Giving Islam a pass

NOTE: I would love to read your thoughts about this article (just click on "comments" below). I wonder if anyone has asked the ACLU (or other similar groups) for their comments on this particular event. I think it would be most interesting to hear their response. I think we know their response had it been a Christian minister praying in Jesus' name. After all, we hear their response to that everytime it happens or even when they think it "may" happen!

By: Kelly Boggs
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Listen. Do you hear it? Want to know what it is? It's the sound of silence. Specifically, it's the sound of liberal groups not protesting a prayer offered by a Muslim imam that opened a recent session of the Texas legislature.

Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque was invited to open the senate session with prayer April 4. The imam's appearance occurred on the Jewish holy day of Passover and just four days prior to the Christian observance of Easter.

Kavakci strode onto the dais in the Texas Senate and prayed. And it was not one of those watered-down, wishy-washy, weak non-sectarian prayers so favored by liberal jurists. No, Kavakci boldly voiced an Islamic prayer.

Prior to the prayer, the imam explained what was going to take place. "We will pray by reading from first chapter, opening chapter, Al-Fatiha, from holy Quran, followed by recitation, traditional way of recitation from holy Quran, with an addition."

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