Detroit Muslims want Botros banned
A Detroit-area radio station is broadcasting messages by Father Zakariah Botros, and local Muslims claim he has “repeatedly defamed” Muhammed. So, do the protestors want to broadcast rebuttals of Fr Botros’s statements? Do they want to organise a public debate with the elderly Coptic priest?
No, they just want to shut him up.
Muslims and interfaith leaders in Metro Detroit are asking a local radio station owner to discontinue broadcasts in which, they say, a Coptic priest has repeatedly defamed the Prophet Muhammad over the past year.
In an Arabic-language broadcast Wednesday on WNZK 680/690 AM, the Rev. Zakariah Boutros said the Muslim prophet Muhammad had engaged in necrophilia and gay sex, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Boutros has previously come under fire from area Muslims, who say he disparages Islam. The controversial, American-based priest can be heard on purchased time slots on radio stations internationally. His words have stirred controversy in Egypt and Great Britain, and are embraced by a number of bloggers and Web sites that criticize Islam.
And we can’t allow any criticism of Islam.
Christian convert from Islam Amani Mostafa, who hosts the radio programme on which Botros spoke, supports his interpretation of the relevant Islamic texts. A CAIR spokesman says neither the Quran nor the Hadiths contain the words quoted by Botros.
Speaking of websites that have “embraced” Fr Botros, Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch has a series of posts entitled “Father Zakaria Botros on ‘The perverse sexual habits of the Prophet’”. Here are links to Part I, Part II, and Part III.
Click here for Fr Zakaria’s website.
h/t: EuropeNews
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