Sunday, July 10, 2005

don’t call them muslims

Another Londoner who gets it right, St Pancras parish priest Father Paul Hawkins:

"This is not a time for many words," he said in today’s sermon, urging his congregation to rejoice in the capital's rich diversity of cultures, traditions, ethnic groups and faiths. "There is one small practical thing that we can all do. We can name the people who did these things as criminals or terrorists. We must not name them as Muslims."Good on you Father Hawkins - because calling them "Muslim" or even "Muslim extremists" is wrong - I remember the IRA bomings in London and we did not call them "Christian extremists." Don't let the terrorists divide the diversity London is built upon.

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