Tag Archives: Dennis Prager

‘Not Islamic’?

Posted on September 23, 2014 by David E Smith

President Barack Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that “ISIL is not Islamic.” But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare that a group of Muslims that calls itself the “Islamic State” is “not Islamic?”

Posted in Federal, Islam & Sharia | Tagged al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Boko Haram, Dennis Prager, George W. Bush, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic State, Jamaat-e-Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban | Comments Off

Rainbow-Hued Is the New Black

Posted on June 26, 2014 by David E Smith

I was recently asked this question: “Do you believe that disapproval of interracial relationships is indicative of hatred or bigotry? Interracial relationships like homosexual relationships are freely chosen.”

What my interlocutor was really asking is, “Isn’t disapproval of homosexual relationships analogous to disapproval of interracial relationships,” to which I would offer a hearty “Are you kidding?”

Disapproval of interracial relationships makes as much sense intellectually and morally as disapproval of relationships between people who have different eye colors. Race is a non-behavioral condition. It is as meaningless in terms of morality as eye color. It would make no more moral …

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged anti-miscegenation laws, Dennis Prager, Interracial marriage, Thomas Sowell | Comments Off