Actually, Worldnet Daily's January 27, 2011 article merely rebroadcasts a theme emitted last October, 2010, by the American Family Association's spokesperson Bryan Fischer, who wrote, "Folks in hospitals, schools, and pubs across the U.K. have been eating food that has first been blessed in the name of the demon-God Allah but know nothing about it."

Fischer is, among other things, a demonstrated American history ignoramus (see this take-down of Fischer's Christian nationalist mythology by history writer and libertarian lawyer Jonathan Rowe) who has a brilliant knack for self parody.

For example, Bryan Fischer has claimed that deadly attacks by bears and killer whales were heaven-sent, divine retribution for the violation of Old Testament laws. After a Killer Whale at Sea World in Florida attacked and killed one of its trainers, Fischer blamed violation of Biblical Law for the attack and then went on to declare that the Killer Whale in question should be stoned to death - once again citing Old Testament scripture.

Fischer's October 2010 missive established the template for the January 27th Worldnet Daily story and darkly hinted that the Campbell's Soup Company was unwittingly an accomplice to Islamic terrorism. Worse yet, Campbell's Soup customers were eating "jihadi-sanctified food"! Oh my.

Creeping Sharia has come to a grocery aisle near you. Campbell's soups have come out with a line of 15 halal-certified soups which comply with the dietary regulations of the two percent of the American population that follows Islam. The soups have been certified by the Islamic Society of North America, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood whose cluster of 29 affiliated organizations - including ISNA - have a goal of "exterminating and destroying the Western civilization from within." ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist-fund raising trial in history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. Well, nobody will be able to blame Campbell's for not doing its part to cooperate with those who hate America and want to see her and her Constitution subverted and then wiped out altogether. The next time you pop open a can of Campbell's vegetarian soup, you'll have the comfort of knowing that you are consuming jihadi-sanctified food.

Islamic jihadist chunky chicken vegetarian soup conspiracies are not Bryan Fischer's only concern though. Right Wing Watch (a project of People For The American Way) has extensively chronicled Fischer's ongoing torrent of AFA sanctioned hate-speech which includes the debunked claim that Adolf Hitler and his top Nazis were gay, and following the recent brutal murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato, Fischer's AFA (and Worldnet Daily as well) reprinted the following tirade from evangelical anti-gay activist Scott Lively:

The murderers are the lavender Marxists, the now-global network of sexual revolutionaries bent on remaking the entire world in their own perverted image, whose juggernaut has toppled even once mighty Britain, crushing under their lavender boots after eight centuries the symbol of its Christian power: the Magna Charta, whose first principle had proclaimed "The English church must be free!" These revolutionists of Sodom, who march triumphantly through all the major cities of the western world to flaunt their defeat of moral law, and who hold both Hollywood and the heart of America's president in their iron grip: These very same zealots have fixed their malevolent gaze on Christian Uganda. ... There is indeed evil in Uganda today, but it is not the reaction of Christian and Moslem citizens to the rape of their culture. It is the pink-gloved hand of western powers that are cutting the throat of Africa's most God-fearing country, and one of the world`s most promising Christian democracies.



Ah, Uganda. As I wrote in my January 19, 2009 Talk To Action story Rick Warren's African Allies Tied To Massacres, Sex-Slavery, Forced Labor, Concentration Camps, the government of Uganda stands accused of numerous war crimes and human rights violations which, as I wrote, included "perpetrating terrorism and massive human rights violations including massacres and assassinations, mass-rape, slave labor, sex slavery, large scale concentration camps, and the use of child soldiers."

Actually, there's no question about the last point there - Museveni has openly and proudly admitted to using child soldiers during his 1980's guerrilla campaign to shoot his way into power. In footage posted numerous places on Youtube, you can watch Yoweri Museveni himself explain that Ugandan children learn to fight very young - by the age of four claimed Museveni, and thus his use of child soldiers was, by Ugandan cultural standards, quite acceptable. IN fact though, Museveni helped to pioneer to the practice.

Most recently, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has been publicly accused of masterminding what critics characterize as an ongoing campaign of genocide against the Acholi people of Northern Uganda.

But getting back to Bryan Fischer - as Sebastian Jackson writes in a February 6, 2011 installment of his zestily acerbic Naughty Meter,

"Are you eating food sacrificed to idols?" Can wicker baskets kill you? Hey, it's WorldNetDaily--the gay-genocide-endorsing, "inferior breeding stock"-lamenting, cockamamie-commentating "Birther" joint! They publish whetever they want to publish, no matter how offensive or weird! The article publicizes an Islamophobic sermon by a Messianic Jewish pastor who has taken up CBN's mantle of warning America about how halal food endangers our very souls... [...] First, Jews--especially traditional or Orthodox Jews--have been known to slaughter animals for kosher food in a similar way. If you guys are saying that the way Muslims prepare their sacred food is somehow barbaric or alien, might that mean that you think the same way about how the Jews do it, too? If so, I'd back away from this halal paranoia and fast. Second, exactly what proof do you have of this secret Muslim plot to take over Western Christendom with cultral delicacies? Do you rely on each other's bizarre rantings for this information? Do you get it from Fox News or CBN News or the news channel that broadcasts out of your backsides? Third, just how many cocktails of cannibis and LSD do you clowns consume to dream up this stuff?

But wait! There's more! No, really.

The author of the January 27th Worldnet Daily story Are you eating food sacrificed to idols? is Joe Kovacs, and the story features the following plug for a book by Kovacs:

Intrigued by the plug, I clicked on the link, which led to a page promoting Kovacs' book, Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told

It sure is shocking. Yup:

For a limited time, all copies of "Shocked by the Bible" purchased from WND's Superstore will be autographed by Joe Kovacs! (Don't forget to look for the "Personalized Inscription" box during checkout.) What do you think the Bible says is your ultimate destiny? And what will you be doing for all eternity? Is it merely floating around on clouds, playing songs on harps forevermore? The true answers may absolutely floor you. "When people actually crack open the pages of their own Bible and see the words on its pages, the ultimate destiny for believers is far more glorious than what most people have been told for centuries," says Joe Kovacs, author of the No. 1 best-seller, "Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You've Never Been Told."

"The No. 1 best-seller"? Hmmm. But I must admit that I am tempted, especially by the mention of the "shocking" things I'll learn about the Bible's contents, if I buy the book, which purportedly include:

* God ran lotteries

* Jesus did not come to make everyone understand His message

* Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not Jews

* Nagging wives are mentioned in Scripture

* Women's breasts are celebrated in the Bible

* There's a character in the Bible called a "dumb ass"

* Underwear didn't disintegrate despite 40 years of heavy use

* The worst case of hemorrhoids in history is recorded



Listed in the #1 slot as endorsing Joe Kovacs' shocking book is none other than Bill "you can't explain the tides" O'Reilly:

"If you think you really know the Bible, better think again. Joe Kovacs takes a close look at the greatest story ever told and separates myth from reality. My favorite parts of the book deal with Christmas and Easter. Check out 'Shocked by the Bible.' You may well be shocked." - Bill O'Reilly, anchor, Fox News Channel

In an odd way, O'Reilly's endorsement of the book appears to me to provide insight into his "you can't explain the tides" train wreck that's now morphed into a challenge, from Bill O'Reilly to his critics, to explain the existence of the Sun and the Moon. Like Bryan Fischer, Bill O'Reilly is far from stupid, but both seem to have has decided to stop appealing to reason, opting instead to launch a-rational tropes designed to push buttons on the evangelical right. Meanwhile, I have to wonder - does Mr. O'Reilly eat Campbells' soup? Curious minds want to know.