A very good question.
Over at Backup Brain Tom is asking the same thing that I’ve been wondering for a while. If Islam is the religion of peace that we are told by the peaceful muslims that it is, then why a reporter in Nigerian reporter living under a death threat that is endorsed by a part of her country’s government? Why are over 250 people dead because of a short paragraph that she wrote about a beauty pagaent? Why aren’t any US or European Muslims condemning this action that their fellow muslims are doing in the name of Allah?
Yeah, I know, you can find Christians responsible for a like mindset and capable of the same degree of violence all in the name of God but you can also find Christians ready to condemn any of this type of action by other Christians. I don’t recall ever hearing Muslims denouncing other Muslims over anything like this. I’m sure there are Muslims thinking that this is wrong so why don’t we hear any of them taking a public stand to condemn this violence and the death threats? Is it the news media not publicizing the condemnations? I don’t think that’s it. The news media isn’t as monolithic as a lot of folks would have us think. I just don’t see the condemnation by fellow Muslims happening.
General | Larry Burton | 27 November 2002 |
