September 24, 2015 01:33 PM UTC

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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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.