Gagging Muslim Opinion

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I have read.

An Imam in Italy has a discussion with a neo-fascist MP, and when she tries to lecture him in Islam, he tells her that she doesn’t have the right to lecture him in Islam.

After Ms Santanche insisted that the Qur’an did not call for women to wear a veil, the other guest, Ali Abu Shwaima, angrily replied: “I am an imam and I will not permit those who are ignorant to speak of Islam. You are ignorant of Islam and do not have the right to interpret the Qur’an.”

Fair point, like an accountant lecturing me in IT. I don’t think so.

But what is amazing is that his words were accused of being a coded death threat!!

The ministry said it had been advised that the words used by the imam might amount to a coded death sentence – which the imam has vigorously denied.

So now if a Muslim disagrees with a neo-facist, its a death threat?

This is simply an institutionally sponsored way of muzzling any Muslim response to the veil debate and comes hot in the steps of the recent furore about comments made by an Australian Imam who proposed a debate on whether women wearing skimpy clothes encourages promiscuity.