The internet is a sham.

Captive Audiences and Prison 'Outreach'

This story about prison programs that are clearly (if not explicitly) designed to indoctrinate and convert inmates who - as the headline astutely points out - are a "captive audience" sickens me. If you want to know how Americans should be reacting to this, just try this simple mental exercise. Read the article and make a few replacements:

1. Replace "Christian" with "Muslim."
2. Replace "Christianity" with "Islam."
3. Replace "Christ" or "Jesus" with "Allah."

Now, tell me how the average American would react to such news. Imagine the outcry against the politicians who are lining up to support the current program if they supported the one in our mental exercise. That reaction (focus on it again) should be exactly the same as the reaction to the actual content of the article. Is it?

Labels: christianity, conservatism, islam, politics, religion, sham

posted by Afshin @ 3:03 PM