Chuckie Watch 78: Chuckie's outraged over religious persecution

Now, as we know, ole Chuckie's kind of a careful student of comparative religion.  In fact, the very first installment of the Chuckie Watch was about Chuckie and the Muslims.  That was the one where Chuckie explained that Christians and Muslims worship a different God.  And we know that, because it says rat thar in the King James Bible that God's name is Jehovah.  And the Muslims call their God Allah!  Ah mean, any fool can see that that "Jehovah" and "Allah" are different names!

Well, Chuckie has been doing some more world history analysis for us in Sudan Another Islamic War 12/06/04.  Chuckie is talking about the civil war in the Sudan.  And Chuckie says:

I am so sick of hearing that Islam is a peaceful religion and I realize that all of Islam is not a bunch of fanatical monsters but the people who should be condemning this horror the loudest seem to be strangely quiet. If Islam is a peaceful religion why are we not hearing from Islamic clerics around the world, letting people know that these depraved scumbags don’t represent their mainstream beliefs?

Now, Chuckie wouldn't be sayin' stuff like this is he hadn't thought through it real careful.  And a sensitve soul like Chuckie would be upset by things like the bloody happenings in the transition from the Umayyad dynasty to the Abbasids.  You know, that Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah was a mean ole boy, after all.  I'm sure something like that is what Chuckie had in mind when he worries about an insufficient commitment to peace in the Islamic religion.

Unfortunately, I think some of the pages may have been missing from the comic book Chuckie relied on for his version of world history.  Like the pages about the Christian Crusaders bragging that they made the streets of Jerusalem run with blood up to their ankles - or maybe it was their knees - in taking it back from the Muslims.  In the name of Jesus, of course.  But Chuckie might not count that in measuring how violent Islam is in comparison to other religions like Christianity.  'Cause, hey, those were Catholics, not real Christians!

We better not tell Chuckie about that whole Thirty Years War thing, where the good white European Christians, Catholic and Protestant, slughtered each other for three decades, also in the name of Jesus.  And of the True Religion, of course.

And given that Chuckie swelled with manly pride at seeing the video of an American (and presumably Christian) Marine shooting to death an unarmed, wounded prisoner on the floor of a mosque in Fallujah, maybe Chuckie thinks it's okay for the Christian religion to be violent.  Because, after all, Bush is determined to bomb, shoot and torture them Iraqis into being democratic, all in the name of Jesus.  And God talks directly to Bush, so that's much better than that there Ko-ran thang them Muslims use instead of the Bible.

Anyway, Chuckie's outraged about them violent Muslims in the Sudan:

There is persecution of Christians, unparalleled since the days of Nero. Islamic factions in the Sudan are murdering people for no other reason than their being Christians. Although the Sudanese government denies any involvement in the atrocities the terrorists use weapons, planes and helicopters provided by the government.

Now, Chuckie is not totally off the wall here, even though there are other major reasons than religion behind the civil war: tribalism, regionalism and oil, to name three.  Captured Christians have been forced into actual slavery in some instances by Sudanese Muslims, and human rights organizations as well as Christian religious groups have protested over such outrages for years.

If you are a Christian you have brothers and sisters being raped, murdered and forced into slavery and prostitution.

Now, at least some of us Christians in the world don't see the Christian notion of the "brotherhood/sisterhood" of humanity ("siblinghood" has kind of a funny ring, but I guess I could get used to it) to be restricted only to fellow Christians.

And, I don't know, maybe some pages were missing from the Islamic sections of Chuckie's world history comic book, too.  Up until the mid-1980s, when a more fundamentalist version of Islam became  ascendent in the Sudan, the Muslims there had been especially noted for their tolerance toward other religions.  About 5% of the Sudanese are Christians, and around a quarter of them follow traditional religions of some sort ("primitive religions," they were called a century ago) .  The Christians in the south were more closely associated than the northern part of the Sudan with the British colonialists, who promoted Christianization.  At the time of Sudanese independence in 1955, there were efforts among the Christians to keep British rule in their part of the country.  A north-south civil war dragged on for 17 years, officially ending in 1972.

But Chuckie ain't really into, you know, nuance.  Nuance is for wimps!  What Chuckie is worried about is that them dang Muslims are persecutin' Christians.  And Chuckie don't like it.

So, you say, Chuckie wants to see something done about all this killin' of Christians by the Evil Muslim Bad People?  He's certainly grumpy about the United Nations not having done more:

And what about the United Nations is Kofi Annan and his cohorts so busy trying to cover up the oil for food scandal that they can’t hear the cries of the dying people in the Sudan. [Chuckie's still working on that whole grammar-and-punctuation business.]

But, of course, we know that Chuckie don't much like that there UN, either.  To recall Chuckie's eloquent description of the UN back in Chuckie Watch 76:

... corrupt ... out of control greed ... treachery, deceit and downright cruelty ... propping up the most cruel regime since Adolph Hitler ... clay feet ... this bunch of thugs ... lining their pockets with blood money ... trying to get the embargos lifted so Saddam and his demonic regime could continue to torture and suppress the helpless people of Iraq ... ... a colossal waste of time ... colossal waste of money ... paper tiger ... a bunch of arrogant diplomats to town who park their cars wherever they please ... scandal ...

So Chuckie obviously ain't expectin' the UN to do much about this.

So what does Chuckie want to do about the Sudan?  Well, what he suggests is, uh, nothin'.

Yes, Chuckie says that his Christian brothers and sisters in the Sudan are being "raped, murdered and forced into slavery and prostitution."  But Chuckie doesn't have a single suggestion on what to do about it.

Chuckie's main point seems to be:  Muslims evil.  Muslims kill Christians.  Christians got to kill Muslims first.

Or something like that.  So nothing moves Chuckie with patriotic pride and Christian love more than to see an American soldier blowing away a wounded, unarmed prisoner on the floor of a mosque.  The only good Terrorist is a dead Terrorist, Chuckie says.  And all them Muslims are Terrorists, or friends of Terrorists, or have the same religion as Terrorists, right?