Posted on 03/06/2011 11:35:03 AM PST by JLS
Andrew, I don’t agree with everything Nick Cohen says (particularly in those passages where he himself feels obliged to lapse into equivalism) but he’s right about liberalism’s retreat into a cowed quiescence, both in Pakistan and in the heart of the west. By way of a (so far) less bloody example:
"A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists."
This is not in Lahore or Cairo but in London, at what is described as “a prominent mosque which also runs one of the country’s largest sharia courts” – in other words, a religious institution that already enjoys the imprimatur of state approval, albeit not (yet) to the same degree as in Pakistan. The imam, Dr Hasan, has issued a groveling apology – “I seek Allah’s forgiveness for my mistakes” – but they still want to kill him.
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"Scientist Imam threatened over Darwinist views"
"One man came up to me during the lecture and said 'You are an apostate and should be killed'," Dr Hasan told The Independent.
Later in the article, one finds the mandatory MSM assertion of equivalence between Islam and Christianity:
Like Christianity, Islamic opinion is divided over evolution.
So exactly how many evolutionists have received death threats from Christians recently?
The radical islamics don’t agree with evolution. None of them seem to have evolved much in 1400 years or so.
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