Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist
Transsexual Muhammad?
World-Wide Religion News is reporting, via the BBC (of course), that a play in Glasgow, Scotland, portraying Jesus as a transsexual "queen of heaven" is drawing only desultory protests(http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=31821). I suppose Christians should be overjoyed that some Scottish believers at least have the guts to actually stand up for historical and theological reality over against the gay lobby. But what strikes me is, rather, how this illustrates one of the pressing and vexing questions of our time: how will we know that an Islamic reformation--or, more accurately, an Islamic "enlightenment"--is taking place? I would submit this answer: when a gay playwright can write and stage "Muhammad: Queen of Arabia" and live to have it reviewed.
And needless to say, we are nowhere near such a tolerant juncture.
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