The Israeli consul general in Montreal walked out of an interfaith memorial ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr., when Yahya Abdul Rahman of the Montreal Muslim News Network used his speech to launch attacks on Israel: Anti-Israel comments mar King tribute. Rahman had some very interesting comments when asked about his speech:

Rahman said yesterday he has no regrets or apologies to offer, because “from my vantage point it was also a political event.”

“As a Muslim, I don’t make a separation between religion and politics,” he said in a phone interview. “Religion and politics are intertwined and there is absolutely no separation for me at all.

”I was there as a representative of my faith community, and I said what was most pressing on my heart.

“If other people were offended by it, it just proves my point - that sometimes people who espouse liberal values, when it rubs them the wrong way, it reveals their liberalism doesn’t go very deep at all.”

That’s an excellent summation of radical Islamic ideology and tactics; shower scorn on one of the most basic tenets of Western democracy—the separation of church and state—and at the same time invoke liberal guilt icons to confuse the multiculti crowd and excuse the most reprehensible intolerance.