Friday, July 22, 2005
Compare And Contrast
From South Carolina (HT: SmartChristian)
From India:
And we cannot compare the relative values of these religions? Well, I can -- there is no room in the world for a religion, or even sect or branch of a religion that compels arrest for pictures, and murders out of what is, as best as I can tell, pure bigotry.
A non-denominational church in my old home town of Greenville, SC, Redemption World Outreach, had an unusual service this weekend. They are one of the largest churches in the largest city in SC, so they see some strange things, but nothing like this.A peaceful and appropriate response to vulgarities in the setting.
Sunday morning a "young man of Arabic descent" came to the sanctuary and demanded to give the congregation "a word from Allah."
"He didn't get specific about the word. He called himself a son of the kingdom," said Rick Smith with RWO.
According to church founder Ron Carpenter, after the man was stopped from going to the stage to give his message, "he became unraveled. He began to scream vulgarities out."
The church security team escorted Iyad Abed Alnazli from the building.
From India:
Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a publisher for a sketch of the Prophet Mohammad in a book.An arrest! -- For a picture!
And we cannot compare the relative values of these religions? Well, I can -- there is no room in the world for a religion, or even sect or branch of a religion that compels arrest for pictures, and murders out of what is, as best as I can tell, pure bigotry.
