Religion & Law

Muslim Theology (GOP Style)

By Rob Vischer

A few months ago I chastised Howard Dean for his injection of theological claims into his depiction of Democratic Party politics.  At least his was well-intentioned and aimed at affirming the good civic standing of members of minority faith traditions.  The same cannot be said for Fred Thompson in last night's debate suggesting his willingness eagerness (?) to send Iranian sailors to meet their beloved virgins.  Watch Thompson's theological red-meat-to-the-masses line here.  (Apparently all members of the Iranian military are also Islamic terrorists.)  Mike Huckabee also had an arguably theologically presumptuous line about the Iranian sailors seeing "the gates of hell," but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he was speaking figuratively.  (As an aside, I earlier indicated that I found Huckabee to be "huggable."  I no longer do.)

Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on January 11, 2008 (boomark / email).