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Be Firm on Islam Yet Flexible with Muslims · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. I filled in for Gene Stothert on
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  Speaker 1: Monday and had a spicy exchange with a caller who
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  Speaker 1: accused me of demonizing Muslims. It was prompted by a
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  Speaker 1: discussion of Hassan Piker, jumping in to defend Nebraska U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate candidate Dan Osborne. Piker is the poster boy and
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  Speaker 1: rock star for the Marxist-Muslim alliance called trying to take
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  Speaker 1: over the Democratic Party and ultimately America. He has said
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  Speaker 1: that America deserved 9-11, that the streets should run red
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  Speaker 1: with the blood of capitalists, that social murder, such as
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk slaughter of a health care executive, is acceptable,
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  Speaker 1: and that certain politicians should be killed. What triggered the
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  Speaker 1: caller was that I said Piker is part of the
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  Speaker 1: legacy of hostile Islamic invaders who have been coming for
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  Speaker 1: the West for more than a thousand years. I referenced
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  Speaker 1: battles at Vienna in Austria, tours in France, Lepanto off
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  Speaker 1: the coast of Greece, and the Isle of Malta in
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  Speaker 1: the Mediterranean. All were efforts by Islamic powers to break
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  Speaker 1: into and conquer Europe. Now they're doing it by immigration,
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  Speaker 1: followed by domination rather than assimilation. They have been successful
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  Speaker 1: in many parts of Europe, and have established enclaves and
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  Speaker 1: political strongholds in the U.S. The caller said he had
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  Speaker 1: a Muslim friend who is afraid to leave his house
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  Speaker 1: because people like me whip up hatred for Muslims. I
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  Speaker 1: asked if the facts were wrong about the historical battles
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  Speaker 1: and about beheadings and no-go zones for law enforcement in
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  Speaker 1: European nations. I asked why cartoonists feel free to mock
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  Speaker 1: the Pope but don't dare target Muhammad. The caller said
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  Speaker 1: every religion has extremists. I, and a subsequent emailer to
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  Speaker 1: the show, said that was a false equivalency. I said
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to violence, there is in Islam a
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  Speaker 1: higher degree of intensity and a broader acceptance than there
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  Speaker 1: is in Christianity. The caller said Hitler and the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: were Christians. I laughed and said he should look up
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  Speaker 1: Maximilian Kolbe and other Christians who were martyred by the Nazis.
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  Speaker 1: The Nazis were secular socialists whose church was their fascist
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  Speaker 1: national government. If there was a God, it was Der Führer.
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  Speaker 1: A KFAB listener I have dubbed Mike the Archer, he
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  Speaker 1: is an archery instructor, contacted me after the show to
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  Speaker 1: say there was an important detail I should have mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 1: When Muslims get violent with infidels and bully or kill them,
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  Speaker 1: they are following the dictates and example of Muhammad. When
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  Speaker 1: Christians do it, they are not following the dictates and
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  Speaker 1: example of Jesus Christ. Mike is right. Thank God I
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  Speaker 1: have this podcast to augment my position. I mentioned on
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  Speaker 1: the radio that one of my son's best friends in
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  Speaker 1: junior high was a Muslim classmate at a Catholic school.
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  Speaker 1: It was not an issue. We got to know and
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  Speaker 1: like his mother as well as the young man. They
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  Speaker 1: were in our home. We were in theirs. This got
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  Speaker 1: me thinking about what my pastor said about abortion. He said,
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  Speaker 1: On the issue, we must not budge on principle. In
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  Speaker 1: dealing with people, though, we must be Christ-like. His example
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  Speaker 1: was his offer to help a woman repair her relationship
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  Speaker 1: with God. She said, Father, you don't understand. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: lost cause. I had an abortion. He replied, This is
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  Speaker 1: why I became a priest, to help you find your
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  Speaker 1: way back to God. That's beautiful and very Christ-like. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not budging on principle, but I'm here to meet you
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  Speaker 1: where you are and help you get where you need
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  Speaker 1: to be. As a Christian, my approach to Muslims is,
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  Speaker 1: I will never abandon my faith in Western civilization based
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  Speaker 1: on natural law and 4,000 years of Judeo-Christian teaching. However,
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  Speaker 1: I am willing to meet you where you are and
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  Speaker 1: get to a place where you and I can do
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  Speaker 1: business with each other and maybe be friends. That is
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  Speaker 1: one of the best things about Legacy America, our constitutional
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  Speaker 1: democratic capitalist republic. It allows the possibility for and in
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  Speaker 1: fact encourages people of different backgrounds to find common ground
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  Speaker 1: and get along. We can walk and chew gum at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. We can speak and stand against the
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  Speaker 1: threat Islam as a political and cultural force poses to
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  Speaker 1: Western civilization while developing harmonious relationships with actual Muslims we
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  Speaker 1: encounter in our lives. It is very much the American way.
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  Speaker 1: That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.