Friday, April 11, 2008

Fun With Extremist Rhetoric

The good Reverend Wright is a big fan of James Hal Cone. Jimmy Cone wrote a pleasant book in 1969 titled Black Theology and Black Power. Here's an excerpt:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community.... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

Now, read it again, but this time replace the key words and phrases as follows:
- "Black theology" = Islam
- "Black community" = Muslim people
- "White people" = White people (ok, that was too easy to pass up. It should be "the west" or "Zionists")
- "Black power" = Jihad

Fits a little too easily, doesn't it?