by Gary Leupp

CounterPunch

07/18/04

Rev. Jerry Falwell calls the Prophet Muhammed a 'terrorist.' Rev. Franklin Graham calls Islam 'a wicked, evil religion' and says its God is not the Christians' God. These reverends' followers are very useful supporters of the war on the human mind that is the 'war on terrorism,' the focus of which shifted so swiftly from al-Qaeda to Iraq (alike in little save their Muslimness), and could shift to Syria or Iran or Pakistan suddenly tomorrow. When you mix the anti-Islam pronouncements with Bush policy decisions and millenarian faith, you have an explosive combination...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp