Northern Ireland’s first minister Peter Robinson had to apologise after initially defending James McConnell. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP For the Muslim Times’ collection to diffuse Islamophobia
The Guardian:
A born-again Christian preacher in Belfast is to be prosecuted for describing Islam as “satanic” and “the spawn of the devil”.
Pastor James McConnell was accused of Islamophobia after he denounced the Muslim religion as a “heathen” faith in May 2014. He issued a public apology, but not before Northern Ireland’s first minister, Peter Robinson, came under fire for initially defending him.
Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service said on Thursday that McConnell was offered an “informed warning” that would have avoided a prosecution but he declined to accept it.
Categories: Europe and Australia, Islam, Islamophobia
A simple litmus test to avoid committing Islamophobia is to think if you can say the same thing about Judaism or Jews or not?
If you cannot say the same about Judaism, it is not kosher to say that about Islam, after all these are very similar religions.
when people needs cheap and quick publicity they behave as these two N. Irish did.