However, it is worth remembering that when the Bible was mocked and ridiculed a few months back in The Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey [For details click here] no such outpourings of condemnation were forthcoming from these individuals and their respective constituencies. At best, they stood by and were quite happy for the Bible to be mocked, without raising a single word of opposition. At worst, they insisted that the play must go ahead and the production must be allowed to mock the Bible in the name of free speech, civil liberties and a pluralist society.
It bears repeating that none of these individuals are publicly on record as raising a word of objection when the Bible was held up to mockery and ridicule. In fact, the local Alliance Party chairman of the Theatre's Artistic Board engaged in a most deceitful scheme to make sure that the offending play went ahead. See here - Dirty Tricks by the Artistic Board over Offensive Play
Yet when Pastor McConnell speaks out against Islam and describes this false religion as "heathen" and "satanic", there is a torrent of condemnation and abuse directed towards him. Where is the commitment to free speech, civil liberties and a pluralist society now? Does free speech and civil liberty only work one way? Are they only allowable when the Bible is being attacked but must be curtailed when false religions are spoken against?
Only one conclusion can be drawn from these recent events, namely, that it is perfectly acceptable to mock the Bible and to offend Christians, but you cannot say anything against Islam or Muslims. Once you utter a word against the false doctrines and practices of Islam, or any other false religion in this Province, as Pastor McConnell did, the wrath of the ecumenical and secular world comes down upon you.
What we have witnessed these past few days, from these lily-livered liberals, within the ecumenical and secular world, is a blatant exercise in two faced posturing and rank hypocrisy. It smacks of inconsistency. It simply begs the question: Why no similar outcry when the Bible was recently mocked and Christians offended? Their fake outrage at Pastor McConnell is exposed by the lack of any opposition to the offensive play recently allowed to go ahead in Newtownabbey and by their insistent demand that such a play must go on in the name of free speech.
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