I can’t find anything in the Qur’an that encourages putting a tire over a Christian and burning him to death. Where is that part again?
It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous nation. An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze.
Who is inciting these ignorant people to murder fellow countrymen over an “insult” offered by people in a country halfway around the world? The ridiculousness of the human condition in some parts of the world draws a black veil down over my eyes. Punish the imams who stir up this sort of unproductive outrage. If your pride is more important than human life your personal value system and that of like minded people deserves to die an ignominious death.
Muslim leaders need to sheperd their flocks more responsibly. Where is the rule of law, respect for human life and a loud chorus of rational voices calling for respectful dialogue in Nigeria? It’s impossible for a rational human being to respect any belief system that tolerates throwing a tire over a person and burning him to death because someone in a far away nation did something you are upset over. Tragedy and horror spawned by blind hatred sicken me. Who do I blame? The people who rioted and their spiritual “leaders.”
Riots like this do not happen spontaneously. They were purposefully organized and encouraged by people who know better and who should now pay a price.
Then there is this tripe:
In Cairo, Bishop Karsten Nissen, of Denmark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, met with Grand Imam Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi of al-Azhar University, the world’s highest Sunni Muslim seat of learning.
Tantawi said the Danish prime minister must apologize for the drawings and further demanded that the world’s religious leaders meet to write a law that “condemns insulting any religion, including the Holy Scriptures and the prophets.” He said the United Nations should impose the law on all countries.
To that, I can say only one thing – over my dead body. Respect must be earned. You have some work to do Grand Imam and it doesn’t involve trying to pervert law in the interests of forcing your views on people and nations around the world. The very nature of freedom is insulted when people suggest laws such as the one you just suggested. How disgusting and uncivilized.