13 January 2015

Predictable and Pathetic: Two responses to Panorama

.... He claims to be affronted by its representation of Islam:

"It was unbalanced, it lacked context and it reduced the rich, deep tradition that is Islam to tabloid, emotive issues such as the “killing of apostates” or “stoning to death.” One day I might make a documentary that reduces Christianity to the Spanish Inquisition."

The problem with that analogy is that Christians do not routinely, or even rarely, defend the horrors of the inquisition. By contrast, it is not too difficult to track down Muslims who support hudud punishments. [Harry’s Place] Read more