Group wants evangelist off May Pentagon event

Group wants evangelist off May Pentagon event
By Dan Elliott - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 20, 2010 15:59:28 EDT

DENVER — A watchdog group on Tuesday objected to an evangelist’s invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as “evil” offended Muslims who work for the Defense Department and the appearance should be canceled.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said inviting evangelist Franklin Graham to speak May 6, the National Day of Prayer, “would be like bringing someone in on national prayer day madly denigrating Christianity” or other religious groups.

It would also endanger American troops by stirring up Muslim extremists, Weinstein said.

Graham is the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and president and CEO of both Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian international relief organization in Boone, N.C., and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in Charlotte, N.C.

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After the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Graham said Islam “is a very evil and wicked religion.” He hasn’t changed his views on Islam, said his spokesman, Mark DeMoss.

if "religious freedom" is truly free, then the idiotic beliefs of ALL religions must be allowed. Who's to say which idiocies are okay and which are not? Just because religious delusions include denigration of other religious delusions should not exclude it.