THECORBYLOON, the father is a public figure, his politics irrelevant in this instance, but AOG provided a link to a newspaper and referred to its report – and that’s up to him.
SP, //no-one tried to tar all of them with the same brush...//
And no one here is trying to tar them all with the same brush, but the fact is – and it is a fact – that for a Muslim Islam takes precedence over all. I repeat, there can be no comparison between Islam and other religions. (I would have said ‘for a devout Muslim’ but to devout Muslims any other kind of Muslim isn’t Muslim). You, like Mikey, have no comprehension of Islam or the effect it has on the lives of its adherents.
Strangely enough we had similar cries of ‘foul’ and expressions of sympathy for the parents of the three girls from east London who recently fled to Syria to become brides of IS maniacs – until it transpired that the father of one who had publicly cried tears at the loss of his daughter had attended fundamentalist protests here in the UK. The importance of Islam is taught from birth. When children mature and take that to extremes Muslim parents need to look to themselves and to the indoctrination to which they’ve subjected their children.