Later news has him definitely confirmed as a Muslim. His family, his Mosque, etc. have publicly confirmed. His dad’s name is “Mohammed”, for example, IIRC.
There was lots of initial confusion between him and another similar looking Arab fruit seller guy who is a Christian, but that Christian dude was not the HERO.
We NEED good Muslims in the world. Right now, that BAD muslims paint the whole religion as evil. I have a very hard time, because the active public face of islam is that it wants to murder me and my family.
But that’s not always true. We need to establish an “Allah, Allah, In Come Free!” reserve in which GOOD muslims can behave well, in contrast to their murderous brethren. So I’m going to hold up Ahmed al Ahmed as a hero, hoping more and more muslims are willing to ally on that side of things.
Tough stuff. This is a multi-hundred year fight with many fronts. I’m staking out a bunch of positions over time to help win that fight, which will be concluded several generations after I’m dead.
Changing Tagline.
“Good” muslims seems to be a misnomer.
But, then, George W. did call them the “religion of peace”.
History says otherwise.
honestly, one decent muslim ripping the rifle out of another muslim’s hand— hey, i’m glad he did it, but one good guy out of a billion is still statistically zero, so it doesn’t change my mind about their murder-cult. I don’t want a single one of them here in the U.S. Not one mosque. Not one koran. Give him a medal, and then give him a ticket home.