“It is true that more Muslims around the world than one might wish sympathize with some of Osama bin Laden’s thinking, view America as an aggressor nation and accept as justified some of what Americans view as terrorism. But it’s also true that many more Muslims reject such thinking, see Islam as a fundamentally peaceful religion and view al-Qaeda as foreign and repugnant.”
Washington Post
In an editorial on the proposal to build a mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan
“To those Americans who happen to be Muslim, I say: Please do not think that the hatefulness of a few visible ‘Christians’ represents the views of all the rest of us. Some of us are just as appalled by what we are witnessing as you are.”
David Gushee
Christian ethicist at Mercer University, about the proposed Islamic community center near New York’s Ground Zero that is opposed by some conservative leaders (Huffington Post/RNS)
“Demons aren’t lazy. Christians are.”
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Donald Crosby
Pastor from Warner Robins, Ga., arrested for protesting the local high school’s mascot, the Demons (RNS)
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