shot up noncombatants in the Holocaust museum and in abortion clinics, and stockpiled pipebombs and ammunition caches for when “govtmnet pushes us”.
Wake up. Extremists use this stuff like crack addicts. They live on it, and they’ve already started acting on it. Or do you think the Secret Service’s claims of being three times overworked as compared to GWB to be a fluke of statistics?
How about a little intellectual honesty?