MN Senator Gets Riled Up Over Christian Prayer On Floor

In principle I am in favor of people praying anywhere they choose including the senate floor however as long as we are waging war in Muslim countries and have an unjust one sided policies towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and as long as the antipathy to Islam is so prevelant among Americans,then for now I am against prayer on the senate floor.People who hate Islam will use their public prayers to futher advertise their hatred of Islam.You will have people walking out when Muslims are praying yet have joint Chrristian-Jewish prayers.The refusal to acknowledge that the God of Islam is the Judeo Christian Father is malicious and a rewriting of history.When Islam haters refer to the God of Islam as "Allah"" ,as if they don't know that the word "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God" then the agenda of bigotry is clear.Then prayer on the senate floor is not just about prayer but about openiy insulting a religion.[It's not satisfying to Muslim haters that we're killing them in droves if we can't insult them too.]Public prayer gets used like children and adolescents use clicques; the "us" and" not us" identity that is intended to justify the primitive need to marginalize if not openly demonize another group -the good versus evil paradigm where we are good and they are evil. It is of course the antipathy to what Christianity and Judaism and any religion preaches.As long as the agenda for public prayers on the senate floor has this evil component to it then I am against it.The spectacle of people walking in and out of the senate floor based on who is praying becomes another political tool used as a sledgehammer in our war against Islam.Public prayers becomes more like the actions of a mean spirited clique acting out its meaness under the trumped up guise of "theological purity" [trumped up because Islam IS a Abrahamic religion] then a genuine expression of our common humanity humbly acknowleging our need for grace before our Creator.