CBN's Erick Stakelbeck Mixes ‘Terrorism
Analysis' with Biblical Prophecy
29 March 2012By Juan Cole
It has been almost-comical to see how the Christian
Broadcasting Network's Erick Stakelbeck went from
working as a sports reporter to a "terrorism analyst"
heralded by Religious Right and anti-Muslim groups,
which never seem to question his complete lack of
credentials and expertise. But Stakelbeck knows how to
please a crowd with his vehement diatribes against
Muslims and progressives, warning that they are both
have a "shared hatred for this country."
Stakelbeck's "expert analysis" even includes biblical
prophecy, as he recently told Marcus and Joni Lamb on
Celebration that he knows the Syrian civil war will
end with the destruction of Damascus because the Bible
tells him so in Isaiah 17:1. "I believe right now we
are seeing the seeds laid for the eventual destruction
of Damascus," Stakelbeck says. "The Bible says it's
going to happen, and it's going to happen."
Stakelbeck went on to claim that Islamic terrorists
had infiltrated cities all over the United States,
including Dearborn, Michigan, which he referred to as
a "radical Islamic enclave" and "Dearbornistan." This
may come as a surprise to Dearborn's Catholic mayor,
John O'Reilly, Jr., who called claims that Dearborn is
beheld to Sharia law "absurd" and notes that only a
minority of Dearborn's population are Muslims, who
have been in Dearborn for ninety years. Earlier this
year, a 63 year old man was caught traveling with
explosives with the intention of blowing up a mosque
in Dearborn.
He later said that while he was in Israel God spoke to
him and told him to defend Israel, saying, "I know why
I'm here on this earth."
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in the USA
is Noticed in the Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised
an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to "not pay
attention" to the comments made by candidates vying
for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the
often overheatedrhetoric of the campaign doesn't
reflect U.S. policy.
Speaking at a town-hall style event in Tunisia, the
North African nation that sparked the "Arab Spring"
revolts, Clinton said the partisan remarks made during
campaign events "certainly don't reflect the United
States, don't reflect our foreign policy, don't
reflect who we are as a people."
Clinton's remarks came in response to a question from
a member of her audience who said he was troubled by
some of the comments, which he considered anti-Muslim,
made by candidates running for president.
"If you go to the United States, you see mosques
everywhere, you see Muslim-Americans everywhere.
That's the fact. So I would not pay attention to the
rhetoric," she said.
Instead, she advised people to listen instead to
President Barack Obama.
"I think that will be a very clear signal to the
entire world as to what our values are," Clinton said.
She added that she is sometimes surprised that people
around the world pay more attention to what's said in
U.S. political campaigns than do most Americans.
"I think you have to shut out some of the rhetoric and
just focus on what we're doing and what we stand for
and particularly what our president represents,"
Clinton said.
Obama has come under fierce criticism from Republicans
for apologizing for the burning of Qurans at a
military base in Afghanistan.
GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich said while campaigning that
the apology was "astonishing" and that Obama "has gone
so far at appeasing radical Islamists that he is
failing in his duty as commander in chief,"
American military officials say the burning of the
Muslim holy books was a mistake, but it has sparked
days of violent protests across Afghanistan.
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