According to Pat Robertson: "If we don't stop covering up what Islam is ... Islam is a violent -- I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion, it's a political system, it's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination," Robertson said. "You're dealing with not a religion, you're dealing with a political system, and I think we should treat it as such, and treat its adherents as such as we would members of the communist party, members of some fascist group."
Pat Robertson will most likely be remembered as an exclusionary, hateful, simple-minded fool. In my view, and in contrast to Christopher Hitchens, religion can and should be used as a conduit of inclusiveness, acceptance, and peace. People like Robertson (of any religion) who hold this holier-than-thou attitude leave us rational people in their crossfire. But he's obviously so self-righteous that he will never come to realize his views and rhetoric essentially make him the western version of bin Laden. (I think I just feel the need to write about this because a lot of my research lately has been about evangelical Christians. I would hope that Pat Robertson is mostly irrelevant by now and only good for ignorant soundbites like this one.)
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