Obama is "giving Evil Islam a pass"

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"... The Pentagon canceled Graham's appearance at Thursday's event (Graham will still take part in a Capitol Hill service) because his previous criticisms of Islam as an "evil" religion were "not appropriate" to a prayer service for armed services personnel of all faiths. After his conversation with the president, Franklin Graham said Obama told him he "was going to look into it."

Apparently, the president has not moved quickly enough or in the right direction, and with the National Day of Prayer set for tomorrow -- and with the nation riveted on last weekend's near-miss Times Square bombing by a Pakistani-born Muslim -- Graham has been ramping up his public criticism of Obama with language that is as politically explosive as anything his father ever said.

On Monday, for example, Graham accused Obama of "giving Islam a pass" and said the revoking of his invitation to the prayer service was "a slap at all evangelical Christians."

The younger evangelist told the conservative media outlet Newsmax that while Obama may not have been directly responsible for the Pentagon snub, White House aides surely gave the go-ahead to uninvite him.

"I'm certain that some of the men around him are very much opposed to what we stand for and what we believe," Graham said. He said the pattern of hostility dated to the Clinton years, and that after the evangelical-friendly Bush administration, the federal government has returned to a pattern of "hostility" toward Christians that he said foretells a coming persecution.

"I'm being restricted from my religious rights and from what I believe," Graham said of his dismissal from the Pentagon service.

Even more galling, he added, is that at the same time that Christians are being repressed, Islam is being given special treatment.

"I just don't understand why the president would be giving Islam a pass," Graham told Newsmax. "We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam."