Too bad
Muslims in Toronto clogged a busy downtown street outside the Danish Consulate, carrying signs and chanting praise of Allah and Muhammad.Speakers said the cartoons were the worst possible insult to Muslims and Canadians should understand why they are so offended and hurt.
“We want to include all our members and friends in Canada to be part of what we are feeling today,” one speaker told the crowd.
“To understand the hurt that we feel, to understand the injury that we feel.”
ctv
Oh grow up. There is no right not to be offended or saddened or hurt.
I might have a little more sympathy had I seen a little more by way of Canadian Muslim condemnation of 9/11 or 7/7 or ritual stonings or honour killings or the position of Afghani or Pakistani tribal women or the hanging of homosexuals.
Here is what a Catholic priest in Pakistan experienced after radical Islamist gunmen broke into his church and slaughtered gunmen killed 16 people in his church, including seven children:
Fr Patras said: “Manzoor said, ‘We are not ashamed of what we have done. You are all kafirs (non-believers). We are obliged to kill kafirs.
“Because America is killing Muslims in Afghanistan, we are killing Christians. Bush said this is a crusade. Crusade means war between Christians and Muslims. America is Christian, you are Christian, you are the same as America.’
“I said, ‘We are all children of God’. Manzoor replied, ‘No you are all kafirs’. I asked, ‘Are you satisfied with what you have done?’
He said, ‘Yes we are. We follow God’s will, which is to kill kafirs. Our consciences are clear. We have no guilt and our brothers are planning more attacks’. I had tears in my eyes when I heard him say this.”
the telegraph
I have read not a word of condemnation for these and the many other Islamist killings which have occured thoughout the world in the last few years.
Kafir killers meet cartoons: there is no moral equivilence here. There are barbarians who are prepared to slaughter people for their faith and there are people prepared to suggest this is wrong. Once again, I know which side I’m on.
Written by jay on February 12th, 2006 with
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#1. February 15th, 2006, at 8:34 AM.
Over the last ten years or so I have read countless reports of the vicious hate-mongering from various Canadian Muslims. I think a good response to Muslim outrage over those cartoons would be for newspapers throughout the West to every day publish a translation of some nasty piece of filth published or broadcast or preached in by Muslims.