US religious leaders have denounced as “horrific” Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill’s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.
In a series of interviews broadcast by NBC on Aug 25, New York’s Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders were united in denouncing the return of al-Megrahi to Libya saying it was a mockery of justice and false compassion.
“It seems to me to be a truly terrible misunderstanding of what compassion is,” the Episcopal Bishop of New York, the Rt Rev Mark Sisk, said, as “it truly undercut the sensibilities of those who are the survivors. And in that sense, it is, I think horrific.”
+Sisk has often bucked the liberal line re: Jewish issues. Quite refreshing….