Rep. Chaps: Mecca Pilgrims (Probably) Deserved To Die

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by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Via 9NEWS, Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt’s GOP House leadership is a profile in courage:

House Republican leaders decline to comment on this story at this time, caucus spokesman Joel Malecka told 9NEWS.

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The Grand Mosque at Mecca.

We’ve been following the tragic story of a stampede near the Muslim holy city of Mecca yesterday that killed hundreds of Hajj pilgrims near the end of their religious obligations. Yesterday’s stampede was the second disaster to befall the Hajj season this year, with the collapse of a construction crane in a heavy storm a few weeks ago having killed over 100 at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

Now, we’re going to give our fellow humans the benefit of the doubt, and assume that most of you are appropriately sympathetic to the victims of these tragedies and their families. After all, most people would would tend to have that reaction to the news of hundreds of people being accidentally killed.

But unfortunately, as Right Wing Watch reports, “most people” doesn’t include GOP Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt of Colorado Springs.

Earlier this month, a crane collapsed outside the Grand Mosque at Mecca during a storm, killing 107 Muslim worshipers, which Colorado Republican state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt declared on his “Pray In Jesus Name” show today was “the consequence of their sin” for “praying to Satan.”

“There are two different Gods,” he said. “There is the true God, Jehovah, the father of Jesus Christ, and there is a false god, Allah, who is the father of the false prophet Muhammad. Now which one were they praying to when an ‘act of God’ dumped this crane on their heads and killed 107 people? I think they were praying to a false god.”

“You could either say Allah wanted to kill them,” he continued, “or you could say this is the consequence of their sin when they were really praying to Satan.” [Pols emphasis]

In prayer after these comments, Klingenschmitt apparently did allow for the possibility that this was a natural act, or the result of “poor engineering of the crane”–but what’s really important is that we pray for these poor ignorant Satan-worshipping Muslims “bringing destruction on themselves.” Because surely God wouldn’t do something horrible like this, unless of course he did do it (we’re still pretty closely transcribing here), in which case it’s time to pray to God for mercy. Even though God evidently has already chosen not to show mercy based on the fact that all those godless Muslims are already dead! We haven’t seen an update yet, but presumably God help us all when “Chaps” finds out hundreds more Muslim pilgrims died yesterday in another, you know, “accident.”

Rep. Klingenschmitt, everybody! Bridging the divide between the People of the Book.

15 thoughts on “Rep. Chaps: Mecca Pilgrims (Probably) Deserved To Die”

bullshit! says:

September 24, 2015 at 1:47 pm

Truly sick ghoulish fucker. Doesn't he have anything to do besides explain why people deserve to die? He's as bad as Fred Phelps.

I'll never be so happy to see Bob Gardner…

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1. FrankUnderwood says:
  
  September 24, 2015 at 2:14 pm
  
  I'll never be so happy to see Bob Gardner
  
  That really sounds awkward but so true……….
  
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BlueCat says:

September 24, 2015 at 2:02 pm

That the whole statement is revolting is a given but Muhammad isn't supposed to be the son of God in the same way Jesus is supposed to be. Muslims don't claim that he or any other prophet is God in human form, part of a trinity or the son of God in any sense other than that we are all children of God. For what it's worth, there was never any Jewish teaching in the Jewish Bible that the Massiah will be the son of God in the special sense of being God’s begotten son and God in human form at the same time either.

Whatever anyone believes or doesn't believe about any of this religious mythology is fine with me but when insulting other religions, Chaps should at least get the doctrines of the religions he's insulting straight.

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JeffcoBlue says:

September 24, 2015 at 3:08 pm

9NEWS picks up. Good work again Guvs:

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/politics/2015/09/24/colorado-state-rep-equates-islam-with-satanism/72756756/

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PKolbenschlag says:

September 24, 2015 at 3:31 pm

Clearly God does not punish the wicked. At least not in a timely manner.

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FrankUnderwood says:

September 24, 2015 at 3:33 pm

Why doesn't Chaps run against Michael Bennet?

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1. MapMaker says:
  
  September 24, 2015 at 4:19 pm
  
  Scum only grows on the bottom of shoes. That's why assless won't go beyond the Colorado Springs area.
  
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2. BlueCat says:
  
  September 24, 2015 at 11:56 pm
  
  Please, please, please.
  
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OrangeFree says:

September 24, 2015 at 4:33 pm

Is there not some mechanism to expel him from the chamber!?

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1. FrankUnderwood says:
  
  September 24, 2015 at 4:58 pm
  
  Yes
  
  but it would take 2/3 majority and most Republicans would not want to expel him.
  
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Bokonon says:

September 24, 2015 at 4:52 pm

If the past is any indication, the GOP will probably go through the show of taking away Klingenschmitt's committee assignments again … and then quietly give them right back to him once the news cycle is over, and people have moved on to the next outrage. Slap on the wrist. More of a diversion and play acting for the TV cameras than real discipline.

The GOP has got the tiger by the tail, and can neither hold it nor safely let it go.

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FrankUnderwood says:

September 24, 2015 at 5:18 pm

On the chap crap scale, is this latest brain fart that much worse than his comments about the attack on that pregnant woman, or drowning the gay scout masters? Or some of his other batshit comments.

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1. Gilpin Guy says:
  
  September 24, 2015 at 6:43 pm
  
  Boringly the same. Punishment is his bland brush for attention. At least he doesn't act on his impulses like Jamie Holmes. He's the boringly familiar lunatic who keeps asking for a cigarette.
  
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mamajama55 says:

September 24, 2015 at 7:55 pm

There's really no downside for Chaps in this. His base will keep on giving him money for his fake Pray in Jesus' Name ministry (he made $800,000 last year from these gullible rubes, and gave absolutely none of it to charity).

He gets to dump the poorly-paid boring HD15 legislator gig- none of his bills got passed, anyway. He gets to say that "God told him" to run for the SD12 Senate seat. Then when Bob Gardner wins the nomination and the general, because even El Paso GOP voters have their limits, he gets to keep his cozy little batshit Muslim-and-gay-hating tax exempt "non-profit church", and probably cashes in even better on the phony martyrdom of being "persecuted" by Right Wing Watch, Pols, and me.

CAIR will probably sue him, but that will be good for even more persecution points.

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MADCO says:

September 25, 2015 at 7:14 pm

Ugh…So?

80% of the evangelicals, and Carson, Huckabee and Cruz likely believe the same.

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