Excuse me, don't mean to interrupt, but, em, would you happen to be aware of Sheikh Salman Al Awda's position regarding the Shia branch of Islam? So asked the imam of Ireland's Shia mosque, upon hearing that Sheikh Al Awda was coming to speak at a conference hosted by the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland.
Do you not know that he has branded Shias as not being Muslim at all? Don't you think that might be sending the wrong message, given that Shia and Sunni are getting along in Ireland. Why, pray tell, would you open the door to a man who was once Osama Bin Laden's spiritual mentor?
This would be the same sheik who said it was a Muslim's religious duty to fight the Yanks in Iraq. Why has a man who preaches hatred and divisiveness be allowed in the country?
Ali Selim of the cultural centre doesn't know what Mr. Al Saleh is going on about. Why, the sheikh was fully behind integration at Friday prayers, and he's not come to babble on about the sniveling dogs, er, I mean, the Shia sect. Sheikh Al Awda's a real prince of a man, only here to mentor our young men. No, pardon me, discuss their concerns.
Besides, Mr. Wajdi Ghunaim is attending the conference as well, and he's a fine upstanding Egyptian cleric. As for his links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, well, that's merely allegation now, isn't it? So what if Canada and Switzerland have barred the door to him? What would they know about suitable Muslim speakers? So much more progressive, these Irish. They understand religious fundamentalism in a way that few other Western nations can match.
And they're possessed of a refreshing naivete as well.
2 comments:
do you have a point?
Ah, it's all so pointless, as you've pointed out.
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