Speaker asks religions to unite –

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[Sheikh Yusuf Estes, a former Christian minister] advised believers to unite against secular culture.

[Christians and Muslims] ”today know what the truth is, but we’re all standing by silently while those who don’t believe in

God, don’t believe in any scripture and don’t believe in any prophet are trying to take the world away from the believers, and

sell us down the toilet like a bunch of trash,” he said shouting.

After speaking of the brotherhood of Christians and

Muslims (but not Jews), the Sheikh explains the source of the world’s problems: non-believers. Wow — that’s just like

Republicans saying Democrats want big government and fiscal irresponsibility. It’s a simple lie, a tactic for arousing the passions

of the zealots. Now that all pretense of religious neutrality is gone from America (formerly called “separation of church and

state”), it’s the non-believers who should be afraid. We are one election away from a “Christian Republic”. Can’t happen here? It IS

happening daily. Christian Fascism is going to make “A Handmaid’s Tale” look unimaginative. Get your burkas now,

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printed in the Daily Lobo 3-3-04

”As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight, when everything remains

seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become

unwitting victims of the darkness.” — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas