Convert Or Die: Tea-Publicans Embrace The ISIS Doctrine

The American conservative movement has been crystal clear about their devotion to religious intolerance, racial bigotry, and political obstinance. They have honed an ideology of hatred and obstructionism that is unprecedented in our nation’s history. And in the wake of an escalation of brutality by our terrorist enemies, the right-wing only affirms their hard-line views and, even worse, adopts the rhetoric of our foes.

Convert or Die

The latest whack job to jump on the hayride is Duck Dynasty’s patriarch, Phil Robertson. Sean Hannity brought the Duck Dick onto his program to contribute his expertise in national security matters. However, the segment devolved into a sermon with Robertson spending most of his airtime reading from the bible. In one of the few off-the-cuff analyses of current affairs, Robertson offered this bit of wisdom about how to deal with ISIS:

“I’m just saying either convert them or kill them. One or the other.”

Well then, that certainly justified giving him twenty minutes to pontificate on a cable news program. Although it does coincide with previous Fox News pundits like Ann Coulter who said about Muslims generally:

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”

If this rhetoric sounds familiar it’s because we’ve heard from none other than ISIS operatives themselves. As Fox’s Megyn Kelly noted, they invaded towns in Iraq telling the residents that they had to “convert, die, or leave.” So Coulter, Rpbertson, et al, are now cribbing their speeches from the terrorist set. If you’re going to engage in plagiarism, it might be better to follow the Herman Cain model and stick to ripping off Pokemon movie theme lyrics.

Not one to be shut out of the circus, Dr. Ben Carson raised the issue of the “convert-or-die” doctrine in an op-ed for the uber-rightist National Review. But he took a somewhat unique approach in that he wasn’t explicitly advocating it. No, the doctor was citing it to demonstrate the similarities between other Americans and marauding armies of terror.

“Their convert-or-die doctrine parallels some of the social philosophies enforced by the political-correctness police in this country. Either you accept their interpretation of what is moral and correct, or the name-calling starts. We despise the Islamic State but do not see the same ugliness in our own tactics.”

See there? The PC police in America are just like extremists who behead people. And decapitation is no worse than name-calling. How could we not see these same ugly characteristics of our own tactics without Carson’s visionary guidance? No wonder he is such a darling of the Tea-jadist community. And don’t forget, he’s the same guy who said that “ObamaCare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” and that “America is very much like Nazi Germany.”

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So what we have to learn from these folks is that America is already in the same moral cesspool as our terrorist enemies, or that we ought to be. And it is this philosophy that has enraptured so much of the Republican base. If that doesn’t motivate you to vote this November, well, then the terrorists have already won. So there.

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15 thoughts on “Convert Or Die: Tea-Publicans Embrace The ISIS Doctrine

  1. Mark has become crystal clear in his devotion to lying.

    • It’s exactly what Fox is saying, and as I noted below, this isn’t the first time that the right have been eager to stoop to the level of their enemies.

      You’re the same as usual too, crystal clear in your intent and being an asnine little troll.

  2. It’s no news that the right are willing, even eager, to lower themselves to the moral lowground of their enemies, they displayed this very willingness over issues such as American troops committing atrocities in Iraq by saying “they do worse to us therefore it’s ok for us to do that to them”.

    On a more relevant note though, given what the ISIS stand for, I hardly see any other recourse other than war with them, negotiations aren’t going to work when no common ground is available and I’m sure America does not want a common ground with these fundamentalist extremists who execute people through public beheadings as if it were the mid thirteenth century.

    • Actually, beheadings were going on in the England of your forbears to the end of the 17th century, and in the Europe of the ancestry of many Americans until the end of the 18th. Utterly nauseating and barbaric, I agree. But please get the history right!!!

    • We have fundamentalist extremists in this country too and they are called Evangelical Christians. How do we ever expect to get a handle on religious extremism abroad as long as we have it right here at home?

  3. I’ve posted this link on the “Either Convert Them or Kill Them” MMFA thread, Mark, in order to draw more readers.

  4. The three core planks of conservative thinking are: oppression, intolerance and adulation of the rich.

  5. I’m afraid religious bigotry is not the only aspect of the new conservatism that resembles radical Islam.

  6. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

    Quick someone get Fox news their little red outfits… damn Monty Python… then again, Monty seems more based on fact then Fox.

    • and again as I said before, least the ISIS group is giving a choice of leaving… unlike those nice Jesus loving Christians only giving convert or die… now, who’s more humane?

      • That comment is jaw-droppingly stupid.

  7. Perfect!
    Let’s send all the Christians over to
    fight ISIS! It could be a ‘Convert Mission!’
    Let General Phil Robertson lead the charge!
    Hannity said HE wants to destroy ISIS, let HIM
    go fight as well.
    All these religious fanatics can battle it out
    & leave the rest of us out of it!

    • Best idea I’ve heard in awhile.

  8. Since nobody here would possibly lower themselves to actually watch Fox News, you didnt see the interview and will of course believe this entirely. Despite the overly literal translation here, he did talk about wishing it were possible to change their minds & speak to them about following Christ, as any devout Christian is wont to do, but since it isn’t possible he thinks we need to eliminate them & when later asked again about what should be done, he referenced what he said earlier about “converting or killing” them, clearly implying that since we can’t make them change their views & ways, we need to stop them with force. He was also using their rhetoric in an ironic way intentionally but I know you beacons of tolerance could never attribute the ability to knowingly speak ironically or metaphorically to a bible thumping, hillbilly like Phil Robertson.

    • Way to defend disgusting hate speech. Contrary to your blind allegation, I do watch Fox News studiously so that I can report what they do. And Robertson was not speaking metaphorically. Like all religious extremists, he believes that his faith is the one true faith and anyone who disputes it is a minion of Satan.

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