GOP Congressman Warns That Library Books About Muslim Culture Will Undermine Christianity

[The Straight Story]

GOP Congressman Warns That Library Books About Muslim Culture Will Undermine Christianity

There was no photo-op or press release from Rep. Walter Jones’ (R-NC) office when a local library in his district was awarded a federal grant to expand its collection.

Instead, in an exceedingly rare move, Jones actually criticized the grant money that will soon be coming to eastern North Carolina for one reason: it will be used to buy books about Muslim culture.

Craven Community College, a small school in New Bern, was recently awarded a small National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The money, enough for 25 books and a DVD, is intended to expand the library’s Muslim culture collection. Jones protested that the money was unfairly benefiting Muslims and harming Christians, as he explained in a local TV interview.

“I want to treat it fairly and I think too many times the Christian faith is not treated fairly,” Jones said. “If they want to have book about the Muslim’s faith, let’s have equal number of books about Judeo-Christian [faith].”
eyes on Jan 15, 2013 at 3:39 pm

The North Carolina Republican insisted he has nothing against Muslims. “Keith Ellison from Minnesota is a friend of mine and he’s a Muslim,” Jones said.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1452861/walter-jones-muslim-books/

[Politicalboi]

1. My best friend is a Muzlin

Equal but separate. These people make me sick. How about NO RELIGION. I like that the best.

[okaawhatever]

2. If there are fewer books in the library about Christianity, then u have a point. I'll bet there's

a whole lot more. Information fail. This is a "quip op", The entire tbag gop wants to be able to quote how the white house boght 25 muslim books and no christian books. I see where this is going.

[Turbineguy]

3. I'd guess

his faith is a bit weak.

[jmowreader]

4. That grant will have to be a lot bigger to make ot equal

I have the strange feeling Craven Community College has lots of books about Christian culture. And is it just me or is Christianity the world's flimsiest religion?

[Teamster Jeff]

5. The GOP God Squad are all book burners at heart

[southernyankeebelle]

6. God forbid if people should learn about muslim customs. Maybe if we learned about their culture

we could understand why they hate us so much. Maybe we could try to bridge the gap. Who knows. Besides that not many rednecks read about the own history and if they do it's the rewritten history. They can't take the truth about their own history so how do we expect them to learn about others.

[cbrer]

7. If it wasn't tragic that this man

Has a say in the future of our nation, it'd be fucking hilarious. The clown car keeps getting longer and longer.

*However*

How much influence will fundamentalist christianity have in our political future?

[Thinkingabout]

8. He needs to read some books about religious freedoms in the US.

I am ashamed at actions of some Christians, they do not respond as WWJD. Why are the books being restricted. I thought most are for less government in our lives, except when they want to interfere.

[Kurovski]

9. Christianity is doing a good job of undermining Christianity.

No one else comes close.

[Science Geek]

11. It's doing a FANTASTIC job!

Credit where credit is due.

[Angry Dragon]

10. idiot