Dan Irving
2008-02-26 06:54:53
“These clerics have thus far been unable or unwilling to address the virtual absence of religious liberty in the Islamic world from Nigeria to the Philippines (saving, of course, the freedoms enjoyed alike by Jew, Christian, and Muslim in Israel).”
I may have misinterpreted this sentence but it seems to indicate that the Philippines is an Islamic country which it is not. It is one of two countries in the far East that is predominantly Roman Catholic. The Muslims in the Philippines comprise roughly 5% of the population.
