A modest comparison – the Old South and the New Iraq

Sunday, July 12th, 2015

The recent massacre in Charleston and the threatening emergence of ISIS are both dominating the news these days. The relationship between these two events leads to a meaningful lesson. Starting with Charleston, the June 17th murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by a young man who wrapped himself in the Confederate flag as an emblem of racism and justifiable murder highlighted the irony that in the old Confederacy, the heroes of the South commemorated in statues throughout the…