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(Reuters) - A senior Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.
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Muslim convert to Catholicism tells pope Islam is not inherently good
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Muslim-born journalist baptized by Pope Benedict XVI at Easter asked the pope to tell his top aide for relations with Muslims that Islam is not an intrinsically good religion and that Islamic terrorism is not the result of a minority gone astray.
As the Vatican was preparing to host the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum Nov. 4-6, Magdi Allam, a longtime critic of the Muslim faith of his parents, issued an open letter to Pope Benedict that included criticism of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
In the letter, posted on his Web site Oct. 20, Allam said he wanted to tell the pope of his concern for "the serious religious and ethical straying that has infiltrated and spread within the heart of the church."
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I would agree, certainly in principle, with what the Muslim convert has to say about Mohammedism. After all, he should know. But I question his less-than-candid assessment of what are the causes of Islamic terrorism.
ReplyDeleteIslam was, for all intents and purposes - at least as far as world politics were concerned, generally at peace, or even dormat, since Lepanto. They had their internecine troubles but they were not generally angered at the West for centuries.
That is, until 1948.
It was, of course, at that date when many if not all current Muslim terrorism (or rather retaliation) begins. That was the year that the Zionists kicked out of Palestine its historical inhabitants and began one of the most terrible injustices of current times, an injustice no Catholic can deny. It was this outrageous Jewish confiscation and theft of land owned by Palestinian Arabs (many of them Christian, by the way) that stirred up that once-quiet hornet's nest that was Islam. And the USA, slavishly toadying to Jewish/Zionist interests, has opened itself up to horrible retaliations by the Muslims who are understandably appalled by what is being done in the Holy Land.
This is no way means that we should not br trying to convert both Jews and Muslims to the true Faith. As unbaptized souls their chances of salvation are nil and that is the real tragedy of those peoples. But it is not a Catholic thing to look the other way while innocent Christians and Muslims are being terrorized, killed, robbed, humiliated and beaten by Zionist fanatics bent on creating a state which excludes Christ and His cross as a matter of public policy.
The war in Iraq is a perfect example of this horrendous injustice. So while we can condemn the Muslims as terrorists let us not forget what drove them to utter exasperation and reawakened in them their worst historical traits. And let us not forgetr which two countries have been in the forefront of this unspeakable injustice, Israel and its US stooge.
Let's please not forget this.