Thursday, May 12, 2011

Prominent Islamophobe Geert Wilders to Speak Tonight at Less Prominent Islamophobe Maury Davis' Cornerstone Church

Posted by on Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM

Geert Wilders reveals his true character. Would you buy an extremist ideology from this man?
  • Geert Wilders. Would you buy an extremist ideology from this man?
Nothing gets Middle Tennesseans riled up like some good ol' Islamophobia. Joey Garrison's City Paper piece about Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders' appearance tonight at Cornerstone Church in Madison, posted online at 9:29 p.m. last night, had nine comments at 7 a.m. this morning. Now it's up to 88 comments, and the number keeps changing every time I click "refresh."

As Garrison explains, Wilders isn't exactly subtle or nuanced in his views on the second-largest religion in the world:

A Zelenik campaign ad
  • A Zelenik campaign ad
“I don’t hate Muslims,” Wilders is quoted in The Observer as saying. “I hate Islam.

“Islam is not a religion. It’s an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.”

The 7 p.m. event will be emceed by the always fair and balanced Steve Gill. And it's only fitting that it's being hosted by Cornerstone Church, headed by Pastor — and convicted murderer, but it's cool, because Jesus forgave him — Maury Davis, whose spiritually enlightening sermons (available on CD and for download!) have included titles such as "The Evil of Islam," "Islam Revisited" and "Winning Muslims to Christ."

And it's even more fitting that the event has been organized by the Tennessee Freedom Coalition (we won't get into the irony of that name‚ as we'd need another 1,000 words), whose executive director is none other than Tea Party extremist Lou Ann Zelenik, an ardent opponent of the construction of an Islamic community center planned for Rutherford County. Zelenik, a Murfreesboro businesswoman, lost a heated congressional Republican primary to Diane Black last year.

Let the hate fest begin!

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