Here is Archbishop Colin Johnson posing with Muslim youth at last night’s Danforth vigil.
By doing this I imagine he was trying to make a point; but what was it? That Anglican Archbishops believe Islam is a religion of peace despite mountains of evidence to the contrary? That Anglican Archbishops think ISIS – who have taken credit for the attack (not that that means much) – is not entitled to self-identify as Islamic even though men are entitled to self-identify as women? That there is no gulf between Christianity and Islam; after all, we believe in the same God, don’t we? This particular brand of Islam even has its own messiah:
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at; Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, transliterated: al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmiyyah al-Aḥmadiyyah; Urdu: احمدیہ مسلم جماعت) is an Islamic religious movement founded in Punjab, British India, in the late 19th century. It originated with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions.
Or perhaps he was just standing in his comfort zone.
Blanche into the Anglican Network in Canada.
Indigenous people, as indeed they should, many of the rest of the clergy are perfectly happy to go along with, and even attend, bless and sanctify, state assisted suicide simply because it is now legal in Canada.
