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03/27/2004: "Moral equivalence with a vengeance"

According to South African Broadcasting, Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, today made a statement that beggars the imagination. In the course of criticizing a speech by George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, he said the following:

"There is no doubt that the world has been shocked by the recent suicide attacks in the Middle East, the terrorist attack which left hundreds dead in Spain after the bombing of commuter trains, and the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the leader of Hamas, in Palestine," Ndungane said in a statement.

He makes no attempt to distinguish between suicide attacks on civilians, massive bombings of civilian transportation, and the killing of a terrorist leader. Imagine if there were news from Afghanistan tomorrow, and South African Broadcasting were to report the following:

"There is no doubt that the world has been shocked by the recent suicide attacks in the Middle East, the terrorist attack which left hundreds dead in Spain after the bombing of commuter trains, and the killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, in Afghanistan," Ndungane said in a statement.

Shocked! Shocked, I say! Shocked that the South African Anglican Church is saddled with a "spiritual leader" who can't tell the difference between terrorism and self-defense.

(Thanks to Chris Johnson of MCJ for the link.)