An Ottawa imam, Imtiaz Ahmed, has declared his support for freedom of expression but that freedom has to be “balanced”. He will supply the balance: you can’t make fun of “religious leaders” like, oh, I don’t know, let me take a wild stab – Mohammed.
He does denounce the Paris murderers for taking the “law into [their] own hand[s]” but if drawing cartoons of the founder of his religion should be illegal, what penalty would he impose? A liberal Saudi version of sharia, 1000 lashes and ten years in jail or a by the book – sorry, Book – capital punishment? He doesn’t say.
From here:
An Ottawa imam has denounced the terrorist attack on a Paris weekly newspaper that killed 12 people, but he says satirical cartoons of religious leaders should be illegal.
Imtiaz Ahmed, an imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said it should be against the law to publish cartoons that depict religious figures in a derogatory way.
“Of course we defend freedom of speech, but it has to be balanced. There has to be a limit. There has to be a code of conduct,” Ahmed said.
There will be no prizes for guessing who will set the limits and describe the code of conduct. And setting and meting out the punishment.
Thanks, BTW, for publishing those cartoons. Great stuff!
Make no mistake about it. Islam hates everything that is not islam! Oh certainly there are the moderates who try to distance themselves and their religion from those who obey the false “prophet” mohamed, but their book is very specific and quite clear on the matter. They are to kill those who refuse to convert.
The murders in Paris this past week should notify everyone the islam is not out to get only the Christians. It is out to get everyone, including the liberals and homosexuals. But never fear. If we elect Justin Trudeau he will save us. Not by whipping out any more CF-18s but by instead sending blankets to the victims and engaging the murderers in conversations so that we can better understand them.