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Shit Jews Say About Tim Tebow

By Jason Diamond / January 12, 2012
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I’ve taken issue with Tim Tebow in the past, and frankly, I still don’t think he’s a very good quarterback regardless of how far his team goes in the NFL playoffs.  The saddest part being that 2011 was one of the greatest years in the history of his position, and all we can talk about his Tebow, his faith, and how it makes us feel.  I personally can’t escape it, as I find myself looking at his week to week performance, caring enough to offer commentary.  Also, I’m frightened he’s close to converting some of my friends.

Regardless of all that, I’m still fascinated when somebody has a smart or interesting thing to say about “Tebow Time,” “Tebow Magic,” etc., and Marcus Cederstrom at Salon is the latest to take Tebow’s popularity, and asks a good question: “What if Tebow were Muslim?”

I guess this could lead to more discussions asking what ifs about Tebow’s faith.  What if Tim Tebow stopped believing?  What if Tebow was into snake handling?  What if Tim Tebow was seen going to come out that he’s converting to Judaism on an episode of Shalom Sesame while Moshe Oofnik looks on in disgust?  There’s a million what ifs what we could dive into, but maybe we should stop for the time being?

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  • By Zeevico 1/15/12 at 5:18 a.m. UTC

    Shmuley Boteach gets it right: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/tim-tebow-infiltrates-the_b_1196379.html

  • By Zeevico 1/14/12 at 7:52 a.m. UTC

    By “the author”, in the earlier post, I mean Cederstrom.

  • By Zeevico 1/14/12 at 7:50 a.m. UTC

    Why is the question “What if Tebow were Muslim?” a good question? There’s no need to ask it. There already is a Muslim population in the United States. Whether or not it experiences discrimination, and the kind of discrimination it does experience, can be analysed by looking at the manner in which that population is treated, and also by how people write and think about Muslims, whether they be Muslim or not. That can be done right now.

    So instead of asking “What if Tebow were Muslim”, why not just analyse the state of the Muslim community? I’ll tell you why: this post allows the author to engage in a self-righteous diatribe about being the last man standing at the gates of civilisation, bewailing the barbarian masses coming to discriminate against the Muslims.

    Here’s a good question: since when is the Nation of Islam an ordinary religious sect? It’s the quintessential racist, conspiratorial, strongly anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish “grievance” group. The difference between Farrakhan and Hitler is in size and popularity, not intent. The author treats it as perfectly ordinary. Muhammed Ali’s conversion was not merely to Islam but to a religious-political movement that openly denies the Holocaust and propagates the Protocols of Zion as a historical truth. It was a form of Islam that posits an Islamic answer to every social question–Islamism, mixed with black supremacism. There is no comparison between Tebow and Ali. If Tebow joined the KKK there would be as the KKK and the Nation of Islam are moral equivalents–each the disgusting mirror of the other.
    Is Marcus Cederstrom ignorant? Is he just phoning in this column, purportedly about Muslim life in America, without doing the slightest bit of research about any of its religious sects? That’s a good question. Answer: Yes.

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