From here (page3):
Brantford’s Anglican community stood in solidarity with their Muslim neighbours on Friday, March 15 condemning the mosque attacks in New Zealand. Ven. Tim Dobbin, rector of Brantford’s St. Mark’s Anglican Church, was among religious and community leaders gathered at the Brantford mosque on March 15 at the special prayer service conducted by Imam Aby Noman Tarek.
I wonder, were the prayers directed to Allah or Jesus?
No matter, very soon I expect Imams all over Canada will be attending Christian church services to stand “in solidarity” with their Christian neighbours, condemning the murder of Christians by Islamist terrorists in Sri Lanka. Or perhaps not.
Fred Hiltz, very properly, condemned the Christchurch mosque murders, mentioning that Muslims were the victims and Islamophobia was the cause:
Our hearts are aching for Muslims across our country and around the world in the wake of the massacre of so many faithful Muslims in the midst of their Friday prayers in Christchurch, Aotearoa-New Zealand.
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We encourage members of our church to reach out with love and compassion to their Muslim neighbours in their time of great grief and great fear.
We also encourage Anglicans to attend prayer vigils and to visit a local mosque as a sign of solidarity, knowing that as they go in peace, they will be received in peace.
In this time of international outrage and grief over this crime against humanity rooted in Islamophobia, we reaffirm the Anglican Church of Canada’s commitment, reiterated in 2013, to resolutely oppose Islamophobia.
He also condemned the murder of Christians in Sri Lanka but, for some odd reason, couldn’t bring himself to identify the victims as Christians nor, grope as he might, was he inspired to identify a cause – Islamist hatred of Christianity and Christians must be too obvious, why bother to point it out. He contented himself with calling the whole thing a “hate crime”. Better than ‘Some people did something’:
In the terrible aftermath of bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Day, I ask for your prayers for all affected by these hate crimes.
