Islamic Tolerance

The White House hosts Iftars (the meal at which Muslims break their fast after abstaining from food and drink all day during Ramadan) and the Empire State Building is bathed in green light to celebrate then end of Ramadan.

Meanwhile, this group of Muslims show their tolerance of Christianity and Christian festivals:-

A Toronto mosque is telling Muslims not to say "Happy Thanksgiving" or invite friends into their homes for turkey dinner on the holiday weekend.

The Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque says to "avoid participating" in dinners, parties or greetings on Thanksgiving because it is a kuffaar, or non-Muslim, celebration.

A two-part article on the mosque Web site says Muslims should also "stay completely away" from "Halloween trick-and treat nonsense," Christmas, New Year's, anniversaries, birthdays and Earth Day.

"How can we bring ourselves to congratulate or wish people well for their disobedience to Allah? Thus expressions such as:Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc, are completely out," it says.

In 2003, the Khalid mosque, which mainly serves the Toronto Somali-Canadian community, apologized for a newsletter that compared wishing someone a Merry Christmas to congratulating a murderer.

At the time, a junior employee was blamed for the slight, but the mosque's Web site has since posted similar edicts covering not only Christmas but also virtually every other Western celebration.

It appears that tolerance and understanding is a one-way street at the Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque.

I searched for the article at the website of the Khalid bin Al-Walid Mosque website and found it here (see the second page for the edict forbidding Muslims from congratulating Christians on their festivals such as Thanksgiving and Christmas).

While there is a disclaimer on the article, it seems that this is not the first time such sentiments have been expressed on the mosque's website.

Actually, these statements are standard Wahabi doctrines that can be found on many other websites.