It would be interesting to know if Mohamed Elmasry, Iskandar Khan, and Mahmoud Haddara condemn the killing of 3 Christian missionaries in Yemen.

I think that this pathetic Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque is the "Sista Soulja"
for Canadian Muslims.

"Sista Soulja" was an insignificant rapper who was criticized by Bill
Clinton 1991. It would be too big
confrontation for Clinton to criticize Jesse Jackson, so this allowed Clinton to claim he was distancing himself from the radical left without burning bridges to it.

I applaud these three Muslims for going on the record. As Mark wrote -- the fact that this gets reported in the press shows one how rare such condemnations still are.
Patrick Sweeney | Homepage | 12.31.02 - 9:24 pm | #

I think you might be a little unfair in this instance. Muslims enjoy an unusual privilege in the public square in that they can denounce anti-Christian blasphemy without being ignored by the secular media. I remember as far back as the "Last Temptation of Christ" play that Muslims were picketing it. In the UK recently, Muslims would denounce anti-Christian "art" -- such as the gay-Jesus play Corpus Christi -- while an Anglican bishop defended it. A while back, there was some controversy over restoring crucifixes in classrooms at Boston College. Catholic World Report quoted at least one Muslim faculty in favor of that move.

It is not really rare, I think, for Muslims to be sort of on the "Christian side" in a number of controversies, especially when the common enemy is secularism.
Christopher Wong | 01.02.03 - 12:34 pm | #