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India: Four Muslims, including an imam, arrested for hiding explosives inside a mosque, “something big” was planned
India: Four Muslims, including an imam, arrested for hiding explosives inside a mosque, “something big” was planned
An imam? Wait, what? There must be some mistake. How could someone who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively somehow get the idea that Islam commands violence against unbelievers? Surely that most learned of imams, Pope Francis, is on his way to Kushinagar right now, in order to explain to him that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
“Uttar Pradesh: Imam amongst those arrested for hiding explosives inside mosque in Kushinagar, report suggests ‘something big’ was planned,” OpIndia, November 13, 2019: