New Year's Eve Resolution

It’s New Year’s Eve and time to make our resolutions.   Here’s one.   We promise not to paint all Muslims with the tar created by demonic terrorist Islamic cults such as al-Qaida and ISIS.  We promise not to become Islamophopes playing into the hands of terrorists who want us to condemn all Muslims in ways similar to Donald Trump’s call to exclude all Muslims from entering the United States.   We promise to learn the distinction between the orthodox religion of Islam and the cults.

I suggest we pay attention to today’s Cape Cod Times Opinion expressed by Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal in his piece “Distinctions between Islam and heretical offshoots.”  Dr. Asmal is past president of the Islamic Center of Boston and the Islamic Council of New England.   His views are great food-for-thought as we cross the threshold into 2016.

Deacon David Pierce