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Shiraz Maher: agent of moral courage
Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Dec 02, 2007
Finally, a Muslim man speaks out, uneqivocally, about the insane imprisonment of the British school teacher in Sudan. Here’s a taste of his message to fellow Muslims in the UK:
“I spent 14 years in the Middle East, so I’m quite accustomed to Arab culture and its easily offended sensibilities.
But the decision to arrest and jail the English school teacher Gillian Gibbons is so far removed from even the remotest sense of logic, I wondered if the date on my Arabic calendar was April 1.
Sadly, this was no joke.
The truth is, as we’re beginning to realise, we’re locked into a battle for hearts and minds at the core of which lies a battle for the essence of Islam itself. And we can’t expect anyone to fight this on our behalf.”
Read Shiraz Maher’s entire commentary in today’s Sunday Times.
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