Muslims take no offense on preacher's remarks

Posted on March 9, 2006 - Filed Under , , |

IF the pre-taped video messages of leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) aired over the Ang Dating Daan television program the other night are any indication of goodwill by the supposedly aggrieved Muslim sector, Bro. Eli Soriano of that religious sect has nothing to worry about..

MILF Spokesman Atty. Eid Kabalu and Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar said in their messages that  Soriano’s earlier potshots at  Muslim prophet Muhammad would not goad them into inflicting harm on Soriano or his group just like that, saying in so many words, that Muslims are not that narrow-minded nor that violent to bring harm on people belonging to a different faith. To expect the Muslims to be stampeded into attacking Soriano and his group because of what many feel was his bashing of the Islamic religious leader during one of his religious fora on national TV is to misread the Muslim faith, Kabalu stressed.

Kabalu sought to disabuse the public’s mind that whatever “misfortune” befalling Soriano or ADD followers henceforth should not be readily blamed on the Muslims as they do not believe in hurting those who hold different beliefs and doctrines from theirs.

That’s a most reassuring pronouncement for Soriano who is known to have this unsettling   flair for mocking almost every religious icon on earth – Erano Manalo of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Joseph Smith of the Mormons, the Pope of the Catholics and  the latest; Prophet Muhammad of the Muslims.

With Kabalu and Jaafar having publicly“waived” any Muslim ill will against Soriano, we guess that’s the end of that. And Soriano need not be looking over his shoulder every now and then. Lucky him.   


 
 

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