Getting stoned is good for you, sez Muslim cleric

Brampton ON ain't what it used to be. When a couple of Walt's agents grew up there, it was a one-stop-light farming town northwest of Toronto, the font of all evil. It was a white community, where the Italian Catholic immigrants were considered exotic. There were a few Jews, but no synagogue. And certainly there was no mosque.

Well, Brampton has changed. White folks are in the minority now -- not to say an endangered species! And mosques abound. One of them provides a pulpit [Is this right? Ed.] for Sheikh Faisal Hamid Abdur-Razak, who preaches a hellfire-and-brimstone version of Islam.

Sheikh Faisal is against sin, and in particular adultery and homosexuality. These are not regarded as serious sins by the "Christian churches". The former is winked at and the latter is effectively encouraged in certain "Christian" circles. But according to the imam, adulterers and gays should be put to death... preferably by stoning.



Yep, stoning is good for the Muslim soul, if not so good for the body. If you're a sinful Muslim and get stoned, your soul will be purified as the stones rain down on your head.

Some people -- perhaps even some Muslims -- would call Sheikh Faisal a raving loony, and his beliefs medieval and barbaric. But many Muslims -- perhaps a majority -- would agree with him.

In 2010, the Pew Research Centre published "Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa" -- an extensive poll of the views of modern life held by people in Middle Eastern and African countries where Islam is the dominant religion. Here's a quote.

"The survey finds considerable support among Muslims in several countries for the application of criminal sanctions such as stoning people who commit adultery, and whipping or cutting off the hands of thieves. Support for these kinds of punishments is consistently lower among Christians than among Muslims. The survey also finds that in seven countries, roughly one-third or more of Muslims say they support the death penalty for those who leave Islam."

These opinions were expressed by majorities of Muslims in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and Nigeria.

What happens, Len wonders, when people who hold such views immigrate to the USA, the UK, France, Canada or the Netherlands? Do they change their beliefs? Do they make an effort to conform to the norms of the more civilized countries to which they come?

Sheikh Faisal, for one, seems to think we should accommodate him, not the other way around. And our wussy politicians let him preach this rubbish, because after all, it's a free country. And hate speech is only a crime for white Christians. Political correctness wins again!