The right question…
Iranian President Ahmadinejad criticized Britain for deploying the mother of a child to serve in the Mideast. The mother, Seaman Faye Turney, was one of fifteen British sailors and marines released by President Ahmadinejad earlier today. Ahmadinejad asked the
British government:
How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children?
Why don’t they respect family values in the West?
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Yeah, when I read this I was quickly torn-down from any feeling of superiority to or self-righteousness over the Iranians. Shame on us (and the UK) for shielding ourselves with mothers. Thank God for the mercy (for whatever reason it has been shown) of the Iranians towards this mother and her family.
So Ahmadinejad respects family values? If so, I’ll pass, thanks very much. His brand of family values won’t get you very far either with the civil authorities or with God.
And do you honestly think he really respects family values? Or has he just learned to manipulate the politically correct language and sentiments of the decadent West for his own ends? Either way, I’m not ready to start feeling inferior to the Iranians any time soon.
“How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children?”
The title of the post is “The Right Question.”
No one’s proposed the Iranians as models of family values.
“No one’s proposed the Iranians as models of family values.”
Except the president of Iran.
I wonder how long this will take to become a weapon against those who promote biblical fatherhood and motherhood. Probably has already become a new argument for many.
How much energy should we expend in distancing ourselves and the biblical worldview from this man and the worldview he promotes?
The question is: How much time and energy should we expend calling attention to those areas of social traditionalism that Muslims and Christians have in common, rather than to the much more significant spiritual and theological gulfs that separate us?
You’re right, these similarities haven’t gone unnoticed by many liberals, who like to lump “fundamentalists” of all stripes together–the Bible-believing Christian with the terrorist. In this context, should we be looking to the Middle East and talking about how its inhabitants are a rebuke to us Americans because they have more babies and won’t send women into war? If only we could be more like them…
David:
I think the question is: have we Christians done as much to prophesy against the feminist spirit of the age as Iran’s president?
Thing is, it’s not enough to decry falsehood; we need to proclaim truth. We can’t merely complain about what’s wrong with the world. I see a million heresies starting with objections against actual problems; the answers that are proposed as solutions are the heresies.
It’s not necessarily good that Ahmadinejad merely shows us a problem with our western society in denying the clear truths of sexuality, because if we follow it through, his solution to the problem – what he would change our society to – is terrible. He says feminism is wrong for one reason; we say it is wrong for another. There’s a world of difference. Our emphasis must be on proclaiming God’s truth of sexuality (or, indeed, God’s truth of any subject).
We must not forget Islam’s complete view of sexuality. Remember their idea of what Paradise is?
Remember too that of the 99 names for Allah, not one of them is “father.”
I wonder how the Iranian president can make such a statement when Muslim women strap on explosives and blow up buses full of innocent men, women (mothers) and their children? Or when Muslim women will hide explosives in the bottles of their babies in order to blow up the plane they are traveling in? Or blowing up planes and buildings filled with mothers and children?
Muslim women frequently go into battle. They just don’t wear fatigues. They use the garb of femininity (because people don’t suspect them of violence) as a cloak for their evil. How many of our Marines have been killed because a woman dressed in a burkha lured our servicemen into letting down their guard?
I can’t understand why his comments have anything to do with us? Does he really care about the mothers of the United States? Aren’t they the ones always chanting “Death To America”? He has no qualms about killing civilian mothers on American turf but he will make a comment about how sad it is to see some women in the US military?
He talks out of both sides of his mouth. Muslim women have been actively fighting for Jihad and they will sacrifice their own children if it means that they can kill as many Amercians as possible.
>I wonder how the Iranian president can make such a statement when Muslim women strap on explosives and blow up buses full of innocent men, women (mothers) and their children?
Because he’s a servant of Hell?
How can you justify seeing a father away from his home, his children?