Robert Spencer's Co-religionist had Sex with Boys to Cure their Homosexuality, What if He was Muslim?

06 April 2011

By Juan Cole

Most of us in America learned something about prejudice and stereotypes in school. We know it's wrong to misrepresent whole groups of people by highlighting only the worst behavior amongst them. Anyone can easily "prove" their religion, ideology, or culture is the most supreme by cherry-picking the worst examples of their opponents and "comparing" it to their highest ideals. Stereotyping, quite frankly, is cheating in the discipline of comparative religion/ideology/culture. But for Robert Spencer, stereotyping isn't a social evil to be resisted. It's a career.

Well, let's turn the tables on him. A former youth pastor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, says he had sex with teenage boys because it was his pastoral duty "to help (the teen) with homosexual urges by praying while he had sexual contact with him."

Earlier this month, Brent Girouex, 31, was arrested on 60 counts of suspicion of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist, reported The Daily Nonpareil…

Court documents indicated Girouex told investigators the most sexual contact he had was with one teen over a four-year period, starting when the boy was 14 years old. Calling the contact "mutual," he said it had occurred between "25 and 50 times" during that period…

"When they would ejaculate, they would be getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind," Girouex allegedly told detectives.

Truly a bizarre, counter-intuitive, and horribly disturbing account of a Christian leader exploiting his position of authority and trust to sexually gratify himself at the expense of innocent minors. This is certainly not the first time a priest or minister has abused children. If we were running an anti-Christian hate site (similar to Spencer's anti-Muslim hate site), this incident would make a fine addition to our police blotter propaganda. We could make a strong case for the weak-minded that Christianity is a sex-with-boys religion. After all, Mr. Girouex appealed to Christian theology and scriptures to justify his misdeeds. This sort of thing happens all the time! What more evidence do you need? Case closed.

Or is it? We're not running an anti-Christian hate site. We know the vast majority of Christians reject this kind of behavior. Neither does Mr. Girouex's action agree with the spirit of Christianity. It'scommon sense. Rather, we promote the American values of tolerance and pluralism. We have stated this repeatedly. Yet, if you're Robert Spencer, whatever a Muslim does wrong, no matter how aberrant or outside the mainstream, it must have happened because of Islam and no other reason, even if the perpetrator is mentally ill.

So here's my question, Mr. Spencer. Is it fair to label Christianity a religion of sexual perversion? Is it fair to blame Christian theology and texts for these crimes? Should we hold senate hearings to protect little boys from their Churches? Shouldn't we stop being "politically correct"? Aren't all Christians collectively guilty for not speaking out enough? Aren't we justified if we gather together toshout obscenities outside the local church of the raping-boys religion?

Of course, Spencer won't accept that any of these suggestions are fair, but when it comes to Islam there is a different standard. And this, as we learned in grade school, is the essence of stereotyping. Not only does Spencer consistently violate the Golden Rule ("do unto others what you would have done unto yourself"), in which he claims to believe, but also, as Senator Durbin recently said, his hateful rhetoric violates "the spirit of our Bill of Rights."

Your Islamophobic House of Cards is falling, Bob. Keep working on that résumé.

New York: 12-year-old charged with attack on Muslim schoolgirl

A Staten Island schoolkid has been charged with felony assault as a hate crime after he tried to rip the religious headscarf off a fellow female classmate, The Post has learned.

Osman Daramy, 12, allegedly attacked the victim today around noon inside the Dreyfus Intermediate School on Warren Street in Stapleton. He and a 13-year-old accomplice beat the girl up, punching and kicking her, before she fell to the ground, authorities said.

"Are you Muslim?" Daramy allegedly barked before grabbing at the hijab wrapped around the victim's head. He was apparently unsuccessful in removing the covering.

Daramy, who has previously attacked the victim four times over a two-month period, was arrested, authorities added. He is also charged with aggravated harassment.

Cops were still seeking his alleged accomplice. Disciplinary against Daramy is pending, said a Department of Education spokeswoman.

New York Post, 30 March 2011

Update here

In a characteristically thoughtful contribution, Pamela Gellerclaims that Osman Daramy has been "charged with blasphemy", because "‘hate crime' is enforcement of islamic law (sharia)"

Terry Jones, Dove World Outreach Center Pastor, Defends Quran Burning On ‘Hardball' (VIDEO)

Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, appeared on "Hardball" Thursday (Aug. 26) to defend his church's decision to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11.

"We have declared September the 11th ‘International Burn a Quran Day' because we want to send a very clear message," Jones said.

"It is indeed a radical message but a very clear, radical message to Muslims, to Sharia law, that that is not welcome in America."

The "International Burn a Quran Day" is just the latest in a series of anti-Islamic protests that the Dove World Outreach Center holds each year to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"Hardball" host Chris Matthews, who called Jones' plans to burn the Islamic holy book "a terrible idea" and warned that it "could cause trouble and even death" when televised in Muslim countries, asked, "What do you think the reaction will be as this goes on international television? What will be the consequence?"

"We believe that this message will be received as it is intended, as a warning," Jones said.

 

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