American’s Evangelical Christians are notorious for two foreign policy tenets [that are interconnected]: fanatical support for Israel and hostility toward Muslims.

Right-wing Protestant Pastors, when not praising Israeli wars and illegal settlements; routinely spew hatred toward Muslims. Randomly surf right-wing Christian television stations in America - there are about 120 of them in this nation of religious zealotry - and you will come across some pastor attacking Islam as a “terrorist” faith or a rival to the rule of Christ in the world.

These are people who see an inevitable and irrevocable conflict between Christianity and Islam. They are rooting for a new Crusade because they believe only one faith can triumph, and it most Christian soldiers that do so.

John Hagee is just one example of this mentality [just Google Billy & Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Evangelicals and Islam for more]. Hagee is head of the largest church in America - Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas with 19,000 members. He is also the CEO of Global Evangelism Television and of John Hagee Ministries, the latter broadcasts his Sunday nonsense via 160 TV station, 50 radio stations and eight networks in the United States only and through other station in the rest of the world. He is also the founding president of Christian United for Israel, which is a group of far-right Christian whom are really anti-Semitic and want to convert Jews but purely support Israel out of a belief that Second Coming will only occur if Jews, not Arabs, control the land. Hagee was also a one-time “spiritual adviser” to John McCain.

It is no exaggeration to state that Hagee is one of the most influential, if not the most, Evangelical leaders in the country. His views on everything carry some weight. So what he says about Islam is then embedded in a lot of people. Hagee apparently sees it as his goal to raise Americans to hate Muslims and thus be likely to support a war against them.

Hagee was stated that America is in World War 3 against “Radical Islam” and “they hate us because it is their religious duty to hate us;” and stated that the threat of Muslims to America is stronger than that possessed by Hitler and the Imperial Japan.

But Hagee is timid, in comparison to another McCain spiritual adviser and televangelist: Rod Parsley

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In a chapter titled “Islam: The Deception of Allah,” Parsley warns there is a “war between Islam and Christian civilization.” He continues:

I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: “It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492…Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World. It was this dream that, in part, began America.” He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: “We find now we have no choice. The time has come.” And he has bad news: “We may already be losing the battle. As I scan the world, I find that Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed, and more devastation than nearly any other force on earth at this moment.”

These are the thugs who desperately pray for a new Crusades. How dangerous they are for the lives of Muslims and Americans is too much for comfort. They are warmongers and advocates for terrorism and genocide.

And their hatred extends beyond the pews onto signs:

And American politicians the temerity to lecture anyone else on alleged bigotry in their societies. They should examine their own hearts, the heart of their countrymen, first.