Why Islam is a tricky situation, politically speaking

The New York Times (Friday November 30, 2007, A-3) reported today how a British school teacher has been sitting in a jail cell in the Islamic nation of the Sudan.

Her crime?

She teaches 7 year olds in the Sudan and had the brazenness to actually name the class teddy bear "Muhammad."

In the U.S. we can sell cabbage patch dolls at Christian bookstores that are modelled after Jesus Christ, but apparently the prophet Muhammad must be rolling over in his grave that a teddy bear has been named for him!

Oh, and by the way this school teacher will now be deported back to Britain and this is the lenient administration of Shariah (Islamic Theocratic) Law. Her maximum penalty under Shariah Law would have been 6 months in jail and 40 lashes.

Well, folks, I am an American. Whether Islamic, Jewish, Christian (or even Buddhist!), we are protected by our secular government whose Constitution says that Congress shall make NO law creating an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise of religion!

So, go ahead and buy some stuffed baby Jesus dolls for your kids at Christmas! Jesus Christ will actually like it . . .

Love in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, Theocrat under the Sovereign Reign of Jesus Christ promoting a Democrat-led secular Constitutional representative Republic

JUSTICE, a proposal for a new, better America . . .

Folks, we live in an inherently unjust land. From the slavery that dominated the South up until the Civil War to lynchings in the next hundred years of "Jim Crow South" to anti-Catholic sentiment perpetrated by the KKK, the A.C.L.U. and other hate groups to fiscal domination by big corporate America that sends pink slips to the nation's best and brightest while lifting up greedy telemarketers (sales reps who even try to dominate even higher education at supposed universities such as the for-profit University of Phoenix), we live in an inherently unjust society.

Law will help change the structures.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said (paraphrase) that he could not keep someone from hating him (due to the color of his skin), but he could sure keep people from lynching him if the correct laws are passed!

Similarly, I as a committed born-again Christian (charismatic Catholic) cannot keep people from hating me, discriminating against me and even imprisoning me for my beliefs (at times and in evil places like Rochester, NY, a bastion of anti-Christian thought), but through committed effort, and working with the best of secular, Jewish and Christian Americans, things can improve!

Whether it is a secular fellow political activist such as Chad Lupkes on the Far Left or my Catholic and Evangelical Protestant colleagues on the Right (increasing not 'far right' which is more racist and elitist than anything . . .), the Nation and indeed the entire Western Hemisphere will move forward.

Yes, we have suffered from corruption. Whether the evil was Enron, World-Com, or illegal War profiteering (not to mention the evils of pornography, abortion, and suicide by physicians), we have indeed mutilated our own country. We are a corrupt people now due to the corrupt leadership that we have had. Whether it is Dick Cheney's conflict of interests in War profiteering or Bill Clinton's adultery, we have suffered.

Give me that old time Democrat and Republican Christian heritage that is truly Christian. Jimmy Carter is a good model to follow. We gave him the boot just because of circumstances beyond his control (OPEC control of oil, the Iran hostage affair), but then he went on to become a great WORLD LEADER.

Yes, there IS JUSTICE.

Rob J. King, VERITAS et IUSTITIA ("Truth and Justice")