Wednesday 10 November 2010

Tom Chivers on Ashtiani & Islam

"Only the other day, five Anglican bishops decided that the particular flavour of Christian God they were following wasn’t nasty enough to gays and women, so they swapped for a different one. To my knowledge none of them were martyred in a public square in Oxford, and I think we can all say hurrah for that. They might not have been so lucky during the Reformation. This isn’t because the Bible has changed, it’s because Christians have – for the better, by and large." Writes Tom Chivers in Telegraph blogs in a piece about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani facing stoning for adultery and the true face of Islam. well worth reading.