Tom Friedman, much revered St. Louis Park multiple Pulitzer winner has a pretty provocative column today in the NY Times entitled “If It’s a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution.”
He states, “The Muslim village has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day – to this day – no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden.”
So, I wonder, does this suggest that Muslim hierarchy is supportive of terrorism? One could easily infer that it does. And, then, could one also infer that any Muslim devotees of this hierarchy are our enemies?
Think about it. And think, too, of all the horror that religious fundamentalism of all sorts has wrought upon this world since history began. It should not be lost on us Christians that the communique from the presumed London bombers called the British government “crusaders.” Long memory they have. Longer than Bush, certainly. And certainly more cognizant of the meaning of the word. Crusade, literally, means to “mark with a cross.”
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