9/11 – “ACTS OF SACRED PIETY?”

By Garner Ted Armstrong

According to Representative Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat, Osama bin Laden and his ilk are very much like our American revolutionaries who were throwing off the British Crown.

The other day she told the Toledo Blade, “One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind (sic) of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.”

So men like Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Payne, Revere and Franklin seized power through assassination, bloody coups, torture, and murder? Men who sought no taxation without representation are like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein? Such a quantum leap in fantasy leaves one in a state of incredulity; of puzzled wonderment. Before long, the woman will decide Saddam Hussein is a saint, and should be canonized.

But the founding fathers did not murder tens of thousands of Americans to gain power. Washington did not lower one of his generals screaming into an acid bath. Jefferson did not murder his own sons-in-law for defecting. The founding fathers did not send their people to Britain with bombs concealed beneath their clothing.

Going even further, the liberal Kaptur said, “I think that people of faith understand that for many of the terrorists, their actions are acts of sacred piety to the point of losing their lives, and I think that people of faith understand that there is a heavy religious overtone to the opposition.”

So as Atta and his fellow terrorists shrieked, “Praise to Allah!” as they flew commercial airlines filled with screaming passengers into the trade towers and the Pentagon, they were committing “acts of sacred piety to the point of losing their lives?”

As the bomber boarded the bus in Haifa the other day, wending his way through packed students to the middle of the crowded bus before triggering the bomb in his backpack, muttering to himself as he blew himself into a thousand bloody bits, “Praise to Allah!” he was committing an “act of sacred piety?” Suddenly, suicide bombers are pious? Had the lady been aboard the bus, and escaped with only the loss of one leg, perhaps she would not have felt so benign toward the religious fanatic who murdered helpless students.

Perhaps the lady should study her own religious history, and decide that the priests who stood over the Waldensians who were being systematically skinned alive, uttering prayers for the souls of their victims during the inquisition, were also “committing acts of sacred piety.”

This woman is Catholic and is an elected official in the government, for pity sake!

It makes one wonder if those who voted for her, and put her in office, really knew of her incredible lack of understanding of her own national roots, or of her smarmy attitude of benign appeasement toward dictators and suicide bombers.

There is a vast difference between hate-filled terrorists (who would just as soon blow up the gentlewoman, along with any other Americans they could find) who prey on innocent civilians, and American revolutionary leaders who fought for freedom from tyranny.

Americans had better pray to God such women never get elected as president – for if they do, you have seen the last of America.