Muslims Out to Take Over America

At least that is what the Rev. David Clippard, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention told delegates meeting this week:

"Today, Islam has a strategic plan to defeat and occupy America," he told the 1,200-strong crowd of delegates (called "messengers"), pastors and lay people, many of whom cheered his words.

Clippard said the Saudi Arabian government and royal family had funded teaching positions and 138 Muslim student centers on university campuses across the United States, three in the University of Missouri system in Columbia, Rolla and St. Louis. "What they are after is your sons and daughters," Clippard said. "They are coming to this country in the guise of students, and the Saudi government is paying their expenses."

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Clippard said that Muslims were hoping to take over the United States government one city at a time, and that they were starting with Detroit, where there is already a large Muslim population.

"They are trying to establish a Muslim state inside America, and they are going to take the city of Detroit back to the 15th century and practice Sharia (or Islamic) law there."

In an interview Tuesday, Clippard said he believed the Islamic "strategy for taking over America" was to wait until there was a Muslim majority here and then "eradicate those who don't conform to their religion."

On Monday night, he told the crowd that "your freedom is on the floor with their foot on it, with their sword raised, and if you don't convert, your head comes off."

This is the kind of thing that makes it so difficult to claim the name of Christian. Clippard's views are bigoted and disgraceful. They are held by far too many Christians, and they have absolutely no relation to anything to do with Jesus.

The Missouri Baptists are associated with the Southern Baptists. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention was scheduled to speak today. Sen. Jim Talent, R.-Mo was also there to speak.