The media double-standard when it comes to worship is on full display. A TV crew in Raleigh North Carolina recently recorded churchgoers attending an in-person service. After it aired the church reportedly received more than 100 hate messages and several threats of violence.
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Yes, I said church, not Mosque.
“We have gone along for a long time with an aggressively secular culture and told ourselves, ‘It’s not so bad, people still respect our right to practice our faith,’ but in the crisis we now find out that it’s not true,” he said. “Our rights that are safeguarded by a secular state were a lot easier to safeguard when more people were actually Christian, at least nominally. When a minority of America is Christian, these rights can disappear quickly.”
And when the secular media has an agenda against Christians? You get hate mail and threats of violence which would make a great follow up report for which this same news outlet will probably never find the time.
Meanwhile, in upstate New York, Syracuse.com reports (favorably) about a local Mosque that continues to have in-person prayer.
A Syracuse.com reporter and photographer were allowed into the room for a prayer at 1:30 p.m. Monday. The small group of Muslims praised Allah and went through their prayers, mostly in silence, as the fans whirred faintly.
“May God accept our prayers and prevent all diseases from spreading around the world,” the prayer leader said in Somali, according to a translator.
The report is not only not a gotcha it is very accommodating. It outlines the expertise used to make the prayer area as safe as possible. And I think that’s fantastic. Using your skills to help your religious community. But the emergency orders in New York do not make exceptions for how well you have modified your worship facilities. The distancing restrictions are what they are, except they are not. Right?
So, if this building were still a church )it used to be a catholic church). and not a Mosque, would this story be spun differently? It’s a fair question.
Would there be a gotcha piece on a Mosque? And what happens if that report results in threatening letters or promises of violence? It would be 24/7/365 national news, and Donald Trump’s fault to boot. We’d all be intolerable racists and Islamophobes and smart people on TV would say there are too many white people.
Not saying it for good or bad just reminding everyone about the playing field we’re on and who owns it. It’s their culture now and until we find a way to take it back.
Donald Trump’s election was a step in the proper direction. We know this because of how they reacted and continue to react to that moment. Repeating it in November has to be job one.
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