Bill O’Reilly’s Warped ‘Catholic-Muslim’ Analogy

Neither pedophilic priests nor ISIS “abuse” their religion.

Raymond Ibrahim  29 

 

While recently discussing how President Obama’s relationship to Islam is undermining U.S. security, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly offered up some strange analogies:

Barack Obama has deep emotional ties to Islam. Now to some extent I can identify with Barack Obama on the religious issue.  As a Roman Catholic I was appalled when the priest pedophilia scandal broke. There’s absolutely no excuse for the Catholic Church covering up many horrendous crimes….  However, like Barack Obama I do make the distinction between the faith and the people who abuse it. But here’s where I depart from the president. I went after the American Catholic leaders of the church with a vengeance….  President Obama should do what I did.  Aggressively call out those who abuse the Muslim faith, who commit atrocities under a religious banner.
 

O’Reilly’s claim that “I do make the distinction between the faith and the people who abuse it” presumably means that he distinguishes between Catholicism—which does not promote the molestation of children—and those who “abuse” it for such ends.....To Read More...