Cromwell and Islam

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:32 AM Share


I had rather that Mohmetanism were permitted amongst us than that one of God's children should be persecuted." --Oliver Cromwell, 1652, in support of religious liberty 

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KRISH

11:54 AM ET

March 10, 2009

Hypocrisy of Islam

Most muslim countries do NOT have freedom of religion.

YET, they get and EXPECT to be free to practice their religion EVERYWHERE else! what a culture of hypocrisy and then followed by culture of victimization! having it both ways.

 

COW COOKIE

5:57 PM ET

March 10, 2009

Wild ...

... Cromwell doesn't exactly connote religious liberty for me. I love the esoteric history you post, and somehow it's always so relevant.

 

ZACH T.

7:45 PM ET

March 10, 2009

???

Apparently the 200,000 civilians who died in the conquest of Ireland (through war, famine, and disease) didn't count as "God's children". Not to mention the 12,000 sold off as indentured servants.

 

NYGDAN

10:33 AM ET

March 12, 2009

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Always good to hear from the Lord Protector. I saw the title of this post in my RSS feed and thought, 'now this will be interesting', no dissapointment here. I esp. love the 'mohametism' bit. Heck, he may've even thought that they worshipped Termagent for all we know.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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