Friday, July 29, 2005

Dithers Meets The Imams

Paul Martin met with a group of imams yesterday in Toronto and praised them for making a public statement denouncing terrorism, a day late and a dollar short though it was.

What the media has not asked is the question that it should be asking: what did Martin promise them in return during the meeting?

Had he met with the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops or a group of leading evangelical Protestant ministers over any other issue, the press would have been screaming about mixing religion with politics.

But never with Islam. Never, never, with Islam.

Source: Ottawa Citizen

2 comments:

Mark said...

Glad I'm not the only one that picked up on that little double standard.

Which brings about a different angle on the question of profiling.

If white Catholics or evangelical Protestants were blowing up cafes, buses, tube carriages, etc. all over the world -- basically wherever they set up a church -- do you think the liberals of the land would have a problem profiling them/us???

McGuire said...

Don't forget Sikhism, Hinduism or the various aboriginal faiths. Liberals don't mind indulging them.