The Bamboozle the Infidel Project Gets a Hand Up From the Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail highlights the efforts of Muslim leaders who are striving to curtail "domestic violence" withing their communities. Of course, the fact that they prefer to collapse "honour" crimes into this broader, generic, non-denominational category is somewhat concerning, as is the effort to allign it with the

anniversary of the Polytechnique killings, in which 14 women were targeted and murdered based on their gender...a reminder that violence against women can affect people of all religions and cultures...

True enough, but the fact is that those killings were perpetrated by a man named Gamil Gharbi, the son of an Algerian immigrant; Gharbi learned his misogyny at his papa's knee.

Would you be surprised to learned that that bit was left out of the Globe piece?

Anyhoo, reading through the puffery, this section caught my eye--and made me hoot and holler with derision and glee:

Imam Syed Soharwardy is another leader who has been working to end domestic violence.  

Mr. Soharwardy, who is the head of the Jamia Riyadhul Jannah mosque in Mississauga, said he has been talking about the issue for the past decade.

He walked across Canada in 2008, leading the Multifaith Walk Against Violence to bring attention to what he sees as a “multi-dimensional problem.”

“They use Islam to justify their violence,” he said. “As an imam, this is my responsibility and other imams’ responsibility that we speak out against these misunderstandings of Islam, intentional or unintentional.”

Mr. Soharwardy stressed that the problem is not limited to the Muslim community...

Maybe not, but it did rear its ugly head in his own mosque, where a bunch of women accused the imam himself of being part of the, er, "problem". (Syed is the guy who scrawled out a "human rights" complaint, citing Islamic texts, against Ezra Levant for publishing the "blasphemous" Motoons.)

But wait--it gets funnier:

Imam Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council and a long-time anti-violence advocate, will take your questions today on the issues raised in this article. The edited questions and answers will appear here this afternoon. Please submit your questions to ask@globeandmail.com

Here's my question: Dear Imam--could you please cite me chapter and verse in the Koran where it says "do as I say, not as I do?" Or how about this one: How dumb do you think we are?