Islam Has Its Inquisition
This spring I came home
and found the gift of a book on my front porch. The book, Hunger’s
Brides: A Novel of the Baroque by Paul Anderson is 1,323 pages of
text. It weighs a little more than a Pomeranian. Not only is this a heavy book physically, it
is a heavy book intellectually. It is
two novels in one, each centered on the life of Mexico
Sor Juana herself is someone you will want to meet. She was born in 1651, and had taught herself
to read by the age of 3. At nineteen she
entered the convent and became a prolific, world renowned writer and poet. She died, ministering to fellow sisters
struck down with plague in 1695. What
would cause a beautiful woman to give up both life at the court of Mexico, and
numerous offers of marriage so she could enter the convent? What would cause a scholar, who owned
thousands of books, to sell them all and take on the life of a penitent? What would cause a genius who attracted the
greatest minds of both the new and old world to her salon to take a vow of
silence? The answer comes in one word:
Inquisition. At the height of her fame
and writing prowess, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, a rare woman in any age, ran
afoul of the Mexican Inquisition and wisely chose silence over torture and a
painful death.
The Inquisition is a blot on the history of Christianity. It ran from the 1200’s until well into the
1600’s, getting more politically and sadistically convoluted the whole
time. When the Spanish Inquisition
transferred to Mexico it was immediately manned by the usual array of
over-achievers who used the power of fear and moral superiority as an excuse to
indulge every vile vice and perversion imaginable. Just as the Inquisition silenced Sor Juana,
likewise a modern Inquisition is silencing, killing, torturing and twisting the
true message of an otherwise valid religion.
That Inquisition is radical Islam.
Let
me make this very clear: God is real, grace is God’s gift to us and faith is
our gift to Him. But God did not create
religion, man created religion and men, no matter how well intentioned, make
mistakes. Islam, as it is being
envisioned by the thugs of the Muslim Brotherhood is a big mistake. I knew that the Arab Spring was nothing more
than an excuse for extremists to spread violence and hatred. They are proving me right my attacking women,
Christians, anyone who doesn’t fit their political agenda. Trust me; religion is just the vehicle these
pusillanimous pigs use to get what they want.
God may forgive them, but I won’t.
I
desperately wish the jejune, poorly educated, leftist marionettes in this
administration had read enough about the Inquisition to recognize it when they
see it. Militant Islam hates the world
and loves power. This is not about faith;
it is about using the tools of the Inquisition to take over both lives and
minds. Cruelty has two uses, to punish and the instill fear of punishment. Juana Inez de la Cruz knew all about
this. The Inquisition silenced a
brilliant mind. At the White House it
has silenced a very ordinary one.
Speak against the Inquisition and keep the faith.
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