Keith Parsons
We have a student at my university who is a young Christian woman who was born in Pakistan. She was still living in Pakistan as a teenager and was working in a small shop when a man entered the shop and noticed that she was wearing a cross. He began to furiously berate her and accused her of insulting Islam. He stormed out and came back in a few minutes with an accomplice. They proceeded to douse her with battery acid, which burned down to the bone in many places. She now lives in this country, and, though having had to endure many reconstructive surgeries; she is accomplishing a great deal and exudes optimism.
What a shame, then, that this country, with its remarkable traditions of tolerance, still has people whose attitudes are hardly different from thugs who throw acid in a young girl's face because she is a Christian. The brainless bigotry displayed by the Islamophobes in Tennessee shows that the recrudescence of religious hatred is always a threat, even in a society founded on Enlightenment ideals of tolerance. Fanatics in Pakistan can point to Murfreesboro, TN to justify their own attitudes.
Keith Parsons is a philosophy prof. Here’s his educational background:
Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D., Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Master of Theological Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; awarded cum laude
B.A., Religion and Philosophy, Berry College, Rome, Georgia; awarded magna cum laude
Impressive, huh? You’d think a philosophy prof. with two masters and two doctorates would be pretty smart. Maybe he is. But he certainly illustrates the difference between wisdom and IQ–not to mention the difference between being highly educated and well educated.
In the first paragraph he describes two Muslim men who douse a Christian woman with battery acid. And this is typical. Islam is contemptuous of women and Christians alike.
Notice, moreover, nothing was said about their being prosecuted. Pakistan is a Muslim country. Indeed, that’s Pakistan’s raison d’être. You can get away with that in Pakistan.
So the victim moves to America. Why do you think she migrated to America? I think it’s safe to say she came here to get away from Muslims. To seek asylum in a country where she doesn’t have to face the persecution that left her maimed for life in Pakistan.
So what is Parsons’s take? He rallies to the defense of Muslim-Americans! But isn’t that the very thing she was trying to escape?
Do we really want to turn pockets of America into Little Islamabad or Little Mogadishu? Do we really want to transplant that culture to American soil?
Why is Parsons so thick-headed that he can’t see the glaring incongruity of his criticism? His atheism has lobotomized his common sense.
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