If you heard that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) posted an article in response to the “ongoing controversy” in the Sudan, you might assume that the so-called “civil rights” organization had finally decided to denounce the Islamic government of that country for the recent massacre of hundreds of thousands of black Africans in the name of racial cleansing… You would be wrong.
Stuffed teddy bears named “Muhammad” have now been added to the growing list of trivialities that upset the Muslim world more than Darfuri genocide and Islamist terrorism these days. CAIR’s November 30th posting, U.S. Muslim Responds to Jailing of Teacher in Sudan, is actually a reaction to British schoolteacher, Gillian Gibbons, allowing her Sudanese students to name the class mascot after one of their own, a 7-year-old boy who happens to share the same name as the prophet of Islam.
In the article, CAIR isn’t quite able to bring itself to declare that Ms. Gibbons did not intend to insult Islam – after all, why not hold open the possibility that a 54-year-old humanitarian leaves the comforts of Europe and travels to an African schoolroom for the mere purpose of offending the local religion? Instead, the author of the piece, spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, wants it known that Muslims are not called to return “evil” with evil. Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
H/T: The Religion of Peace
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