.... A Welsh spokesman for the Evangelical Alliance, a group which worked to persuade Florida pastor Terry Jones – famed for his threat to burn a Koran – not to come to Britain, said he hoped she would “speak out on behalf of Christians and those from other minority faiths who are currently coming under intense persecution in Muslim-majority countries such as Iraq and Egypt.”
Baroness Warsi has touched a nerve. She has triggered a debate which extends from neighbourhood politics to geopolitics and crosses the sacred-secular divide.
If the conversation can be characterised by generosity, goodwill and hope, there is a chance new friends from different backgrounds will join families at dinner tables across Britain. [21 Jan. Wales Online] Read more
