The killing of journalists in Paris on Wednesday was not only an attack on France but also an assault on Islam and the very freedoms that allow 30 million Muslims to prosper in the west. Free speech is not a western concept: it is a universal craving of the human soul. ....We cannot let the murderers define Islam. In sixth-century Mecca, it was the prophet Muhammad who fought for free speech to proclaim one God as the creator of life and worthy of worship. .... Today Muslims live freely in every European country because of the very freedoms that the terrorists struck at. .... Islam and Muslims are secure in the west because of freedom of speech, conscience, press and religion. To attack those freedoms is to attack Islam’s existence.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:53:50 +0000