Sunday, May 28, 2006
I was taking a break from blogging this weekend, but this is too rich not to take immediate note of. UCCTruths is pointing to this op-ed in the Hartford Courant co-written by United Church of Christ President John Thomas, and Muslim American Society leader Mahdi Bray. The UCC has been one of the Protestant denominations in the US pushing divestment, with John Thomas one of its internal shepherds, and the Muslim American Society -- face of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States -- should be well known to all, as should Mahdi Bray. So here we have the textbook alliance of Islamists and Leftist Christians uniting over something having nothing to do with theology.
The United Church of Christ is planning on bringing 10,000 members to our 50th anniversary general synod in June 2007, but because of our concern about the possibility of labor unrest and injustice for the workers, we are exploring other sites. More than 10,000 Muslims are planning to convene in these facilities for the next few summers, and our community is wrestling with the same question.
The only way out of this dilemma - indeed, the only way to ensure that business thrives in downtown Hartford's gleaming new facilities - is for Mayor Perez to enforce the labor peace ordinance...
Have no doubt, matters of "justice" in compicated temporal issues such as this are not about Godliness, they're about secular power and union politics.
I wonder if Imam Bray has been keeping up with his tambourine...
I hope that Des Moines is NOT on their list of replacement sites being considered in lieu of Hartford. I would not want to see that brand of divisiveness here. To be honest Sol, I am a bit envious that Des Moines sent Rabbi Baruch HaLevi, a man of enormous energy, intellect and humanity to the Boston area. In turn, we recently had Iman Ibrahim Dremali transfer here from Florida to assume leadership of the Islamic Center of Des Moines. Dremali, if you check back, has a bit of a checkered past. Not a fair trade-off.
Here is another example of the UCC generating some negative news about themselves. Since the UCC leadership is unable to get any newpaper to report positive news about themselves, they gin up a labor union issue to get themselves into the newspaper.
There is an old saying about "no news is good news". The mainline churches would be better served if their leaders kept quiet than being union organizers and Islamic shills.
Why the members in the pews keep sending money to keep these denominational leaders in their cushy jobs is beyond understanding.
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