Islamic activists trying to have it both ways
Posted by Paul Mulshine
You might be following the story of Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Ohio girl who claims that her father wants to have her killed for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Various Muslim activists – and their liberal supporters – are trying to make the same tired argument here that they make whenever such issues come up.
What they argue is “that Muslims here in America would never do such a thing.” Â Sounds good. But just try and get them to denounce Muslims in other countries who do so.
But they do: Remember Amina and Sarah?

I tried. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks I went and interviewed a local Muslim leader in New Jersey. I spent more than an hour trying to pin him down on the thorny question of whether it is or isn’t okay for Muslims to use physical force against apostates, Christians who proselytize, and so on.
The column ran on Dec. 12, 2001. It was headlined
“Tolerating the intolerant”
I went into my interview with one of the leading spokesmen for New Jersey’s Muslim community with a preconceived notion: I believe that writers should be able to write what they want without threat of physical violence.
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