... about
Mr. Prager
Dennis Prager was
born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1948 and was raised as
an Orthodox Jew.
In August 1982, Mr.
Prager started his radio career as the moderator of
"Religion on the Line," a Sunday night program in the
Los Angeles area. The program featured discussions
between representatives of various religions on a number
of topics. A typical format of the show would include a
Catholic Priest, a Protestant minister, and a Jewish
rabbi.
Mr. Prager is
an adherent moralist. His political views are almost
always expressed in moral terms. He consider the
"Judeo-Christian values" as uniquely American and central
to the American culture. The term "moral clarity" that he
defines as the ability to identify and combat evil,
appears to be central in his arguments.
Mr. Prager is an
activist, advocate, and a partisan of the conservative
Republican party. He openly attacks the so-called leftist
liberals that include universities, trial lawyers, labor
unions, the ACLU, Civil Rights groups, large newspapers
and television networks, and so on. He is visibly against
all those that do not see the unique positive historical
effect that the so-called Judeo-Christian tradition has
had upon America and the world be it, to mention only a
few, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the National Council
of Churches, or the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr. Prager consider
America as having some sort of "moral superiority" in the
world (his so-called American "exceptionalism") which,
according to him, entitles the United States not be
constrained by international laws or by the United
Nations in pursuit of its goals.
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That view
of "moral superiority" of one nation over the
other or over the world as advanced by
Mr. Prager, is an extremely dangerous view
and no different in essence than the views
promulgated by Adolph Hitler. The Holocaust and
the World War II were a direct
consequence of those degenerated views.
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Mr. Prager
appears to be "uniquely" unqualified to
serve on the Board of the United States
Holocaust Memorial
Council.
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Based on this
rationale of America's "moral superiority,"
Mr. Prager is an enthusiastic supporter of the
United States' initiative in the War in Iraq, which he
characterizes as another example of the US nobility.
[sic!]. It goes without saying that Mr. Prager is
an adamant supporter of President George W. Bush whom he
often describes him as "great." Mr. Prager went even
further on his radio talk show declaring that our current
President Bush "was chosen through the direct
intervention of God." [sic!]
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We are
fearful to ask Mr. Pager where was that God
during the Holocaust, but that presumably is an
entirely different topic of debate which we, for
sure, would not shy from it.
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President Bush for sure appreciated the portrayal of him
as chosen by God so much that, on August 2006, he
appointed Mr. Prager to the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. [sic!].
... about
the
controversy and the recent furor
generated by Mr. Prager's comments
Upon
learning that Keith Ellison --the newly elected Democrat
from Minnesota (USA) and the first American-Muslim to be
elected to the United States Congress, would use the
Koran as oppose to the traditional Christian Bible in the
swearing-in ceremonies, Dennis Prager wrote a small
commentary entitled "America, Not Keith Ellison, Decides
What Book a Congressman Takes His Oath On" that was
posted in the TownHall.com website and reprinted by us as
EXHIBIT-Prager
Commentary,
hereto.
The 2nd paragraph
of that commentary reads:
"He
[Ellison] should not be allowed to do
so -- not because of any American hostility
to the Koran, but because the act undermines
American civilization."
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Then with a vengeance, Mr. Prager continue with
magnifying his point noting in the next paragraph
(¶3) that if Mr. Ellison would be allowed to depart
from the current American tradition in the swearing in
ceremonies that would be an assault to "America's
culture" and to "his holiest book."
In next paragraph
4, the rhetoric is considerably being escalated as here
Mr. Prager declares:
"Insofar
as a member of Congress taking an oath to
serve America and uphold its values is
concerned, America is interested in only one
book, the [Christian] Bible. If you
are incapable of taking an oath on that book,
don't serve in Congress."
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Then, Mr. Prager with considerable force, but not
enough clarity, expands his viewpoint that allowing
Mr. Ellison to get away with his plan of using the
Koran in lieu of the traditional Christian Bible would
undermine and not enhance America and its values.
As a result of the
furor created over those views, Mr. Prager writes a
clarification article entitled "A Response to My Many
Critics -- And a Solution" that is posted on December 5,
2006, on the same TownHall.com website and reprinted by
us as EXHIBIT-Prager_Response,
hereto and addressed to
"those
who do cherish dialogue, including those on
the Left who have trained themselves to avoid
thought by merely choosing from a list of
epithets -- 'racist,' 'bigoted,'
'homophobic,' 'Islamophobic,' 'sexist,'
'xenophobic,' 'fascist.' "
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Mr. Prager's ultimate solution was that Mr. Ellison
to use both the Christian Bible and the Koran for his
swearing-in ceremonies.
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