Who speaks for thee?
Porter: What preventive measures are you doing that’s going to curtail Bin Laden?
Joseph objects. “It’s these types of questions, assumptions, suppositions, that is exactly going to the complaint — that there’s some sort of collective consciousness among Muslims, that somehow it’s Dr. Habib’s job to stop Bin Laden.â€
Isn’t it? I mean, if there is a collective Muslim consciousness to be offended en masse, shouldn’t there be one that also takes responsibility for the actions within the umma? Faisal Joseph is glad to bring for a complaint on behalf of “Muslims”, yet when that same idea of community is brought under scrutiny by Julian Porter, Joseph declares that Muslims are individuals, not a group.
So which is it?
If you are going to bleat on behalf of all Canadian Muslims, then you should also stand as responsible for their actions. So throw them in the clink with Omar Khadr.
Everything these people have said in this pretend court, to date, has been completely contradictory and nonsensical. The funny (not funny at all) thing is, they’re probably going to win. And even if they don’t, the very fact that they’ve been allowed to waste this much time and money spewing this irrelevant crap is a win for them in itself. If there is no “collective consciousness” among muslims, then this entire trial is completely pointless. But we knew that already.
Comment by The Girl in Blue — June 5, 2008 @ 10:39 pm