Fireman Sam slips on the Qur’an, and all Sharia breaks loose
by Archbishop Cranmer:
Firstly, it wasn’t Fireman Sam who apparently slipped on a page of the Qur’an; it was Elvis. But the headline ‘Elvis slips on the Qur’an’ would probably cause problems for Graceland or incite hatred against Priscilla and Lisa Marie, so best to go with the brand name, though one understands that this may cause Sam, who is manifestly innocent, some minor inconvenience.
You’d think this would be a complete non-issue. It is a children’s programme, after all, and neither Fireman Sam nor his mate Elvis is recognisably Muslim (at least not practising), so a page from the Qur’an is, to them, just another piece of paper; the Qur’an just another book. If they (accidentally) tread on it, well, that’s unfortunate, but you’d hardly think it would merit a major media brouhaha, with the BBC, Telegraph and the whole Islamic world up in arms (not literally – yet).
And on day when a French priest had his throat slit by Islamists while he was celebrating Mass, you might think the ‘biggest story on Muslim twitter‘ would at least be a wave of assertions that such atrocities are “nothing to do with Islam”; and that the Assistant General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain might have something more socially-cohesive to tweet about. But no, Miqdaad Versi is incensed not by the murderous actions of his co-religionists and their onslaught against Christendom (about which he utters not a word), but by the depiction of a Surah Mulk (67), verses 13-26.
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